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Midlands Connect has responded to the announcement that the Department for Transport has given approval for HS2 Ltd to issue Notice to Proceed the main construction works...
JCB Joe responds to Coronavirus with PPE manufacturing initiative JCB and a team of volunteer employees have set up mini-production lines to come to the aid of the nation...
Red Stag Materials is run by of a dedicated team of industry professionals with over 90 years of experience in UK infrastructure and the highway maintenance sector. They...
For the second year in a row, specialist tyre supplier, Tyre Boss, has successfully achieved ISO 9001: 2015 accreditation. This achievement is more akin to larger busines...
As cases of COVID-19 continue to soar, the pressure on logistics and transport businesses providing vital frontline delivery and collection services, along with the guida...
With tens of thousands of jobs on the line, a worrying lack of essential supplies, and the necessity to stay isolated from your nearest and dearest, it is quite unsurpris...
Mobile app and cloud services provider, bbits has announced it is working in partnership with asset management provider, Yotta. The new agreement will enable UK authoriti...
Calls to the UKβs βConstruction Industry Helplineβ have increased 25% over the past 10 days which reflect the rising levels of anxiety and insecurity within the construct...
Deep in the heart of the Bentley factory in Crewe is a large, airy and air-conditioned workshop that visitors, even out of a government lockdown, will never see. Β Itβs pa...
JCB is re-starting production at a factory closed as a result of the Coronavirus crisis in order to join the national effort to manufacture ventilators. JCB received a di...
Zeelo, an innovative transport firm which provides personalised bus services for commuters at companies such as Jaguar Land Rover and Ocado has today launched a critical-...
βThe package was right β the product is even better!β is the sentiment of Stuart Oakley, Proprietor of family run business Oakley Plant Ltd, as he takes delivery of a bra...
Colas is delighted to have been awarded a place on the Hampshire County Council β Generation 4-1 Civil Engineering, Highways and Transportation Collaborative Framework. T...
Tarmac, the UKβs leading sustainable constructions solutions business, has launched an employee led campaign to donate personal protective equipment (PPE) to hospitals an...
Ridgway will continue to supply plant hire for all the essential services including the waste & recycling industry in the wake of the current crisis situation. βThe g...
JCB has launched an international aid initiative in the communities around its factories to help people in need of food as a result of disruption caused by the Coronaviru...
Costs, lack of qualified personnel and Brexit all blamed for decline of research and development in the construction sector Innovation in the construction sector has fall...
From the 1 April 2020, Colas Limited will take to the streets as one of Lincolnshire County Council’s new highways contractors, together with Balfour Beatty Group L...
The British Industrial Truck Association (BITA) and The Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) have issued a joint statement in consultation with the Health and Safety Execut...
Specialist shelter provider Zappshelter have come up with an innovative product to assist the NHS, emergency services, essential services and anyone faced with needing to...
Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm McCann has been awarded the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Gold Medal after the business was...
The Gas Safety Trust (GST) today launched their 2020 Small Grants call.Β This Spring the Trust is looking to fund smaller, short-term, innovative and experimental projects...
JCB is today stopping production at all of its UK manufacturing plants as disruption resulting from the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic causes an unprecedented reduction i...
Motorcycle theft numbers on the rise: Here is what you should do Did you know that over one single day, 130 motorcycles will be stolen in the UK, the same number in the U...
Worrying results from a new study released today show that the latest in-vehicle infotainment systems, designed to improve road safety, are failing and impair reactions t...
Changes to the off-payroll working rules – which will impact on the construction industry by placing additional obligations on medium and large developers and contr...
BRITISH canoeing medallist Adam Burgess has some extra power in his paddle as he goes for gold this summer – after landing a sponsorship deal from digger maker JCB....
The UKβs highways leaders could look to Canada, Russia and even over their nearest county boundary to find new ways to tackle winter conditions β but extreme winter weath...
Colas has launched the Exopush in its UK business. Exopush is an exoskeleton designed to give power assistance to operatives working on levelling with a rake. Amongst eme...
INRIX, a global leader in transportation analytics and connected car services, has published the 2019 INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard, which identified, analyzed and ranke...
The construction industry has had a particularly difficult few years, with uncertainty around Brexit, high numbers of insolvencies, high-profile building safety concerns,...
Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm McCann has been announced as a finalist in the 2020 Highways England Awards after Project Supervisor Keith Scott wa...
Five, the UK self-driving company, has raised $41M in a Series B round of equity funding. New investors are Trustbridge Partners, Direct Line Group and Sistema VC. Existi...
The worldβs most power dense permanent magnet electric motor is under development in the UK. Expert electrification company, Equipmake, has teamed up with leading additiv...
Richard Broome, Managing Director at Linesearch BeforeUdig (LSBUD), the nationβs leading online asset search facility, discusses how safe construction companies and their...
Ringway Jacobs, the leading integrated highways service provider to UK local authorities, secures the maximum five-year extension to its current 10-year highway network m...
In the aftermath of storm Jorge, widespread flooding and strong winds has compounded the extensive damage caused by Storm’s Ciara and Dennis respectively to the Bri...
In the wake of the Appeal Courtβs decision that plans for the third runway at Heathrow were unlawful, the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning &...
Clearview Intelligence strengthens its senior management team with internal promotions ready to push on into 2020 and beyond. Following on from a year of new project succ...
Network Rail is highlighting both The Forth and The Britannia bridges as two of the most treasured and recognisable features of the British railway network. Both bridges...
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