Transport
Transport news
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Carillion set for £100m Canadian highway job
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New London bus hits the streets of the capital
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MPs back high speed rail linking London, Midlands and North
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HOK and Foster + Partners bid for world's largest airport
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Aktins fees rise to £10m on Cambridge busway
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Foster + Partners unveils Thames transport hub
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Four bidders revealed for TfL’s £60m District line upgrade
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London Bridge: Grand station
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Crossrail delays £700m of contracts until 2012
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Chinese companies want to build HS2
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Main contractor sought for £117m Sunderland bridge
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Mace joins Birmingham council in making construction jobs pledge
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BAA 'still pursuing' idea of third Heathrow runway
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Land Secs selected for Glasgow station revamp
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High Speed 2 'fundamentally flawed' say Tory MPs
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Council approves plans to replace station demolished for Crossrail
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Costain/Skanska tipped for £250m Paddington Crossrail job
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Mace and Laing O’Rourke shortlisted for £800m rail job
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BAA moots '5-second' security tunnel
Features
Now boarding: The aviation sector
George Osborne’s autumn statement hinted at support for airport projects, including the £50bn Thames Estuary hub - but haven’t the best seats already been nabbed by a few framework contractors and consultants? Building finds out how to fight your way to the front of the queue
High Speed 2: full speed ahead
High Speed 2 is a project people love to hate. But it would reduce train overcrowding, boost business and pump billions into the construction industry
Maglev high-speed trains: London to manchester in 55 minutes
Magnetically levitating trains are faster and quieter than high-speed trains, use less energy and take up a lot less space. So why is this technology still waiting on the platform?
BAA client profile: Join the crew
In the first of a new series on key clients, Emily Wright meets the men to know at BAA to find out where the opportunities are and what the airport operator is like to work for in the post-framework era
Waiting for High Speed 2 to get here
The coalition has given its backing to a high-speed rail network in the UK, but there is a lot of uncertainty over how, when and in what form it will arrive
Dig in!
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
Crossrail: Seats still available
Programme update: Roxane McMeeken finds out where the £16bn Crossrail project is at
Crossrail starts here
Eighteen years after the idea of a rail line running east to west through London was mooted, all that has actually been done is to dig this large hole. But, as Gordon Brown prepares to announce a funding strategy in his conference speech next week, that may be about to change.
Cost models
Cost model: Airport terminals
UK airport operators need to make substantial investments in infrastructure to prepare for continuing long-term demand for domestic and international flights. Simon Rawlinson of Davis Langdon reports
Comment
Crossrail solved
Surely a small tax on the major users of Crossrail - the banks - would adequately fill the foreseen funding gap (building.co.uk, 28 May)
Case studies
Amanda Levete's Dublin bridge
Amanda Levete’s first project since she left Future Systems, the firm she ran with her late husband Jan Kaplicky, is a sculptural bridge in Dublin that lays the way for a new direction in her career
Gotta get through it: Halcrow builds the UAE's longest tunnel
This mountain range stands between Dubai and one of the UAE’s most important ports. Which is why a team from Halcrow is holed up there right now, enduring the heat and hard rock on the country’s longest ever tunnel project
Innsbruck cable car stations: Zaha Hadid lifts the spirits
Zaha Hadid evokes duvets, wings and ice with her designs for Innsbruck’s cable car stations
The drive of your life
Breaking the stereotype of multistorey car parks as concrete monstrosities, Wilkinson Eyre’s latest project is as visually exciting as it is functionally efficient.
