Scott Parnell awarded trademark for their innovative safety fencing Civil engineering firm Scott Parnell has been granted registered trademark status on its TouchSafe® GRP palisade fencing – the only product available that is capable of completely eliminating electricity conduction. TouchSafe® is produc...
AfDB funds Liberia and Cote d’Ivoire road and transportation links The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank gave the green light for the launch of the second phase of the Mano River Union (UFM) programme, which would improve roads and facilitate transport between Liberia and Cote d’I...
Wellbeing at work highlighted in webinar from IQ Academy The importance of wellbeing at work and its relationship to safety, leadership and engagement will be the focus of this month’s ‘Lunch and Learn’ webinar from IQ Academy. Dr Carolyn Yeoman, Operations Director of OCAID Wellbeing, will present the...
Balfour Beatty lifts 2nd 240 tonne footbridge into place in Telford Balfour Beatty has achieved a major milestone on its Telford Footbridge project, with the successful installation of a new footbridge over Telford Central railway station. The project forms part of the major infrastructure upgrade progr...
MIT designs new battery that gobbles up carbon dioxide A new type of battery developed by researchers at MIT could be made partly from carbon dioxide captured from power plants. Rather than attempting to convert carbon dioxide to specialized chemicals using metal catalysts, which is currently highly cha...
Cat heavy-duty side discharge buckets deliver controlled flow of loose materials Cat Side Discharge Buckets, designed for use with skid steer loaders, multi-terrain loaders, compact track loaders, and compact wheel loaders—collect and transport loose materials such as sawdust, sand, mulch, and topsoil a...
CA Blackwell invests in 24 Volvo Haulers and Excavators for infrastructure project So says David Lancashire, Plant Manager for CA Blackwell (Contracts) Ltd as the company takes delivery of 24 Volvo machines for one of the biggest infrastructure projects currently underway in the UK. A fleet of 24 Volvo...
UAE runs first intermodal transport under TIR The United Arab Emirates is an important trade hub with a robust economy. TIR offers huge potential for improving transit connectivity between ports and borders with free zones and integrating them into the global logistics chain. The UAE’s strongest trading...
New GB Railfreight locomotive christened by The Worshipful Company of Paviors GB Railfreight, in partnership with The Worshipful Company of Paviors, is pleased to announce the naming of its new locomotive, The Pavior. The locomotive, number 66758, was christened at a ceremony at Tarmac’s Harper Lane sit...
Clearview Intelligence offers long-term solutions for vehicle detection The annual JCT Symposium is the largest forum for signal engineers, bringing together traffic signal practitioners and manufacturers to foster relationships and drive innovation in signal engineering. A regular highlight in our even...
Highways England praises drivers after A66 weekend closures Highways England has praised drivers and residents for their support as its £5 million package of carriageway improvements along the A66 in Cumbria starts to take shape. This weekend sees the third of seven consecutive closures of the road betw...
The Women of Asphalt Council renamed Women of Asphalt – WofA The Women of Asphalt Council has been renamed as Women of Asphalt (WofA) and launched a newly redesigned website and its inaugural podcast. The website has been expanded to serve as a hub for WofA membership, including a wide range of re...
Greywacke extraction specialist Günter Jung relies on Liebherr XPower Rugged American lorries for bulk material transportation are pairing up with high-performance Liebherr equipment for the greywacke extraction process. Based in Germany’s Sauerland region in North Rhine-Westphalia, quarrying company Gü...
Volvo excavator completes the NC500 500 mile race around Scotland Thurso-based Gow Groundworks has taken delivery of the first reduced swing radius Volvo EWR170E wheeled excavator to arrive in Great Britain which has recently successfully completed the NC500 around the northern coast of Scotland. The id...
Urban Vision swops streetlights for a Totem Pole What’s the difference between a streetlight and totem pole? Not a great deal if you work for Urban Vision, the joint venture between Galliford Try, Salford City Council and Capita Simons which carries out streetlighting and highways maintenance projects f...
Bridge on the move in 24-hour M6 Motorway operation this weekend Motorists are reminded that work to remove an 800 tonne, 250ft long bridge over the M6 in Staffordshire takes place this weekend. The bridge, north of Stafford, will be dismantled and the entire 150-tonne centre section lifted clear and ta...
Migration Advisory Committee recommendations would cripple UK construction, says FMB The UK Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) report, which sets out a series of recommendations for the new immigration policy post-Brexit, would cripple the construction industry, according to the Federation of Master Bui...
Bonnybridge’s Central Demolition expands with VolvoCE Central Demolition Ltd of Bonnybridge has invested in another package of Volvo excavators and loading shovels, including their largest shovel yet in the guise of an L150H. “In our opinion, Volvo excavators and loading shovels are top-class prod...
MIT machine learning system tackles speech and object recognition simultaneously MIT computer scientists have developed a machine learning system that learns to identify objects within an image, based on a spoken description of the image. Given an image and an audio caption, the model will highlight in...
Chicago Smart Mobility Project wins ITS Midwest Project of the Year The Chicago Smart Mobility (CSM) Project, Phase 1, recently won the ITS Midwest 2018 Project of Year Award. The project supports the City of Chicago’s Smart City Initiative and includes the planning, design, and deployment of an integra...
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