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The British Industrial Truck Association (BITA) and The Fork Lift Truck Association (FLTA) have issued a joint statement in consultation with the Health and Safety Execut...
Specialist shelter provider Zappshelter have come up with an innovative product to assist the NHS, emergency services, essential services and anyone faced with needing to...
Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm McCann has been awarded the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA) Gold Medal after the business was...
The Gas Safety Trust (GST) today launched their 2020 Small Grants call.Β This Spring the Trust is looking to fund smaller, short-term, innovative and experimental projects...
JCB is today stopping production at all of its UK manufacturing plants as disruption resulting from the worldwide Coronavirus pandemic causes an unprecedented reduction i...
Motorcycle theft numbers on the rise: Here is what you should do Did you know that over one single day, 130 motorcycles will be stolen in the UK, the same number in the U...
Worrying results from a new study released today show that the latest in-vehicle infotainment systems, designed to improve road safety, are failing and impair reactions t...
Changes to the off-payroll working rules – which will impact on the construction industry by placing additional obligations on medium and large developers and contr...
BRITISH canoeing medallist Adam Burgess has some extra power in his paddle as he goes for gold this summer – after landing a sponsorship deal from digger maker JCB....
The UKβs highways leaders could look to Canada, Russia and even over their nearest county boundary to find new ways to tackle winter conditions β but extreme winter weath...
Colas has launched the Exopush in its UK business. Exopush is an exoskeleton designed to give power assistance to operatives working on levelling with a rake. Amongst eme...
INRIX, a global leader in transportation analytics and connected car services, has published the 2019 INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard, which identified, analyzed and ranke...
The construction industry has had a particularly difficult few years, with uncertainty around Brexit, high numbers of insolvencies, high-profile building safety concerns,...
Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm McCann has been announced as a finalist in the 2020 Highways England Awards after Project Supervisor Keith Scott wa...
Five, the UK self-driving company, has raised $41M in a Series B round of equity funding. New investors are Trustbridge Partners, Direct Line Group and Sistema VC. Existi...
The worldβs most power dense permanent magnet electric motor is under development in the UK. Expert electrification company, Equipmake, has teamed up with leading additiv...
Richard Broome, Managing Director at Linesearch BeforeUdig (LSBUD), the nationβs leading online asset search facility, discusses how safe construction companies and their...
Ringway Jacobs, the leading integrated highways service provider to UK local authorities, secures the maximum five-year extension to its current 10-year highway network m...
In the aftermath of storm Jorge, widespread flooding and strong winds has compounded the extensive damage caused by Storm’s Ciara and Dennis respectively to the Bri...
In the wake of the Appeal Courtβs decision that plans for the third runway at Heathrow were unlawful, the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning &...
Clearview Intelligence strengthens its senior management team with internal promotions ready to push on into 2020 and beyond. Following on from a year of new project succ...
Network Rail is highlighting both The Forth and The Britannia bridges as two of the most treasured and recognisable features of the British railway network. Both bridges...
Energy Systems Catapult is launching an innovator challenge call in collaboration with Places for People, Geovation and Pineapple Partners, inviting SMEs developing produ...
On average, business and IT decision makers from UK construction organisations waste over a quarter (29%) of their time at work on tasks that do not add critical value. T...
The landmark machine was driven off the line at the companyβs factory in Rocester, Staffordshire β the very location where the first JCB backhoe was manufactured almost 7...
GAP Hire Solutions, the UKβs largest independent rental company, has placed an order for 18 x 26t liquid waste tankers, following a recent announcement by the companyβs H...
As the Northern Rail franchise this weekend moves into new ownership, leaders from across the North of England have said it is now βmore important than everβ that a βTham...
The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched its “Cheating or Competing?” campaign this week, and specifically named the Construction Sector as one...
The UK Government is scaling up its support to the automotive industry by hosting more UK Pavilions than ever before at major trade exhibitions, helping British innovator...
Bridgend Aggregates of King Edward, Northern Scotland, has taken delivery of its first VolvoCE excavator in the form of a thirty tonne EC300E. The machine will be deploye...
Two years since Peter Aldous MP brought his private members bill to Westminster, some 26 years since the recommendations in the Latham report and still no solution to the...
UK provider of operated road sweepers and self-drive specialist vehicles, Go Plant Fleet Services, has just taken delivery of a new MAN TGM Sweeper. The first MAN sweeper...
Changes to the IR35 off-payroll working rules – which will impact on the construction industry by placing additional obligations on medium and large developers and...
Network Rail has opened a dedicated STEM learning facility with the aim of inspiring the next generation to pursue careers in the science, technology, engineering and mat...
The 14th annual Executive Hire Show (5&6 February, Ricoh Arena Coventry) was a runaway success – the event was a hive of activity from the onset, which is a goo...
Projects to enhance four economically important roads across the North have been awarded development funding this week as part of the Governmentβs local transport revolut...
The UK Coal Authority and the Construction Industry Research and Information Association recently released a new 500-page guide (C758D) to help those building on or remed...
If you mentioned construction tax changes last year, the focus was mainly on the construction VAT reverse charge (which has been postponed to October this year). However,...
Alutrade Ltd, one of the UKβs leading scrap aluminium recycling specialists, has invested in a Yanmar SV60 midi excavator to further improve the efficiencies of its balin...
Have you undertaken your Legionella risk assessment, and it is has identified all of the foreseeable risks posed by Legionella in your buildings, carriage wash plant and...
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