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The Global Research and Innovation in Plastics Sustainability (GRIPS) conference, exhibition and showcase returns from 15 – 17 March 2022. It will feature 50 innovative e...
One of the UK’s leading waste and resource management companies, FCC Environment, has taken another step towards its ambitious targets to help the industry meet its emiss...
The new model extends the Toyota Professional range of light commercial vehicles with a powertrain option that offers an ideal solution for customers who want transport w...
Business investment in the construction industry rose by more than a third annually in the third quarter of 2021 as Covid disruption and supply chain bottlenecks continue...
The UK’s largest provider of surface dressing and micro-surfacing, Kiely Bros, has achieved a significant enhancement to its operations with by investing in a 30tph tromm...
LSBUD, the UK’s leading online safe digging resource, welcomed more than 3.4 million searches for underground pipes and cables pass through its central system in 2021. Th...
The Doosan Bobcat stand (I40) at the 2022 Executive Hire Show (EHS) will be showing Bobcat’s E10e, the industry’s first battery driven, zero tail swing mini-excavat...
An independent Land Rover specialist has bought one of the first of JCB’s brand new 3.5 tonne mini excavators. Purchased by Bridgwater-based C.W. Feltham Ltd, the 36C-1 i...
Neuron, a leader in aviation technology and air traffic critical national infrastructure, has leveraged the Hedera network, the most used, sustainable, enterprise-grade p...
Doosan Infracore Europe has appointed Blue Machinery (Central) Ltd, based in Northwich in Cheshire, as the new Authorised Doosan Dealer for North-West England and North W...
Cardiff-based clean fuel delivery developer FuelActive has become a Gold Stevie winner, for Technical Innovation of the Year, at the 2021 International Business Awards. T...
What a year it’s been for building safety. The construction sector has seen a significant amount of progress in this area over the last 12 months. To give some pers...
Mecalac Construction Equipment UK will showcase its class-leading 3.5MDX cabbed site dumper at the 2022 Executive Hire Show. The Mecalac team will be located on Stand H22...
The British championship-winning Honda motocross team has signed up Hitachi Construction Machinery UK as a new partner for the 2022 season. The Crendon Fastrack Honda squ...
Industry experts have called for greater standardisation, collaboration and incentivisation to make Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) work at scale. Specialists from l...
A new collaboration has been agreed between XAIS and the University of Nottingham to develop an intelligent decision support tool that will deliver a step change to exist...
The “zero accident” objective in the workplace is a major challenge for many companies. Incidents involving pedestrians and mobile equipment such as excavators, wheel loa...
As Tensar International’s main precast concrete supplier, Anderton Concrete supports the manufacture of its market leading TensarTech® TW3 and TW1 wall systems for the UK...
Demolition and licensed asbestos removal expert, Lawson Demolition, has invested in two new Cat 323 hydraulic excavators to celebrate its 30 year anniversary in 2021. The...
Mecalac has announced the appointment of a new dealer to its UK and Ireland distribution network. Headquartered in Stanton under Bardon, Leicestershire, Cooks Midlands Lt...
A combination of excellent customer service, specialist support and an extensive portfolio has meant that for another year – Stocksigns remains the preferred suppli...
The Official CESAR (Construction Equipment Security and Registration) Scheme has reached a major milestone in its rollout across the construction plant and agricultural m...
Launched earlier this year, the first of Bobcat’s new R-Series telehandlers have been delivered in the UK. The three T41.140SLP 14 m Stage V telehandlers form part of an...
WJ Group, the market-leading highway marking and safety business, has acquired JMS Lincoln Limited, a leading Surface Preparation, Retexturing & Specialist Surface Co...
Mabey Bridge, an Acrow Group company specialising in modular steel bridging, is pleased to note it has reached a framework agreement with Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS)...
As local authorities and utilities prepare to meet the demands of the Five-Year Vision for Street and Road Works in the UK, Traffic Group Signals is supporting customers...
Simon Rowland, Partner and Head of Construction and Engineering and Michelle Essen, Managing Associate at law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, take a look at the events of 202...
Dott has successfully completed a trial with cycling technology firm See.Sense to show how its e-scooters can be used to improve road safety for all micro-mobility users....
Digger giant JCB has taken delivery of the latest Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel cell car – just as it develops its own hydrogen engine technology. The vehicle is among the f...
AECOM, the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, today announced it has won places on over 30 Lots of the Transport for London (TfL) Engineering Consultancy Fra...
Retrofitting an existing masonry cavity walled building with a green or living wall can reduce the amount of heat lost through its structure by more than 30%, according t...
CHAS, the supply-chain risk management expert, has become a registered signatory of Building a Safer Future and is encouraging other members of the built environment sect...
A fully autonomous passenger shuttle service began trials on UK roads today, Science Minister George Freeman has announced. The new service is being trialled by Darwin In...
SPIE UK, a subsidiary of SPIE, the independent European leader in multi-technical services in the areas of energy and communications, has been appointed by Merseytravel t...
Liverpool City Region (LCR) Combined Authority has awarded a contract to Yunex Traffic to supply and install 37 Zephyr® air quality monitors, and to maintain them for a p...
Teletrac Navman, a global market leader in telematics technology, has secured a contract with Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Southampton. As the UK’s leading por...
Plant hire and waste management firm Buckland Newton Hire (BNH) has increased its fleet of Cat machinery from exclusive Caterpillar® supplier Finning UK and Ireland, by a...
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has become the first authority in the UK to take delivery of one of JCB’s revolutionary PotholePro machines. The machine, which can repa...
National Highways’ innovative £43 million project to tackle congestion at one of the busiest motorway junctions in the North West is now fully up and running. The newly-t...
The country’s shortage of HGV drivers highlights the need to reimagine how we move goods across the UK. The world is on the cusp of a revolution in aviation, as the imple...
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