Engineers this week warned that New Orleans’ residents will still have to flee the city in the event of another Hurricane Katrina-style event, despite a massive $15bn (£9.7bn) investment in flood defences.

Network Rail has announced it has produced “an affordable costs package” to deliver the elements of the £15.9bn Crossrail project that the rail infrastructure owner is responsible for.

Almost five years to the day since Hurricane Katrina ripped across Louisiana, engineers are bracing themselves for the final phase of works to reduce the risk of storm damage to the city of New Orleans.

A crucial report into the Edinburgh Tram project, which will set out options for ending the dispute between the project’s contractors and the local authority, has been delayed by a month.

Thousands of construction professionals are to descend on the NEC in Birmingham between 18 and 20 October for the inaugural Infrastructure Show.

A residential road in Swansea is set to close permanently to traffic after the local council approved only a “minimal option” to repair it.

Contractor Costain has teamed up with Hochtief and Arup in a new alliance that will seek to design and build offshore wind farms.

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Tunnelling contracts for London’s £15.9bn Crossrail scheme will not be awarded until 2011, scheme promoters have confirmed.

Staff levels at contractor Laing O’Rourke have been slashed by almost a half from 35,000 to 18,000, the company has confirmed.

The Highways Agency is attempting to work closer with specialist consultants by splitting its project support framework into smaller chunks.

This month’s devastation caused by monsoon flooding in Pakistan could take 10 years and £10bn to repair, experts said this week.

Kashmir was this week reeling from severe damage to infrastructure, similar to Pakistan, following floods caused by monsoon downpours.

Torrential rain has also struck China, killing thousands through huge mudslides and bridge collapses and leaving thousands without water and power.

Engineers have completed a critical operation to salvage the southern central pier of the Workington “Calva” bridge and bring it one step closer to long term survival.

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The inspection regime at Ireland’s rail operator Iarnrod Eireann has been slated by Ireland’s Railway Accident Investigation Unit following an investigation into last year’s Malahide viaduct collapse.

London Underground (LU) was this week carrying out an urgent investigation after a runaway and defective engineering train caused chaos on the Tube network last week.

Interserve today reported that profits had fallen from to £27.3M in the six months to 30 June compared with £40M in the same period last year. However, its construction business total operating profit increased from £18.1M to £23.5M in the UK and Middle East.

Construction of a state-of-the-art Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) station has begun at The Lizard in Cornwall.