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Just three years after it was built, Normandyβs 0.6 mile solar-powered road was deemed a total failure. Consisting of 30,000 square feet of solar panels, the solar road w...
A new building about to take shape in Bostonβs Roxbury area could, its designers hope, herald a new way of building residential structures in cities. Designed by architec...
Hyundai Construction Equipment has recently joined forces with Hyundai Motor Group to develop the worldβs first hydrogen-powered construction equipment. Last February, Hy...
The EBRD is financing major investments to improve public transport in Sarajevo, with COΒ² emission reductions likely to exceed 30%, in an effort to tackle the alarming ai...
Energy Systems Catapult is launching an innovator challenge call in collaboration with Places for People, Geovation and Pineapple Partners, inviting SMEs developing produ...
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...
To deliver the Newhurst project, its twelfth overall in the UK, Hitachi Zosen Inova will be acting on behalf of a consortium of developers comprising Covanta, Biffa and t...
North West based specialist surfacing company, Miles Macadam, is leading the way as an SME in the industry by gaining Carbon Assessed Organisation status and committing t...
Gammon Construction and Sun Hung Kai Properties share the belief that trees are important elements of Hong Kongβs landscape and valuable assets in our community, therefor...
Working on behalf of Connect Plus, a team from Jackson, DB Group and Axtell have achieved a 77% reduction in COΒ² by using volumetric mix trucks to pour ultra-low carbon C...
The Breathe London project has been announced as the winner of a SMART 50 Award by Smart Cities Connect, within the Digital Transformation category. Created to better und...
StreetLight Data, Inc, the leader in Big Data analytics for mobility, recognizes that managing transportation is a major engine of climate change mitigation, and is provi...
A new report published by The Wildlife Trusts today reveals, for the first time, the vast scale of the destruction and impact that HS2 will cause to nature. βWhatβs the d...
A new MIT study examines the opposing roles of natural gas in the battle against climate change β as a bridge toward a lower-emissions future, but also a contributor to g...
Sustainability is the hot topic for every UK industry. So, what action can the construction industry take to put sustainability at the top of the agenda in 2020? Phil Sut...
IVECO and FPT Industrial, brands of CNH Industrial N.V., and NIKOLA today presented the scope and plans of their joint venture and collaboration agreement established to...
The past year has seen considerable change across the UKβs transport industry, from the arrival of the first driverless taxi trials on Londonβs roads and an ever-growing...
CIRIA has published new guidance βDelivering better water management through the planning system (C787)β that identifies the critical factors required for successful inte...
Siltbuster has designed and mobilised one of the UKβs largest ever temporary modular water treatment solutions, in just two weeks, to assist JN Bentley during essential m...
The World Bank and the city of Paris, France, are joining forces to support sustainable cities across the globe, especially cities and metropolitan regions in developing...
Anglo American announces its membership of ResponsibleSteel, reinforcing its commitment to responsible mining and the ethical sourcing of raw materials. A not-for-profit...
Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDFE) together with Mayor Sadiq Khan have released the second wave of data from Breathe London, an ambitious collaborative project to m...
Lung cancer and serious musculoskeletal injuries are still prevalent in the highways construction industry. But there is a solution to that could mitigate the risks, if n...
The city of Kherson in southern Ukraine with a population of approximately 300,000 is replacing its ageing fleet of trolley buses with a modern and ecologically friendly...
In a new report from Sweco, energy-storage-as-a-service is highlighted as a concept with potential to change the industry and cut carbon emissions. It entails making ener...
As the effects on the world become too great to deny, weβre seeing more and more focus turning towards the level of waste produced globally. A widespread understanding th...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided almost β¬200m for clean urban transport to cut the polluting emissions produced by buses in Spain’s largest cities. T...
The South African Department of Science and Innovation together with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research are hard at work on an experimental project that w...
Anglo American announces that its Unki platinum mine in Zimbabwe is the first to publicly commit to be independently audited against the Initiative for Responsible Mining...
The Organization of Consumers and Users ( OCU ) has carried out a study to identify the cleanest cities in Spain. The result shows that the majority are in the north of t...
Colourful carpets of grasses and wildflowers are being sown and planted as Highways England looks to get Cumbria Buzzing and encourage wildlife to thrive and create beaut...
Skanska is trialling use of recycled plastic kerbing instead of concrete to reduce carbon by 40 per cent. The trial is taking place as part of work to find innovative way...
The Woods Waste Group, a waste management solutions provider in Blackpool, north-west England, uses its fleet of CASE Construction Equipment machines to recycle 85% of th...
People living near a major Highways England roads project have benefitted from new quieter roadworks as hydraulic piling equipment was used to force steel sheets into the...
SWARCO Traffic Ltd has signed a new agreement with Cambridgeshire County Council to replace existing traffic technology with an innovative new traffic guidance and parkin...
Safety Signage and Products manufacturer Spectrum Industrial have introduced a new Hedgehogs Ahead sign as part of their road safety signs range. Back in June, former Tra...
A 150 EC-B 8 Litronic PT Flat-Top crane is the centrepiece of a climate research project in HΓΆlstein near Basel: Currently a simulation is carried out there to find out w...
ACOEM Group has broadened its technical expertise and market presence in air and gas monitoring following the acquisition of DynOptic Systems Ltd, a specialist manufactur...
Siemens Mobility has been awarded a contract to design, supply and install a clean air zone (CAZ) ANPR camera monitoring and enforcement solution across Birminghamβs city...
The first installation of SDS Aqua-Xchange ™, the sustainable drainage innovation which turns roadside filter drains into treatment devices that protect the water...
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