Infrastructure news
Higgins waives £340k bonus
AGM postponed as Network Rail chief executive pledges money to level crossing safety fund
Four shortlisted for MoD's £950m training estate contract
Babcock and Serco on shortlist for contract for the management of MoD training areas, camps and weapons ranges
Morgan Sindall bags £28m waste-to-energy deal
Contract for Yorkshire Water in joint venture with consultant Grontmij
Energy sector to drive global construction growth
Almost half of industry leaders say the best opportunities are in energy sector
MoD’s search for private sector partner delays work
Department puts £5bn of construction contracts on hold because it wants partner to manage estate
Government approves HS2 in the face of fierce opposition
Changes to the route including running more than half the line in tunnels or cuttings
MPs hit out at government PFI policy
Latest reforms run same risk of poor value for money as PFI, says select committee
Government 'must push ahead with HS2'
Economists urge government to press ahead with controversial north-south rail link to boost industry
Balfour Beatty wins £750m National Grid job
Contractor secures extension of existing agreement for the next five years
Foster to design high-speed rail station in Spain
Foster + Partners wins competition to design Ourense AVE Station
Balfour Beatty consortium wins £535m Australian rail contract
Scheme will see contractor work on track for first metropolitan rail line in Melbourne for 80 years
Four make MoD £130m barracks shortlist
Carillion, Kier, Lend Lease and Skanska will compete for the Stafford job
Network Rail announces £43m Peterborough station upgrade
Revamp will provide longer trains, extra platforms and better access
English cities given extra powers to drive growth
Eight urban centres will have greater say over major spending projects
CSC submits plans for £180m Lakeside expansion
Development will increase the centre’s size by almost a third and create 1,000 construction jobs
Gleeds wins Birmingham airport jobs worth £75m
Firm will act as cost manager on £65m runway and project manager for a new £10m air control tower
May Gurney turnover boosted by highways spending
May Gurney’s acquisition of contrator Turriff also helps to drive total revenue increase to 21%
Pension fund vehicle to be set up 'within four months'
Government to create platform for £20bn of institutional investment in infrastructure schemes
Danny Alexander to chair infrastructure committee
Announcement comes as detailed 500-strong pipeline of works published
Engineers welcome National Infrastructure Plan
Government’s investment push gets warm reception from the sector
Osborne pledges to “get Britain building again”
£10bn switch to capital spending from revenue spending announced over the next two parliaments
New images of Thames Hub unveiled
Architect Foster + Partners reveals further work in advance of Oxford Uni lecture
Atkins wins £65m Qatar contract
Firm’s engineers will transform roads and drainage systems in Doha over 5 years
Hyder in recruitment drive after contract wins
Recent wins for global engineering consultant include £80m road and drainage contract in Qatar
£650m Crossrail station contracts awarded
Organisation names joint ventures for huge Whitechapel and Farringdon station contracts
Crossrail tenders £35m Custom House job
East-west London rail link puts latest station job out to market
Government plans £50bn infrastructure boost
Osborne will announce investment in housing, roads and power stations at autumn finanicial statement this month
Carillion bags energy contracts worth £445m
Framework deals with Fulcrum and National Grid bolsters order book
MPs back high speed rail linking London, Midlands and North
Transport Select Committee report says HS2 would prove affordable
UK must invest more in R&D, says ICE boss
Coackley stresses importance of increasing research and development investment in first interview as ICE president
Robertson wins £500m Scottish infrastructure work
Scottish east central hub will deliver health and education projects over ten years
Ringway Jacobs JV wins £1bn Essex highways contract
Essex County Council selects joint venture as preferred bidder ahead of Balfour Beatty and Costain
Costain wins London Bridge station revamp
Firm defeats Skanska in final shortlist of two for Thameslink job
Vinci wins £16.5m station redevelopment
Walthamstow project, designed by Rolfe Judd, is a joint venture between Network Rail and Kier Property
Labour revises HS2 plan to appease Tory voters
New route would connect to Heathrow 11 years earlier than under current plan
Balfour Beatty wins £77m contract to tackle M4/M5 bottlenecks
Managed motorway scheme will see opening of hard shoulders to improve traffic flows
Halcrow cuts 55 staff and shuts offices
Engineer says closure of offices in the south and Manchester unrelated to CH2M Hill deal
Balfour and Thales bag £335m Danish rail contract
Balfour Beatty and Thales have won a £335m contract to transform Denmark’s rail signalling system
Exclusive: 13 firms to share £320m HS2 work
Full details released of 13 consultants that will share £320m worth of work on first phase of new high speed rail line
CH2M Hill bags HS2 contract
Contract for development partner on high speed project worth between £50-70m
Government to consult on 'Boris Island' estuary airport
The government is to hold a formal consultation on controversial plans for a new airport in the Thames Estuary
Osborne wants £10bn from town hall pension pot
Osborne plans meeting with local government pension fund bosses over plans to invest in UK infrastructure
Pictures show extent of damage to Hammersmith flyover
Images show corrosion to prefabricated concrete panels
Morgan Sindall, Bam and Carillion win £55m rail contracts
Work includes a new station in Edinburgh, bridgework and electrification of lines
Twenty-one local transport schemes to share £854m
Transport secretary Justine Greening announces funding boost to strengthen regional economies
EDF hails £200m in new nuclear work
French utility firm claims progress being made on Hinkley power station
Scotland plans £9bn high speed rail investment
Scottish government minister says Westminster must extend high speed rail link to the boarder
Work begins on £11m Leeds Bradford airport makeover
Morgan Sindall’s Leeds office will carry out the principal construction work
Scottish government to unveil 80-project pipeline
Infrastructure secretary Alex Neil will set out £60bn programme this week
Bam and Aedas to build ‘York Engineers Triangle’
Network Rail contract believed to be worth around £40m
£150m green power station gets the go-ahead
Nevis biomass plant in Newport will be half funded by Santander with construction to start next Spring
CPA: Infrastructure boost could create £75bn in economic activity
Construction Products Association praises autumn statement but notes fall in capital spending on infrastructure
Osborne statement prompts speculation about 'retooled PFI'
Turner & Townsend suggests smaller infrastructure projects still need the “tarnished” funding model
CBI praises Osborne's 'Plan A Plus'
Business lobbying group called autumn statement realistic and ‘imaginative’
Osborne to back Battersea tube extension
Project would create two new rail stations and cost between £750m and £950m
Use road pricing to fund infrastructure, says ICE
Road users should be charged more at peak times says report by Institution of Civil Engineers
Give Highways Agency greater independence, review recommends
Greater commercial focus and changes to governance structure are the key to delivering savings, report says
Thames Estuary airport gains Treasury support
Senior Tory figures are understood to be in favour of a island airport in the Thames Estuary, which would cost up to £50bn
PFI pipeline 'unaffected' by Treasury review
Some of the £8.5bn of PFI projects in the public pipeline will be asked to ‘learn lessons’ of review
Interserve targets Qatar for growth
Firm says it is relying on global infrastructure markets and UK public sector outsourcing for growth
£13bn of viable road jobs 'shelved'
Study by Arup and RAC shows volume of scheme sat awaiting funding
Ministers unveil £500m boost for stalled building projects
Growing Places Fund will help schemes hit by poor infrastructure and flood risk
Consultants on £32bn High Speed 2 rail shortlist revealed
Winner will be revealed before the end of the year
HSS Hire wins contract to supply tools to British Waterways
New outsource service will offer online hire management to staff
Foster's Thames airport could include overhaul of UK infrastructure
Plans for a UK communication, energy and water ‘spine’ would be powered by new Thames Estuary barrier
New ICE president calls for action on infrastructure
Richard Coackley uses inaugural address to ask for government to deliver on rhetoric
TfL QS apprenticeships programme revealed
Boris Johnson lauds scheme allowing 12 apprentices to attend college while getting hands-on experience
Cameron backs 'all-out' infrastructure push
PM gives green light to two new power stations and pledges to ‘unblock’ planning system
Work to begin on £100m nuclear waste store
Northern Irish firm Graham Construction will build vaults on a former military airfield in the Scottish Highlands
Collapse of carbon capture deal branded 'farce'
WWF slams ‘four wasted years’ as Department for Energy and Climate Change seeks a fresh pilot
