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.
Infrastructure is essential for development. Roads, railways, ports and power supplies have helped drive Asia’s growth, allowing its people to get to work and its product...
Researchers from ETH Zurich have built a prototype of an ultra-thin, curved concrete roof using innovative digital design and fabrication methods. The tested novel formwo...
Discarded plastic bottles could one day be used to build stronger, more flexible concrete structures, from sidewalks and street barriers, to buildings and bridges, accord...
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 ABT SpeedyBatch is a perfect fit for demanding but temporary airport work, which is why business executive Jaime Arnó turned to the Ammann ABT 280 SpeedyBatch when he...
£50 million flood alleviation scheme in Leeds which uses moveable weir technology – a first for flood risk reduction in the UK, has now opened. The first phase of the awa...
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 as Highways Engl...
Highways England is planning to build a £100 million new bypass along the A585 near Poulton-le-Fylde in Lancashire, boosting the local economy and improving journeys for...
British builders rack up 130 hours per year making proper British builders tea and other hot drinks, according to new research. A survey of UK workers in the construction...
The parternship between Volvo Construction Equipment and Allied Construction Products LLC will add 40 attachment models to current Volvo dealer product offerings. Volvo C...
At the southernmost point of the Norwegian coastline by the village of Båly, Snøhetta has designed Europe’s very first underwater restaurant. With its immediate proximity...
Minister of Public Works and Transport Íñigo de la Serna attended the signing of a €600m loan granted by the European Investment Bank (EIB) to Adif Alta Velocidad. This l...
JCB PAINT® has created a paint which has been formulated to make it easy to use on almost any exterior surface and engineered to provide protection against the toughest c...
JCB is celebrating a major milestone in its long record of innovative machine design – the 40th anniversary of the Loadall telescopic handler. First launched on October 2...
Balfour Beatty revealed the results of recent research into the views of its UK supply chain partners in the company’s latest paper – “Chain Reactions: A View from...
Global property developer the Wanda Group has unveiled its vision for One Circular Quay, a large-scale, mixed-use development located on Australia’s famed Sydney Harbour...
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...
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 £15 billion road improvement programme to reduce the impact of roadworks on motorists and minimise congestion while improvements ta...
Until 30 November 2017 start-ups will have the opportunity to submit their high-tech ideas for the Josef Umdasch Research Prize 2018. The Group is searching for innovativ...
LafargeHolcim will supply environmentally friendly, high-performance concretes for the construction of Mexico City Airport. Designed by architects Lord Foster and Fernand...
of 2017 Volvo Construction Equipment reports market share gains and strong recoveries in Asia and Russia helped propel Volvo CE to a strong performance in the third quart...
Doka to promote its #ShapeOurWorld campaign, including full sponsorship of this year’s Concrete Construction Competition, at the 44th WorldSkills Competition, hosted in A...
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 – and already meets t...
The construction projects in Spirit Magazine’s new series ‘The Megaproject Listing’ do not just build and rebuild. They transform people’s lives. They improve connections...
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...
The high-pressure desalination industry, a critical source of potable water in many arid regions, generated more than $13 billion last year and is expected to double with...
One of the world´s most innovative researchers into the future of the oceans and marine life, Professor Rashid Sumaila, receives the Volvo Environment Prize for 2017. He...
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...
The National Joint Utilities Group (NJUG) – the trade association for utilities and their contractor partners on street works issues – has today become Street Works UK. S...
An educational project to encourage young girls into science and engineering is being showcased by traffic technology supplier Siemens today at Talbot Heath School for Gi...
Balfour Beatty Mott MacDonald, a 70:30 joint venture between two of Britain’s most established construction and consultancy companies, has secured a £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 culmination of Volvo Construction Equipment’s latest brand campaign, ‘Building Tomorrow’ documents the quest for a more sustainable future. Bringing together a range...
The RetroTek-MU is the first dynamic mobile retro-reflectometer to be certified to ASTM E 1710 capable of measuring road markings / striping across the full width of a tr...
Anyone who has ever had to attend a hospital out-patient appointment knows the feeling of frustration at having to wait an extra hour or so for a late running clinic, onl...
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 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 – has been awarded a design and construct contract to build road infrastructure w...
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