Transport

Buro Happold is pleased to congratulate our client, the Plenary Group, on their selection as preferred proponent for Colorado’s US36 Managed Lanes project. Buro Happold was appointed by the <link...

The Rosario to Victoria Toll Bridge and associated embankment provides a direct 60km link between Rosario in the province of Santa Fe to Victoria in the province of Entre Rios in Argentina. A ferry service was in operation prior to the bridge being built but  stopped once the bridge was opened.

The I25 Express Lanes in Denver were originally built as seven miles of HOV and Rapid Bus Transit lanes between downtown Denver and the US36. In June 2006 they opened to traffic as express lanes which means that solo drivers are now also allowed to use the HOV lanes if they pay a toll. The lanes have proved very popular and there are now plans to extend the scheme along the US36 to Boulder. Although the construction of Phase I of the US36 is already underway, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDoT) and the High Performance Transportation Enterprise (HPTE) have proposed that the Phase II extension along the US36, along with Phase I and the existing I25 express lanes, should be combined into a single design, build, finance and operate concession.

While a formal announcement is still awaited, it seems likely that the on – off project to build a toll road to relieve congestion on the M4 in the Newport area of South Wales is back on.

Sebastian Seelig presents at the Cities workshop in London

A new environmentally responsible masterplan is set for a new urban district to the northwest of Hanoi. The development include medium to high end residential accommodation for up to 60,000 people, a business district, university accommodation for the Agricultural University , Science Park and leisure areas.

For those who buy in to the Keynesian view of infrastructure and economic development, some of the recent comments by members of the UK Government on infrastructure are a positive sign. For example, Deputy Prime Minister Nick...

The first steps in an ambitious programme to reform the UK’s Strategic Road Network (SRN) have been mapped out. But will the UK government do what’s necessary to offer a better service to motorists and business users? The...

The recent flurry of reports, blogs and commentaries discussing the likelihood of an occurrence of the Peak Car effect in the UK has largely focused on the social implications of us falling out of love with our...

The ongoing debacle over the WCML railway franchise competition raises many questions about the whole rail franchising process. The WCML is the busiest mixed traffic railway route in Britain; in terms of population served it’s...

Gibraltar airfield was built during World War II and officially opened in 1949 as an emergency base for the British Royal Navy. On December 2nd, 1987, an agreement between the Spanish and British governments agreed to the civil...

Dr Shrikant Sharma to talk about advanced applications of BIM for integrated modelling Dr Shrikant Sharma, computational design expert at international multidisciplinary engineering consultancy Buro Happold is to share...

Stratford Town City Link was a proposal for a new state of the art pedestrian bridge over a railway that links Stratford station in east London to a new shopping complex developed by Westfield.

Thomas Deacon is the UK’s largest academy, with 2,200 students from three pre-existing schools. The project brief called for the design to ‘promote the specialist science and mathematics nature of the academy and the concept of...