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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tarmac has called for new thinking in road construction and greater use of warm mix asphalt to reduce disruption from roadworks, as a new survey shows people believe traf...
It’s safe to say that the construction industry operates under a considerable amount of health and safety legislation – and for good reason. Before the Health and Safety...
Granite announced that it has been awarded two airport projects totalling $15 million, one in Inyokern, California, and one in Anchorage, Alaska. The $9 million Inyokern...
a UK-based tech start-up which has developed a unique hearing protection system for construction workers, has secured a £2m investment from Pembroke VCT. Eave is already...
Mecalac Construction Equipment UK has launched a factory-designed hydraulic thumb attachment, suitable for its 6MCR crawler-skid excavator and 7MWR wheeled excavator with...
Drivers using the motorway network and other roads in Cheshire and Greater Manchester will benefit from safer journeys thanks to the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (...
The Transport Technology Forum has issued new guidance to help organisations to keep up to date with the vast amount of information available about cyber security standar...
TRB Lightweight Structures (TRB) has created a new production process to deliver continuous-fibre thermoset composite parts at high volume. By combining innovations in ma...
A long-standing user of Volvo reduced swing excavators, Powell Groundworks has opted for the latest E series ECR145, which is the fifteenth Volvo owned by the company. Co...
Esri UK today announced a new partnership with drone specialists Heliguy to complete its end-to-end drone solution designed for the architecture, engineering and construc...
Motorists with smartphones could help highway chiefs maintain road quality by sending ‘crowdsourced’ data from their mobiles that would allow engineers to assess when car...
WPS, one of the UK’s leading parking equipment providers, is helping Woking Borough Council to provide a seamless visitor and resident experience with a series of ticketl...
AS JCB mark its 75th birthday there’s one family with an extra reason to toast the milestone after notching up a staggering 600 years’ service to the company. The Boot fa...
Work is under way to improve passenger and freight journeys over the world-renowned Ribblehead viaduct. The iconic North Yorkshire landmark is undergoing important mainte...
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