Fifteen year deal worth up to £20M a year on offer for winning maintenance and response contractor as company takes more direct control of its roads.Read more
With the population set to grow beyond 10M by 2030, the next Mayor of London must change the housing model to avoid a looming crisis, says former government minister Steve Norris.Read more
Time lapse video of new £3.22M bridge installed overnight by Balfour Beatty after months of preparation to provide a safe crossing for walkers, cyclists, residents and school children.Read more
Chancellor George Osborne sets out new plan to “reverse the UK’s long-term productivity problem” by easing restrictions on brownfield development, investment in the North and a new apprenticeship levy.Read more
Nearly three quarters of construction firms report strong demand for high skills, but over half of all firms say those skills are hard to find.Read more
Handing control of delivery to front line route managers would create competition within the Network Rail monopoly. Interview with ORR chief executive Richard Price.Read more
Beale and Company partner Sheena Sood offers some advice - and warning - to those thinking of entering Dubai's resurgence infrastructure market.Read more
The Crossrail station over site development at Canary Wharf was always planned to open three year’s ahead of the railway and sets a new benchmark for how rail can create a sense of place says Arup’s Tim Worsfold.Read more
Our challenge is that the proposition we have from the Airports Commission of one additional runway at Heathrow airport will not deliver what everyone is rightly calling for, says Rod MacDonaldRead more
Rail "Question Time" panel at Tomorrow’s Rail conference set out the challenge facing the industry to shore up confidence in industry’s ability to deliver economy boosting infrastructure programmes.Read more
Government review of electrification programme is not a scaling back but an opportunity to rethink the delivery of “an enormously challenging programme”, says Carne.Read more
Government is to channel Network Rail’s funding through the train operators to “put customers back in the driving seat” and wants the operator to push ahead with devolving power to its regions.Read more
Pinsent Masons' infrastructure partner Jon Hart found Osborne’s summer budget a bit of a let down and is concerned that rail budgets are in for a tough time in the autumn spending reviewRead more
Chancellor backs roads as the way to improve UK productivity ahead of new strategy launch on Friday. Otherwise infrastructure takes a back seat in budget designed to shift balance between welfare and work.Read more
Expansion at Heathrow is "deliverable but only with political will" - clear government leadership and decision is now needed, says former transport minister Adonis.Read more