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Interview | Mike Wright of Network Rail on setting a new tone for project delivery Amounts of time and cost required to move projects from concept to reality are often criticised in the UK construction industry, but Network Rail is tackling the issue head on with a fresh look at its project delivery framework. From the start of this year the Governance for Rail Investment Projects (Grip) process, which has been in place for more than a decade, is being replaced with Project Acceleration in a Co...

Plans are progressing to reopen the Northumberland Line from Ashington to Northumberland Park, in North Tyneside. Regional lobbying organisation Construction Alliance North East (CAN) says it has been buoyed by talks with Northumberland County Council over the Northumberland Line Rail Project. The council’s tender to deliver the ‘Northumberland Line Stations Construction Project’ indicates that a single national contractor will be appointed to deliver six new stations and car parks, inclu...

Claire Smith Improving productivity and efficiency in construction has been a long standing target for the construction industry. But can we really have it all?  The industry is also being called on to deliver projects faster, for better value and with improved outcomes – are we just asking too much? Comparisons between construction and other industries over the years mean that the aim of improving productivity and efficiency in construction is nothing new – over the last three decades the...

Work has officially begun on the £1bn A66 trans-Pennine upgrade. A Highways England project announcement reveals that ground investigations have begun. The update adds: “Much of this work involves testing the different types of ground conditions along the route including soil types and groundwater monitoring. “We’re using ground penetrating radar and have up to ten crews operating from two site compounds on the A66, drilling approximately 300 boreholes and digging 300 inspection pits to ...

According to the Newcastle Chronicle officials have been ordered to scale back plans for the line, which could mean the removal of a new station near

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What Lower Thames Crossing bosses want to see in contractors’ bids Contractors bidding for work on the UK’s biggest roads job must embrace modularisation and demonstrate ways to save time and cost on the Lower Thames Crossing project. Worth a combined £1.9bn, the Roads North contract covers the route from 1km north of the northern tunnel entrance to Junction 29 of the M25, while the Kent Roads job involves design and build for the part of the route from the A2/M2 corridor to 1km south of t...

Major blueprint to create green jobs and slash emissions from industry, schools and hospitals An ambitious blueprint to deliver the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector and over £1 billion to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals has been announced by the Business and Energy Secretary. From: 17 March 2021 Over £1 billion allocated to drive down emissions from industry and public buildings like schools, hospitals and council buildings new Industrial Decarbonisation Str...

Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy: Government sets out vision for decarbonising heavy industry CCS and hydrogen facility planned at Saltend Chemicals Park in the Humber is among the projects to secure funding | Credit: px Group Strategy to set out a number of new targets for the decarbonisation of industry, as government confirms details of nine projects to be awarded funding through Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge - but opposition warns plans lack necessary ambition The government has u...

Carbon capture, usage and storge (CCUS) and hydrogen projects are among key initiatives to gain investment as part of the government’s new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, announced today. The strategy is “an ambitious blueprint” to deliver the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector and includes over £1bn of funding to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals. To kick start the process, £171M from the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge has been allocated to nine gr...