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Evidence suggests that more awareness is needed of the range of applications for R&D tax credits in the UK logistics industry. With HMRC data revealing that the secto...
The newly launched Manufacturing Engineering Degree Apprenticeship, which is run by the Universityβs team of industry experts, sees the British Government cover the costs...
SWARCO Traffic, the traffic technology group, has moved into a new, larger premises to accommodate the companyβs continued growth and provide additional space for product...
Moreton Cullimore is calling on fellow haulage firm owners and their drivers to back a petition to make HGV driver facilities a mandatory part of the planning application...
Connected asset management software and services provider Yotta has achieved significant business growth over the past few months, securing 16 new contract wins and incre...
Harwell, Oxfordshire: Vale of White Horse District Council has granted planning permission for the highly specialist facility that will house the UKβs Vaccines Manufactur...
In this article Dr Neale Kinnear, Head of Behavioural Science at TRL examines our acceptance of road deaths. “In the video above from Western Australiaβs (WA) Road...
With COVID-19 leading to the cancellation of all major events, SMT GB has teamed up with The 360 View to bring a virtual exhibition to life, allowing you to discover Volv...
Specification-led marketing and product data specialist, SpecifiedBy, has reported substantial quarterly growth in its online marketplace as COVID-19 accelerates the need...
The danger from COVID-19 is far from over β some places fear a βsecond waveβ, some places are very much still in the βfirst waveβ and local lockdowns, international trave...
The Mineral Products Qualifications Council (MPQC) have been working with the industry, to bring new technology to the extractives industry which will revolutionise the w...
sector investment can be a major driver of the UKβs βinfrastructure revolutionβ, according to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), at a time when public purses ha...
a world leading professional services companies, has been appointed by Galliford Try, the leading UK construction group, to provide site-wide highway design services for...
Oxfordshire based tech company Saietta announces plans to expand production facilities. Bringing 150-250 jobs in the area over the next three to five years, the new susta...
Prospedia Capital and Beauhurst have studied the investment flowing into early and growth-stage companies serving the UKβs burgeoning advanced automotive technology secto...
The University of Derby has launched its 2020-2021 Diploma in Road Surface Treatments. The diploma course is the first university level academic qualification for the roa...
Through a number of evening and weekend closures and successful collaborative arrangements, leading construction and infrastructure player, Aggregate Industries completed...
One of JCBβs longest-standing customers has unwrapped a unique present – a vintage backhoe loader restored to its former glory to mark the digger makerβs approachin...
Caulfield Contractors has its headquarters in Braintree in Essex. The company, which forms part of the Link Group of companies, alongside Caulfield Civil Engineering, spe...
Centurion, the trusted PPE manufacturer is encouraging anyone buying face screens, also marketed as visors, cough guards, face guards and sneeze protection, to ask the fo...
BPH Plant Hire, an independently-owned plant hire company based in the South East, has launched a new website to coincide with the recent rebrand, following a commitment...
To support SRLβs expansion into VMS signage boards for the high speed sector, and the opening of their largest ITS depot in Romford, LCVT have delivered two bespoke 3,500...
Yanmar Compact Equipment EMEA is offering construction professionals across the UK and Ireland lasting peace-of-mind through its comprehensive YCare programme. Designed t...
A series of reliable and intelligent Prism signs installed by SWARCO Traffic, the traffic technology specialist, is helping to advise drivers of diversion routes and othe...
EST has recently completed the largest Micro-surfacing operation ever undertaken on the countryβs Strategic Road Network, working for Tarmac on behalf of Highways England...
This month sees the 45th anniversary of Biral, one of the Worldβs leading manufacturers of specialist meteorological instruments. Short for Bristol Industrial and Researc...
Golfers and their caddies appearing at The ISPS Handa Wales Open will today be taken out to the opening tee in a driverless shuttle, powered by Vodafoneβs 4G network. The...
Ken Pink Plant Hire Ltd of Staverton, Gloucestershire, has purchased two more Volvo A25G articulated haulers for its multi-faceted plant hire fleet. Long-standing users o...
The window to attract crucial funding from the Government-supported Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CBILS) is closing rapidly, warns asset finance speciali...
The construction industry is one of the worst affected industries in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Facing significant challenges both throughout lockdown and as restric...
Plans for a Β£200 million bypass to improve journeys on the main route between Manchester and Sheffield have reached a major milestone. Highways England has appointed Balf...
Britpave, the infrastructure industry association, has welcomed Highways Englandβs Β£27.4 billion second roads investment plan. However, it warns that to get the most out...
Highways England has today unveiled the details of plans for Β£27.4 billion investment in the strategic road network across the country. Highways England will deliver Β£14...
Cat Financial has introduced a bundle of finance deals to help construction firms get their businesses back on track as the sector starts to get back to its new normal. C...
Ford have commissioned custom tyres that can leave key water safety messages imprinted on stretches of sand as part of a new initiative with the Royal National Lifeboat I...
Leading construction materials supplier Aggregate Industries has been given the prestigious Silver Employment Recognition Scheme (ERS) award by the Ministry of Defence. T...
Trimble and Totalmobile, a field service management software specialist, announced today that they have been awarded a contract from civil engineering joint venture Eiffa...
Consumer confidence in autonomous driving technologies is high β this was the major result from a commuter research trial in London led by the UKβs self-driving technolog...
StreetDrone, the full-stack autonomous technology company, have won UK Government funding as part of a consortium tasked with delivering an autonomous logistics capabilit...
Rail has awarded the contract to build Sohamβs new railway station to J Murphy and Sons Ltd. Having been without a rail connection for almost 55 years, the contract will...
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