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Canadian engineering services company Stantec has increased its UK workforce by 30% with the acquisition of engineering design consultancy Hydrock.

National Highways has announced that construction can begin on its long delayed A57 Link Roads scheme after the latest legal challenge against it came to an end.

Ground Engineering's monthly round-up of events from across the geotechnical sector.

Breaking Ground’s latest episode introduces Luisa Hendry, known on social media as the “Scottish Geologist”.

An incident where a tremie pipe fell onto a live carriageway is one of many challenges that geotechnical contractors have faced on the Silvertown Tunnel project, delegates heard at the GE Piling and Foundations conference.

Anglian Water and Cambridge Water have released updated design proposals for their new £2.2bn reservoir in the Fenlands ahead of a second phase of consultation.

Ireland's planning body has granted permission for a €200M (£171M) tunnel to be built under Dublin Airport, despite objections from Ryanair and a community group.

Geobear appoints a new director of its infrastructure division, Royal Bam Group welcomes a new director of construction for its UK and Ireland division, and RWO gets a new executive director in the latest people moves from across the industry.

Engineering consultancy Atkins Réalis has been awarded a detailed design and engineering study for a proposed 2.4km extension of the MTR rapid transit network in Hong Kong.

Network Rail and its contractors have repaired a railway line between Lancaster and Barrow-in-Furness  in Cumbria that was “severely damaged” by a void and train derailment in March.