This category brings together commercially relevant news, industry signals and infrastructure intelligence, helping readers follow the people, projects, technologies and markets driving change across the sector.
The announcement by the British Government that some Β£600 billion is to be spent on national infrastructure investment is a case of putting βthe cart before the horseβ be...
A Β£15bn investment on motorways and major A-roads is helping motorists and hauliers this festive season get to their destinations quicker and with fewer delays. Since it...
A Β£104m project to create a new motorway junction on the M20 in Kent has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State today (Friday 1 December). Junction 10...
R&W Civil Engineering wins share of Β£100m M25 Motorway Works R&W Civil Engineering has been awarded a place on the second Call-Off Framework Agreement (COFA-2) to...
Floridians are looking forward to an increase in both time and safety when the $2.3 billion I-4 Ultimate interstate megaproject is completed in 2021. Ashby Cockrell, 68,...
Samsung C&T Corporation has been selected as the first contractor to design and construct a stretch of the North-South Corridor (NSC) in Singapore by the Land Transpo...
The Board of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a loan of β¬112 million to help finance the North-East Road Connectivity Support Project in Tunisia. Th...
A new Β£1.5 million salt barn in Knutsford, Cheshire, will help to keep the regionβs motorways and major A roads moving this winter. Highways England is storing more than...
If you lust after the thrill of airplane turbulence, you can often recreate it by driving down one of Britain’s many pothole-covered roads (though we wouldn’t...
The consortium FCC Corredor de las Playas I, formed by FCC ConstrucciΓ³n and the operator CICSA (infrastructures and construction division of the Grupo Carso), has won the...
The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has greeted the Chancellorβs, Philip Hammond, announcement that driverless cars will be on Britainβs roads by 2021 with som...
Measures that will help improve the road networkβs resilience when there are interruptions to services across the English Channel were set out by Highways England on15 No...
The UKβs biggest road construction project is marking its first full year of work.Β 21 miles of the A14 between Cambridge and Huntingdon are being upgraded to three lanes...
Salini Impregiloβs U.S. subsidiary, The Lane Construction Corporation, has won a $134.6 million contract to build a section of Suncoast Parkway 2, a new highway leading n...
The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending β¬51 million to Sloveniaβs motorway company DARS to finance the introduction of an electronic tolling system for vehicles abo...
The ultimate project demands the ultimate operators. Volvo Construction Equipment went behind the scenes to meet the experts working on one of the largest and most comple...
Highways Englandβs team of 1,300 specially trained gritter drivers based across the country are geared up for winter β and are urging drivers to do the same. The company...
Floating effortlessly and able to be positioned with great accuracy, drones β also referred to as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) β are becoming an increasingly popular t...
Predictions of the worse winter for possibly ten years is bad news for those highway authorities who have failed to carry out the necessary maintenance of their road netw...
The long-standing partnership between the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the Government of Kenya to promote inclusive and sustainable economic growth has produced ex...
Floridaβs I-4 Ultimate Improvement Project aims to create a commuting experience that will delight residents and tourists alike. Alvaro Alonso is the design-build manager...
The shocking footage above was released by Highways England today and show drivers watching DVDs, reading books, and even boiling a dashboard kettle. One driver in...
Cintra, subsidiary of Ferrovial, through the Netflow joint venture recently formed with Plenary, has been selected by the State of Victoria as Preferred Respondent...
Floridaβs I-4 Ultimate Improvement Project is at the forefront of several global trends in infrastructure design, management, financing and community enhancement. The I-4...
The Boards of the African Development Bank Group have approved funding of β¬48 million from the African Development Fund (ADF) for the reconstruction of the border road fr...
Victoria, Australia, is leading the way in road safety with more than 75,000 children benefiting from an Australian-first “Starting Out Safely”, road safety e...
Highways England is marking the end of Tyre Safety Month by revealing a series of initiatives it is developing or already delivering to help drive down the number of peop...
Recently, the presence of bright and colourful surface markings has become more and more prominent on British roads. This is a major contrast to the usual white demarcati...
A new contract to design and refurbish traffic signal equipment and systems at nine signalised junctions in Coventry has been awarded to Siemens by the city council. Foll...
The next step in a multi-million pound scheme to give drivers quicker, safer and more reliable journeys in the South West took a major step forward today asΒ Highways Engl...
Highways England is planning to build a Β£100 million new bypass along the A585 near Poulton-le-Fylde in Lancashire, boosting the local economy and improving journeys for...
Last month’s reported road casualties in Great Britain: 2016 annual report revealed a 4% increase in the number of reported road safety deaths. While this is not a...
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...
Resource-saving technologies are more in demand than ever before. The Wirtgen cold recycling process has been proving its credentials for many years β and already meets t...
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...
Wearable technology which could reduce risks to drivers and lone workers has been trialled by highways engineers working for leading service provider Amey. Biometric and...
The NZ Transport Agency has awarded the contract for the management and maintenance of state highways in East Waikato to the national contractor Higgins. The East Waikato...
BAM International BV, the operating company of Royal BAM Group nv, active outside Europe β has been awarded a design and construct contract to build road infrastructure w...
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...
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