What Lower Thames Crossing bosses want to see in contractors’ bids
Contractors bidding for work on the UK’s biggest roads job must embrace modularisation and demonstrate ways to save time and cost on the Lower Thames Crossing project.
Worth a combined £1.9bn, the Roads North contract covers the route from 1km north of the northern tunnel entrance to Junction 29 of the M25, while the Kent Roads job involves design and build for the part of the route from the A2/M2 corridor to 1km south of the southern tunnel entrance.
Speaking to
NCE ahead of the latest contracts launch, Lower Thames Crossing Roads North project director Andrew Thompson-Jones and Kent Roads project director Sue Hitchcock revealed what they are looking for from prospective bidders.
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Major blueprint to create green jobs and slash emissions from industry, schools and hospitals
An ambitious blueprint to deliver the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector and over £1 billion to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals has been announced by the Business and Energy Secretary.
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17 March 2021
Over £1 billion allocated to drive down emissions from industry and public buildings like schools, hospitals and council buildings
new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy sets vision for world’s first low carbon industrial sector, slashing emissions by two-thirds in just 15 years
package of measures will put the UK at the forefront of the global green industrial revolution, creating and supporting up to 80,000 jobs over the next 3 decades
Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy: Government sets out vision for decarbonising heavy industry
CCS and hydrogen facility planned at Saltend Chemicals Park in the Humber is among the projects to secure funding | Credit: px Group
Strategy to set out a number of new targets for the decarbonisation of industry, as government confirms details of nine projects to be awarded funding through Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge - but opposition warns plans lack necessary ambition
The government has unveiled a package of new climate promises and funding announcements designed to catalyse the decarbonisation of heavy industry around the UK, ranging from a pledge to consider targets.
Carbon capture, usage and storge (CCUS) and hydrogen projects are among key initiatives to gain investment as part of the government’s new Industrial Decarbonisation Strategy, announced today.
The strategy is “an ambitious blueprint” to deliver the world’s first low-carbon industrial sector and includes over £1bn of funding to cut emissions from industry, schools and hospitals.
To kick start the process, £171M from the Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge has been allocated to nine green tech projects in Scotland, South Wales and the North West, Humber and Teesside in England, to undertake engineering and design studies for the rollout of decarbonisation infrastructure, such as CCUS and hydrogen.