Engineering

The A52 Clifton Bridge's major emergency repairs are bringing chaos to Nottingham. What's gone wrong - and how could it be a total surprise? Civil engineer Alex Romankiw explains.

Nobody likes a concrete road. Promises have been made time and again to get rid of them all - but perhaps there’s another solution.

The A90 Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route is the biggest road construction project the UK has seen for years - but there's something very wrong with the bridge over the River Don.

In the sixties, a motorway was built on Hyde Park. Which one?

Upgrade work on the A465 through the Clydach Gorge is taking longer and costing more than expected. Should lessons have been learned from the last engineers to take it on?

One hard shoulder's enough for one carriageway, right? Well...not according to one long-lost design standard.

Three roads were built in the space of 200 years, all trying to tame Rannoch Moor and Glen Coe. This is the impressive tale of one of Scotland's most memorable routes.

The UK has been driving in circles for a hundred years now, and this humble road junction has become part of British culture. Just what is so special about roundabouts?

Those last few miles of the M1 east of Leeds were completed in 1999. It looks for the most part like a fairly average piece of road, but one of the project's engineers describes some of the challenges that were faced.