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Highways England hails concrete repair project for boosting diversity in construction
Highways England hails concrete repair project for boosting diversity in construction A team carrying out Britain’s largest concrete repair project is targeting local schools to drive up the number of...
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Morris-Perry add a new Volvo A45G Hauler to the quarry fleet
Morris & Perry add a new Volvo A45G Hauler to the quarry fleet Independent quarrying company, Morris & Perry Quarries Ltd, has taken delivery of a new Volvo A45G articulated hauler for its Gur...
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Hill Engineering wins Ireland’s Best Managed Companies Award again
Hill Engineering wins Ireland’s Best Managed Companies Award again Newry based attachment manufacturer, Hill Engineering has been named as one of Ireland’s ‘Best Managed’ companies for the fourth-year...
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Wirtgen featuring exciting road construction solutions at Intermat 2018
Wirtgen featuring exciting road construction solutions at Intermat 2018 Exciting product innovations, some 30 exhibits, experienced application specialists and an extensive range of services: The Wirt...
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EnviroBuild named Ethical and Green Business of the Year at FSB London Awards
EnviroBuild named Ethical and Green Business of the Year at FSB London Awards EnviroBuild, the Southwark-based sustainable construction company, has been awarded the Federation of Small Business Londo...
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Balfour Beatty will ‘Open Doors’ to projects and potential career opportunities
Balfour Beatty will ‘Open Doors’ to projects and potential career opportunities This week, Balfour Beatty welcomes members of the public to its construction sites across the UK to support Build UK’s O...
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Road survey confirms impact of decades of under investment in UK road maintenance
Road survey confirms impact of decades of under investment in UK road maintenance The negative impact of decades of under-investment in road maintenance has been confirmed by the latest Annual Local A...
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STRABAG building €39m office tower in central Bucharest
STRABAG building €39m office tower in central Bucharest The European-based construction group STRABAG SE, through its Romanian subsidiary, has been awarded the contract to build a 110 m tall office to...
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Ringway sponsors CIHT Innovative Women in Transport and Engineering exhibition
Ringway sponsors CIHT Innovative Women in Transport and Engineering exhibition A new exhibition that aims to encourage future generations of women to consider careers in transport and engineering is b...
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Danish Rijkswaterstaat awards Project Afsluitdijk to Levvel consortium
Danish Rijkswaterstaat awards Project Afsluitdijk to Levvel consortium Rijkswaterstaat (part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment and responsible for the design, construction, m...
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Highways England encourages young people into engineering
Highways England encourages young people into engineering Highways England is giving young people a fun taste of engineering as it builds on its ambition to recruit road builders of the future. The co...
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Britain pushes for new UK spaceports to join the commercial space race
Britain pushes for new UK spaceports to join the commercial space race New British laws have been given Royal Assent to unlock an exciting era of British space innovation, exploration and investment....
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Ammann Plant plays key role in construction of Turkish Highway
Ammann Plant plays key role in construction of Turkish Highway An Ammann asphalt-mixing plant’s production and ability to utilise fibres is playing a crucial role in the construction of the Northern M...
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SENNEBOGEN material handler feeds LZR concrete plant in Bavaria
SENNEBOGEN material handler feeds LZR concrete plant in Bavaria The founding of sand and gravel excavating company “Lenz & Co” in 1906 laid the cornerstone for today’s LZR...
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Hinowa showcasing award winning Lightlift at Intermat 2018
Hinowa showcasing award winning Lightlift at Intermat 2018 The Italian company will attend in Paris with its own first-rate brand-truck: it also brings along the recent winner of the Intermat Innovati...
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Fifteen-foot icicles block UK Railway Line
Fifteen-foot icicles block UK Railway Line Network Rail engineers are working to remove 15ft-long icicles which have formed in a railway tunnel between Manchester and Buxton. The icicles, in Eaves Tun...
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Skills shortage in the UK construction sector
Skills shortage in the UK construction sector Article by Solicitors Kara Price and Sarah Wales from law firm Womble Bond Dickinson The construction sector is in the grips of a skills shortage which is...
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World class photography exhibition embarks on journey of UK stations
World class photography exhibition embarks on journey of UK stations Visitors to four of the Network Rail managed stations will soon be able to view some of the most breath-taking images of landscapes...
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City law firm launches service to help protect sub-contractors from unfair construction contracts
City law firm launches service to help protect sub-contractors from unfair construction contracts UK commercial law firm, Al Bawardi Critchlow, today launched a range of legal services specifically de...
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New alliances to be formed as £5bn railway track work tender issued
New alliances to be formed as £5bn railway track work tender issued Network Rail has issued a Prior Information Notice (PIN) via The Official Journal of the European Union (OJEU) process for its tende...
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See behind Highways England’s roadwork projects with Open Doors
See behind Highways England’s roadwork projects with Open Doors Do you ever wonder what it’s like to work on the biggest road building sites or are you considering a career in construction? Highways E...
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CSL’s new Volvo EC220E Excavator delivered with Volvo Gold
CSL’s new Volvo EC220E Excavator delivered with Volvo Gold Groundworks and demolition contractor Clearance Services Ltd (CSL) of Maidenhead, Berkshire, has taken delivery of yet another Volvo excavato...
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STRABAG starts €167m construction of 20km section of M85 expressway in Hungary
STRABAG starts €167m construction of 20km section of M85 expressway in Hungary The European construction group STRABAG SE has started work on the 20.5 km long section of the M85 expressway between Cso...
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Eurovia UK and Ringway Jacobs first business to achieve new safety standard ISO 45001
Eurovia UK and Ringway Jacobs first business to achieve new safety standard ISO 45001 Eurovia UK group and Ringway Jacobs, its joint venture company, have become one of the first businesses to success...
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British Tradespeople are some of the happiest
British Tradespeople are some of the happiest Tradespeople – including those working in construction, are some of the UK’s happiest workers, according to new research. A survey of 1,024 UK worke...
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Construction site camera system scoops Highways England Safety award
Construction site camera system scoops Highways England Safety award An innovative dual camera system which can spot both road workers speeding through construction sites and road users who illegally...
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Brace of Volvo A30G articulated haulers heads for Argyll
Brace of Volvo A30G articulated haulers heads for Argyll Breaking with tradition, the Argyll based, family-run civil engineering and contracting business A&L McCrae, headed up by proprietors and f...
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Ringway Hounslow Highways unveils Road Sweeper Fleet with designs by local children
Ringway Hounslow Highways unveils Road Sweeper Fleet with designs by local children Ringway Hounslow Highways has launched six new mechanical sweepers onto the borough’s roads, featuring designs by lo...
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Navigating the highways industry procurement process for SMEs
Navigating the highways industry procurement process for SMEs The UK government has committed to 33% of central government procurement spend going to small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) by 2022...
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Slope design and management – Beyond the boundaries
Slope design and management – Beyond the boundaries CIRIA has embarked on a new partnership with Atkins, BAM Ritchies and Maccaferri as together they set out to bring together the engineering co...
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JCB creates 600 new jobs to meet unprecedented demand
JCB creates 600 new jobs to meet unprecedented demand Unprecedented global demand for JCB equipment will see the company create 600 new jobs in the next three months – with 200 available for immediate...
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Lubricating the wheels of the CV industry
Lubricating the wheels of the CV industry The UK’s fastest growing commercial vehicle motor factor business, Digraph, has agreed a supply agreement with lubricant blender, Millers Oils. The new partne...
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Traction Power Centralised Management System goes live for Network Rail upgrade
Traction Power Centralised Management System goes live for Network Rail upgrade On the 12th February, telent Technology Services TPCMS (Traction Power Centralised Management System) went live in Romfo...
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Siemens to provide infrastructure for London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone
Siemens to provide infrastructure for London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone A major project to develop software for the implementation of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) in 2019 will be delivered b...
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Potholes in the UK are a national disgrace
Potholes in the UK are a national disgrace On the fourth annual National Pothole Day, the Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has declared that decades of under-investment in maintaining the lo...
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Hitachi excavator proves ideal for prestigious earthmoving project in Switzerland
Hitachi excavator proves ideal for prestigious earthmoving project in Switzerland A new Hitachi ZX300LCN-6 medium excavator has been selected by Contrabi SA to help it complete an important earthmovin...
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Essex and Hertfordshire County Councils pilot UK innovation in smart city services
Essex and Hertfordshire County Councils pilot UK innovation in smart city services Essex County Council and Hertfordshire County Council have announced that they are working together to pilot new smar...
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New opportunities to join Network Rail apprenticeship scheme across Wales and Borders
New opportunities to join Network Rail apprenticeship scheme across Wales and Borders Network Rail is seeking to recruit seven engineers of the future from Wales and Borders to join its hugely success...
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Meet Krister Lindstedt, the architect behind the new city of Kiruna
Meet Krister Lindstedt, the architect behind the new city of Kiruna Where do you start when the task is to move and design an entire city? Krister Lindstedt, lead architect for the new Kiruna, tells S...
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Mabey to install temporary bridges for Thames Tideway construction
Mabey to install temporary bridges for Thames Tideway construction Leading bridge and engineering services specialist Mabey is installing two temporary bridges to support the Thames Tideway Tunnel pro...
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Hyundai machines demolish former home of Ernie the Premium Bond computer
Hyundai machines demolish former home of Ernie the Premium Bond computer Ernie. No, not the fastest milkman in the west but the nickname for the super computer used by National Savings and Investments...
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NM Group builds on apprenticeship success with half million pound investment
NM Group builds on apprenticeship success with half million pound investment National construction and engineering firm NM Group (North Midland Construction Plc) is set to invest £500,000 in training...
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Construction equipment sales in the UK showed 8 percent growth in 2017
Construction equipment sales in the UK showed 8 percent growth in 2017 In the fourth quarter of 2017, retail sales of construction and earthmoving equipment in the UK market grew by 7.4% compared with...
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EA Water Quality Report highlights inaction on Runoff Pollution
EA Water Quality Report highlights inaction on Runoff Pollution An Environment Agency (EA) state-of-the-nation update, warning that 86% of England’s water bodies fail to meet ‘good’ status, is strong...
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King Construction selects Volvo EW60E Excavator for big Liverpool project
King Construction selects Volvo EW60E Excavator for big Liverpool project A new Volvo EW60E compact wheeled excavator has been delivered to Liverpool based, King Construction, for a major road-widenin...
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London City Airport awards BAM Nuttall major contract for concrete deck extension
London City Airport awards BAM Nuttall major contract for concrete deck extension London City Airport has awarded a contract to BAM Nuttall for a new 75,000 m² concrete deck extension. The deck is an...
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EIB funds €100m Keflavík Airport renovation in Iceland
EIB funds €100m Keflavík Airport renovation in Iceland Isavia has secured a ISK 12.5 billion (EUR 100 million) loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB). The funds will be used to renovate existing...
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Ringway Hounslow Highways helps local school pupils develop the skills to succeed
Ringway Hounslow Highways helps local school pupils develop the skills to succeed Ringway Hounslow Highways has given local school students a taste of the workplace by teaming up with an award-winning...
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Brand-new Hyundai HX130LCR debuts at ScotPlant 2018
Brand-new Hyundai HX130LCR debuts at ScotPlant 2018 Since its launch in 1998 Scotplant has been promoted as ‘the exhibition where deals are done’ and the 2018 event (20th & 21st April,...
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Heathrow Airport reveals key British trade routes are already full
Heathrow Airport reveals key British trade routes are already full Britain’s exporters risk being held back by a lack of access to key trading markets, new data has revealed today. As Britain prepares...
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