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WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff is carrying out the study for the A6 – M6 relief road in the UK, close to the city of Manchester. The study will review various aspects of the project, including the environmental issues. The new link will improve transport connections from the A6 to the Hazel Grove junction on the M60 motorway. It will also improve transport links to the Manchester Airport relief road scheme under construction at present.

A key advance has been made in reducing noise along the busy M40 motorway in the UK. The work forms part of a design contract worth up to €2.62 million (£2 million). WSP Parsons Brinkerhoff is reviewing sites along the M40 between junction 3 (Loudwater) and junction 8 (Wheatley), where road noise is a particular issue. Earlier this year, Highways England, working in partnership with the M40 Chiltern Environmental Group, (M40 CEG) Wycombe District Council and South Oxfordshire District Council, ran a

The first extradosed designed bridge in the United States, the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge in New Haven, Connecticut, was opened to traffic on September 28.

Parsons Brinckerhoff UK has been awarded an Investing in Integrity accreditation for its ethical policies, procedures and practices. Investing in Integrity tests an organisation’s ethical conduct against its value statements to ensure those values are properly embedded. Parsons is the first engineering consultancy to be give the accreditation, a statement from the company said. To gain the accreditation, Parsons Brinckerhoff underwent an independent assessment by Investing in Integrity assessment par

Balfour Beatty is selling its Parsons Brinckerhoff business to WSP Global for US$1.3525 billion (£820 million). Part of the agreement is that $110 million (£67 million) being retained within Parsons Brinckerhoff. With the acquisition of Parsons Brinckerhoff, WSP becomes one of the world’s largest professional services firms. The deal increases WSP’s presence across global emerging markets in Asia and Australasia as well as providing opportunities in the UK market, where Parsons Brinckerhoff is well-establis

Plans are in hand for a new link to Leeds Bradford International Airport in the UK. WSP and Parsons Brinckerhoff have been appointed by the Department for Transport (DfT) to carry out a study that will examine connectivity options to Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBIA). A Treasury report, Investing in Britain’s Future, has identified LBIA as one of six road congestion hotspots that required further feasibility studies. The study team undertake research to identify and appraise potential intervention

In the UK a leading consultancy, WSP, is calling for close scrutiny of Census data and traffic trends. This move forms part of the UK Government’s Transport Select Committee investigation into the country’s strategic road network (SRN). According to WSP more must be done to investigate and take account of new trends in development, demographics and travel patterns when making decisions on future infrastructure provision. It claims that there is evidence in some areas that car journeys have been stagnating o

Plans for a €325million (US$423.76million) fixed transport link project in Estonia will be presented to the country’s Government in early 2012, according to a senior road planning official.

Four consortia have been appointed by the DfT to consultancy frameworks for rail and road schemes. A TRL-Halcrow joint venture; Ove Arup & Partners with URS; Aecom and Atkins; and Parsons Brinckerhoff with WSP; may be used by the DfT, Highways Agency or any other Government bodies, over a period of three years with the potential for a one-year extension. Similar plans for general transport and social research are underway, although the tender was suspended in 2011 as it was thought to disadvantage smalle

Transport for London (TfL) has shortlisted ten contractors for a road maintenance framework that could be worth as much as US$3billion over eight years. The framework is split into four contracts and could cover all London roads from 2013. TfL said the framework would provide cost savings and other efficiencies. The final contracts will be awarded before the end of 2012. The ten contractors are: Amey, Balfour Beatty Living Places, Bam Nuttall-Hyder Consulting, Colas-VolkerHighways-URS Scott Wilson, Co