United Kingdom Construction News from Highways.Today
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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...
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...
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