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National Highways has announced plans to procure a £6bn framework to enhance key roads in England. The proposed Scheme Delivery Framework 2 (SDF2) will cover six years of upgrades to the 4,500-mile strategic road network (SRN). Procurement is scheduled to start in September next year. The agency invited industry views…

Focusing on work in public and regulated sectors has helped Galliford Try to achieve a £1.8bn turnover. Announcing its full-year results to 30 June 2024, the tier one contractor – ranked 15th in the latest CN100 table – also revealed a pre-tax profit of £32.7m. This was 39.7 per cent…

An NHS Trust has criticised central government policy after the estimated cost of replacing a crumbling Leeds hospital doubled to £1.42bn. In a report presented to the Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust board last Thursday (26 September), a project director for the Leeds General Infirmary (LGI) rebuild criticised the £20bn New…

Rolls-Royce SMR and Holtec Britain are among the firms shortlisted to speak to the government's nuclear company about delivering small modular reactors (SMR). Great British Nuclear (GBN) said four companies remained in the running to deliver the technology, which aims to establish small nuclear plants more quickly than traditional large-scale…

Wessex Water has named the contractors and consultants selected for its eighth asset management period (AMP8), running from 2025-30. Kier won a place on three of the four lots on the framework that is set to see £3.7bn of planned investment made by the water company – which operates across…

Galliford Try has won the contract to complete a link road in Buckinghamshire. The firm announced yesterday (24 September) that its infrastructure business had been appointed to a contract worth £88.9m to complete the South East Aylesbury Link Road (SEALR) project. The firm will build 1.1 miles of dual carriageway…

Haringey Council has extended its road maintenance deal with Marlborough Highways, with the overall contract now worth up to £98m.  Marlborough’s existing five-year contract was due to expire in June 2025 but will now run until June 2027. The extension was made after a review process considering operational and social…

A coalition of businesses has called on the government to commit to the £9bn Lower Thames Crossing to avoid “another 15 years of uncertainty”. Contractors and construction trade bodies were among 73 organisations that signed a letter to the government – coordinated by trade body Logistics UK – supporting the…

Balfour Beatty has been picked for £363m worth of cabling job in East Anglia.  The UK’s largest contractor will undertake the Bramford to Twinstead reinforcement job for National Grid, building new lines and cables to upgrade the electricity network.  Balfour Beatty will replace the existing high-voltage electricity network between Bramford…

Two construction firms are sharing £800m worth of work on the Transpennine rail upgrade. Amey, Bam and design consultancy Arup – working as the TRU West Alliance – have won the latest stage of the £2bn project to improve train travel between Manchester, Huddersfield, Leeds and York. The alliance said…