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New £1.5 million salt barn to help keep Britain’s roads moving this winter
New £1.5 million salt barn to help keep Britain’s roads moving this winter A new £1.5 million salt barn in Knutsford, Cheshire, will help to keep the region’s motorways and major A roads moving...
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New A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon bridge beams lifted over major railway line
New A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon bridge beams lifted over major railway line New photos of giant bridge beams being lifted over one of the country’s main railway lines have been released by Highways En...
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How big is the pothole problem in the UK?
How big is the pothole problem in the UK? 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 wo...
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Remote control decreases downtime on Florida’s Interstate 4 project
Remote control decreases downtime on Florida’s Interstate 4 project The ActiveCare alert came in on a sunny Wednesday morning in Florida: ‘Engine coolant critically low’. A technician spra...
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FCC wins bid to widen section I of the Inter-American Highway in Panama
FCC wins bid to widen section I of the Inter-American Highway in Panama The consortium FCC Corredor de las Playas I, formed by FCC Construcción and the operator CICSA (infrastructures and construction...
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STRABAG to build further Akalla tunnel section for the Stockholm motorway ring
STRABAG to build further Akalla tunnel section for the Stockholm motorway ring STRABAG Sverige AB, a subsidiary of STRABAG SE, has been awarded a €45 million contract from the Swedish Transport Admini...
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Australia announces additional Aus$8.4 billion for Melbourne to Brisbane Inland Rail
Australia announces additional Aus$8.4 billion for Melbourne to Brisbane Inland Rail The Australian Government has announced its commitment to Inland Rail with an additional $8.4 billion investment. I...
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Swedish PM and French President sign strategic partnership at Volvo HQ
Swedish PM and French President sign strategic partnership at Volvo HQ Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven and French President Emmanuel Macron visited the Volvo Group headquarters where they saw som...
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David Davis visits JCB to reassure British business as Brexit talks enter key stage
David Davis visits JCB to reassure British business as Brexit talks enter key stage The Rt. Hon. David Davis MP, Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, today visited JCB’s World HQ to tour...
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Denbighshire’s new route to investment gives boost to businesses
Denbighshire’s new route to investment gives boost to businesses A new initiative is putting business investment at the heart of Denbighshire’s strategy for economic growth. The “Invest in Denbi...
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40-tonne Volvo Excavators find favour at H and S Contractors
Volvo 40-tonne excavators find favour at H and S Contractors H and S Contractors Ltd of Kingsnorth, Hoo in Kent continues to add Volvo Construction Equipment products to its plant portfolio, following...
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Roads sector expresses amusement at Chancellor’s future car vision for Britain
Roads sector expresses amusement at Chancellor’s future car vision for Britain The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has greeted the Chancellor’s, Philip Hammond, announcement that driv...
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Construction Lab Technician admits faking test results on mega bridge project
Construction Lab Technician admits faking test results on mega bridge project The 55km Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau bridge and tunnel project started in 2011 and will link the three major cities of Zhuhai i...
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Road collisions account for 20% of hospital trauma admissions in the UK
Road collisions account for 20% of hospital trauma admissions in the UK One in five patients admitted to trauma centres in the UK were involved in road crashes in 2016 according to new figures obtaine...
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The Tesla Semi will deliver a high-tech and ultra-safe truck alternative.
The Tesla Semi will deliver a high-tech and ultra-safe truck alternative. Unrivalled Performance Without a trailer, the Tesla Semi achieves 0-60 mph in five seconds, compared to 15 seconds in a compar...
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Cycling accidents underline need for national pothole definition
Cycling accidents underline need for national pothole definition The rise in the number of cycling accidents caused by deteriorating road surfaces underlines calls for a national statutory standard de...
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Mabey develops new bridge lifting technique for Network Rail
Mabey develops new bridge lifting technique for Network Rail Leading bridge and engineering services specialist Mabey has today unveiled a new bridge lifting technique – the first of its kind in the U...
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New Operation Stack options set out by Highways England
New Operation Stack options set out by Highways England Measures that will help improve the road network’s resilience when there are interruptions to services across the English Channel were set out b...
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GSSI showcases their latest GPR technology at World of Concrete 2018
GSSI showcases their latest GPR technology at World of Concrete 2018 GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, will be highlighting its latest GPR technology...
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Roads for a modern Britain, a review of this year’s Highways UK event
Roads for a modern Britain, a review of this year’s Highways UK event Last week Clearview Intelligence joined the great and good of the highways industry at the NEC for the Highways UK show. Hosted by...
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VolvoCE ECR88D Excavator keeps the home fires burning
VolvoCE ECR88D Excavator keeps the home fires burning A new Volvo ECR88D reduced swing compact excavator has been supplied to WoodForFuel.com, located near Balfron in Stirlingshire and is the company’...
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£1.5bn A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon upgrade marks its first year of construction
£1.5bn A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon upgrade marks its first year of construction The UK’s biggest road construction project is marking its first full year of work. 21 miles of the A14 between Cambridge...
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Total Blasting water jetting solutions critical for South African refinery shutdown
Total Blasting water jetting solutions critical for South African refinery shutdown South Africa’s leading water jetting solutions provider, Total Blasting, has supplied its specialised high-pressure...
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First time Volvo for Mike Taylor Plant Hire
First time Volvo for Mike Taylor Plant Hire Mike Taylor Plant Hire of Blairgowrie, Perth & Kinross has opted for a Volvo reduced swing ECR58D for the first time The new six-tonne machine has been...
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EIB supports modernisation in Poland with €650 million for the Railways
EIB supports modernisation in Poland with €650 million for the Railways From Gdańsk to Katowice, over 1,000 kilometres of Polish railways will be modernized and upgraded with the help of a EUR 650-mil...
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Salini Impregilo with Lane wins a $134.6m contract to build a new highway section in Florida
Salini Impregilo with Lane wins a $134.6m contract to build a new highway section in Florida Salini Impregilo’s U.S. subsidiary, The Lane Construction Corporation, has won a $134.6 million contract to...
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Councils in UK forced to ransack their Highway budget to fund social care
Councils in UK forced to ransack their Highway budget to fund social care The Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA) has reacted with concern at the findings of new analysis by the Local Governmen...
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Skyjack increases its Australian presence with brand new space
Skyjack increases its Australian presence with brand new space Linamar Corporation’s Skyjack division just expanded their Australian office in New South Wales. Increased market share in both Aus...
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Hitachi ZX350LCN-6s Excavators deliver reliability to Italian quarry
Hitachi ZX350LCN-6s Excavators deliver reliability to Italian quarry Basalto La Spicca SpA has replaced two of its Hitachi Excavator Z-axis-3 with two new Zaxis-6 models due to increasing demand at it...
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Victoria announces first driverless bus now running in Australia
Victoria announces first driverless bus now running in Australia Victoria’s first driverless Autonobus, will transport students around La Trobe University in Bundoora. The Autonobus has brought togeth...
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John Deere opens regional Parts Distribution Centre in Miami
John Deere opens regional Parts Distribution Centre in Miami The new John Deere Miami Worldwide Parts Services Regional Distribution Center (RDC) is officially open in south Florida. The 115,000 squar...
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JCB Team helps Guy Martin reproduce WW1 Tank as a tribute to the Centenary
JCB Team helps Guy Martin reproduce WW1 Tank as a tribute to the Centenary JCB put its experience and expertise to good use helping TV personality Guy Martin to engineer a tribute to the role tanks pl...
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EIB finances tolling infrastructure in Slovenia
EIB finances tolling infrastructure in Slovenia The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending €51 million to Slovenia’s motorway company DARS to finance the introduction of an electronic tolling syste...
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EIB agrees €9.2b financing for rail, climate action, broadband and business
EIB agrees €9.2b financing for rail, climate action, broadband and business Meeting in Luxembourg earlier today the board of the European Investment Bank approved a total of €9.2 billion of new financ...
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Smooth operators – the Excavator experts behind the Florida megaproject
Smooth operators – the Excavator experts behind the Florida megaproject The ultimate project demands the ultimate operators. Volvo Construction Equipment went behind the scenes to meet the exper...
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Highways England is geared up for winter
Highways England is geared up for winter Highways England’s team of 1,300 specially trained gritter drivers based across the country are geared up for winter – and are urging drivers to do the same. T...
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TRL tests RHiNOPHALT Highway Preservation on the M4 Motorway in England
TRL tests RHiNOPHALT Highway Preservation on the M4 Motorway in England ASI is constantly striving to extend the life of the valuable infrastructure network through planned maintenance using RHiNOPHAL...
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Conversation Plinth in Indiana encourages discussion about hardwood CLT
Conversation Plinth in Indiana encourages discussion about hardwood CLT Design firm IKD has unveiled the first hardwood Cross Laminated (HCLT) structure in the United States at the 2017 Exhibit Columb...
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Testing starts for innovative M62 Motorway trial in Warrington, UK
Testing starts for innovative M62 Motorway trial in Warrington, UK Tests have begun this week on an innovative, pilot project designed to reduce congestion along the M62 Motorway near Warrington in Ch...
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Snøhetta reveals their futuristic design for Aesop Duke of York Square in London
Snøhetta reveals their futuristic design for Aesop Duke of York Square in London With an intriguing fusion of futuristic and classic design, Snøhetta has completed its first permanently built project...
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EIB finances new 17km suburban rapid transit system in Tunis
EIB finances new 17km suburban rapid transit system in Tunis The European Investment Bank (EIB) is strengthening its support for the development of efficient and sustainable urban transport infrastruc...
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UK failing to embrace innovation to tackle road safety, finds survey
UK failing to embrace innovation to tackle road safety, finds survey A new survey of delegates at Highways UK, the UK’s premier highway event attended by 2,000 road-safety professionals, reveals attit...
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Kubota L45 a natural choice for 2Hire in South Africa
Kubota L45 a natural choice for 2Hire in South Africa Having been in the plant hire business since 2006, a plant hire company that specialises in the rental of compaction equipment, is well aware of t...
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Ehlert and Söhne hit new heights with the Liebherr R 960 Demolition crawler excavator
Ehlert and Söhne hit new heights with the Liebherr R 960 Demolition crawler excavator Hamburg-based company Ehlert & Söhne was in search of a demolition excavator with a particularly high operatin...
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Severe UK winter predictions spell bad news for potholed roads
Severe UK winter predictions spell bad news for potholed roads Predictions of the worse winter for possibly ten years is bad news for those highway authorities who have failed to carry out the necessa...
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Smart societies of the future in focus at the next Volvo Group Innovation Summit
Smart societies of the future in focus at the next Volvo Group Innovation Summit With a focus on automation, electromobility and connectivity, Volvo Group will host its third Innovation Summit in Beij...
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Willy Dohmen Group expands their fleet with two Liebherr L 580 XPower wheel-loaders
Willy Dohmen Group expands their fleet with two Liebherr L 580 XPower wheel-loaders Two Liebherr L 580 XPower® wheel loaders have recently joined the state-of-the-art machinery fleet of Willy Dohmen G...
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UK Builders Merchants Federation calls on Chancellor to back commercial vehicles modernisation
UK Builders Merchants Federation calls on Chancellor to back commercial vehicles modernisation The Builders Merchants Federation (BMF) has written to the Chancellor to urge him to put measures in the...
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McCann commits to ‘Earn and Learn’ by joining The 5% Club
McCann commits to ‘Earn and Learn’ by joining The 5% Club Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm McCann has showcased its commitment to developing future talent by joining The 5% Club,...
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Scottish contractor C D McNeill invests in another Volvo EC27C Excavator
Scottish contractor C D McNeill invests in another Volvo EC27C Excavator C D McNeill of Dingwall, Ross-shire has purchased a fourth EC27C for its contracting business. The new EC27C is the fourth mach...
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