United Kingdom Construction News from Highways.Today
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Eurovia UK has been handed a prestigious award in recognition of its practices and achievements in helping its staff get home safely at the end of the working day. Eurovi...
The hazards of working next to 40-tonne lorries doing 60mph, having to cross a busy carriageway, or handling hot materials while moving is driving innovation in the highw...
UK-wide fun-filled wild festival celebrates nature 16th β 17th June Experience the magic of sitting in your own birdβs nest, take an exhilarating all-night moonlit ramble...
A bold, long-term vision to significantly reduce congestion on the Midlandsβ motorways has been unveiled by Midlands Connect, the pan-regional transport partnership, with...
New Holland Agriculture, as part of the CNH Industrial group, is an Official Partner to the Goodwood Estate, the unique sporting estate in West Sussex. Home to the Dukes...
Network Rail has announced plans to tackle three significant environmental issues in the countryβs biggest and busiest rail stations to mark the UNβs World Environment Da...
A Coventry company has turned its waste and materials handling fleet completely JCB yellow with its latest order of four new machines.Β Wastemasters Hire’s latest pu...
A new type of resurfacing machine the first of its kind on Englandβs motorways – has been used to considerably reduce the duration of a resurfacing scheme in West Y...
A new-style Smart Police Camera will be on UK roads later this year. LASERcam 4, a mobile speed enforcement camera from Truvelo, will combine class-leading laser speedmet...
Taylor and Braithwaite, European dealers for Hyundai Construction Equipment have delivered the first Hyundai HX130LCR excavator in the UK. Trevor Keys of Dumfries Plant R...
Network Rail engineers have completed track upgrade work in Abergele as part of the Β£50m North Wales railway upgrade project, providing a more reliable service for passen...
Scotland’s William Hamilton and Sons kick-off with a Volvo loading shovel William Hamilton & Sons Ltd of Larkhall, South Lanarkshire, has taken delivery of a Vo...
Motorists provide the Treasury with over Β£50 billion every year in taxation yet only Β£2 billion of that is invested in maintaining the local road network. The impact of t...
Bouygues UK Limited, a leading construction company with a track record in urban regeneration, will develop a disused railway yard into a centrepiece for innovation. Card...
Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, today announces that it has successfully completed the Β£63 million Rossall coastal defence scheme for Wyre Council...
Galliford Try has been awarded a Β£67m contract by Highways England to design and construct an M56 Smart Motorway scheme on the M56 between junctions 6 and 8 to the west o...
Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has been awarded two contracts worth c. Β£43.5 million for the Beauly to Keith 132kV modernisation programme. Both...
Over 800 Hyundai construction machines came into the UK last year, including crawler excavators, wheeled excavators and wheeled loaders. The machines are all manufactured...
Heathrow today welcomed the arrival of two new direct routes to the Chinese cities: Wuhan and Sanya. Both destinations are a first for direct routes into Heathrow, the co...
The UK Construction (Retention Deposit Schemes) Bill 2017-19 (the βAldous Billβ) was introduced as a Private Membersβ Bill in January by Peter Aldous MP and is expected t...
Blantyre based Advance Construction Scotland Ltd has purchased another package of Volvo excavators which are all incremental to the companyβs already massive fleet of equ...
Itβs a familiar scene for most parents driving on a motorway β children misbehaving. But the answer is not to do as one set of parents did and use the hard shoulder as a...
Drivers on the M60 will be able to benefit from wider lanes in time for the bank holiday weekend, helping to improve the flow of traffic on the second busiest motorway in...
A SURVEY by road safety and breakdown organisation GEM Motoring Assist has shown that two thirds of motorists are concerned about safety on smart motorways. In the survey...
Celebrating 55 years of business, J C Balls & Sons Ltd of Ambergate, Derbyshire, has opted for three new Volvo A30G articulated haulers to supplement its plant fleet....
Highways England traffic officers work around the clock to help people who get into difficulty β and one has taken to YouTube to share her expertise as motorists set to t...
Linking the north to the south and vice versa, the M5 provides a key arterial route to the south west for tourism and popular holiday destinations such as Cornwall.Β βIn t...
Champion Groundworks Ltd of Doublebois, Liskeard, in Cornwall continues its association with Volvo Construction Equipment products with the addition of the their third tw...
A ground breaking new project to boost the number of bumblebees and other wild pollinators in Cumbria, has been awarded development funding by Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)...
GKD Technologies design, develop and produce height, slew and load safety control systems for Road Rail vehicles (RRVβs) and general construction equipment such as excava...
The A14 Integrated Delivery Team, which is delivering the UKβs biggest road project on behalf of Highways England, has pledged its commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant...
The Construction Equipment Association (CEA) has confirmed the venue and dates for their 4th PLANTWORX trade show, which will incorporate the brand new RAILWORX exhibitio...
Highways England is using virtual reality to reduce the risk of commercial vehicle drivers being involved in incidents as they travel up and down theΒ country. The Governm...
AΒ road over rail bridge in Leeds under construction by Galliford Try is rapidly taking shape. Located at Thorpe Park just off the M1, the bridge is a single 28m clear sp...
Shipping company Scotline, located in the south east of England, came from humble beginnings, where the business started by carrying one-off forest product parcels with i...
New research from Network Rail reveals only 36% of 18 to 24 year olds believe going on the railway track is extremely dangerous, resulting in young adults risking their l...
Ridgway Rentals has expanded their hire fleet with a bit more colour with brand new Hitachi Plant Equipment. After many years of traditional yellow machines, Ridgway have...
The Chartered Association of Building Engineers (CABE) has today announced it will go ahead with its application to become a licensed member of the Engineering Council. T...
Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm McCann is playing a crucial role in educating fellow highway professionals by achieving relevant accreditations in...
A technological transformation across more than 70% of the UK rail network is on its way, delivering faster, more frequent, safer services to millions of passengers acros...
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