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Colas awarded Highways England Blue Star Award for Innovation In Safety
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Colas awarded Highways England Blue Star Award for Innovation In Safety Colas identified a potential safety risk with removable magnetic Chapter 8 Chevrons that are traditionally used for cars visitin...
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New route for a Lower Thames Crossing and A13 widening announced
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New route for a Lower Thames Crossing and A13 widening announced On Wednesday 12 April 2017, Transport Secretary Chris Grayling announced the preferred route for a new Lower Thames Crossing that will...
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Rapid’s Planetary Concrete Mixer gives Lagan the edge
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Rapid’s Planetary Concrete Mixer gives Lagan the edge Rapid International Ltd based in Northern Ireland has recently supplied Lagan Tile with a new RP1000 Rapid Planetary Concrete Mixer. The mix...
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Sennebogen announces new dealerships in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina
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Sennebogen announces new dealerships in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina Starting with April 1st 2017, Sennebogen is further strengthening its sales and service network in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina...
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Balfour Beatty benefits from its successful CCTV Citywatch programme in Southampton
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Balfour Beatty benefits from its successful CCTV Citywatch programme in Southampton Balfour Beatty Living Places has increased the scope of its service delivery for Southampton City Council with addit...
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European Investment Bank co-finances construction of a section of the A7 motorway in Germany
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European Investment Bank co-finances construction of a section of the A7 motorway in Germany An international consortium consisting of the European Investment Bank (EIB), KfW IPEX-Bank, DZ BANK AG, DB...
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Drone footage showcases progress of the Mersey Gateway Bridge
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Drone footage showcases progress of the Mersey Gateway Bridge The Mersey Gateway Bridge project has released this stunning drone footage showing the progress of the construction. Filmed in march 2017,...
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Two large VINCI Concessions motorway projects open to traffic in Greece
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Two large VINCI Concessions motorway projects open to traffic in Greece 360 km of new or revamped motorways to improve interregional connections Meeting the highest international quality and safety st...
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INRIX uses analytics to gauge Easter weekend traffic in the UK
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INRIX uses analytics to gauge Easter weekend traffic in the UK Traffic Peak to Reach 28.4% Above Average at 5pm on Maundy Thursday, up 30% on Last Year According to INRIX, the global leader in connect...
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Designing Norway’s 1.7km Stad Ship Tunnel
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Designing Norway’s 1.7km Stad Ship Tunnel The Stad sea is the most exposed and most dangerous stretch along the Norwegian coast. It has very problematic wave conditions and it is the area with b...
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Highways England upgrades A14 – bridge foundations, Roman cows and a floating pontoon
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Highways England upgrades A14 – bridge foundations, Roman cows and a floating pontoon Highways England project manager gives a sneak peek into the progress on the UK’s biggest road upgrade under...
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Fraport announces Greece’s Development Plan for the New Era at Greek Regional Airports
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Fraport announces Greece’s Development Plan for the New Era at Greek Regional Airports As part of its mandate for taking over management and operations at the 14 airports, Fraport Greece has prepared...
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European Investment Bank lends EURO 280 million to upgrade 14 regional Greek airports
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European Investment Bank lends EUR) 280 million to upgrade 14 regional Greek airports The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed two loan agreements worth EURO 280 million in total with Fraport Gre...
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Contracts signed for Fehmarnbelt Immersed Tunnel linking Denmark and Germany
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Contracts signed for Fehmarnbelt Immersed Tunnel linking Denmark and Germany Femern A/S, client for the 18km long immersed tube tunnel across the Fehmarnbelt, has today signed contracts with Ramboll-A...
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BAM wins train depot refurbishment schemes with Stadler UK
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BAM wins train depot refurbishment schemes with Stadler UK BAM has been awarded a contract by Stadler Rail Services UK to construct a train depot in Kirkdale and to refurbish to modern standards an ex...
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Manitou Group recognized at the “Grands Prix de l’Export” awards ceremony in France
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Manitou Group recognized at the “Grands Prix de l’Export” awards ceremony in France The Manitou Group, global market leader in all-terrain handling equipment, has been awarded the “Pépite à l’Export”...
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Foster + Partners wins Upper Orwell Crossings Competition in Ipswich, UK
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Foster + Partners wins Upper Orwell Crossings Competition in Ipswich, UK Ipswich is set to see two new river crossings designed by Foster + Partners, together with the comprehensive refurbishment of a...
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20km Kerch Strait Bridge to link Russia and Crimea is well underway
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20km Kerch Strait Bridge to link Russia and Crimea is well underway Contractor SGM-Bridge (Stroygazmontazh Group) is constructing the 20km Kerch Strait Link connecting Crimea to the Krasnodar region o...
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1.7km Tunnel through Norwegian mountain creates a short cut for Ships
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1.7km Tunnel through Norwegian mountain creates a short cut for Ships The Norwegian Coastal Administration is planning the world’s first full-scale ship tunnel to allow vessels to travel through a mou...
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Rotterdam to be connected to Germany by 12km A15 extension
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Rotterdam to be connected to Germany by 12km A15 extension The Dutch government and the province of Gelderland plan to extend the A15 by 12km in the direction of the A12 motorway. This 12km extension...
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Arup and Mabey Bridge launch first plastic modular footbridge in Oxford, England
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Arup and Mabey Bridge launch first plastic modular footbridge in Oxford, England The world’s first modular glass-fibre reinforced plastic bridge has been installed over a railway line in Oxford. Arup,...
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A Speedy Plant for a Speedy Road
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A Speedy Plant for a Speedy Road CBT 60 SL Elba Plays Key Role on Russian Tollway One day, the M11 will be a high-speed Russian motorway. Today, the contractor building the road is relying on a mobile...
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New Mabey bridge diverts tankers away from Bournemouth community
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New Mabey bridge diverts tankers away from Bournemouth community Leading bridge and engineering services specialist Mabey has installed a new bridge over the River Stour in Bournemouth, England, on be...
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Vögele PowerFeeder proves continuous filling enhances efficiency
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Vögele PowerFeeder proves continuous filling enhances efficiency Filling cavities between safety barriers on the A 81 Black Forest motorway with an MT 3000-2i Offset PowerFeeder and a SUPER 800-3i pav...
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Bridges 2017 celebrates 25 years of driving Europe’s Bridge Industry forward
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Bridges 2017 celebrates 25 years of driving Europe’s Bridge Industry forward The Annual Conference and Exhibition for the Bridge construction industry, Bridges 2017 – returns on the 16th March a...
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Sennebogen 718 Material Handler cleaning up Germany’s Autobahn
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Sennebogen 718 Material Handler cleaning up Germany’s Autobahn Hälbich Dienstleistungs GmbH from the county of Rosenheim in Germany provides its clients a variety of services centred around wood...
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Heathrow Airport launches UK supply chain tour to boost British SME business
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Heathrow Airport launches UK supply chain tour to boost British SME business Heathrow launches new tour to boost SMEs in the supply chain of the UK’s hub airport and to help it deliver its expansion p...
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Italy awards Naples to Bari high-speed rail contract
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Italy awards Naples to Bari high-speed rail contract A consortium of Italian contractors – Salini Impregilo and Astaldi has landed a €397m (US$ 420million) contract on the Naples to Bari High-sp...
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Highways England is to spend £3.3 billion on roads in the UK over the next 4 years
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Highways England is to spend £3.3 billion on roads in the UK over the next 4 years Highways England is preparing to issue bids for a four year road pavement improvement framework programme valued at £...
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Transport Scotland announces £100m contract notice for A9 from Perth to Inverness
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Transport Scotland announces £100m contract notice for A9 from Perth to Inverness The A9 trunk road is the main route that connects central Scotland and the Highlands stretching from Dunblane situated...
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The European Investment Bank loans €175m for Schiphol Airport extension
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The European Investment Bank loans €175m for Schiphol Airport expansion The European Investment Bank (EIB) and N.V. Schiphol Airport have signed a loan agreement of Euro 175 million, the first instalm...
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EIB finances modernisation of Szczecin and Świnoujście seaports in Poland
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EIB finances modernisation of Szczecin and Świnoujście seaports in Poland The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided a Euro 38 million loan to Szczecin and Świnoujście Seaports Authority for inve...
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European Investment Bank supports vulnerable islands around the world
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Salaheddine Mezouar, president of the UN climate treaties conference COP22, said the event, which took place in Morocco in November, would allow “the voices of the most vulnerable countries to climate...
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Ammann will feature its Compaction equipment at SMOPYC 2017
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Ammann will feature its Compaction equipment at SMOPYC 2017 The diverse Ammann roadbuilding product range will be showcased at SMOPYC 2017, to be held in Zaragoza, Spain, from 25-29 April 2017. Featur...
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Windsor Castle gets the Royal treatment from Eurovia Surfacing
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Windsor Castle gets the Royal treatment from Eurovia Surfacing Eurovia Surfacing successfully completed resurfacing works on the prestigious Thames Street in Windsor, which runs next to the historic W...
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Thomas Armstrong invests in sturdy design and technology from Sennebogen
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Thomas Armstrong Aggregates invests in sturdy design and reliable technology from Sennebogen Gravel extraction with Sennebogen 655 duty cycle crane. In 2016, AGD Equipment, a UK sales and service part...
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Britain’s leading hire company buys 160 JCB telescopic handlers
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JCB Loadall milestone starts year on a high with a massive order JCB has kicked off 2017 with a bang as it celebrates not just 40 years of telescopic handler production, but a massive order from one o...
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Turkey weighing bids for new Suspension Bridge over the Dardanelles Strait
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Turkey weighing bids for new Suspension Bridge over the Dardanelles Strait A consortium of Turkish and South Korean firms has emerged as the frontrunner to build a 3.6km suspension bridge over the Dar...
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United Kingdom announces details of more than £1.3 billion of road improvements
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United Kingdom announces details of more than £1.3 billion of road improvements Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has announced that the government is investing record amounts into improving roads ac...
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COWI to design another 23,300 m² expansion at Oslo Airport
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COWI to design another 23,300 m² expansion at Oslo Airport The expansion will make room for the world’s largest passenger aircraft, the 276-tonne Airbus A380. The non-Schengen area at Gardermoen is to...
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Leading International Consulting Group COWI rebrands its UK subsidiaries
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Leading International Consulting Group COWI rebrands its UK subsidiaries COWI the Denmark based engineering firm announced that former COWI subsidiaries, Flint & Neill and Donaldson Associates hav...
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Traffex 2017, Europe’s largest Highways event, returns for its 28th Year
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Traffex 2017, Europe’s largest Road, Traffic and Transport event, returns for its 28th Year With the total number of miles travelled by cars having grown to over 248 billion a year, there has be...
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Britain’s pothole repair backlog in crisis
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As the pothole repair backlog reaches nearly £12bn, the government stands accused of neglecting local roads leaving councils in crisis. The latest analysis shows that the problem of crumbling roads no...
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Scotland announce bidding for new Expansion Joints on Forth Road Bridge
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Scotland announce bidding for replacement of Expansion Joints on Forth Road Bridge Transport Scotland is advertising for a suitable contractor to take on a £9 million programme of works to replace the...
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Tunnel Proposal under England’s Stonehenge World Heritage Site
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Tunnel Proposal under England’s Stonehenge World Heritage Site The government has gone out to consultation on its plans to improve the A303 around Stonehenge. Road users and local residents are...
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Wales looks forward to a new bridge over the Menai Straits
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Wales looks forward to a new bridge over the Menai Straits Thomas Telford’s original Menai Suspension Bridge opened in 1826 and Robert Stephenson’s Britannia Tubular Bridge followed in 1850 to carry r...
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Concrete and asphalt from a single source as Wirtgen machines rehabilitate Germany’s A5
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Concrete and asphalt from a single source as Wirtgen machines rehabilitate Germany’s A5 These days, highways surfaced exclusively with concrete or asphalt are something of a rarity in Germany, p...
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Trinity, a giant bridge building machine finishes work on the Mersey Gateway
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Trinity, a giant bridge-building machine finishes work on the Mersey Gateway in England Trinity, one of the Mersey Gateway’s two giant bridge-building machines, has finished work in Widnes marking ano...
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Netherlands awards US$525 million contract for road and tunnel scheme
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Netherlands awards US$525 million contract for road and tunnel scheme The province of South Holland in the Netherlands has awarded a US$ 525M (€492m) contract for construction of the first part of the...
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Ammann’s Plates, Compactors and Plant featured at SaMoTer in Italy
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Ammann’s Rammers, Plates, Compactors and Plant featured at SaMoTer in Italy Ammann will be showcasing their product line at this year’s SaMoTer building machinery exhibition in Verona, Italy, from 22-...
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