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CHAS, the supply-chain risk management expert, has become a registered signatory of Building a Safer Future and is encouraging other members of the built environment sect...
A fully autonomous passenger shuttle service began trials on UK roads today, Science Minister George Freeman has announced. The new service is being trialled by Darwin In...
SPIE UK, a subsidiary of SPIE, the independent European leader in multi-technical services in the areas of energy and communications, has been appointed by Merseytravel t...
Liverpool City Region (LCR) Combined Authority has awarded a contract to Yunex Traffic to supply and install 37 Zephyr® air quality monitors, and to maintain them for a p...
Teletrac Navman, a global market leader in telematics technology, has secured a contract with Associated British Ports’ (ABP) Port of Southampton. As the UK’s leading por...
Plant hire and waste management firm Buckland Newton Hire (BNH) has increased its fleet of Cat machinery from exclusive Caterpillar® supplier Finning UK and Ireland, by a...
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has become the first authority in the UK to take delivery of one of JCB’s revolutionary PotholePro machines. The machine, which can repa...
National Highways’ innovative £43 million project to tackle congestion at one of the busiest motorway junctions in the North West is now fully up and running. The newly-t...
The country’s shortage of HGV drivers highlights the need to reimagine how we move goods across the UK. The world is on the cusp of a revolution in aviation, as the imple...
A collaborative approach between road marking experts, WJ Scotland, and BEAR Scotland has brought significant carbon savings of 1,778 tonnes across Scotland’s North East...
The Fleet Recognition Scheme (FORS) is a voluntary accreditation scheme for fleet operators which aims to raise the level of quality within fleet operations, and to demon...
Paul Douglas, managing director, Rokbak, delivered the keynote address at the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland’s (NMIS) ‘Manufacturing a Net-Zero Future’ confere...
HS2 contractor Align JV, comprising Bouygues, Sir Robert McAlpine and VolkerFitzpatrick are piling the foundations for the 3.4km long Colne Valley Viaduct – the UK’...
National Highways is reaching for the skies with a new digital infrastructure that will help keep roads moving and give drivers round-the-clock real-time traffic informat...
Transport for Wales and CitySwift are delighted to announce they have partnered on a pilot programme to optimise public transport services using data and machine learning...
The Government today launches an ambitious new ‘Made in the UK, Sold to the World’ plan to help businesses across the UK double exports and sell their world-class product...
The winners of the annual Association for Project Management (APM) Awards have been announced at a live ceremony which took place at Old Billingsgate in London on Monday...
Blackwood Plant Hire, based in Kilmarnock, specialise in the hire of operated and self-drive excavators throughout Central Scotland and the UK. The company is headed up b...
Hitachi Construction Machinery UK (HCMUK), a leading name in the construction, quarrying and demolition equipment market is delighted to have worked in partnership with B...
Engineers have saved £70m of taxpayers’ money by using creative new methods to build a railway flyover as part of the East West Rail project. Network Rail and the East We...
The Executive Hire Show team is delighted to confirm that the UK’s premier hire event is back and will be taking place between 9th and 10th February 2022, at its establis...
Danny Adamson, Managing Director at Messagemaker Displays Ltd. has shared his insights on the importance of specifying only TSRGD compliant LED signage for public highway...
Plastic waste from the UK’s construction industry has increased 45.72% in two years, according to analysis of recently published government data by the construction site...
An innovative new database of more than 500 businesses, built by National Highways to help local firms win their share of work earmarked for SMEs on the Lower Thames Cros...
Esh Construction has marked the completion of its largest project in company history with Phase 3 of the Sunderland Strategic Transport Corridor (SSTC3) now officially op...
Eurovia UK was delighted to be recognised with The 5% Club Gold Award through its 2021 Employer Audit Scheme. This award recognises Eurovia’s significant contribution to...
JCB’s super-efficient hydrogen engine has won one of the oldest and most prestigious awards in British automotive engineering honouring technical achievement. At a ceremo...
is launching a new service to help Local Authorities scope out the design and implementation of a Mobility Hub. It’s four stage methodology will enable a data-led approac...
In recent months, there have been a number of newsworthy industrial and commercial fires where we have seen a long distant shot of a large smoke plume palling over a loca...
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organisation, has joined the iconic British racing team Jaguar Racing as...
The Silverstone Circuit in England is one of the world’s legendary motor racing venues. In collaboration with circuit design specialists from the engineering consultants...
Multi-award-winning developer and asset owner/manager Quintain has played a central role in the urban regeneration of Wembley, North West London, undertaking construction...
As world leaders gather for the crucial climate summit, COP26 in Glasgow, the CEA has committed to continue supporting its members on their journey to achieving net zero...
The UK’s top roads policing officer is urging every force in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to support a major national event next year designed to change...
As in so many aspects of our lives, two seismic events have caused enormous change in the business of making and regulating PPE; the pandemic and Brexit. When the pandemi...
Moving to Modern Methods of Construction (MMC) isn’t just about reducing the labour requirements needed to meet UK house building targets, it’s about reskilling existing...
The UK population take out insurance to help cover their most expensive assets, cars, homes and lives. Despite operating machinery being far more costly than your average...
The consequences of the global pandemic have been profound. Like many other sectors, large swathes of the automotive industry had to scale back or even stop production in...
Balfour Beatty has launched an educational book for children aged between six and eight years old, entitled “CONES and Building Bridges”. The book, written by author Chri...
CEMEX, S.A.B. de C.V., its subsidiary CEMEX Ventures and Taronga Ventures announced today their investment in Voyage Control, a UK-based start-up that offers a digital pl...
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