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A MAJOR town-wide drive to clean up Middlesbrough’s pothole menace has been hailed a major success. And Council chiefs have pledged to keep on top of the perennial...
Mace, the international consultancy and construction company, has obtained the first IMMUNE Building Standard™ certification globally for its headquarters at 155...
T&M Bowser Solutions has been awarded ISO 45001:2018 certification T&M Bowser Solutions is a manufacturer of custom-built bowsers (tankers) added the widely covet...
Britishvolt, the UK’s foremost investor in battery technologies, has selected a site in the North East of England to build the UK’s first battery Gigafactory. The company...
Law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has advised Northumberland County Council on the development of a multi-million-pound learning and leisure campus in Ponteland. The c...
Opening eight months ahead of schedule amid a global pandemic, Highways England’s new A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme – their largest road improvement proj...
GRIDSERVE has announced that the UK’s first Electric Forecourt® near Braintree, Essex, is open for business, representing a major breakthrough for massive expansion of el...
B&T Plant Hire receives first Cat 325 2D excavators in the UK Construction equipment hire service B&T Plant Hire are the first in the UK to purchase the new Cat®...
Achieving a payload of more than four tonne was the standout reason behind Bowland Stone acquiring its latest Isuzu 7.5 tonne rigid tipper truck this month. This is the t...
The UK’s road and infrastructure network is in constant need of upkeep and traditional remediation methods are often too slow to keep our networks running in a timely, co...
Over two million small businesses from across London, the South East and East of England are being asked to join a landmark project to help enable the UK’s net zero trans...
Datatag ID offers leading security marking and registration systems across multiple industries – the firm’s vision is to be a global leader in its field. To help realise...
Geotab’s Regional Manager for UK & Ireland, David Savage has shared some of his predictions for the UK Fleet and Logistics Industry for 2021. Brexit The UK face...
The decarbonisation of public transport in Northern Ireland has taken a significant leap forward with a new contract for 145 zero and low emission buses. Representing an...
Regional water firm, United Utilities, has created an app to perfect its system of laying asphalt after it has dug up a road to carry out repairs. Its new patented air vo...
Breedon Group, one of the UK’s leading producers and suppliers of bulk aggregates, has invested in a new CDE wet processing recycling plant for its North Cave Quarry site...
Warwickshire County Council and key strategic partners Coventry City Council and Warwick District Council have announced the start of major improvement works to the A46 S...
When it came to replacing its well-worn micro excavator, Holmfirth Building Services purchased a Yanmar ViO26-6 from local dealer MTS Plant. Since taking delivery of the...
Following a successful two-week trial earlier this year, Hounslow Highways has taken another step towards a greener, cleaner operation by adding one of the Country’s very...
Esh Construction has completed the first phase of infrastructure works on the £8.4m IAMP One scheme. The works, which commenced in February 2019 on the 150-ha Internation...
A 235-year-old prison, a suspected Second World War bomb explosion and mysterious buildings that don’t appear on any maps could shed new light on the fascinating history...
Reston Waste Management is a South West London skip hire and waste collection business who rose from humble beginnings. Back in 2001 Andrew Reston, supported by his wife...
known for supplying and fitting specialist solid tyres, Tyre Boss can also source and supply pretty much any off-highway tyre solution. This includes tyre fill which is s...
Greater Manchester Police has become the latest force to appoint the Road Safety Support Speed Test Laboratory to calibrate the speedometers of its pursuit vehicles. The...
Self-driving vehicles are a significant step closer to becoming a reality on public roads with the construction of a revolutionary new ecosystem nearing completion in the...
A new stainless steel and concrete bridge, the first of its kind in the UK, has opened to pedestrians and vehicles in Pooley Bridge, Cumbria. It replaces its 250-year-old...
Vodafone UK is launching a new range of IoT services that will remove barriers to IoT adoption for UK businesses. By partnering with IoT.nxt, part of the Vodafone Group,...
Emergency services will have a better chance of saving lives when responding to incidents in the Severn Tunnel thanks to a new innovative road-to-rail vehicle which has b...
Leading construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has launched four new products, further bolstering its asphalt offering. The four asphalts – SuperLayer...
Committed to supporting the government’s pledge to provide skills and training for young people, Aggregate Industries has launched its brand new Kickstart Programme 2020,...
Electrical, Automation and ICT engineering services provider, VINCI Energies UK & RoI has strengthened its industrial automation and process control capabilities with...
A two-year routine maintenance programme on a bridge used by around 23,000 drivers a day has recently completed – with hardly any impact on road users. A team of highly s...
Finning UK and Ireland has been awarded a national accolade for its outstanding apprenticeship programmes, scooping a place in the government-led Top 100 Apprenticeship E...
Lotus Engineering is launching a pilot containerised battery testing facility to assess energy storage solutions for the booming EV sector. It will allow Lotus Engineerin...
An intelligent and reliable Vehicle Activated Sign (VAS) specified and installed by SWARCO Traffic, the traffic technology specialist, is helping to warn drivers of high...
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...
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...
Scientists from the University of Southampton have invented a hybrid catalyst platform that can efficiently and sustainably convert carbon dioxide into versatile plastic...
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