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JCB today announced a partial re-starting of production at five of its UK factories as a comprehensive package of safety measures is rolled out to protect employees in th...
The UK and Republic of Irelandβs leading manufacturer and provider of mobile intelligent transport systems (ITS), SRL Traffic Systems, has increased its variable message...
JCB today stood down production lines which had been poised to produce thousands of special housings for a new type of ventilator. The housings were being made for the Co...
SWARCO, the traffic technology group, has launched MyCity, a new highly flexible and customisable modular traffic management platform that gives local authorities and cit...
Hitachi Construction Machinery UK (HCMUK) has launched an appeal to raise money for the NHS Charity, βNHS Charities Togetherβ to help support the National Health Service...
With board games becoming a regular activity in many UK households, Jonathan Berry, European Practice Director at international change management firm, Expressworks, look...
As the UK prepares to reopen for business, the vast majority of project professionals fear future disruption to their projects as a result of coronavirus, Association for...
Established in 2015, Stockport based RK Plant Engineers is a family business run by father and son team, Ryan and Kenny Andres, who together have over 30 yearsβ experienc...
Hospitals and NHS staff in Staffordshire and Derbyshire have taken delivery of vital personal protective equipment (PPE) made and delivered by a team of JCB volunteers. J...
Swedish brain protection company MIPS is teaming up with leading European Safety Helmet and PPE manufacturers to incorporate their patented brain protection system into h...
Vehicle repairs cost due to pothole damage are huge with UK drivers spending Β£4.09 billion a year on car damage caused by potholes and itβs estimated that combined Englan...
Britainβs biggest road-building project, the A14 is opening for traffic eight months ahead of schedule, Highways England announced today. The upgraded road was originally...
Transatlantic law firm Womble Bond Dickinson (WBD) has strengthened its construction and engineering practice in the UK with the appointment of Jessica Tresham who joins...
While many industries in the UK are struggling under the challenges of Covid-19, the construction industry is still going strong, but they are facing a whole new set of c...
Dennis Automotive, publishers of Auto Express, evo, Car Throttle, Octane, Carbuyer and DrivingElectric, has announced a million-pound campaign to support the UK car indus...
The motorway which links Manchester to North Wales is getting Β£12 million worth of improvements to provide better journeys for drivers. Highways England is carrying out a...
Local authorities put in a great deal of investment and planning time every year in maintaining and developing the nationβs highways and surrounding infrastructure. There...
Based in Waterlooville near Portsmouth, UK, Parchow Groundworks Ltd have become the latest business to invest in LiuGong excavators, which are being supplied by LiuGong D...
Criminology experts from Keele University are studying the impact of the coronavirus lockdown on Britainβs road network, in a bid to make the roads safer during and after...
Yanmar Compact Equipment EMEA has announced a limited-time sales initiative across the UK and Ireland, to make purchasing state-of-the-art plant equipment simple, accessi...
A road surfacing business, set up just four months ago, is celebrating after moving in to its very first premises at Moss Industrial Estate, in Leigh. Northern Asphalt Su...
The utility sector has continued to provide essential services during the lockdown, whilst the wider building community is now gradually opening up to re-start work and p...
Machines working in the arduous environment of a steel manufacturing plant must be robust, durable and capable of working long days without interruption. Fitting the righ...
The current Covid-19 pandemic has thrown us all into a Β period of uncertainty but the team at MP Skills have been following the Government guidelines to the letter, and h...
Last week the CEA (Construction Equipment Association) conducted a βsnapshot surveyβ of its members to establish how the current crisis is impacting on membersβ activitie...
Committed to meeting the complex challenge of providing critical construction supplies amid an unprecedented time for industry, Aggregate Industries is proud to announce...
Plans for a UK-built, 3,000-strong hydrogen bus fleet across the country, have been revealed by JCB heir Jo Bamford in a move he hopes can lead the nationsβ economic reco...
Staffordshire athletes Adam Burgess and Ben Williams have joined their sponsors JCB in supporting the community during the Coronavirus crisis – with a marathon fund...
VolvoCE reduced swing Excavators a hit in Somerset J D Pope and Sons Ltd has owned and operated a succession of Volvo wheeled and tracked excavators since purchasing thei...
A Grade II listed bridge in Steventon, Oxfordshire, has been saved after innovative testing and the introduction of a new speed limit by Network Rail means it no longer h...
Carron Valley Plant Ltd is a forestry ground preparation business based in Dumfries in Scotland. Established some 30-years ago, the three-man firm, headed up by founder W...
The Road Safety Trust, a charity dedicated to making the UKβs roads the safest in the world, Β has awarded Β£120,000 funding to six organisations across the UK to help impr...
recent survey undertaken by Motorbike insurer Bikesure of 1,000 commuters in London set out to find how the Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) had impacted them, in reflectio...
Campbell Contracts Ltd, a family-owned and managed business headquartered in Tempo, a small village on the outskirts of Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland,...
Since the launch of the JCB βFood for our Communitiesβ programme β the idea of Lady Bamford, wife of JCB Chairman Lord Bamford β the company has provided more than 3,600...
Construction of the UKβs New Vaccines Centre by Glencar Construction Starts Well Ahead of Schedule as Timelines are Fast Tracked Due to Covid-19 Construction work has beg...
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought unprecedented upheaval and turmoil to the global community. In the UK, haulage is one of the sectors under intense pressure to keep the...
The winners of the prestigious RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) awards for 2019 have been announced and Colas Ltd have collected three major awards,...
Association for Project Management (APM) has launched the final paper in its Projecting the Future series titled The Future of Work and Skills, to help address challenges...
HS2, the planned high-speed rail line in Britain linking London and Birmingham over a length of 225 km in Phase One, continues to gain momentum. The client, High Speed Tw...
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