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GHD has been appointed as one of the lead designers for Portsmouth Water’s Havant Thicket Reservoir project in Hampshire – the first major new UK reservoir in more than 30 years.

The McConnell Dowell and John Holland joint venture has finished excavating the main access tunnel for underground works on Genex Power's K2-Hydro, the first pumped hydro project in Australia in more than 40 years.

A second sinkhole has formed along the route of High Speed 2’s Chiltern tunnels, after Align JV's tunnel engineers were warned of a potential dissolution feature in advance.

Wiltshire Council is looking to procure a contractor to repair a major road in Wiltshire that suffered severe damage because of a landslide in early 2022.

Work on the Snowy 2.0 hydro project in Australia is progressing well, with tunnel excavation at the project’s Talbingo site ahead of schedule and horizontal directional drilling (HDD) underway at other sites.

Plans for a new 100km subsea electricity link between Orkney and the Scottish mainland have progressed after a high voltage cables supplier was chosen for the project.

A decision on whether to grant planning approval to National Highways’ A66 Northern Trans-Pennine project has been delayed by four months, with extra time needed to asses its impacts on a conservation area.

Network Rail and its contractor QTS have finished urgent repairs on an unstable rail embankment on the Midland Main Line that was affected by recent storms.

Intrusive drilling and laser scan surveys are planned following the appearance of a 35m deep "sinkhole" that has been identified as a bell pit at a field in Buckinghamshire – three years after a similar hole formed at the site.

A Vinci-led consortium has won an €800M (£692M) contract to recover excavated materials from the French side of the Mont Cenis base tunnel, as part of the Lyon-Turin rail project.