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Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has been awarded the Ministry of Defenceβs (MoD) Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) Gold Award 2017 for its...
The Ecology Consultancy, a leading UK based ecological consultancy, have recently launched an initiative of School Ecology Workshops to assist the construction industry i...
Last 4-tonne concrete blocks lifted into place on M6 A new 20-mile-long concrete safety barrier on the M6 in Cheshire is nearing completion as part of a Β£274 million proj...
This week MARIN (Maritime Research Institute) tested an innovative concept for a floating mega island. The island comprises 87 large floating triangles that are flexibili...
To create the distinctive βonCubeβ building in Shanghai, the German GMP studio (consisting of Meinhard von Gerkan, Nikolaus Goetze and Magdalene Weiss) has combined origi...
ALE has successfully transported 30 components making up two new Sandvik bucket wheel stacker reclaimers inside Richards Bay Coal Terminal, South Africa in June. The comp...
The A75 Gretna Green to Stranraer road is the main route through Scotland to the ferry port servicing Northern Ireland. Consequently, traffic volumes tend to increase whe...
βMade in Mecalacβ Design Design that sets us apart from the crowd is a major feature of Mecalac products. Besides being a reason clients have been choosing us for decades...
CPB Contractors has been selected by the Department of Transport and Main Roads to deliver Stage 1 of the $497.3 million Mackay Ring Road project in Queensland. The const...
The Islamic Development Bank has announced invitation for prequalification following the General Procurement Notice for this Project that appeared earlier in website of t...
STRABAG, the publicly listed technology group for construction services, has been commissioned to build the Thiba Dam in Kenya. The Dam will help secure the year round wa...
Mecalac is a business that has moved from industrialisation to similarly successful internationalisation in just a few decades. How do you explain such long-term performa...
China marked the completion of the main bridge deck section at the China mainland side of the landmark Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge, using bitumen solutions and technica...
Heathrowβs 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 SpaghettiΒ Junction. As part...
WSP Global Inc., one of the world’s leading professional services firms, has announced that it is pursuing its expansion in Latin America through the acquisition of...
Hitachi short-tail swing mini and medium excavators are relied upon by Danish contractor Allan Madsen of AM Entreprise ApS for completing groundworks, drainage and concre...
Metso and Freeport-McMoRan celebrated an impressive milestone as the new HRCβ’3000, the world’s largest operating high-pressure grinding roll, at the Metcalf Concent...
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...
Hitachi Construction Machinery is donating a used mini excavator to the first elephant sanctuary in Europe. The 70-acre rural site in southwest France will offer rehabili...
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...
ALE has successfully completed the incremental launch of a concrete aqueduct of 11,200t in the Province of CΓ³rdoba, Argentina. ALE started launching the aqueduct, compris...
The Australian and NSW governments are jointly funding the Aus $4.36 billion Woolgoolga to Ballina Pacific Highway upgrade. Roads and Maritime Services Pacific Highway Of...
The highways industry is faced with a unique challenge – The βRoadβ, 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...
The future of motoring in Queensland has been launched at Parliament House in Brisbane β and it is electric. Environment Minister and Acting Main Roads Minister Steven Mi...
Queensland motorists are a step closer to being safer after a joint venture between FKG Group and McIlwain Civil was awarded the contract to upgrade the Warrego Highway t...
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 β an order for more than 1,200 machines and a range of generators worth more than Β£55 million. A-Plant – the...
The Government of Uganda has received a loan (No: 2100150032194) from the African Development Fund (ADF) towards the cost of the Road Sector Support Project (RSSP) V, and...
Home improvement retailer Wickes has launched a new loyalty programme exclusively for trade customers β called Wickes TradePro β 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...
Polish cement company, Cementownia Wartaβs Volvo EC750E crawler excavator is the first of its kind in Eastern Europe, powering productivity at its limestone operations. C...
The Devilβs 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...
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