Transport Minister Jessie Norman MP today delivered a written statement to Parliament in which he announced the preferred corridor for the new Oxford to Cambridge Expressway, accepting the recommendations of Highways England. Above: Area for route options development (indicative only). Image: The Department for Transport The expressway is projected to take up to 40 minutes
New laws to arm small businesses against unfair contracts that stop them raising money from unpaid invoices will be put before Parliament today. The Government has said that new legislation will make it easier for small businesses to access invoice finance, which will provide a £1bn long-term boost to the economy. Currently a small supplier’s
Watch CECA North West’s 2018 video here, featuring Young Professional of Year winners Llinos Owen (Site Engineer) and Zoe Stericker (Section Engineer), both of Skanska Bam.
You can now watch all sessions from CECA’s 2018 Inspiring Change Awards online: Above: CECA Chief Executive Alasdair Reisner introduces keynote speaker, the Shadow Business Minister Chi Onwurah MP, at the opening session of Inspiring Change 2018. Ms Onwurah is followed by Keith Waller of the Infrastructure & Projects Authority at HM Treasury.
Train companies are to publish more real-time information to enable greater collaboration between the rail sector and tech companies, it has been announced. The Department for Transport and the Rail Delivery Group have published The Joint Rail Data Action Plan, which outlines how Government and the rail industry, including the Rail Delivery Group (RDG), the
The advanced nuclear sector has the potential to play and important part in the UK’s industrial strategy, the Government has said, building on Britain’s existing economic strengths and competitive advantages in the nuclear sector whilst shaping new advanced nuclear markets and contributing to the Clean Growth Grand Challenge. BEIS minister Richard Harrington MP, in a
On Tuesday (31 July) the House of Commons Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee published a report on the Draft National Policy Statement for Geological Disposal Infrastructure. The draft National Policy Statement (‘NPS’) was laid before Parliament on 25 January 2018 and set out the Government’s proposed framework for future development consent orders for a
Civils contractors today called for urgent action to be taken to address a plunge in infrastructure workloads in Scotland. Results from the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (CECA) quarterly workload trends survey for 2018 Q2 found that in Great Britain as a whole, workloads had improved and prospects remain positive.However in Scotland, workloads declined for a
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee has published Off-site manufacture for construction: Building for change which states that the construction sector as it currently operates cannot meet the UK’s need for housing and may struggle to meet the need for infrastructure. The Committee argues that given that the UK already lags behind other countries in
The Strategic Transport Apprenticeship Taskforce (STAT) has published Transport Infrastructure Skills Strategy: Two years on, which shows how investment is helping to create apprenticeships and fill future skills gaps. STAT is a voluntary, cross-sector industry body that has been given the responsibility for meeting targets for apprenticeships, sector diversity and promoting transport as a career.
