Infrastructure
Network Rail picks six for £750m civils framework
Contractors Balfour Beatty, Morgan Sindall and Carillion have been named amongst six chosen for Network Rail’s £750m mixed works framework.The framework, which combines signalling track and other civils work, is split in to five regions and is known as...
Infrastructure
High Speed 2 ‘fundamentally flawed’ say Tory MPs
Conservative Transport Group says HS2 route should avoid open countryside and connect directly with Heathrow Tory MPs have urged the Government to abandon its current plans for High Speed 2. The Conservative Transport Group said the...
Infrastructure
Green light for £25m Northampton station
West Northamptonshire Development Corporation is now seeking funding for BDP-designed railway station.A plans for a £25m station scheme in Northampton have been approved. The castle station would form the ’Station Gateway’ which could see the...
Infrastructure
Nuclear report could raise costs of new build power plants
Costs for nuclear new build could rise in the wake of the findings of a report by the chief nuclear inspector assessing the implications of the nuclear crisis in Japan.However, sources close to the process said the report...
Infrastructure
Network Rail to ease crowding
Network Rail is considering undertaking construction work to ease overcrowding at 12 major stations including London Charing Cross, London Victoria and Liverpool Lime Street. Network Rail’s Route Utilisation Strategy (RUS) considers planning issues that...
Infrastructure
AECOM to provide flood-control, other infrastructure solutions to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
AECOM Technology Corporation, a leading provider of professional technical and management support services for government and commercial clients around the world, announced today that it was awarded a substantial work order for project management services that include a consultancy,...
Infrastructure
Harsco Extends Railway Track Maintenance Services in the UK under $50 million Contract
Worldwide industrial services and engineered products company Harsco Corporation announced that its Harsco Rail unit has received a significant four-year extension of its contract services program in the UK under an award from Network Rail estimated at more than...
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