Peab AB, a Sweden-based construction and civil engineering company, has secured a contract worth SEK480 million ($72.67 million) from Posten Meddelande AB to build a postal terminal in Rosersberg, Sigtuna, Sweden.

The UK Department for Transport (DfT) and Agility Trains (comprising Hitachi Rail Europe and John Laing Investments) have signed a contract for the DfT’s Intercity Express Programme (IEP) and confirmed financial close for Phase 1 of the project.

Construction work on the Reading railway station has reached the stage of a major bridge slide across the rail tracks.

The Ministry of Defence has confirmed the shortlisted bidders for each of its three delayed prime repair contracts worth up to £4.35bn in total.

Interserve has confirmed it has won a £24m contract with Northamptonshire County Council to build the new A43 Corby Link Road.

A Kier BAM joint venture has now signed contracts with EDF Energy to carry out £100m+ of site preparation works for the Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset. 

The government has given approval to plans for a £32bn high speed rail line linking London and Birmingham despite fierce opposition from local, mainly Conservative, MPs.

Builder Balfour Beatty today won a five-year contract worth up to £750 million to upgrade Britain's electricity transmission network.

A £43m upgrade of Peterborough station to improve facilities and accommodate longer trains has been announced by Network Rail.

The government is planning to make housing and infrastructure the centrepiece of a £50 billion growth plan that it will unveil later this month.Chancellor George Osborne yesterday said that he accepted the need for the government to go further in economic growth.