This category brings together commercially relevant news, industry signals and infrastructure intelligence, helping readers follow the people, projects, technologies and markets driving change across the sector.
The Rt. Hon. David Davis MP, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, today visited JCB’s World HQ to tour the manufacturing site and take part in discussions w...
A new initiative is putting business investment at the heart of Denbighshire’s strategy for economic growth. The “Invest in Denbighshire” project is designed to encourage...
Volvo 40-tonne excavators find favour at H and S Contractors H and S Contractors Ltd of Kingsnorth, Hoo in Kent continues to add Volvo Construction Equipment products to...
The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has greeted the Chancellor’s, Philip Hammond, announcement that driverless cars will be on Britain’s roads by 2021 with som...
One in five patients admitted to trauma centres in the UK were involved in road crashes in 2016 according to new figures obtained by Brake, the road safety charity. Road...
The rise in the number of cycling accidents caused by deteriorating road surfaces underlines calls for a national statutory standard definition of what comprises a pothol...
Leading bridge and engineering services specialist Mabey has today unveiled a new bridge lifting technique – the first of its kind in the UK. Developed with Alun Griffith...
Measures that will help improve the road network’s resilience when there are interruptions to services across the English Channel were set out by Highways England on15 No...
Last week Clearview Intelligence joined the great and good of the highways industry at the NEC for the Highways UK show. Hosted by Highways England the show is growing in...
A new Volvo ECR88D reduced swing compact excavator has been supplied to WoodForFuel.com, located near Balfron in Stirlingshire and is the company’s prime mover in process...
The UK’s biggest road construction project is marking its first full year of work. 21 miles of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon are being upgraded to three lanes...
Mike Taylor Plant Hire of Blairgowrie, Perth & Kinross has opted for a Volvo reduced swing ECR58D for the first time The new six-tonne machine has been supplied by SM...
From Gdańsk to Katowice, over 1,000 kilometres of Polish railways will be modernized and upgraded with the help of a EUR 650-million loan from the European Investment Ban...
The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has reacted with concern at the findings of new analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA) that by 2020 almost 60p...
Basalto La Spicca SpA has replaced two of its Hitachi Excavator Z-axis-3 with two new Zaxis-6 models due to increasing demand at its basalt quarry in southern Umbria, Ita...
JCB put its experience and expertise to good use helping TV personality Guy Martin to engineer a tribute to the role tanks played in helping change the course of the Firs...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending €51 million to Slovenia’s motorway company DARS to finance the introduction of an electronic tolling system for vehicles abo...
Meeting in Luxembourg earlier today the board of the European Investment Bank approved a total of €9.2 billion of new financing for 38 projects in 16 European Union count...
Highways England’s team of 1,300 specially trained gritter drivers based across the country are geared up for winter – and are urging drivers to do the same. The company...
ASI is constantly striving to extend the life of the valuable infrastructure network through planned maintenance using RHiNOPHALT®. Their goal is to provide road users an...
Tests have begun this week on an innovative, pilot project designed to reduce congestion along the M62 Motorway near Warrington in Cheshire. Highways England is deliverin...
With an intriguing fusion of futuristic and classic design, Snøhetta has completed its first permanently built project in England. The 108-square-meter retail space, dubb...
A new survey of delegates at Highways UK, the UK’s premier highway event attended by 2,000 road-safety professionals, reveals attitudes towards adopting new technologies...
Hamburg-based company Ehlert & Söhne was in search of a demolition excavator with a particularly high operating height in order to get involved in some of the biggest...
Predictions of the worse winter for possibly ten years is bad news for those highway authorities who have failed to carry out the necessary maintenance of their road netw...
Two Liebherr L 580 XPower® wheel loaders have recently joined the state-of-the-art machinery fleet of Willy Dohmen GmbH & Co. KG. The benefits of the XPower wheel loa...
The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) has written to the Chancellor to urge him to put measures in the forthcoming budget that will support the modernisation of builder...
Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm McCann has showcased its commitment to developing future talent by joining The 5% Club, an UK industry led initiati...
C D McNeill of Dingwall, Ross-shire has purchased a fourth EC27C for its contracting business. The new EC27C is the fourth machine in a line to join C D McNeill’s contrac...
Heathrow has announced the next step in building Britain’s new runway by revealing the sixty-five longlisted sites in the running to be selected as expansion Logistics Hu...
With an ambition to set a common safety standard for more than 50 thousand workers across its whole supply chain, Highways England has today (8 November 2017) announced a...
The UK Department for Transport’s funding allocation requirements now call for local highway authorities to have a fully developed and implemented asset management...
The shocking footage above was released by Highways England today and show drivers watching DVDs, reading books, and even boiling a dashboard kettle. One driver in...
Amsterdam is considered to be a smart city and with “Climate Street”, for example, it initiated a flagship project for the Netherlands as a whole. By 2040, Amsterdam want...
Telford & Wrekin Council has today published its official notice for a £220m highways maintenance contract. The notice published in the Official Journal of the Europe...
Austrian crane and heavy haulage contractor Felbermayr has erected a wind farm on a range of medium-height mountains in Styria. The 13 turbines made by Enercon were compl...
“I’m sticking with Volvo…” says Brian Taylor, proprietor of B G Taylor Groundworks of Glenrothes as he reflects on one year’s operation with his Volvo EC27C and ECR50D co...
Britaniacrest Recycling Ltd of Hookwood, Surrey has recently added a Volvo L150H to its plant fleet with a second machine on order for the New Year as it ramps up product...
A Hitachi ZX38U-5 mini excavator has been delivered to the first elephant sanctuary in Europe. The Premium Used machine was donated by Hitachi Construction Machinery (Eur...
In 2004, a pedestrian bridge with a difference was opened in London spanning an inlet off the main canal at Merchant Square, Paddington Basin. The Rolling Bridge was conc...
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