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With an ambition to set a common safety standard for more than 50 thousand workers across its whole supply chain, Highways England has today (8 November 2017) announced a...
The UK Department for Transport’s funding allocation requirements now call for local highway authorities to have a fully developed and implemented asset management...
The shocking footage above was released by Highways England today and show drivers watching DVDs, reading books, and even boiling a dashboard kettle. One driver in...
Telford & Wrekin Council has today published its official notice for a Β£220m highways maintenance contract. The notice published in the Official Journal of the Europe...
βIβm sticking with Volvoβ¦β says Brian Taylor, proprietor of B G Taylor Groundworks of Glenrothes as he reflects on one yearβs operation with his Volvo EC27C and ECR50D co...
Britaniacrest Recycling Ltd of Hookwood, Surrey has recently added a Volvo L150H to its plant fleet with a second machine on order for the New Year as it ramps up product...
In 2004, a pedestrian bridge with a difference was opened in London spanning an inlet off the main canal at Merchant Square, Paddington Basin. The Rolling Bridge was conc...
A Β£27.1 million flood defence scheme to reduce flood risk to 4,800 properties in Blackpool has been officially opened by Blackpool Council Cabinet Member for Environmenta...
The UK is the third most congested country in Europe and we spend an average of 32 hours each year stuck in peak hour traffic. According to the latest report from Inrix t...
Blakedale Limited is reinforcing its commitment to highway safety with the launch of a new 3.5 tonne Impact Protection Vehicle (IPV), designed to provide additional workf...
Highways England is marking the end of Tyre Safety Month by revealing a series of initiatives it is developing or already delivering to help drive down the number of peop...
The trade association for utilities and their contractor partners on street works issues β has today warned against government proposals to allow councils to charg...
A new contract to design and refurbish traffic signal equipment and systems at nine signalised junctions in Coventry has been awarded to Siemens by the city council. Foll...
Β£50 million flood alleviation scheme in Leeds which uses moveable weir technology β a first for flood risk reduction in the UK, has now opened. The first phase of the awa...
The next step in a multi-million pound scheme to give drivers quicker, safer and more reliable journeys in the South West took a major step forward today asΒ Highways Engl...
Highways England is planning to build a Β£100 million new bypass along the A585 near Poulton-le-Fylde in Lancashire, boosting the local economy and improving journeys for...
British builders rack up 130 hours per year making proper British builders tea and other hot drinks, according to new research. A survey of UK workers in the construction...
JCB is celebrating a major milestone in its long record of innovative machine design β the 40th anniversary of the Loadall telescopic handler. First launched on October 2...
Bryan Contractors of Caputh, near Perth has added another new Volvo ECR88D reduced-swing excavator and a fourteen tonne EC140E excavator to its plant fleet for its genera...
Last month’s reported road casualties in Great Britain: 2016 annual report revealed a 4% increase in the number of reported road safety deaths. While this is not a...
Reid Plant Hire of Kingussie in the Scottish Highlands has opted for its first Volvo compact excavator in the guise of a zero swing ECR25D. Tempting proprietor Neil Reid...
Highways England has today updated its Β£15 billion road improvement programme to reduce the impact of roadworks on motorists and minimise congestion while improvements ta...
Drivers on a 5-mile stretch of the M62 near Rochdale can now benefit from wider lanes, helping to improve the flow of traffic on one of the busiest motorways in the regio...
This November, BituChem will be joining the discussion of the many subjects surrounding British highways as the company exhibits at Highways UK 2017. The two-day exhibiti...
Sapphire Utility Solutions is delighted to announce that VolkerHighways has awarded them a five year contract with five further annual extensions available, to provide dr...
Balfour Beatty Mott MacDonald, a 70:30 joint venture between two of Britain’s most established construction and consultancy companies, has secured a Β£115 mil...
Johnsons Wellfield of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, has made a significant investment in purchasing a brace of seventy-five tonne Volvo EC750E excavators which take charg...
The South West-based traffic officers had set a target of covering 350 miles in a 24-hour spin bike challenge, equivalent to the distance of motorway and major trunk road...
Speaking at the BCC International Trade Summit today, Heathrowβs Non-Executive Chairman Lord Deighton announced a new ten step Blueprint for Sustainable Freight plan to r...
For the second year running, Highways England and DeerAware – The Deer Initiative have joined forces to warn motorists about the heightened risk of deer-vehicle col...
Professor Rebecca Lunn MBE of the University of Strathclyde has extended her well-established partnership with BAM Nuttall by taking up the five-year post of BAM Nuttall...
Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has been appointed by Forth Valley College to deliver the final phase of construction work to the new Β£55 million...
A co-ordinated Β£61.4m package of essential maintenance and improvement work is underway on motorways and major A-roads across the East of England. The work β the bulk of...
Construction companies, contractors and suppliers interested in working on Cardiff University Β£300m Innovation Campus are being invited to βmeet the bidders.β The half-da...
A new study suggests that more than 80% of construction workers believe Brexit will damage the UKβs industry and prevent high-profile government infrastructure projects f...
AGD Systems, one of the UKβs leading manufacturers of ITS product solutions, will be exhibiting at this yearβs Traffex Road Expo Scotland β 1-2 November 2017, at the Roya...
worldβs first responsive road crossing is being showcased in London as a prototype solution, aimed at tackling the 7,000+ incidents recorded each year at UK crossings bet...
across Scotland are marking their diaries for a second Heathrow Business Summit Scotland, set for 18th October in Edinburgh. The free Business Summit Scotland is part of...
Berkshire-based Shorts Group has added yet another Volvo ECR235 excavator to its growing machinery fleet. This latest model takes the number of ECR235βs on the fleet to f...
In the highways industry, there is, quite rightly, a well-worn path of using Consultants to advise on best practice. There is nothing wrong with this approach as long as...
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