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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...
A new annual noise contour report shows that Heathrow airportβs noise footprint continues to shrink β with over 52,000 fewer households impacted by noise compared to 2006...
R&W Civil Engineering wins share of Β£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 UKβs 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 Governmentβs much-anticipated Industrial Strategy unveiled today, John Newcomb, Chief Executive of the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) said:Β βThe...
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 β 26th November. This yearβs theme is Speed Do...
The Open Data Institute has called for open land data for a long time, both in the UK and abroad.Β By opening up mapping data β 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 Β£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 Β£1.5 million salt barn in Knutsford, Cheshire, will help to keep the regionβs 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 countryβs 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 JCBβs World HQ to tour the manufacturing site and take part in discussions w...
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