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The secretary of state for transport will make a planning decision on National Highways’ £9bn Lower Thames Crossing scheme in the next three months.

A tunnel to investigate ground conditions at SSE Renewables’ Coire Glas project to build a pumped hydro scheme in the Scottish Highlands is 70% complete, as wider ground investigations come to an end.

Tunnel boring machine (TBM) Cecilia has finished the second drive on High Speed 2’s (HS2’s) Chiltern tunnel, marking the completion of the project’s longest tunnel.

Queensland Hydro is looking to procure a dam designer for the A$14.2bn (£7.4bn) Borumba pumped hydro project in Queensland, Australia.

Port Talbot in Wales and Port of Cromarty Firth in Scotland have advanced to the next stage of a government funding scheme to develop port infrastructure that will facilitate floating offshore wind.

Nuclear Waste Services (NWS) has appointed engineering consultancies WSP and Atkins Réalis to prepare for geotechnical investigations to support the UK’s geological disposal facility (GDF) programme.

Two tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have relaunched from the Five Dock metro station site, as Sydney Metro West gears up for its biggest year of tunnelling.

National Grid has chosen the most suitable landfall, cable route, and converter station locations for its new interconnector to the Netherlands, known as Lion Link.

A commission has been launched to re-examine the potential for tidal energy schemes on the Severn Estuary between England and Wales.

Costain and Balfour Beatty are among nine contractors to be selected for £4bn worth of construction contracts on carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) projects in the north east.