Early involvement pays off for historic bridge works04/01/2021 Engineering specialist Spencer Group is set to begin refurbishment work on one of the world’s most historic suspension bridges. |
Shapps 'seeks £64m for Hammersmith bridge works'15/12/2020 Ministers have asked the council responsible for Hammersmith Bridge to pay £64m to its restoration, it has been reported. |
Pooley Bridge steels itself with new bridge26/10/2020 The UK’s first stainless steel road bridge has officially opened – nearly five years after its predecessor was swept away in a storm. |
200 years later, Thomas Telford comes to COVID rescue08/10/2020 A suspension bridge designed by Thomas Telford almost 200 years ago has reopened to transport use to aid social distancing in a county now under a local COVID-19 lockdown. |
Bearing the load: Congleton link road bridges04/09/2020 Highways reports on the £90m Congleton link road and the bridge structures that make it so special. |
Heatwave causes full closure of Hammersmith Bridge18/08/2020 Hammersmith Bridge in West London is now closed to pedestrians, cyclists and river traffic after engineers discovered ‘a sudden deterioration in key parts of the suspension structure’. |
TfL to close key Thames crossing for short-term fix04/08/2020 London’s Vauxhall Bridge will be closed to general traffic from the weekend for what Transport for London described as ‘critical maintenance’, but no date has been set for ‘top priority’ major renewals that were postponed due to a lack of cash. |
200 years young: Union Chain Bridge gets a refurb22/07/2020 Leading engineering specialist Spencer Group is set to begin work next month to refurbish and rebuild one of the world’s oldest suspension bridges. |
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Highways England joins up £3.6m junction bridge works18/06/2020 Highways England is to close part of a key Yorkshire interchange at the centre of the M1 and M62 network later this month after bringing forward essential maintenance work. |
Council sticks to social distancing as it bridges the gap17/06/2020 Durham County Council has begun work on a £2.5m scheme to demolish and replace a road bridge near Bishop Auckland. |
New bridge arrives in Cambridge under police escort13/05/2020 Tarmac and SH Structures have achieved a major milestone on a transformational project in Cambridge with the delivery of the new Abbey Chesterton Bridge. |
Council chiefs warn of ‘chronic need’ for bridge repair funding03/03/2020 Local authority leaders have said there is a ‘chronic need’ for investment in local roads in response to a report on the number of substandard road bridges in Great Britain. |
New bridge aims to remove business bottleneck16/01/2020 Construction of a new road bridge in Hertfordshire costing over £10m started this week. |
Protecting bridges in extreme climates18/10/2019 Both concrete and steel bridges are susceptible to corrosion from water and waterborne contaminants making waterproofing crucial. Jason Armstrong, product marketing manager for liquid waterproofing EMEA at GCP Applied Technologies outlines some of the key points to consider. |
Balfour Beatty fined over worker's death on bridge project27/02/2019 Balfour Beatty Group has been fined £600,000 after a worker was fatally injured on a construction site in Scotland. |
Arch enemy of M6 upgrade to bite the dust21/02/2019 Highways England will close the M6 for around 18 hours next month to take down an arch bridge standing in the way of an all lane running scheme. |
DfT reasserts overspend 'orthodoxy' after Orwell debacle24/01/2019 The Department for Transport (DfT) has called on Suffolk County Council to explain why costs on a bridge project across the River Orwell ballooned so much that the scheme collapsed. |
Sunk costs: Suffolk writes off £8.3m as it halts bridges project23/01/2019 Suffolk County Council is set to scrap plans to build three bridges on the River Orwell in Ipswich, despite having already spent £8.3m in development costs. |
London's Illuminated River project to be 'longest public art commission in the world'14/01/2019 FM Conway has secured the first phase of the Illuminated River project, which once completed will span 4.5 nautical miles of the River Thames and be the longest public art commission in the world. |
Highways England 'considering findings' of CCTV stopped vehicle trial
£300m North West highways framework shares work around
Concrete roads upgrade launched with £39m framework
National Pothole Day survey finds network in decline
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