Highways England has published the updated plans for the Lower Thames Crossing, with the project now expanded to provide six lanes of traffic travelling through a tunnel under the Thames. According to the agency, this new crossing would almost halve…
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Freyssinet and Strathclyde Partnership for Transport (SPT) won the Outstanding Engineering Achievement Award at the 2018 Global Light Rail Awards for modernistation works carried out on Glasgow Subway. The annual awards, which this year took place on 3 October in…
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Freyssinet has successfully achieved Constructionline’s Gold (level 3) accreditation. Freyssinet has been a member of Constructionline, the UK’s leading procurement and supply chain management platform since 2009. The Gold level accreditation was introduced in September 2017, and goes beyond the…
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Network Rail has announced that it will raise the height of two railway bridges in Pembrokeshire, because they are frequently hit by lorries. The BBC reported that the organisation will spend £4.25 million to construct new bridges at Haverfordwest and…
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A cycle and pedestrian bridge in Peterborough, which had been earmarked for demolition by the local council, will instead be repaired giving it a further ten years of use. Bike Biz reported on the campaign by locals, who felt that…
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Freyssinet is to host its annual seminar on engineering innovation and structural strengthening at Thinktank Science Museum in Birmingham on Thursday 18 October. Following successful events in London, York and Glasgow in recent years, the Birmingham event will celebrate the…
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Network Rail has invested heavily into its railway lines in northern England in an attempt to transform train access in this region of the country. It is ploughing £725,000 into the Great North Rail Project to improve the connection between…
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A bridge in West Sussex has been transformed following a £580,000 investment to boost its ‘green’ credentials. West Sussex County Council put the money into improving the Wineham Lane bridge in Wineham to improve its safety features, as well as…
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Important appointments have been made to High Speed Two (HS2) Limited’s list of staff this week, with its chief operating officer (COO) and chief financial officer (CFO) being revealed. On Monday 23rd July, the government reported that Richard Robinson from…
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A temporary prohibition of traffic order has been issued for the Army and Navy flyover in Chelmsford in Essex, which could see it closed for up to a year and a half. According to the BBC, Essex County Council declared…
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