The new Wembley Stadium opened to the public on 9 March 2007. The all-seat stadium is owned by the Football Association (FA) and operated by its subsidiary Wembley National Stadium Ltd (WNSL). Construction of the new Wembley Stadium, which began in October 2002, was at times controversial.
Approval has been granted for an ambitious HS2 scheme, which will see material excavated from the Chiltern tunnels used to create new chalk grassland, wooded and wetland habitats around the tunnel’s southern entrance.
London Power Tunnels represents a significant £1bn investment in London and follows the success of the original project, north of the Thames. The arrival of this tunnel boring machine marks a significant milestone for the project and the ...
HS2 Minister Andrew Stephenson and HS2 Ltd have confirmed the contract to deliver the high speed line’s flagship Birmingham station, in a project that is estimated to create more than 1,000 new jobs.
Mace and Dragados have secured a £570m contract to deliver Birmingham’s new city centre HS2 railway station The deal will see Mace Dragados work with HS2 Ltd in two stages to finalise the detailed design and then build the Birmingham railway station.
The main contractor has just moved into a full contract worth over £250m for the newly-named Co-op Live project, after completing extensive enabling works. Brownfield clean-up specialist Provectus is carrying out millions of pounds of bulk excavation and remediation work.
Highways England has signed a £507m contract with Skanska to improve the A428 road in the East of England. Skanska will build a 16km dual carriageway between the Black Cat roundabout at St Neots and Caxton Gibbet.
Previously, clean water network repairs and maintenance were delivered by one contractor. Under Yorkshire Water’s new Water Services Partnership, contracts are divided into five lots – in order to drive innovation, competition, customer s...
The £540m job covers the design and build of the signalling systems that will control trains travelling at speeds of up to 360km/h and up to 25 years of technical support.Signalling specialist shortlist Alstom Transport UK Hitachi...
The HS2 geotechnical contract was awarded to KVJV by Align, a joint venture of Bouygues Travaux Publics SAS, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick. This section consists of 21.6km of HS2 rail infrastructure, including a 3.
Avanton intends to expand into the build-to-rent (BTR) sector in the capital where there remains a significant lack of high quality, purpose-built, rental stock in relation to demand. The new land fund will target the acquisition of sites ...
Four 11kW line shaft-driven pumps first installed in 1992 were running without any form of variable speed control. They have been replaced with two 45 kW submersible sewage pumps, the flow rate of which is controlled by two ABB water drives.
An innovative project to convert sewage into a zero-emission fuel has been given the green light – alongside a raft of renewable energy projects being advanced by Welsh Water. The "Make Your Poo Work For You" project – a collaboration be...
Billions of pounds are being invested on railway infrastructure to increase capacity, reliability and customer experience in the UK. Major works on all four of the routes within the Eastern Region are underway.
Now VSBW, a joint venture between VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster, can start work later this year on 4.5km of coastline from the Long Curtain Moat in the west to the Eastney Battery in the east.