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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 Controlled Environment (Pace). There is a lot more to the change than a new name and Network Rail prog...

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, including the associated infrastructure works between Ashington and Northumberland Park. The long-awaited...

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 there has been a series of reports telling us we must do just that. In 1994 Sir Michael Latham’s Co...

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 collect the information.” It adds: “These ground investigations will help us to refine the desig...

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