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A new annual noise contour report shows that Heathrow airport’s noise footprint continues to shrink – with over 52,000 fewer households impacted by noise compared to 2006...
R&W Civil Engineering wins share of £100m M25 Motorway Works R&W Civil Engineering has been awarded a place on the second Call-Off Framework Agreement (COFA-2) to...
A new traffic enforcement system has been introduced by Trading Standards in Oxfordshire to help protect one of the oldest river crossings on the River Thames at Newbridg...
The Institute of Economic Development (IED) hailed Highways England’s strategic economic growth plan, The Road to Growth with the Greatest Economic Impact award at...
One of the UK’s leading construction and property consultancies, Thomas & Adamson, believes despite the negative outlook among many for the construction sector in 201...
MGS Training Ltd, with its headquarters located at Bargeddie in Glasgow and its 40-acre training centre at Heartlands just off the M80 between Glasgow and Edinburgh, has...
Responding to the UK Government’s much-anticipated Industrial Strategy unveiled today, John Newcomb, Chief Executive of the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) said: “The...
A dash cam is a small camera mounted on the dashboard or windscreen of your car and facing the road, although for even better coverage you can also have dash cams with bo...
A Volvo EC18D compact excavator has established a niche for itself with owners W T Paterson Joinery & Building – working on a whole spectrum of property mainten...
Brake, the national road safety charity founded and lead the annual Road Safety Week, which takes place this week, the 20th – 26th November. This year’s theme is Speed Do...
The Open Data Institute has called for open land data for a long time, both in the UK and abroad. By opening up mapping data – previously only accessible to large compani...
Businesses from across Essex and Kent have been encouraged by Highways England, the organisation delivering the new Lower Thames Crossing, to start preparing for an £8 bi...
More than 950 Highways England Traffic Officers are being trained in life saving first aid, giving them enhanced skills which may be used to help casualties in need of ur...
A new £1.5 million salt barn in Knutsford, Cheshire, will help to keep the region’s motorways and major A roads moving this winter. Highways England is storing more than...
New photos of giant bridge beams being lifted over one of the country’s main railway lines have been released by Highways England, as the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon impr...
If you lust after the thrill of airplane turbulence, you can often recreate it by driving down one of Britain’s many pothole-covered roads (though we wouldn’t...
The Rt. Hon. David Davis MP, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, today visited JCB’s World HQ to tour the manufacturing site and take part in discussions w...
A new initiative is putting business investment at the heart of Denbighshire’s strategy for economic growth. The “Invest in Denbighshire” project is designed to encourage...
Volvo 40-tonne excavators find favour at H and S Contractors H and S Contractors Ltd of Kingsnorth, Hoo in Kent continues to add Volvo Construction Equipment products to...
The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has greeted the Chancellor’s, Philip Hammond, announcement that driverless cars will be on Britain’s roads by 2021 with som...
One in five patients admitted to trauma centres in the UK were involved in road crashes in 2016 according to new figures obtained by Brake, the road safety charity. Road...
The rise in the number of cycling accidents caused by deteriorating road surfaces underlines calls for a national statutory standard definition of what comprises a pothol...
Leading bridge and engineering services specialist Mabey has today unveiled a new bridge lifting technique – the first of its kind in the UK. Developed with Alun Griffith...
Measures that will help improve the road network’s resilience when there are interruptions to services across the English Channel were set out by Highways England on15 No...
Last week Clearview Intelligence joined the great and good of the highways industry at the NEC for the Highways UK show. Hosted by Highways England the show is growing in...
A new Volvo ECR88D reduced swing compact excavator has been supplied to WoodForFuel.com, located near Balfron in Stirlingshire and is the company’s prime mover in process...
The UK’s biggest road construction project is marking its first full year of work. 21 miles of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon are being upgraded to three lanes...
Mike Taylor Plant Hire of Blairgowrie, Perth & Kinross has opted for a Volvo reduced swing ECR58D for the first time The new six-tonne machine has been supplied by SM...
The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has reacted with concern at the findings of new analysis by the Local Government Association (LGA) that by 2020 almost 60p...
JCB put its experience and expertise to good use helping TV personality Guy Martin to engineer a tribute to the role tanks played in helping change the course of the Firs...
Highways England’s team of 1,300 specially trained gritter drivers based across the country are geared up for winter – and are urging drivers to do the same. The company...
ASI is constantly striving to extend the life of the valuable infrastructure network through planned maintenance using RHiNOPHALT®. Their goal is to provide road users an...
Tests have begun this week on an innovative, pilot project designed to reduce congestion along the M62 Motorway near Warrington in Cheshire. Highways England is deliverin...
With an intriguing fusion of futuristic and classic design, Snøhetta has completed its first permanently built project in England. The 108-square-meter retail space, dubb...
A new survey of delegates at Highways UK, the UK’s premier highway event attended by 2,000 road-safety professionals, reveals attitudes towards adopting new technologies...
Predictions of the worse winter for possibly ten years is bad news for those highway authorities who have failed to carry out the necessary maintenance of their road netw...
The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) has written to the Chancellor to urge him to put measures in the forthcoming budget that will support the modernisation of builder...
Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm McCann has showcased its commitment to developing future talent by joining The 5% Club, an UK industry led initiati...
C D McNeill of Dingwall, Ross-shire has purchased a fourth EC27C for its contracting business. The new EC27C is the fourth machine in a line to join C D McNeill’s contrac...
Heathrow has announced the next step in building Britain’s new runway by revealing the sixty-five longlisted sites in the running to be selected as expansion Logistics Hu...
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