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Reid Plant Hire of Kingussie in the Scottish Highlands has opted for its first Volvo compact excavator in the guise of a zero swing ECR25D. Tempting proprietor Neil Reid...
Highways England has today updated its Β£15 billion road improvement programme to reduce the impact of roadworks on motorists and minimise congestion while improvements ta...
Drivers on a 5-mile stretch of the M62 near Rochdale can now benefit from wider lanes, helping to improve the flow of traffic on one of the busiest motorways in the regio...
This November, BituChem will be joining the discussion of the many subjects surrounding British highways as the company exhibits at Highways UK 2017. The two-day exhibiti...
Sapphire Utility Solutions is delighted to announce that VolkerHighways has awarded them a five year contract with five further annual extensions available, to provide dr...
Balfour Beatty Mott MacDonald, a 70:30 joint venture between two of Britain’s most established construction and consultancy companies, has secured a Β£115 mil...
Johnsons Wellfield of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, has made a significant investment in purchasing a brace of seventy-five tonne Volvo EC750E excavators which take charg...
The South West-based traffic officers had set a target of covering 350 miles in a 24-hour spin bike challenge, equivalent to the distance of motorway and major trunk road...
Speaking at the BCC International Trade Summit today, Heathrowβs Non-Executive Chairman Lord Deighton announced a new ten step Blueprint for Sustainable Freight plan to r...
For the second year running, Highways England and DeerAware – The Deer Initiative have joined forces to warn motorists about the heightened risk of deer-vehicle col...
Professor Rebecca Lunn MBE of the University of Strathclyde has extended her well-established partnership with BAM Nuttall by taking up the five-year post of BAM Nuttall...
Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has been appointed by Forth Valley College to deliver the final phase of construction work to the new Β£55 million...
A co-ordinated Β£61.4m package of essential maintenance and improvement work is underway on motorways and major A-roads across the East of England. The work β the bulk of...
Construction companies, contractors and suppliers interested in working on Cardiff University Β£300m Innovation Campus are being invited to βmeet the bidders.β The half-da...
A new study suggests that more than 80% of construction workers believe Brexit will damage the UKβs industry and prevent high-profile government infrastructure projects f...
AGD Systems, one of the UKβs leading manufacturers of ITS product solutions, will be exhibiting at this yearβs Traffex Road Expo Scotland β 1-2 November 2017, at the Roya...
worldβs first responsive road crossing is being showcased in London as a prototype solution, aimed at tackling the 7,000+ incidents recorded each year at UK crossings bet...
across Scotland are marking their diaries for a second Heathrow Business Summit Scotland, set for 18th October in Edinburgh. The free Business Summit Scotland is part of...
Berkshire-based Shorts Group has added yet another Volvo ECR235 excavator to its growing machinery fleet. This latest model takes the number of ECR235βs on the fleet to f...
In the highways industry, there is, quite rightly, a well-worn path of using Consultants to advise on best practice. There is nothing wrong with this approach as long as...
Rapid International Ltd based in County Armagh, Northern Ireland has supplied Collier Group of Fife, Scotland with its first bespoke concrete batching plant, which signif...
Britainβs new high-speed rail project, HS2 is on track to provide a swift and low-carbon alternative mode of transport from London to the Midlands and the North of Englan...
Three’s not necessarily a crowd at Collier Quarrying & Recycling Another Volvo L220H loading shovel has been delivered to Collier Quarrying & Recycling, a d...
Hadley Recycling and Waste Management seeks to divert as much waste from landfill and into recycling and renewable energy as possible. At its busy transfer station, locat...
WSP has been commissioned by Highways England to drive forward its connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) programme over the next four years in a contract worth Β£1.5 mil...
The first report of a panel set up to put good design at the heart of Englandβs road improvement projects is published today. Among the recommendations of the multi-partn...
New giant funnel bins are being installed at motorway service areas across the North West in a bid to reduce the amount of litter dropped on the regionβs roads. Highways...
βTheyβre a good tool for the job…β is the opinion of Stuart Holmes, plant manager for Day Group Ltd, as the company purchases more Volvos for its recently commissio...
βHeathrowβs new βFly Quiet and Cleanβ report shows airlines are increasingly using the quietest, cleanest aircraft in their routes to Britainβs hub airport. The report ra...
Rapid International Ltd, based in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, has recently supplied London concrete contractor, MixIt Ltd, with its fifth Rapid pan concrete mixer. M...
The worldβs first iron-framed building is set to be propped up by Mabey, as the bridge and engineering services company announces its role in a national project to restor...
Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm, McCann, has continued to expand its team with the appointment of new Fleet and Plant Manager, Paul King. Paul brin...
The Old Sessions House in Clerkenwell, London, a grand, former courthouse that once had a reputation for dishing out some the harshest sentences in the city, has undergon...
Based in Oswestry, Shropshire, third-generation family owned business RIDGWAY Rentals Ltd is all set to take delivery of 60 large earthmovers from Marubeni-Komatsu of Red...
Following his first impressions at Volvoβs βLive It Dig Itβ event at Alloa, Scotland, this March and a successful demonstration, Ian Orr, Proprietor of Burnside Plant...
Did you know that a typical commuter in the UK who car shares every day saves on average, about Β£1,000 a year? National Liftshare Week runs from 2nd β 8th October 2017 an...
35,000 drivers a day are benefiting from a major upgrade on the A21 connecting Hastings and London, between Tonbridge and Pembury in Kent, which was officially opened tod...
A report jointly commissioned by the AA and BTβs Fleet Solutions reveals business and SME anxiety about the investment required into the UKβs electric vehicle infrastruct...
The new Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route will cut journey times, reduce pollution costs and improve safety. Leading bridge and engineering services specialist Mabey has...
Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm, McCann, has won an estimated Β£1.2m contract to provide street furniture electrical connection services to Swindon...
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