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Drivers who use the Severn bridges are reminded changes to the TAG payment system take place next week. Responsibility for the operations, maintenance and vehicle charges...
Environmental charges at Heathrow are set to increase by 7% as the airport seeks to minimise its impact and aircraft pollution on local communities. From 1st January 2018...
WEC CCTV, a UK manufacturer of camera mounting structures, has supplied 65 specially designed camera masts for the new Mersey Gateway Bridge. The Lancashire-based special...
Having started up in business just nine years ago, acquiring secondhand Volvo excavators, Quarry & Earthworks proprietor, Matt King, has added a brand new Volvo EC380...
Highways England will continue archaeological surveys in the new year as part of the ongoing scheme to improve journeys for people using the A303 at Stonehenge. The surve...
Multi-million pound road upgrades announced today by Highways England will help create more than 4,300 jobs and over 1,700 homes for people in the Midlands, the South Eas...
Balfour Beatty announces partial sale of M25 Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, announced that it has reached an agreement with funds managed by Dalm...
Highways England has reiterated its view that building a new bypass is the best option to replace the A5036 Port of Liverpool route in Merseyside. The company confirmed t...
Christmas has come early for Gloucestershire based plant hire company Rocket Rentals and its customers as the family run business has invested Β£1.2 million in a new fleet...
Civil and electrical engineering firm J M McCann & Co Ltd. (McCann) has won the tender to continue to maintain North East Lincolnshireβs street lighting and illuminat...
Heathrow has identified options that could enable delivery of an expanded hub airport for Britain for Β£2.5bn less than the plans submitted to the Airports Commission in 2...
Drivers will be able to use over ten miles of extra lanes on the M62 near Rochdale in time for Christmas. Highways England is opening a permanent fourth lane in each dire...
Tarmac, the UKβs leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business, has been reaccredited to undertake the rigorous Fleet Operator Recognition Sc...
Balfour BeattyβsΒ Plant & Fleet Services business has been awarded a contract in excess of Β£2 million to supply plant and accommodation to the Balfour Beatty joint ven...
JCB today announced a Β£500 Christmas bonus for more than 5,500 UK employees.Β The pay out was announced this morning across at the companyβs 11 plants in Staffordshire, De...
Civic and business leaders from across the North of England have agreed a draft Strategic Transport Plan, to be published byΒ Transport for the North, for public consultat...
Ground remediation and soil stabilisation contractor, Deep Soil Mixing Ltd has achieved certification to two key international business standards – ISO 9001 Standar...
Highways England today paved the way for the future technology which will keep road users as safe and informed as possible on the countryβs motorways. The Government comp...
RJT Excavations Ltd of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders has opted for another Volvo excavator specifically for a long term crushing contract, based on the overall total c...
Allego, a leading provider of Electric Vehicle (EV) charging solutions and cloud services, has appointed traffic technology supplier Siemens to support the deployment and...
The London edition of this global, two-day event aimed at architects, designers and specifiers, is in its sixth year and is being held at Olympia National Hall on 24th an...
The design and build scheme will feature a new grade separated junction with a roundabout spanning the motorway which will incorporate a new and existing bridge (pictured...
More than 20 million vehicles will hit the road this festive period resulting in significant delays, according to data from INRIX, the global leader in connected car serv...
With just 13 days to go before Christmas, Highways England has called on the main man to help remind drivers to check their vehicles before travelling this festive season...
One of the last military bridges installed to form access to RAF Sandtoft, a Second World War airfield, has been removed after it was installed sometime in 1943/44. The I...
Heathrow has reached a key milestone in its pledge to βGo Electricβ with the delivery of the 50th electric vehicle to the airportβs fleet. This is a key step in Heathrowβ...
Leading traffic technology supplier Siemens hosted the latest Women in ITS interest group meeting at its offices and manufacturing centre in Poole, Dorset this week. Focu...
Civil and Electrical Engineering firm, McCann, has begun work on a Β£25m contract to replace and maintain street lighting across Calderdale, Yorkshire, which will see the...
Highways England is set to release an updated set of road design standards in 2018 which will be used across the United Kingdom. Renowned experts at the company responsib...
People travelling over the Severn bridge will soon benefit from cheaper journeys as the bridges return to public ownership early next year. On Monday 8 January the respon...
Williams Martini Racing Formula One driver Lance Stroll today shared some of the secrets of his sporting success during a visit to JCB and the JCB Academy. Stroll was jus...
Leicester based DAB Civil Engineering Contractors Ltd has rekindled its association with Volvo Construction Equipment products by purchasing three new twenty-two tonne EC...
The announcement by the British Government that some Β£600 billion is to be spent on national infrastructure investment is a case of putting βthe cart before the horseβ be...
A JCB business which has powered its way to international success celebrated the production of half a million JCB engines – enough to stretch from London to Paris....
A new seventy-five tonne Volvo EC750E has been delivered to John Wainwright & Co Ltdβs Moons Hill Quarry in the Mendips following a detailed review of the market. Loo...
JCB today threw its weight behind Stoke-on-Trentβs bid for UK City of Culture status as the clock ticks down to decision day. Stoke-on-Trent is one of five cities in the...
A Β£15bn investment on motorways and major A-roads is helping motorists and hauliers this festive season get to their destinations quicker and with fewer delays. Since it...
Galliford Try, the leading housebuilding and construction group, has launched its new employee wellbeing programme βBe Wellβ and a new partnership with mental health char...
R Collard Ltd of Eversley, near Hook, Hampshire has taken delivery of the first demolition specified Volvo EC750E to be sold in Great Britain The seventy-five tonne excav...
A Β£104m project to create a new motorway junction on the M20 in Kent has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State today (Friday 1 December). Junction 10...
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