Balfour Beatty wins £176m Buckinghamshire highways
Balfour Beatty has won a £176m highways maintenance contract for Buckinghamshire which include 5,000kms of road, cycleways and pedestrian paths.
It has announced the use of carbon friendly reused rubber asphalt for laying road and the installation of further electric vehicle charging points in line with its new sustainability strategy ‘Building New Futures.’
It has also committed to allocating 50% o
Laing O’Rourke full pay pregnancy leave for all
Laing O’Rourke is offering full paid leave for 6 months for workers in both UK & Australia where the firm operates.
The policy line ‘any gender, any birth, any child’ extends to all workers and includes a pregnancy loss policy.
CEO, Ray O’Rourke said:
“When I joined the industry more than 50 years ago, I saw my own role as the traditional family breadwinner.
“The world is now a very different
Vinci wins £70m Sheffield forge project
Vinci has won a £70m contract to carry out pre contract services such as demolition & road building at Sheffield Forge. This first stage is part of a £400m project to renew the forge entirely. The forge was bought by Ministry of Defence in 2021.
When complete it will be the UK’s largest open-die forging operation. It will have a 13k tonne forging line.
The entire project is due to complete in 2025 with the
Network Rail £50m overhead line electrification
Network Rail has put contractors on notice for the £50m overhead line renewal between Fenchurch Street and Pitsea.
The MK1 contract will renew 150kms of line between Fenchurch Street and Pitsea and is part of a larger project that will renews 219kms of line.
Some of the line hasn’t been upgraded since the 1950s and is sagging which is inefficient. The new lines will help trains to run m...
Offshore wind to revolutionise Britain’s energy
National Grid has published a report Pathway to 2030 Holistic Network Design on offshore wind power. The report states that a single coordinated approach to offshore wind production could save £5.5bn by 2030. The report outlines a plan to revolutionise the UK’s energy production.
The UK’s target for offshore wind is 50GW and Scotlands is 11GW. The report outlines a plan to produce 23GW.
The report a...
5G Enabling Digitisation in Construction Webinar
Friday 15th July @3.30pm BST
EMS is presenting at this COMIT Projects webinar that discuss how 5G has the potential to transform Construction Industry and how it can benefit from it, including rapid site set-up, connectivity in remote locations, speed, bandwidth, real-time data for progress and safety monitoring, VR, AR and Mixed Reality solutions (XR), BIM/digital, surveys, potential for autono...
HS2 compound designs released
A 30-acre brownfield site near Birmingham Washwood Heath will become home to a control centre, staff building & maintenance centre. The three buildings will have solar panels, use rainwater runoff and use low carbon materials and will be used to service, clean, maintain and store trains for the HS2 network.
Around 550 staff are expected to be based at the compound.
The winning bidder will be selected next Autumn ...
Volker Fitzpatrick gets £59m Tame Valley viaduct
Volker Fitzpatrick have been awarded £59m to upgrade the Tame Valley viaduct by Birmingham City Council. The four and a half year project will start this month on the 620m long viaduct ‘Spaghetti junction’ which was built in the 1970s to reinforce the northern end with steel plates to improve safety and refurbish deteriorated parts. The viaduct carries 80,000 vehicles per day.
£600m Scotland civil...
Two more 1m sq ft warehouses for the UK
Europe’s largest developer Panatonni is planning to build a mega warehouses of more than 1m square feet in Avonmore. A couple of weeks after we heard about ‘Big K’ which was then the largest speculative warehouse ever, the Avonmouth development would surpass that and become the UK’s largest logistics site. The other site in Rugby will be built by developer Tritax Big Box in Symmetry Park with construction set to ...
Ferrovial to acquire stake in JFK
Ferrovial the Spanish global sustainable infrastructure company will invest around $US1 billion in 96% of Carlyle Group’s 51% share New Terminal One that will design, build and operate Terminal 1 at JFK airport at JFK airport in New York.
With total investment amounting to $9.5bn, the new site will replace current Terminals 1, 2 and 3 which will be demolished and have a footprint of 2.5mn square feet. It will then b...
