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Tarmac, the UKβs leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business, is to restructure the distribution model for its Cement and Lime division to...
More than 100 guests gathered in Londonβs iconic City Hall Living Room last night to celebrate the inaugural susdrain SuDS Awards, supported by the Greater London Authori...
Smart Motorways were first introduced in 2006 to address increasing congestion and since then have been proven to improve journey time reliability and prevent fatalities....
The organisers of AQE 2018, the Air Quality & Emissions show, have announced a partnership with the Environmental Industries Commission (EIC), to host a one-day semin...
GKD Technologies is a leading provider of systems designed for safeguarding personnel and machines. Based in the South of England, the company design, develop and produce...
Today, Heathrow completed the first stage of its search for innovation partners. This initiative sets out to encourage fresh thinking around how Heathrow delivers the exp...
Nick Robinson, a former Artificer Telecommunications Engineer with the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) (including a spell with the US Army as part of his...
Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm McCann is playing a key part in the upgrade of a major midlands route through the implementation of essential works...
Eurovia Surfacing has added a new state-of-the-art roller that boasts some of the latest compaction technology to its fleet. The new BOMAG BW174AP AM is among the first r...
Football mania is expected to leave England motorways with up to a third less traffic tomorrow night. As fansβ cheer on Harry Kane and co in their bid for World Cup semi-...
A team from Network Rail has taken time out from managing and surveying lineside vegetation to support a local community project in Wolverhampton. Network Rail employees...
Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm McCann is helping to maintain the trunk roads of the East Midlands by collaborating with fellow contractors as part...
A new Volvo EC140E excavator has been delivered to a large, family run dairy farm near Portpatrick, Stranraer, in Dumfries & Galloway thanks to sound third-party refe...
The severe funding pressures being faced by local government will mean even less money for essential maintenance and repair of the local road network warns the Road Surfa...
Drivers in the North West are being promised over 100 miles of extra lanes on the regionβs motorways to tackle congestion and improve journey times. Four new smart motorw...
In a new initiative to address the industryβs skills gap, national construction and engineering firm NM Group (North Midland Construction Plc) has launched a training pro...
Pat Smith has joined New Holland as Business Director UK & ROI upon the retirement of Andrew Watson, after 31 years with the company. Pat joined from T H White Ltd, o...
Geotab, a global leader in IoT and connected transportation, today announced the launch of its interactive infographic depicting the evolution of Americaβs iconic Interst...
A new agreement between the Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) and the Association for Project Safety (APS) will help ensure British buildings are safer a...
The latest Traffic Management (TM) Vehicles designed to support and protect maintenance crews on urban and rural roads will be highlighted at Traffex Seeing is Believing...
Balfour Beatty today announces that it has re-signed the UK Armed Forces Covenant as part of its ongoing commitment to the Armed Forces community. The Armed Forces Covena...
Could you create a road surface that heals itself to make it more resilient for the future? Do you have an idea or product that will help prepare the highways infrastruct...
With the skid resistance levels of over a quarter of the local road network reported to be questionable and requiring further investigation, the Road Surface Treatments A...
With the extreme hot weather predicted this week, Network Rail has activated its βextreme weather action teamsβ (EWATs) across the country to ensure passengers are kept s...
In a landmark vote today, Parliament unambiguously backed expanding Heathrow Airport β ending decades of political debate on one of the UKβs most pressing infrastructure...
Following the demise of Cornish demolition firm DRS Demolition National in 2015, the area once again found itself without a dedicated local contractor who were capable of...
Ridgway Rentals Ltd. have taken delivery of their new Hydrema 912F Rear Tip Dump Trucks! These new additions to their dump truck range are perfect for sites where a large...
UKΒ Construction and Property businesses have the opportunity to nominate, recognise and reward their exceptional staff for free as the annual One4all Spotlight Awards re...
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has launched a new, street-by-street monitoring system that will help to improve that capitalβs air quality. From July 2018, and operating for a y...
40 metre superspan electronic sign gantry to span M6 Smart Motorway in England A giant 40-metre-wide superspan gantry structure will be lifted into place over the M6 in C...
Network Rail launches tender for new Β£5bn railway track alliances Network Rail is inviting suppliers to bid for the next generation of track work contracts, the largest o...
As a production manager at Aggregate Industries, Richard Stottβs job is to ensure that asphalt is made βΒ and lots of it, but thatβs only the start. There is also the matt...
Eurovia Contracting North has won two prestigious Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Awards in recognition of successful partnership schemes with local authority client...
Taking delivery of his new fourteen-tonne charge reunites Gavin Milven with the Volvo brand. βIt was back in 2006 when I decided to venture forth on my own and was lucky...
Network Rail has launched its new technology Supplier Qualification System (SQS), designed to improve market engagement, provide greater visibility of business opportunit...
Costain, the smart infrastructure solutions company, is expanding its technology centre with a move to new accommodation on the Weston Gateway Business Park near Worle, N...
The Illumagear Halo task light, a personal active safety system designed to illuminate people at risk in any environment or industry is now being launched in the UK by th...
National Road Planing (NRP), Tarmacβs industry-leading road planing contractor, is driving improved productivity on a major highways project with the introduction of a ne...
Whilst welcoming the additional Β£100million pothole funding to help repair roads suffering from this yearβs severe winter, the Road Surface Treatments Association ( RSTA...
Rapid International Ltd (County Armagh, Northern Ireland) has recently supplied CEMEX UK with a new Rapidmix 600CW mobile continuous concrete mixing plant / pugmill for p...
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