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Judicial review sought for key levelling-up road project

Construction Law

Campaigners Transport Action Network (TAN) have launched a legal challenge to the granting of a Development Consent Order (DCO) for the £1.5 billion A66 Northern Trans-Pennine road scheme. To read more of this and every other news story on this site, please log in with your Construction Law membership account details.

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Skanska gets start date for delayed £507m A428 dualling job

Construction Enquirer

National Highways has given contractor Skanska a start date for the delayed A428 Black Cat dualling job after legal proceedings against the scheme came to an end. With the legal process now over, National Highways will begin putting plans in place for the start of main construction on the £507m contract. .”

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Minnesota Considers Constitutional Amendment to Fund Road Construction

Construction Equipment

Minnesota legislators are considering if detouring certain sales tax dollars into a constitutionally mandate separate fund could solve the state's road and transportation funding needs.

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Crumbling Buildings, Roads, and Dams – Money Isn’t the Problem

Building Information Management

Furthermore the overall construction process generally wastes 30%-60% of funds on delays, change orders, reworks, low productivity, and legal disputes. Much of the available funding is given to, and administered by state departments of transportation. State DOTs are just one example.

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Google Scholar Provides Outstanding Preliminary Legal Research

Best Practices Construction Law

joined the legal research playing field with Westlaw, LEXIS, FindLaw and all the other law-related databases. A couple of years ago I worked on a case for a road builder which had a claim against the Tennessee Department of Transportation. Is that the only legal research an inquiring mind should do? Absolutely not!

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The Distaste for Toll Roads in the U.S. | ENR: Engineering News.

ENR Construction

Transportation. The Distaste for Toll Roads in the U.S. Toll roads—just those two words bring out extreme reactions. Either you hate them or you think theyre the panacea for all that ails transportation. Through prudent historical compromises, we have created a transportation system that is the envy of the world.

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Mortenson Highlights BIM for Road Construction and Infrastructure Project

Best Practices Construction Law

Call it "BIM Leaves the Building and Hits the Road." " Whatever you want to call it, you will want to see this Autodesk video about Mortenson Construction that highlights the advantages of BIM for road construction and other infrastructure projects. Call it 4D modeling for infrastructure projects.

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