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Engineering firm RWO has opened a new geotechnical department as it looks to expand its operations and improve customer service. The move by firm, which has offices in Ne...
The Executive Hire Show team is delighted to confirm that the UK’s premier hire will be taking place on the 8th and 9th of February 2023, at its established home – the Co...
Described as the “Google Analytics” of physical spaces, there’s a breakthrough in monitoring traffic movement that includes all road users – not just those made of metal....
Yunex Traffic is to showcase its industry-leading solutions at the Highways UK exhibition, with the company’s automated, free-flow tolling, tunnel management, connected v...
In England, one in six people will experience depression or anxiety in any given week. In recent years, a growing movement in favour of the destigmatisation of these issu...
Station has switched from diesel to electric for its brand-new fleet of JCB materials handling machines. The company – which shreds over 55,000 tonnes of paper per...
technology provider Causeway Technologies has announced that it is leveraging its recent acquisition of Yotta, the UK’s leading provider of connected asset manageme...
Richard Broome, Managing Director at LSBUD, the UK’s leading online safe digging resource, talks about the increase in asset searches post-pandemic, and looks at why the...
Lancashire County Council’s delivery partner, Costain, and hydrogen industry start-up, Hydrologiq, have successfully trialled the use of a hydrogen-powered fuel cell gene...
Ringway and the Fire Service College (FSC) have begun delivering a pioneering training course for workers dealing with emergencies as part of their duties in the highways...
For 15- years the CESAR scheme has been protecting construction plant equipment from theft and is the UK’s official construction and agricultural equipment security and r...
TRL Software is to provide its UTC SCOOT 7 Traffic Management software to the City of Manchester to be delivered as part of a programme of works with Transport for Greate...
A new study by the Electric Road Consortium shows that a nationwide Electric Road System (ERS) is likely to be the fastest and most efficient way to decarbonise the UK’s...
Ferrovial has reached an agreement for the sale of 100% of the Amey group, almost completing the divestment of its former Services division. The acquiring vehicle is a UK...
Jacobs was awarded the Design & Project Services Framework with energy utility National Grid in the U.K. to support their full construction of the Electricity and Gas...
Vertical Aerospace, a global aerospace and technology company that is pioneering zero-emissions aviation, saw its VX4 eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) aircr...
Construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries, a member of the Holcim Group, has announced the acquisition of Wiltshire Heavy Building Materials Ltd, a regional le...
MKM, the UK’s largest independent builder’s merchant, has invested in a fleet of JCB equipment in an exciting new partnership that will see ‘MKM Hire’ officially launched...
Bentley Systems, Incorporated, the infrastructure engineering software company, today announced the finalists in the 2022 Going Digital Awards in Infrastructure. The annu...
Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, today announces that it has been appointed as the sole contractor to both the SCAPE Civil Engineering framework, c...
A new home for businesses looking to deliver innovation into the rail sector has been launched today by the University of Birmingham’s Centre for Railway Research and Edu...
One of Scotland’s leading civil engineering contractors has bought the world’s first Hyundai HX145A LCR HW (High Walker) model. Crieff-based MAM Contracting has taken del...
J H Fencing Contractor Ltd, based in Holmfirth in West Yorkshire, has purchased the first Bobcat MaxControl Remote Control system in the UK from Bedale-based Grays Machin...
Celebrating the significant advancements of the low carbon vehicle community underpinned the 15th anniversary of the Cenex-LCV event, held this week. The UK’s longe...
Fusion Processing and Bradshaw Electric Vehicles, today, announced the awarding of Innovate UK funding to commence an exciting new partnership to develop fully autonomous...
Celebrations are underway in Motherwell, Scotland to mark an extraordinary first year of operation for Rokbak. In the 12 months since Managing Director Paul Douglas annou...
The last two years have seen public spaces grow in importance. When national restrictions limited people to outdoor contact only, parks became a second home, with many ex...
A new trial which could revolutionise the way public highways are resurfaced is underway in Essex. Those behind the project hope the addition of a new strengthening compo...
of the highly anticipated Cenex-LCV and Cenex-CAM event in September (7th & 8th), organisers Cenex have announced an extensive seminar programme with high calibre spe...
One of the UK’s leading machine learning and applied A.I providers to the offshore wind industry, Cognitive Business, has this month announced it has joined forces with W...
On the 8th and 9th of September, Phoenix Hire and Sales, Yanmar’s official dealer for South Wales, Gloucestershire and Bristol – will host a compact equipment open day at...
FP McCann, one of Northern Ireland’s largest quarry operators, added a second Rokbak RA30 articulated hauler to its fleet in March. The longstanding customer still operat...
Power Electrics is continuing on its journey to green with an initial investment of over £5 million in Stage V generators. The expansion will add a range of Stage V sets,...
AHEAD of further unsettled weather has been predicated, experts in construction are calling for sector leaders to seriously rethink their practices or face heading for ca...
SOCOTEC is one of the UK’s leading providers of testing, inspection and certification services, provides comprehensive solutions in the Infrastructure, Environment...
Brigade Electronics, a leading provider of vehicles safety systems, has launched a new artificial intelligent vehicle safety system to the UK market. CarEYE® Safety Angle...
Technology is becoming a big talking point when buying a car. This ranges from parking assistance that helps guide the car into a space to new plug-in hybrid technologies...
Cenex, the organisers of the UK’s leading low carbon vehicle event, has officially announced the headline speakers ahead of this year’s Cenex-LCV and Cenex-CAM. Incorpora...
Allsafe Scaffolding Ltd, based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, has partnered with fuel technology expert SulNOx Group Plc to run and evaluate its innovative fuel additive with a...
In response to growing demand for cable sands that meet ENA technical specification, leading construction materials supplier, Aggregate Industries, has launched SuperSand...
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