All Infrastructure articles – Page 151
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Features
Double crossing: Heneghan Peng’s Olympic bridge
Heneghan Peng’s 54m-wide central bridge at the Olympic park, which was lowered into place last week, has been ingeniously designed to form two narrower walkways after the Games have finished. Stephen Kennett explains how it all works
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Costain and Skanska bag Crossrail portal contract
Joint venture wins Pudding Mill Lane portal job in enabling works programme
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Construction starts on £1.5bn London Gateway port
Laing O'Rourke and Dredging International press ahead with building work on Essex port
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Parsons Brinckerhoff wins major rail contracts in US
Balfour Beatty company will manage high-speed rail projects in Illinois, Ohio and Florida
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Sea to power up to 15 million homes
Government action plan aims to use marine energy to reduce carbon emissions
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Former LU boss set to take top role at Tube Lines
Tim O'Toole in negotiations to return from US to take chief executive role
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Plans for coal power station in Scotland
Environmentalists react angrily to Ayshire Power’s plans to build first fossil-fuel power station in Scotland since 1973
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Blackfriars station hit by four-month delay
The completion of Blackfriars station, one of the main projects on the upgrade of the Thameslink rail line, has been put back four months until spring 2012
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Comment
Full speed ahead?
The Infrastructure Planning Commission was set up to fast-track projects of national importance, but it remains to be seen how well it will work
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Guernsey pulls the plug on Vinci’s £80m waste power plant
Vinci has lost an £80m contract to build an energy-from-waste plant in Guernsey after the island’s council pulled the plug because of its high cost
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Dounreay projects worth £500m put on hold
Three decommissioning projects on ice as nuclear industry braces itself for Treasury review
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LU to save schemes despite £460m blow
London Underground has said it is not currently considering any reduction to its major works programme, despite being asked to pay the Tube Lines consortium £460m more than it says it can afford
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High-speed rail network proposals revealed
Megaproject route would run 335 miles from Euston to Midlands and northern cities
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Taylor Woodrow/Bam Nuttall win £695m Victoria station upgrade
Joint venture chosen for central London rail revamp job
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TfL considers legal action after arbiter's Tube Lines funding decision
Arbiter says TfL has to raise £4,465m for PPP costs, prompting possible legal action and angry response from Boris Johnson
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Costain and Skanska win £15m Crossrail job
Joint venture scoops Royal Oak Portal contract, first tunnel-related construction package on the project
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EDF talks to ‘select group’ about first new-build nuclear deal
EDF Energy is in talks with about four consultants over a deal likely to be its first nuclear new-build contract in the UK
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Crossrail contractors urged to combine tunneling and station jobs
Bidders for tunneling jobs encouraged to vie for bundled station deals to drive down costs
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Crossrail to restructure governance
Chief executive warns of delay to appointing bidders as he sets out aim to simplify arrangement with TfL and transport department
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Good Employer Guide 2010: Be the best
The survey to reveal the construction industry’s best companies to work for is now open