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Fordβs all-electric Transit is starting work on European roads as customer trials commence with a selection of major fleet operators ahead of the volume sales launch in s...
Ringway, a specialist highway services company, has received delivery of the UKβs first fully electric 7.2 tonne IVECO Daily cage tipper for its Hounslow Highways contrac...
Specialist ground engineering contractor Ground Developments Ltd (GDL) was one of the first companies in Scotland to upgrade its fleet to machine control. Eleven years ag...
The 37 ft 9 in (11.5 m) width paving of the Gubrist Tunnel demanded optimal coordination and maximum efficiency. Thatβs why contractor Marti AG Solothurn chose VΓGELEβs W...
John Deere today announced it has agreed with Hitachi Construction Machinery to end the Deere-Hitachi joint venture manufacturing and marketing agreements. John Deere and...
Today is the official close and completion date of the Doosan Infracore sale to Hyundai Heavy Industries Holdings Co.. Doosan Infracore will become a subsidiary of the ne...
A leading agricultural and groundworks contractor has bought the highest specification JCB site dumper ever ordered in Northern Ireland. Purchased by Co. Down based John...
The highly successful series of childrenβs books, written by author Chris Madeley, is going from strength to strength with increased support from Corporate Britain. Chris...
Thanks to a link between advanced cycling radar and smart traffic control systems, cyclists in Utrecht (NL) can now ride faster and safer through green lights. In the rec...
Highways England is accelerating the use of warm mix asphalts as standard across its supply chain as part of a drive toward net zero carbon emissions. The Government-owne...
The pneumatic-tire rollers from the HP series have been on the market across the world for several months and are showing what they can do in practice. This is a complete...
Six research teams from across the UK, including an academic from Robert Gordon University, will develop new tools to find out how trees and woodlands adapt to climate ch...
By supplying a unique truss system to a major repair project at New Elvet Bridge in Durham, temporary works specialist, Mabey Hire, have helped a crucial city transport j...
Traffic management vehicle specialist Acklea is increasing production of its plastic-bodied 7.2t commercial vehicles as demand for more lightweight, fuel-efficient and lo...
The first Hitachi ZX130-7 medium excavator in Europe has been purchased by the specialist groundworks and infrastructure contractor MV Kelly. The impressive new model was...
The installation of the pipelines is carried out in several stages. In the first step, civil engineering prepares the trench. Once that is done, the 613 E telescopic craw...
Winter maintenance equipment specialist Econ Engineering has added the first MirrorCam-equipped Mercedes-Benz to the fleet of gritters that local authorities and others w...
All Traffic Products, based in Willenhall in the West Midlands, is a start-up business supplying steel tubes, brackets and road signage fittings to large construction con...
New look Bobcat S450 Loader charges ahead in the MEA regions Bobcat has launched a new version of the companyβs market-leading S450 radius lift path skid-steer loader, in...
Terex Trucks works hard to ensure its staff, customers and contractors get home safely to their families at the end of every working day. After four consecutive years of...
The recent addition of the GARAGE BEAM SYSTEM to ULMA Construction’sΒ portfolio simplifies and reduces concrete construction costs. It is designed explicitly for cas...
Global geospatial mapping specialist, GeoSLAM, has expanded its mining offering, building on its world-leading reputation in the sector to provide advanced underground mi...
Liebherr has sold its 2000th 34 K fast-erecting crane to Mathis Bau AG. The Swiss construction and transport company is a long-standing customer of the construction machi...
Connected solutions are getting smarter by the day. While you are working hard on the job site, hundreds of thousands of data points are doing their own job quietly in th...
The paving of a road tunnel under the Kriegstrasse in Karlsruhe was carried out under stringent constraints. To reduce emissions, the contractor was required to use machi...
Velodyne Lidar, Inc. today announced ANYbotics is equipping its autonomous mobile robots with Velodyneβs Puck™ lidar sensors. ANYbotics robots provide industrial o...
Caterpillarβs new generation of Primary and Secondary Pulverizers feature industry-leading technology to deliver up to 52% faster cycle times, producing more tons-per-lit...
The impact of Storm Gloria from 17-25 January 2020 has left visible damage still to the Trabucador Bar on the coast of the Tarragona province in Catalonia in north-easter...
Vayyar Imaging, the global leader in 4D imaging radar, today launched Walabot DIY 2, the next generation of its award-winning visual stud finder which, for the first time...
Working together to rapidly innovate in support of carbon reduction targets, Komatsu and several of its customers have formed the Komatsu Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Alliance. T...
With the construction industry under pressure to maximise its recovery and act on climate change, Shell has introduced its refreshed portfolio of Shell Naturelle biodegra...
China continues to be the biggest Concrete market in the world and the trend doesnβt seem to be slowing down any time soon, the implementation of Chinaβs 14th Five-Year P...
Europe is home to many rail, road, and canal tunnels. With rail travel being a greener mode of transport, the region will see more tunnelling projects come about in the n...
Sany, a leading manufacturer of the construction equipment and heavy machinery space, has become the worldβs number one company in excavator sales by selling 98,705 excav...
Doosan Infracore Europe has launched the new DX140W-7 and DX160W-7 Stage V compliant wheeled excavators. These new β7β models provide significantly higher performance in...
Doosan Bobcat North America, a global leader in the compact equipment industry, today held a ground-breaking ceremony to commemorate the start of construction for a new $...
Everyone knows how working indoors presents multiple problems: it means facing everyday difficulties such as limited access, manoeuvring in a tight area, extensive coordi...
Article by Steve Perkins, Managing Director of Steve Perkins Associates, working with Elaine Gazzini, Programme & Technical Director at Connect Plus. Covid-19 has thr...
Komatsu Ltd. is set to launch the 20-ton PC200-10M0 hydraulic excavators under the CE series, designed for use in urban civil engineering applications, such as residentia...
The development of a national βdigital twinβ of our roads which could revolutionise how we plan and manage the road network, is set to accelerate following a collaboratio...
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