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A Webuild, GS Engineering and Construction, and Bouygues Construction Australia consortium will build the northern section of Melbourne’s SRL East project.
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East West Rail between Bedford and Cambridge to include new tunnels
Revised proposals for the East West Rail scheme’s section between Bedford and Cambridge include a new section of railway, as well as new stations and tunnels.
Kent railway ‘priority’ landslide prevention job completed
Network Rail contractors have installed a 200m long sheet pile wall to stabilise a stretch of railway embankment next to the River Medway in Kent.
Soil nailing completed to stabilise deep Fareham rail tunnel cutting
Network Rail and Volker Fitzpatrick will demobilise from the Fareham cutting site next week, following completion of further soil nailing for landslide prevention.
Oxford station upgrade: Trial holes drilled after complex utility diversions cause delays
Trial holes are being carried out to inform the best route for complex utility diversions that have delayed Network Rail’s £161M project to revamp Oxford’s railway station.
Van Elle completes emergency piling on New Mills rail embankment
Van Elle has completed emergency piling work on a failed railway embankment near New Mills in High Peak, Derbyshire.
Drilling contractor reflects on busy year of road and rail jobs following wet winter
Drilling contractors have been called upon to support more “full-scale fixes” on road and railway assets this year following one of the UK’s wettest winters on record.
Importance of ‘strict risk management’ after Poland building collapses above tunnelling
The partial collapse of a building in the centre of Łódź, Poland, above tunnelling works shows that more attention must be paid to “high risk” older buildings during design and construction.
Ground investigations begin for Australia’s first high speed rail line
Australia's High Speed Rail Authority kicks off geotechnical investigations for the first stage of a planned high speed rail link between Sydney and Newcastle.
Roger Bullivant installs jack piles to support historic rail viaduct restoration project
Foundation engineering contractor Roger Bullivant is supporting Network Rail’s project to strengthen and repair the 175 year old Yarm Viaduct in North Yorkshire.
Honiton tunnel landslide stabilisation to continue following emergency works
Network Rail and principal contractor Dyer & Butler recently completed emergency works at the landslide-prone Honiton tunnel cutting in Devon, but further stabilisation will be needed.
Rail line closed near Manchester for landslide repair works
Network Rail has closed a line south-east of Manchester for a month for the next stage of repairs to an embankment that failed in April.
Landslide-protection work along Durham railway 75% complete
Cumbrian civils contractor Story has installed 400 piles to stabilise an "active" landslide on a railway embankment near Durham.
Pair bag £60M of groundworks on rail network
A joint venture of Dorset firm Suttle Projects and Nottinghamshire's Van Elle will deliver up to £60M of drainage and earthworks jobs on the railway under a new deal.
Landslide-prone Severn Estuary rail line upgraded after 19-day blockade
Bam Nuttall has finished a key phase of a major project to protect rail services along the Severn Estuary between England and Wales from landslides.
Five share £1.3bn of rail work in Scotland
Network Rail has chosen Amco Giffen, Story Contracting, QTS Group, Volker Rail and Taziker Industrial for £1.3bn of civils work across Scotland.
Earthworks focus as Scotland looks to protect railway from climate change
Rail chiefs in Scotland have set out how they intend to create a more resilient network, including by spending more than £100M on protecting earthworks from extreme weather.
HS2: National Audit Office report reveals £100M cost of closing phase 2
Work to close down the cancelled northern leg of HS2 will take three years, cost up to £100M and include the remediation of thousands of boreholes.
Van Elle revenue drops 6% after housing and infrastructure slowdown
Van Elle’s revenue has dropped 6% to £139.5M from the last financial year due to “challenging market conditions” across most sectors.
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