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Heathrow’s biodiversity engineers are in a flutter after uncovering what is the 3,000th species known to be living in the 170 hectares of biodiversity lands the airport m...
Seven major schemes completed in the past year Eight major schemes due to be completed in the next 12 months Seven schemes to be underway by spring 2018 Further plans inc...
The M3 in Surrey and Hampshire has become the latest road in the UK to be upgraded to a smart motorway, Highways England announced today (Tuesday 1 August). Cutting-edge...
Saxby Surfacing Contractors from Sheffield are entering their thirtieth year of trading and to commemorate the event, have taken delivery of their first Volvo paver, a P6...
Clearview Intelligence has long been an active supporter of Brake, the road safety charity, so was were delighted to learn that they are finalists in the Brake Fleet Safe...
Flying debris that travels faster than a bullet is just one of the hazards facing Highways England repair teams working on Birmingham’s Spaghetti Junction. As part...
Main Work Civil Contract packages for lots S1 and S2 of new HS2 high-speed railway link in the United Kingdom. Consortium consisting of STRABAG (32 %), Skanska and Costai...
years, it was the ultimate graduate dream – a secure training scheme with a big-name company in the City, plenty of perks and a salary which made those all-nighters...
The highways industry is faced with a unique challenge – The ‘Road’, with its depreciating finite life, cannot economically be renewed in line with traditional life...
based LKAB Minerals Ltd continues a tradition of operating Volvo loading shovels dating back to 1995 with the addition of a new L90H loading shovel and a second unit on o...
Nottingham-based Civil and Electrical Engineering firm, McCann, has successfully completed essential drainage maintenance work on the A64 at the Brambling Fields junction...
JCB has secured one of its biggest-ever deals in the UK – an order for more than 1,200 machines and a range of generators worth more than £55 million. A-Plant – the...
Home improvement retailer Wickes has launched a new loyalty programme exclusively for trade customers – called Wickes TradePro – offering 10% off purchases in-store or on...
Doka UK was awarded for the innovative concrete- sensor technology Concremote with this year’s Construction News Award. Concremote allows construction firms to digi...
The Devil’s Punch Bowl, once separated from Hindhead Common by the A3, has become one of the top wildlife sites in south east England. The huge improvements to the area i...
Tech-driven startup, building bridges between clients with construction projects and the engineers and architects needed to deliver them, plans to go global with boost fr...
A three-way joint venture between BAM, Morgan Sindall and VolkerFitzpatrick has secured the £100 million-plus project to refurbish the Oldbury viaduct on the M5 in the Mi...
Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has reached a key milestone in the first phase of its Perth Transport Futures project with the steel beams to supp...
An archaeological gem, unearthed by builders from Galliard Construction, has been moved to the Museum of London, where its contents will be exhumed. Earlier this year Gal...
Long standing user of Volvo Construction Equipment products, Tillicoultry Quarries, has purchased its largest Volvo loading shovel to date in the guise of the thirty five...
Drivers, cyclists and pedestrians are set to benefit from a £1.1 million scheme to improve safety at a busy junction near Ellesmere Port. The Highways England project at...
The first of a new-style smart motorway emergency area, where drivers can stop in an emergency, is being trialled on the M3 in Surrey. The redesigned emergency area has a...
Winners of £6.6 billion worth of major construction contracts for HS2 Phase One announced. government confirms plans to extend HS2 from Birmingham to north-west, East Mid...
JCB Broadcrown has secured a contract to provide stand-by power at one of London’s most striking and mixed use developments. Standing 27 storeys high, the 700,000 sq ft d...
Hampshire based plant and machinery dealers BPMS Ltd. have produced the world’s first pink Avant 635 compact wheeled loader, which will be the focal point of a fund raisi...
Balfour Beatty VINCI, a long established joint venture between two global infrastructure leaders recognized for its portfolio of large-scale projects, today announces its...
A new road which links the A5 with the M1 via a new motorway junction in Bedfordshire has been welcomed at its official opening on 13 July 2017. The A5-M1 link road has c...
UK drivers spend an average of 44 hours a year searching for parking, at a cost of £733 each in wasted time, fuel and emissions, a total of £23.3 billion across the count...
Global events and media experts at Versanta are asking members of the Construction industry to take to the fairways as part of a fundraising campaign for CRASH – The cons...
Film and TV production, machinery repair and food vans all booming SMEs account for over 70% of private sector employment growth since 2011 SME debt falls £34 billion in...
Teenager Louise Meredith is the toast of JCB after she was named Young Employee / Apprentice of the Year at a regional business awards. Higher Apprentice Louise, 19, who...
Taylor’s new 220 bedroom Holiday Inn Express, built off-site from purpose built steel shipping containers, has been completed at Manchester’s Trafford City. It is the fir...
With prestigious projects such as London’s Trafalgar Square and Wembley Stadium in its portfolio, the UK’s leading hard landscaping manufacturer is using Volvo equipment...
Heathrow launches bespoke noise insulation free of charge to local homeowners More than 700 residents have been invited to join the programme following a successful pilot...
UK Plant Operators LTD have teamed up with Leica Geosystems and Kier Bam to test run a state of the art simulator based familiarisation course for Leica machine control a...
The world’s leading glass bottle manufacturer, O-I Manufacturing Ltd, continues to favour Volvo Construction Equipment products as it takes delivery of a new L150H loadin...
CCTV shows lorry driver discarding oil container on M62 40,000 sacks of litter collected last year Motorway drivers are being warned they could be putting lives at risk i...
Siemens, a global leader in traffic management technology, has recently completed the deployment of the UK’s largest, and busiest, permanent average speed enforcement sys...
Women Count 2017, the second annual report by the Pipeline, which delivers executive leadership programmes specifically designed for women and their organisations, has tr...
A brand new flyover, built as part of a major upgrade on the A21 in Kent, will be used by drivers for the first time in July. The work is part of a project to upgrade the...
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