Clean Planet Energy is a UK-based company that designs and builds ‘ecoPlants’. These facilities are expected to process plastics typically rejected by traditional recycling centres and so would otherwise be sent to incineration or landfill.

National Highways has awarded a £460 million contract to Kier to design and deliver an upgrade to the A417 between Gloucester and Swindon. The contract award follows a competitive procurement process through National Highways’ Regional Delivery Partnership framework. Kier’s team will include Volker, Arup, Tony Gee and RPS to prepare for and construct the 3.4-mile route.

General Electric has awarded a contract to Kier to deliver the onshore energy converter station in Redcar for RWE’s £3bn Sofia Offshore Wind Farm, which is located on Dogger Bank in the North Sea.

Luxury car manufacturer Bentley has revealed that it will invest £2.5 billion as it moves towards making electric vehicles.

The next phase of the Mersey Heat network gets the go ahead. The Government has awarded £6.2m to Peel NRE’s low carbon district heat network Mersey Heat to investigate expanding the network to include Liverpool’s Three Graces buildings and surrounding properties at the Pier Head.

Developer Peel L&P have set out their plans for further major investment in the redevelopment of Chatham Docks Industrial Estate in Kent.

British-Swedish multinational pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca is to build a new renewable energy plant to provide clean heat and power across UK sites, including two in the North West.

HS2 has confirmed that a Hitachi/Alstom joint venture has been awarded the contracts to build Britain’s next generation of high-speed trains at their factories in Crewe, Derby and County Durham. This major deal is set to support 2,500 jobs across the UK.