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  • Thomas Lane
    Features

    Preventing a pile-up

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Transport infrastructure spending seems to be one of construction’s good news stories. According to Davis Langdon, there has been 10% growth in real terms

  • Singapore’s East Coast Parkway. The country is expected to represent 11% of South-east Asian transport expenditure in 2014
    Features

    Nought to sixty

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    South-east Asia has big plans to ramp up its transport network, and must act fast to stop the economic growth of the past decade from going into reverse. But first it needs to find billions of dollars of private investment

  • Work on the existing East London line involved stripping out the railway to the tunnel inverts and replacing it along with new power and signalling systems to take up to 20 trains an hour
    Features

    In the loop

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    The £1bn East London line extension, which opens in May, is the first part of a plan to give the capital an orbital railway. Stephen Kennett looks at the work done and how the circle will be completed

  • Features

    Down the line: Market report on transport

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Transport investment is currently buoyant, but in the medium term, prospects could be affected both by political divisions and spending cuts. Simon Rawlinson and Steve Waltho of Davis Langdon provide a guide to what the next few years might hold in store

  • How Paddington’s Crossrail station will eventually look
    Features

    Dig in!

    2010-03-19T00:00:00Z

    Crossrail will offer a feast of work for UK construction, with the three main tunnelling contracts up for starters. Andy Pearson finds out exactly what these entail