National Highways, working with delivery partners Kier, Balfour Beatty and Keltbray, worked under Project Speed principles to collaboratively create a robust development consent order (DCO) application for the £1.3bn A66 North Trans-Pennine upgrade, the project manager told NCE.
Designed by an Amey-Arup integrated team from the preliminary stages, the A66 upgrade…
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Five firms win spots on £960M Midlands roads framework
The Midlands Highway Alliance Plus (MHA+) has named five firms which successfully bid for its £960M professional services partnership framework 4 (PSP 4).
Amey, Aecom and WSP were announced as winners of the consultancy services Lot, with two firms, Waterman Aspen and Matchtech Group UK, picked for the temporary and seconded…
11 civil engineers secure places on the 2023 Top 50 Women in Engineering list
The Women's Engineering Society (WES), which organises International Women in Engineering Day (Inwed), has marked the 10th anniversary of the day of celebrating female engineers by revealing that 11 civil engineers have made the 2023 Top 50 Women in Engineering (WE50) list.
The WE50 started in 2016 to showcase the diversity…
National Highways close section of M56 to demolish old Cheshire road bridge
National Highways will be closing the M56 between junction 11 and 12 this weekend to demolish the old A533 Expressway bridge in Cheshire.
An Amey and Sir Robert McAlpine joint venture (AmeySRM JV) has already finished the replacement single two-lane carriageway bridge with a combined footpath and cycleway. It opened last…
Amey Rail fined over £500,000 after worker suffered 55% burns
Amey Rail has been fined £533,334 after pleading guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work Act after a worker suffered “life-changing injuries” from touching a live wire carrying 25,000v.
The incident occurred on 25 December 2019 when Allister Hunt, a self-employed senior linesman for Amey, was carrying…
Cost of electrifying South Wales Metro has soared by a third to £1bn
Transport for Wales (TfW) has announced the cost for its project to electrify and convert the Core Valley Lines into the South Wales Metro has risen by a third to £1bn.
Originally costed at £750M, the scheme will electrify the Aberdare, Merthyr, Rhymney and Treherbert lines into Cardiff and further upgrade…
Inquiry concludes Sheffield Council’s ‘sustained failure’ central to Amey’s highways tree-felling row
An inquiry into Sheffield Council’s £2bn Streets Ahead programme, which saw contractor Amey fell thousands of trees as part of its highways contract and sparked violent protests, has found that the council’s behaviour “amounted to a serious and sustained failure of strategic leadership”.
It continues: “Responsibility for that ultimately rests with…
Amey appoints former energy minister as new chair
Amey has appointed Margaret Thatcher’s energy minister as its new chairman.
Lord Colin Moynihan replaces Ian Tyler, who has served as chairman for Amey since 2018, with immediate effect. Moynihan served as both energy minister for Thatcher and John Major’s governments and has held a number of other positions in Parliament,…
Ferrovial completes deal to sell Amey
Ferrovial has completed the sale of Amey to UK investment firm Buckthorn Partners in a deal worth £400M.
Ferrovial expects a capital gain of £48M after charging reserves for translation differences and interest rate hedges to profit and loss. Buckthorn is a UK investment firm focused on energy services businesses. Former chancellor Lord…
Amey to pay final £35M for exiting troubled Birmingham roads job once takeover completes
The special purpose vehicle (SPV) set up to manage Birmingham’s roads maintenance contract will receive a final £35M payment from Amey once the takeover of the company is completed.
Amey bought itself out of the PFI contract in 2019 for £215M, following five years of legal wrangling between the contractor and…