Navantia UK has set a target of hiring 500 apprentices by 2030 to support the business’s expansion in shipbuilding, engineering and in supplying the offshore energy industry.

Following its purchase of Harland & Wolff’s assets last year, Navantia UK is investing in building a new generation of industrial skills in three of the UK’s four nations – England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Hinkley Point C has today unveiled its End of Year film, offering a rare glimpse into the work that happens after dark on Britain’s biggest infrastructure project.

In the video, Project Construction Director Rob Jordan takes viewers behind the scenes of the night shift that keeps the site moving 24/7.

14,000 people are working around the clock to deliver Britain’s first nuclear power station in more than 30 years. 4,600 companies from across Britain have also played their part and stand ready to deliver future projects like Sizewell C.

System is one of three fish protection systems, giving Hinkley Point C more fish protection than any other power station in the world, costing £700 million

Successful completion of the testing would mean the project believes further compensation measures should not be required

Sea trials carried out by Swansea University have shown that an acoustic fish deterrent developed for Hinkley Point C is highly effective. The innovative use of ultrasound technology has been shown to keep target fish species away from the power station’s water intakes. 

Linxon has confirmed its long-term commitment to the transformation of Scotland’s transmission network as it officially opens its first office in Scotland.

The new office, located on Bothwell Street, in Glasgow, will serve as a key base for Linxon’s work with Scotland’s two transmission operators, SSEN Transmission and SP Energy Networks.

Ore Energy, the Netherlands-based iron-air long-duration energy storage startup, today announced the successful completion of a grid-connected technical pilot of its 100-hour iron-air energy storage system at EDF Lab les Renardières in Écuelles, France, as part of the European Union's Storage Research Infrastructure Eco-System ("StoRIES") programme. The pilot - among the first of its kind in Europe - demonstrated that the company's iron-air LDES technology is able to deliver multi-day energy storage in a real-world utility environment.

Guest: Mark Reynolds, Executive Chairman, Mace, co-Chair of the Construction Leadership Council and Chair of the Construction Skills Mission Board.
Interviewed by: Antony Oliver

This week's podcast celebrates the 150th episode by delving into one of the most urgent and complex issues that continues to challenge the UK construction sector – namely the critical shortage of skilled workers.

Guest: Mike Reader, MP for Northampton South and Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure.
Interviewed by: Antony Oliver

In episode we are seeking a new year parliamentary progress update to discover how 18 months of government infrastructure ambition is actually being turned into real economic and social growth potential.

To help me with this I am joined once again by Mike Reader, MP for Northampton South, the newly re-elected chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Infrastructure and Construction.

Engineers and site teams building HS2’s tunnel beneath the Chiltern Hills have completed construction work on two huge portal extensions at its northern end.

The structures, known as 'porous portals', are specially engineered to eliminate the possibility of trains creating ‘sonic boom’ when they enter the tunnel at 200mph. Built near Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire, they are identical to a pair completed earlier this year that are 10 miles away at the tunnel’s southern portal.  

Construction works on HS2’s longest tunnel have been completed – marking an important civil engineering milestone for the new high-speed railway.  

HS2 Ltd said that close of work at two of the line’s Chiltern tunnel vent shafts at Chesham Road and Little Missenden brings to an end a project that began almost five years ago.

Once fitted out with tracks and overhead electrical equipment as part of later phases of the project, the tunnel will carry trains travelling at 200mph, enabling them to traverse its 10 miles in just three minutes.  

Record solar, onshore wind, and tidal projects - building on last month’s offshore wind success - deliver Britain’s biggest-ever clean energy auction.

Britain has taken another significant leap towards energy independence and lower bills as it announces record levels of new solar and onshore wind projects as part of its latest renewables auction.

Almost 200 containers of low-level radioactive waste that once formed part of Britain’s experiment with fast breeder nuclear reactors are being entombed.

Almost 200 containers of low-level radioactive waste that once formed part of Britain’s experiment with fast breeder nuclear reactors are being entombed in a purpose-built underground vault at Dounreay.

The containers are stacked 4 high and the spaces filled with grout before being covered by a steel reinforced concrete slab. This slab will become a floor to support more containers going to the vault for disposal.

Sellafield awards £45 million contract to LTi Metaltech to supply products, supporting safe plutonium storage and progress toward long‑term disposal.

The Sellafield Product and Residue Store Retreatment Plant on the Sellafield site

A key contract has been placed to support the continued safe storage of plutonium as the UK works toward the permanent disposal of its plutonium legacy.