£7m Devon bridge to last for 'at least 120 years'11/09/2025 Members of Devon County Council’s cabinet have given the £7.92m Baulk Bridge replacement scheme their stamp of approval, with construction expected to begin in spring 2026. |
Inspectors play the angles on Rochester Old Bridge28/08/2025 A thorough assessment of Rochester Old Bridge is being undertaken by Up and Under and sister company CAN Structures - with workers abseiling to the underside of the structure. |
National Highways beams up M67 bridge09/04/2025 New images have been published by National Highways this week of eight steel beams that were craned into place as part of a £23m scheme to replace a bridge across the M67 in Denton, Greater Manchester. |
First steps for Bury Interchange transformation08/04/2025 Plans for a new pedestrian bridge have been announced by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) as the first part of plans to create Greater Manchester’s first operationally carbon-neutral transport hub at the Bury Exchange. |
RAC Foundation/ADEPT survey: Bridge backlog rises to almost £6bn17/03/2023 Great Britain is facing a total bridge maintenance backlog of close to £6bn, an increase of some £400m, as the nation saw another 14 partial bridge collapses over the last year. |
Borough defeats parish in battle over bridge12/01/2022 Tewkesbury Borough Council has defeated one of its own local parish councils in a court battle over the development of a road bridge over the railway in Ashchurch and Northway. |
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Video shows demolition of bridge on A3816/05/2016 Highways England has released video footage that shows the demolition of a bridge over the A38 near Plymouth. |
Roads Minister opens A138 Chelmer Viaduct14/04/2016 Roads Minister Andrew Jones has officially opened a new £32 million road bridge in Chelmsford, Essex. |
Balfour Beatty awarded £9.3m road bridge scheme31/03/2015 Balfour Beatty will build a new road bridge over the M1 for Leicestershire County Council through the Midlands Highways Alliance Framework. |
New £5.5m bridge to open on M5626/03/2015 A new £5.5 million bridge over the M56 near Manchester Airport is due to open to drivers next Wednesday (1 April 2015). |
New bridge moves closer to completion19/02/2015 A new bridge over the Bexhill to Hastings link road will start to take shape with the installation of huge steel beams next week. |
VolkerLaser awarded bridge refurbishment contract16/10/2014 VolkerLaser has been awarded a £1.7 million contract by North East Lincolnshire Council for the structural refurbishment of Cleethorpes Road Overbridge, located in Grimsby. |
Delays hit Welsh road bridge01/09/2014 A new £20m bridge being built by Hochtief in Gwynedd will not open to traffic until next Spring. |
Atkins launches "next generation" of composite bridges27/08/2014 Atkins believes technology used to build the latest aircraft can save millions by being adapted to construct a new generation of bridges. |
DfT to fund new A45 bridge in Solihull18/08/2014 Building work on a new bridge that will improve transport links to the West Midlands can start after the Department for Transport (DfT) agreed to provide over £8 million in funding. |
Traffic chaos after falling concrete closes M624/07/2014 The M6 motorway was closed for several hours earlier today (Thursday 24 July 2014) after pieces of concrete fell from a bridge that runs over it. |
Plans for £40m bridge unveiled08/07/2014 Plans for a new £40 million bridge across the River Thames have been unveiled by Wandsworth Council. |
Works starts on new £5.5m bridge27/05/2014 Preparatory work to install a new £5.5 million road bridge across the M56 near Manchester Airport is underway. |
New bridge over A14 installed in two days14/04/2014 A new cycle and pedestrian bridge over the A14 in Bury St Edmunds was installed in just 48 hours. |
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