Skanska wins £450M Kent roads contract on Lower Thames Crossing
The contract includes 6km of new road, construction of one of Europe’s largest green bridges and a new public park in Gravesham. Skanska beat Costain,
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The contract includes 6km of new road, construction of one of Europe’s largest green bridges and a new public park in Gravesham. Skanska beat Costain,
The mum of a 22-year-old who died in a motorbike accident says her son would still be alive if the road had been repaired.
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 the southern tunnel entrance. Speaking to NCE ahead of the latest contracts launch, Lower Thames Cro...
1 April 2021 For more than 65 years the Dartford Crossing has stood as the only crossing between Kent and Essex, a critical link carrying vital food, goods and services between the manufacturing centres, ports, and distribution hubs of the South East, Midlands and North of England. It is designed for 135,000 vehicles a day, but it now often sees 180,000 a day use it, leading to long delays which businesses across the country say act as a barrier to trade and jobs. The Lower Thames Crossing will improve journeys by almost doubling road capacity across the River Thames east of London. The two s...