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Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) has announced that it is divesting its wholly owned British dealership to long-term distribution partner SMT. The deal was signed...
Six months in, new aerial pictures show first glimpse of brand new road emerging New bridges taking shape Working in harmony with communities and the environment The proj...
£6.1 billion programme of road improvements announced as part of the government’s £23 billion upgrade to the road network in England. Transport Minister Jesse Norma...
Highways England has changed the way in which it delivers its services across the south west region from today bringing key asset management capability in-house for the f...
Guide dogs in training at Guide Dogs Cymru, Cardiff, are finding it a little easier to get to grips with pelican crossings, thanks to a donation from AGD Systems – the pe...
Heathrow agrees new plan with TfL and DfT to boost rail services to the airport Elizabeth line services to serve Terminal 5 From 2019 at least 22 trains per hour connecti...
Main construction on a £174 million project to upgrade the M3 in Surrey and Hampshire to a smart motorway has been completed on time Highways England announced today (Sat...
Highways England is planning a major, £50 million improvement of the roundabout at junction 19 of the M6 motorway near Knutsford – with the backing of drivers. The...
A record-breaking – and capacity – field of 3,000 squirmed and splashed their way to a £70,042 charity total by taking on the challenge of the 6th annual JCB...
A proposed multi-million pound upgrade to a busy M25 junction in Hertfordshire has won support in a public consultation, Highways England has announced. Under the plans,...
Berger Grundbautechnik GmbH is using two SENNEBOGEN duty cycle cranes simultaneously in Berlin. Within the framework of the preparatory works for the planned BAB 100 moto...
The Astaldi Group has been awarded the works to updgrade a section of the E-59 Warsaw-Poznań railway line (Lot IV). The contract amounts to EUR 82 million, with Astaldi l...
The European-based construction group STRABAG has been awarded the contract to build and widen the R 67 expressway in Hungary. The € 212 million project is being carried...
The world’s longest road and rail tunnel will require a factory that, in terms of its size, is set to be a record-breaker. The Fehmarnbelt immersed tunnel between R...
Baggerbetrieb Fred Walther has bought a new Hitachi ZX300LCN-6 for a long-standing contract on an asphalt recycling site belonging to Südwest Asphalt GmbH & Co. KG. T...
A recent soil mixed road project ground engineering contractor Deep Soil Mixing Ltd carried out for contractor Kier Living and consulting engineers Patrick Parsons Ltd at...
On geographically tough terrain such as in the Swiss Alps, asphalt paving is a challenge in itself. Extreme slopes, narrow roads and steep precipices place demands on the...
Traditionally now is the time of the year when new Local Authority budgets have kicked in, the weather is good and road repairs and improvements can get underway. It...
The capacity of Metso’s Tampere factories in Finland will be increased and occupational safety improved with the new production line for Lokotrack mobile crushing p...
A COMPANY which runs one of the biggest fleets of JCB wheeled loaders in the world is increasing its size further with the addition of six newly-launched 417 models. Onli...
Airport partners with Department for International Trade’s (DIT) ‘Exporting is GREAT’ Campaign to award 20 SMEs with grants to fund trade missions, trade shows and foreig...
For the first time, airlines’ emissions performance, as well as their noise performance, is now tracked publicly in a quarterly league table Unscheduled night flights ope...
Turkish pipeline contractor FERNAS Construction employs Volvo PL4809D rotating pipelayers on the Trans Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP) to bring Caspian gas from Az...
Speed bumps have long been the default solution for local authorities wishing to facilitate a reduction in speeding vehicles on certain sections of road, particularly in...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has granted the Junta de Andalucía a EUR 217 million loan for financing investment in different sectors of Andalusia’s economy with the...
AGD Systems, a leading UK manufacturer of ITS product solutions, including traffic radar, was listed as one of the top 20 export partners to Brazil in the prestigious For...
German recycling and demolition waste company MinERALiX has purchased a large-capacity Hitachi wheel loader for one of its facilities located to the west of Weingarten (B...
The Dutch scrap recycling company Van Dalen Metals Recycling & Trading in Moerdijk has been using two new SENNEBOGEN 835 Mobile material handlers since early 2016. Th...
One of the UK’s oldest digger drivers is turning heads on building sites after his boss ordered him a brand new limited edition JCB to mark his 70th birthday. John Storey...
Doka Ventures, a subsidiary of Austria’s Umdasch Group, is joining forces with inventor of deployable 3D construction printing Behrokh Khoshnevis. His company will...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) will grant EUR 80m in financing to Urbaser for its investments in research, development and innovation (RDI) and the renewal of its urb...
ProCon Partners, the leading project controls consultancy, has won a series of projects with Highways England to ensure the smooth delivery of smart motorway installation...
Hyperloop One is offering Europe’s transport infrastructure an option that is more efficient, Greener, on-demand and faster. Executives from Hyperloop One joined European...
Tillicoultry Quarries‘ Northfield quarry in Scotland recently received its Metso Lokotrack® LT120(TM) mobile jaw crusher plant through Garriock Bros. Ltd., Metso...
Volvo Construction Equipment, Volvo Penta, and Volvo Trucks – are joining forces to show that they provide an all-round offer for forestry customers, at Elmia Wood intern...
Unusual geometry and best-time progress: formworking operations 50 % faster and commissioning quantities lower on the AWO-Föhrenpark retirement home project. The ‘A...
The China Railway International Group and China Pacific Construction Group have signed an agreement with the Kiev City State Administration to construct a 16km long fourt...
Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged an extra $122bn for international infrastructure schemes as part of China’s grand “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) init...
A family-owned plant hirer has cemented more than half a century of links with JCB with a massive investment in a fleet of excavators. Oswestry-based Ridgway Rentals...
What happens when some cool customers have to quarry some volcanic basalt? They call in Volvo, of course. Standing in the middle of Reykjavik, Iceland’s capital city, you...
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