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Yanmar Compact Equipment EMEA has appointed Taylor & Braithwaite to its UK dealer network. The construction, quarrying and recycling specialist will be responsible fo...
Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm McCann has added four new members to its team as it continues to grow itβs in-house expertise and diversify its ser...
As part of its bid to create βgreenerβ construction sites, by reducing emissions and controlling air quality, HS2 is the first infrastructure project to adopt CESAR ECV...
Major upgrades to a northern Trans-Pennine route are a step closer today with the official preferred route announced for the Β£1 billion A66 upgrade. The announcement reve...
Working in conjunction with Mecalac Financial Solutions, Mecalac Construction Equipment UK has launched an unbeatable Buy Now… Pay Later finance package across its...
AMTE Power and Britishvolt are pleased to announce plans to investigate collaborating to build the UKβs first full cycle battery cell GigaPlant, servicing the automotive...
Siemens Mobility Limited has been awarded a significant traffic signal maintenance contract by a consortium of three councils, Warwickshire, Coventry and Nottingham. The...
Plans for the vital restoration needed to save the Houses of Parliament will be examined by an expert team set up by the new Sponsor Body in charge of the work. The revie...
Let us not get confused: the coronavirus pandemic is above all a human tragedy and our hearts go out to all those who have lost loved ones, and to those putting themselve...
Sir John Armitt, Chair of the National Infrastructure Commission, has reinforced the need for long term infrastructure planning alongside short-term stimulus measures to...
The M4 between junctions 6 and 8/9 near Slough and Maidenhead in Berkshire has fully reopened after work to lift huge steel beams into place over the motorway finished ea...
As the UK construction industry gears up to return to work, Shropshire-based concrete manufacturers Besblock has seen orders almost double this week. In the days since th...
Crystal clear communications with rail passengers and staff will be the single most important factor in keeping people safe as we move into the next phase of the Covid-19...
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...
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