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Giant funnel bins to tackle North West England’s motorway litter problem
Giant funnel bins to tackle North West England’s motorway litter problem New giant funnel bins are being installed at motorway service areas across the North West in a bid to reduce the amount o...
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The Day Group in London relies on Volvo reliability and technology
The Day Group in London relies on Volvo reliability and technology “They’re a good tool for the job…” is the opinion of Stuart Holmes, plant manager for Day Group Ltd, as the company purchases m...
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Dreamliners flying high as Heathrow hits new low noise record
Dreamliners flying high as Heathrow hits new low noise record Heathrow’s new “Fly Quiet and Clean” report shows airlines are increasingly using the quietest, cleanest aircraft in their routes to Brit...
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MixIt in London expands with a fifth Rapid pan concrete mixer
MixIt in London expands with a fifth Rapid pan concrete mixer Rapid International Ltd, based in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, has recently supplied London concrete contractor, MixIt Ltd, with its f...
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Mabey props up Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury – the grandparent of skyscrapers
Mabey props up Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury – the grandparent of skyscrapers The world’s first iron-framed building is set to be propped up by Mabey, as the bridge and engineering servic...
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HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed witnesses first Autonomous Air Taxi test flight in Dubai
HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed witnesses first Autonomous Air Taxi test flight in Dubai HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, attended the maiden concept flight of...
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McCann keeps the wheels in motion with the appointment of a new Fleet and Plant Manager
McCann keeps the wheels in motion with the appointment of a new Fleet and Plant Manager Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm, McCann, has continued to expand its team with the appoin...
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Balfour Beatty JV wins HKD $800m deluxe residential development project in Hong Kong
Balfour Beatty JV wins HKD $800m deluxe residential development project in Hong Kong Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, today announces that its 50:50 Far East joint venture, Gamm...
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High-speed Grinding Technology deployed in France for the first time
High-speed Grinding Technology deployed in France for the first time The operating company Tisséo is commissioning Vossloh to carry out preventive maintenance on Toulouse’s tram network. The thr...
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Safety work begins on busy Waikato Highway in New Zealand
Safety work begins on busy Waikato Highway in New Zealand Work is about to begin to make State Highway 3, from SH37 to Te Kuiti, safer for everyone who uses it. Almost $6m will be spent adding side ba...
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Rock-solid Hitachi reliability for Réné Apprin and Cie SAS
Rock-solid Hitachi reliability for Réné Apprin and Cie SAS Réné Apprin & Cie SAS has invested in two large Hitachi excavators for its quarry near Saint Jean de Maurienne in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpe...
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Historic London Courthouse beautifully brought back to order
Historic London Courthouse beautifully brought back to order The Old Sessions House in Clerkenwell, London, a grand, former courthouse that once had a reputation for dishing out some the harshest sent...
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RIDGWAY Rentals takes delivery of £9M worth of new Komatsu Machines
RIDGWAY Rentals takes delivery of £9M worth of new Komatsu Machines Based in Oswestry, Shropshire, third-generation family owned business RIDGWAY Rentals Ltd is all set to take delivery of 60 large ea...
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Burnside Plant and Piling Contractors switch to Volvo
Burnside Plant and Piling Contractors switch to Volvo Following his first impressions at Volvo’s ‘Live It Dig It’ event at Alloa, Scotland, this March and a successful demonstration, Ian Orr, Propriet...
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W Resources in Spain expands production by 75% with Metso technology
W Resources in Spain expands production by 75% with Metso technology W Resources has selected Metso to build a high-capacity crushing plant for their La Parrilla Project in the south of Spain. With th...
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Split the cost, share a lift – car sharing benefits business and car owners
Split the cost, share a lift – car sharing benefits business and car owners Did you know that a typical commuter in the UK who car shares every day saves on average, about £1,000 a year? Nationa...
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Major A21 upgrade in UK completed
Major A21 upgrade in UK completed 35,000 drivers a day are benefiting from a major upgrade on the A21 connecting Hastings and London, between Tonbridge and Pembury in Kent, which was officially opened...
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HOLT CAT awarded Texas distributor network by Metso
HOLT CAT awarded Texas distributor network by Metso Metso continues to strengthen its North American distributor network with the latest addition of HOLT CAT®, based in San Antonio, Texas. HOLT CAT wi...
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Alternative fuels investment anxiety revealed in new UK report
Alternative fuels investment anxiety revealed in new UK report A report jointly commissioned by the AA and BT’s Fleet Solutions reveals business and SME anxiety about the investment required into the...
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Mabey helps deliver bypass in the UK’s third most congested city
Mabey helps deliver bypass in the UK’s third most congested city The new Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route will cut journey times, reduce pollution costs and improve safety. Leading bridge and enginee...
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Metso Peru shows off their latest Mining Innovations at Perumin 2017
Metso Peru shows off their latest Mining Innovations at Perumin 2017 At Perumin, one of the main mining exhibitions in Latin America, Metso will introduce its latest innovations for exceeding the mini...
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Fort Portal-Kamwenge Road in Uganda commissioned
Fort Portal-Kamwenge Road in Uganda commissioned President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda has commissioned the 66km Fort Portal-Kamwenge road. This road runs from Kamwenge District to Fort Portal to...
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McCann wins £1.2m contract for Street Furniture Electrical Services to Swindon Council, UK
McCann wins £1.2m contract for Street Furniture Electrical Services to Swindon Council, UK Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm, McCann, has won an estimated £1.2m contract to provid...
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Signalling the way forward for traffic controls
Signalling the way forward for traffic controls The JCT Symposium always signals the start of the next round of events for Clearview Intelligence. JCT takes place at the University of Warwick every Se...
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ALE’s largest and smallest cranes operate in London at the same time
ALE’s largest and smallest cranes operate in London at the same time As part of ALE’s largest crane fleet, the AL.SK190 was working for specialist contractor Keltbray on the Earls Court project, whils...
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London Underground Elizabeth line track installation is complete
London Underground Elizabeth line track installation is complete A significant milestone has been marked today with the official completion of the permanent track for the Elizabeth line – London’s new...
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Major new ITS contract awarded to Siemens in Northern Ireland
Major new ITS contract awarded to Siemens in Northern Ireland A new long-term contract to maintain traffic management equipment throughout Northern Ireland (NI) for a minimum period of four years has...
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Wirtgen South Africa debuts new MS 953 EVO triple-deck mobile screen
Wirtgen South Africa debuts new MS 953 EVO triple-deck mobile screen Wirtgen South Africa will soon introduce the new Kleemann MOBISCREEN MS 953 EVO triple-deck mobile classifying screen to its Southe...
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Clearview Intelligence shortlisted for two Highways Awards
Clearview Intelligence shortlisted for two Highways Awards Clearview Intelligence solutions feature in not one, but two shortlisted submissions in the recently announced Highways Awards 2017. Clearvie...
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Balfour Beatty wins £36m extension to operate and maintain UK M1-A1 Link Road
Balfour Beatty wins £36m extension to operate and maintain UK M1-A1 Link Road Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has been awarded a £36 million contract extension to its existing...
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Hyperloop One announces 10 winners for Hyperloop One Global Challenge
Hyperloop One announces 10 winners for Hyperloop One Global Challenge Hyperloop One, the only company in the world that has built a full-scale Hyperloop system, today announced the winners of its Hype...
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Volvo keeps their staff on their toes – helping construction with exercise
Volvo keeps their staff on their toes – helping construction with exercise Working in the construction industry can be tough, strenuous and at times, stressful. It’s a manual industry where inju...
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Winners announced at the Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2017
Winners announced at the Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2017 Last night’s BIG Biodiversity Challenge Awards saw a thrilling finale to this year’s competition, with eight well deserved winning entries r...
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Parsons helps Bridges to Prosperity construct a footbridge in Panama
Parsons helps Bridges to Prosperity construct a footbridge in Panama Parsons, in partnership with Bridges to Prosperity (B2P), recently sent an 11-member team to Rio Grande—a small community of 200 pe...
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ZÜBLIN, a Strabag subsidiary awarded €309m contract in Singapore
ZÜBLIN, a Strabag subsidiary awarded €309m contract in Singapore ZÜBLIN, a subsidiary of European-based construction group STRABAG SE, has been hired by PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, to buil...
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Major boost for south-west England as plans published for £1.6 billion A303 Stonehenge upgrade
Major boost for south-west England as plans published for £1.6 billion A303 Stonehenge upgrade The route for the £1.6 billion A303 upgrade near Stonehenge, a key part of the ‘South West expressway’, h...
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Waikato Expressway bridges opening soon in New Zealand
Waikato Expressway bridges opening soon in New Zealand Two bridges that will cross the Hamilton Section of the Waikato Expressway are expected to open to traffic before Christmas 2017. The first – the...
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Sandvik equipment essential for major Hong Kong infrastructure development
Sandvik equipment essential for major Hong Kong infrastructure development The Liantang/Heung Yuen Wai Boundary Control Point (BCP for short) is a series of infrastructure projects that will see the c...
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Making New Zealand’s Coromandel Loop safer for riders
Making New Zealand’s Coromandel Loop safer for riders Construction has begun on a $2.5 million project to install a range of bike safety treatments aimed at keeping motorcyclists safer on the No...
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Zambia to get US$1.2bn highway from China
Zambia to get US$1.2bn highway from China Work has commenced on construction of a strategic road project that connects the southern and central parts of the country to the mining towns in the Copperbe...
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FHWA and Transtec Group release Intelligent Compaction guideline documents
FHWA and Transtec Group release Intelligent Compaction guideline documents Adequate and uniform compaction of road materials, such as soils, aggregate bases, and asphalt pavement materials, is one of...
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Shell plans project with ITM Power for bulk hydrogen production through electrolysis
Shell plans project with ITM Power for bulk hydrogen production through electrolysis Shell, together with ITM Power, plans a project to install a large scale electrolyser to produce hydrogen at the We...
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Re-designed Jamarat Bridge successfully increases crowd safety during the Hajj Pilgrimage
Re-designed Jamarat Bridge successfully increases crowd safety during the Hajj Pilgrimage Between Aug. 30 and Sept. 5, an estimated 3 million Muslims will complete their holy pilgrimage to Mecca as pa...
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ALE reaches first milestone launching bridge in Serbia
ALE reaches first milestone launching bridge in Serbia ALE Heavy Lift has reached the first project milestone of the Zezelj bridge launch in Novi Sad, Serbia, and has completed the launch of the first...
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Accidental discovery creates solid Bitumen Balls
Accidental discovery creates solid Bitumen Balls Ian Gates describes each pebble of bitumen as resembling a liquid-filled headache capsule and, for Alberta, Canada, struggling to build pipelines, this...
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Construction INNOVATION FACTORY to be launched in Scotland with industry event
Construction INNOVATION FACTORY to be launched in Scotland with industry event Construction Scotland Innovation Centre’s pioneering Innovation Factory will be officially launched at an industry event...
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BAM JV to build new €753m lock at Terneuzen between the Netherlands and Belgium
BAM JV to build new €753m lock at Terneuzen between the Netherlands and Belgium The Flemish-Dutch Scheldt Commission (Vlaams-Nederlandse Scheldecommissie, VNSC, a partnership between the Netherlands a...
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Partial runway reconstruction for Detroit Metro Airport
Partial runway reconstruction for Detroit Metro Airport Milling the old asphalt runway structure becomes key It was almost as though the $225-million runway that the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County...
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A Perry and Co invest £4 million to drive growth and UK Midlands Engine success
A Perry & Co invest £4 million to drive growth and UK Midlands Engine success His Royal Highness The Duke of Kent is officially opening the new modern 100,000 sq ft warehouse and manufacturing fac...
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Dynamic speed bumps crossing the ocean from Sweden to Australia
Dynamic speed bumps crossing the ocean from Sweden to Australia The tech company Edeva from Sweden has developed a dynamic speed bump, called the Actibump, that has proven its efficiency through years...
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