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.
Here’s how future journeys past Stonehenge could look after Highways England’s plans to unlock congestion and transform journeys for millions of people using the A303 bet...
STRABAG, the European-based technology partner for construction services, has been awarded the contract to upgrade an approximately 55 km long railway line in Hungary. Th...
For three generations, the family company ADAM Frères has specialized in the extraction, distribution and transport of aggregates and public works. The company is based i...
Advance drone system sees.ai, leading a consortium of eight partners that includes Atkins, has won a share of £30 million from the Future Flight Challenge, a proportion o...
Network Rail has started work on the second section of the new, bigger sea wall at Dawlish, in Devon, which will provide greater protection to the railway and town from r...
Fluid analysis reveals a lot about the health of a machine. Finning UK & Ireland, official distributor for Caterpillar® equipment, runs a purpose built fluid analysis...
EMEC-Prototyping’s history started 10 years ago with Powertools development for the company Bosch. Test benches and processes were developed for those projects, which is...
Scientists from the University of Southampton have invented a hybrid catalyst platform that can efficiently and sustainably convert carbon dioxide into versatile plastic...
Sika has started production of shotcrete admixtures at its main plant at Gournay-en-Bray, north west of Paris. The set accelerator marketed under the Sigunit® brand is us...
Cadent, the UK’s largest gas distribution network, has become the first utility company to join the Local Council Roads Innovation Group (LCRIG). The company manages a ne...
Kar-go, an autonomous delivery vehicle designed by British start-up, Academy of Robotics, becomes the first custom-built autonomous delivery vehicle to travel on the road...
Major roadworks on the M6 in Staffordshire are set to finish six months ahead of schedule thanks to the introduction of a contraflow system. The upgrade of the 17-mile st...
As recent government announcements have highlighted, the need for transformational investment in training and skills, has never been greater. Eurovia UK has increased the...
WORKS to introduce a major improvement scheme at one of the busiest junctions in Middlesbrough are now complete. The A66/A171 Cargo Fleet Junction Improvements scheme...
One of Northern Europe’s tallest office buildings is rising into the sky in the Gårda district in Göteborg. The 144 metre high building will provide 42,000 square m...
Since purchasing its first Volvo excavators in the spring of 2019, Bromley based Standard Plant Hire Ltd has added a further four, twenty tonne EC200E excavators to its p...
Companies are being urged to act quickly to ensure they take full advantage of tax relief for the purchase of plant and equipment. Currently the full cost of such purchas...
Vivacity Labs and Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) have announced the roll out of AI-controlled ‘smart’ traffic junctions to accommodate the increase of active tra...
Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, now in its eighth year, has come to a close with the announcement of a new online hub to provide information and guidance to those organisation...
The main construction work on the region’s latest motorway upgrade, along the M56 in Greater Manchester and Cheshire, will get underway this month. The four-mile section...
The Volkswagen Group and Greece have agreed to establish a ground-breaking mobility system on the Mediterranean island of Astypalea. The current transport system on the i...
The European leading robotics and autonomous systems developer Milrem Robotics demonstrated their autonomous THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle to the Italian Army this week...
University spin out, Robotiz3d, is to begin developing the world’s first autonomous robot to patrol the streets in search of potholes, following successful private invest...
A new study reveals that properly structured public-private partnership (PPP) projects can help Ukraine attract potential investments worth around $2 billion in the roads...
Almost 10,000 vehicles were caught tailgating in the first two weeks of new cameras being tested to clamp down on the offence. Highways England and police have joined for...
Keeping the nation’s cycleways and pathways clear and ice-free this winter has just got easier with the announcement of an exciting new winter services partnership. This...
If it can’t be grown (or fished) it has to be mined, and almost everything we use in everyday life has been mined. Material for batteries, mobile phones and wind farms al...
It’s one of the highest and most beautiful stretches of motorway in the country – part of a post-war motorway construction jigsaw that, piece-by-concrete-piece, rev...
Sussex-based plant hire company BPH Plant has invested £600,000 in expanding its range of machinery available for hire following increased demand from customers across Su...
Ten councils in the east of England have launched a framework for delivering highway maintenance and improvement schemes that could be worth up to £400m over four years....
Paragon Bank is enabling three Leicestershire-based sisters to follow in the footsteps of their father by providing funding to establish their plant hire business, FinniG...
Triton Construction has announced that the business is now owned by its employees after the board of directors transferred ownership to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT)....
Britain’s first custom-built vehicle, designed for autonomous delivery on the roads took a giant leap forward as the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) has inspec...
A State of the art underwater survey robot being developed by a collaboration of companies from across the UK is on schedule for completion next spring after a successful...
UK nationwide plant hire and haulage specialist Lynch has added 34 new Caterpillar® machines to its commercial fleet, an investment of £2.6 million. Finning UK & Irel...
Hyundai is pleased to announce that Hyundai distributor, Willowbrook Plant Ltd, based in Corby in Northamptonshire, has expanded its territory to include, Lincolnshire, N...
Hitachi buckets and quick couplers, specifically designed for the company’s ZW wheel loader range, are rising in popularity in the competitive Norwegian market. This deve...
A NEW radar system to help the marine industry safely navigate is being developed by a pioneering business. Createc, which has a worldwide reputation for providing imagin...
Siemens Mobility has successfully installed the first ZephyrS air quality sensors for the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport’s (ADEP...
Construction businesses need to embrace mobile technology but expensive failures are blighting the industry. Luke Mead of LMS Group offers advice on how to best avoid the...
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