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When Gareth Blythin from Liebherr Rental Contracts Division needed a quick turnaround of new tyres for a repeat customer, he immediately picked up the phone to Wayne Coll...
Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDFE) together with Mayor Sadiq Khan have released the second wave of data from Breathe London, an ambitious collaborative project to m...
Digital Catapult, the UK’s leading agency for the early adoption of advanced digital technologies, has built an advanced weather monitoring system using IoT (Intern...
This year marked 50 years for GAP Group, and the hire company has been celebrating their golden anniversary throughout 2019 in a number of ways, including being generousl...
Coming soon to your front door! Meet the Kar-go, an electric, driverless, delivery vehicle that is being demonstrated at CAV Scotland today and tomorrow (13 & 14 Nove...
Housebuilding and ground working contractors M M Miller Ltd of Wick, Caithness, is one of the first to take delivery of the all-new Volvo EC60E compact excavator, launche...
At the Highways UK event at the NEC in Birmingham this week, TRL presented its cost-effective, easy to use, road condition monitoring device to enable highways maintenanc...
North West based specialist surfacing company, Miles Macadam has completed resurfacing works at Winsford rock salt mine – Britainβs oldest and largest working mine,...
An innovative bridge protection system, which can withstand the force of a 7,500kg truck travelling at 30mph, is now available to protect pedestrians from vehicle ramming...
Yotta has announced it is delivering its visualised highways asset management software solution, Horizons and supporting services to Kent County Council. The announcement...
SWARCO Traffic Ltd, the traffic technology specialist, has achieved ISO 45001 accreditation for Occupational Health and Safety. The previous BH OHSAS 18001 was well integ...
With contractors under pressure to get the job done well, on budget and on time, boosting efficiencies on site is never going to be easy. The construction of modern build...
The Manitou group, world leader in all-terrain material handling, announces the take over of a majority stake in its UK dealer Mawsley Machinery Ltd, based near Northampt...
Technology company, Yotta has entered a three-year agreement to deliver its flagship connected asset management software solution, Alloy, and supporting services to Bath...
SOCOTEC has taken on the role of principal contractor for ground investigation works along part of the A465 Heads of the Valleys Road Sections 5 & 6 (Dowlais Top to H...
Costain, the smart infrastructure solutions company, has been awarded a range of new highways contracts in the last quarter, totalling over Β£150 million. The projects awa...
In October 1970, a 17-year-old Mike Broad, fresh out of education at Wigan Grammar School, secured his first job with local, family-owned quarrying and aggregates busines...
With the Highways UK show fast approaching, Clearview Intelligence have been gearing up to showcase their new first of its kind pedestrian and cycle counter at the event....
The British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued three firms with fines totalling more than Β£36m for breaking competition law in supplying certain concrete...
Gordon Bow Plant Hire Ltd of Broxburn, West Lothian, has added ten new Volvo EC140E excavators for the very first time, as part of a significant Β£5M investment programme...
GAP Hire Solutions, the UKβs largest independent equipment hire company, has deployed a cloud-based mobile resource management system from Leeds-based BigChange. The syst...
As the effects on the world become too great to deny, weβre seeing more and more focus turning towards the level of waste produced globally. A widespread understanding th...
Modular Construction is not a new concept, but has been used all around the world for decades. In the UK this method of construction has recently seen a resurgence in pop...
The tool, equipment and compact plant hire industry continues to go from strength to strength according to reports from the organisers of the Executive Hire Show 2020 (5-...
JCB has announced it has secured its biggest fleet deal to date for its brand new electric mini excavator β just weeks after going into full production. The 19C-1E models...
The Hull-based Ashcourt Group has added more Volvo excavators and loading shovels to its plant fleet, together with a P6870C wheeled paver that will go to work for the Gr...
A new partnership, the between the Institute of Quarrying (IQ) and Natural England has been created to update the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (DEFR...
Network Rail are recruiting for the next batch of future rail leaders through the Engineering Apprenticeships scheme. Applications are now open for a March 2020 start and...
North West based specialist surfacing company, Miles Macadam, has completed works to surface Europeβs first multi-storey coach parking complex, which will accommodate vis...
Metcalfe Farms Ltd, the heavy haulage and farming concern based at Leyburn, North Yorkshire, has purchased a Volvo L180H loading shovel and an EC480E excavator. Taking ch...
To mark World Mental Health Day 2019 NEBOSH has announced plans to work with Mental Health UK. The memorandum of understanding, which was signed at a reception at the Hou...
Environmental specialists have begun carrying out surveys as part of design work for a new Merseyside bypass to the Port of Liverpool. Contractors working for Highways En...
Engineering consultancy Sweco is set to deliver two major road programme upgrades worth Β£435 million, in partnership with lead contractor Galliford Try. The contracts, wh...
An ambitious transport strategy plan to more than double the South Eastβs economy by 2050, create half a million new jobs, reduce congestion, cut carbon emissions and boo...
NEBOSH, one of the worldβs leading providers of health and safety qualifications, has launched Safety Simplified, a brand new approach to health and safety training. The...
The company has provided a JCB 19C-1E electric digger β the worldβs first electric mini excavator to go into full production β to the Southwark Construction Skills Centre...
In the past five years, insolvency rates in the construction industry have increased more quickly than in other industries across the UK. This article considers the commo...
This year, the annual increase in construction hiring in the UK over the summer didnβt happen, according to recruiter Randstad. The three summer months of June, July, and...
An innovative company known for finding solutions to some of the worldβs most complex industrial challenges has been presented with its second Queenβs Award asΒ Createc, w...
The Construction Equipment Association (CEA) has announced the appointment of Clive Harris as a consultant to help deliver the new specialist police unit to combat constr...
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