Highways England awards Daisy IT Support Services contract Daisy Group has further consolidated its growing presence at the heart of the nationβs critical infrastructure β by winning a Β£2.6m deal to provide crucial support to Highways England. The UKβs leading provider of IT, telecoms and cloud services...
Swiss Army deploys ten Schmidt Supra’s to combat snow It combines supreme performance, precision and elegance. The Schmidt Supra 4002 belongs to a very special class of powerhouse. With its 435 hp, capacity to clear up to 3500 tonnes of snow and its ability to eject snow up to 40 metres, it is in...
McConnelI Dowell wins A$40m contract for Australian bridge, culverts and intersections Detailed design, planning and site inspections will commence immediately on Aus $40 million worth of bridge, culvert, road widening and intersection upgrades across regional South Australia following the awarding of a...
SkyjackΒ gaining traction in the Australian Outback Skyjack has just delivered its first Australian order of SJ85 AJs to Botany Access. The New South Wales company had their eyes on SkyjackΒ’s newest articulating boom since it was unveiled at the 2017 Vertikal Days event in England. This order ini...
Cities of the future may be built with volcanic ash Study finds adding volcanic ash reduces the overall energy required to manufacture concrete. MIT engineers working with scientists in Kuwait have found that volcanic rocks, when pulverized into a fine ash, can be used as a sustainable additive in concr...
Stage by Stage – New book and website a paradigm shift in commissioning and completions There was a time when commissioning was a casual and arbitrary process; a small team gathering toward the end of a construction project to ring a few alarm bells, turn a few motors and check off some boxes on t...
Old road surface paves the way for local park upgrades Highways England is turning waste from a major road improvement into new footpaths for walkers at a nearby park. Around 250 tonnes of the old surface from an improvement on the A19 in North Tyneside is benefitting Benton Quarry Park in Benton. Recyc...
SENNEBOGEN 825 handles long-range timber handling with comfort at Holzwerk Obermeier ‘We need a material handler!’Β has long been something that they’ve agreed about at the Holzwerk ObermeierΒ timber yard in Schwindegg, Upper Bavaria. But a lot of thought had to be put into what the opt...
Highways England record investment in South West England will achieve big milestones Plans for the tunnel set to be built as part of the Β£1.6 billion upgrade of the A303 near Stonehenge will go on public display today. Highways Englandβs plans for the improved A303 between Amesbury and Berwick Down will...
Mercedes-Benzβs first Polish engine plant to be built by STRABAG The publicly listed European construction group STRABAG SE builds a new engine plant for Mercedes-Benz in Poland. The order for the construction of the largest production and assembly hall, which has a total value of approximately β¬ 61 mil...
Liebherr introduces mobile tower silo for concrete batching plants Liebherr can now offer another silo variant for its concrete batching plants: A mobile tower silo for the storage of aggregate complements Liebherrβs concrete batching plant product range. In addition to the three β six chamber inline si...
Fixing the construction industry’s productivity problem The construction industry has had a troubled history with productivity Even the smallest construction projects are multi-disciplined events that involve hundreds of individual actions. When scaled up to mega project size, managing the sequenc...
Volkswagen Amarok pickup now more affordable Pickup buyers looking to put Volkswagenβs award-winning Amarok on their driveways, worksites or grounds can now do so for less. The introduction of the new Trendline V6 3.0 TDI 163PS model to the range means that Amarok ownership now starts at just Β£24,510 in...
STRABAG shows innovative way out of the diesel dilemma withΒ Sustainable High-Tech Asphalt STRABAGβs TPA competence centre has presented an innovative solution that can help cities fight the negative impact of increased traffic volumes. The joint R&D project NaHiTAs (Nachhaltiger High-Tech Asphalt β...
Patten Cat joins Metso USA distributor network Metso is pleased to welcome Illinois-based Patten Cat to its North American distributor network. They will offer Metso’s mobile and stationary crushing and screening products for rent and purchase, with locations in Northern Illinois and Northwest Ind...
VΓGELE PowerFeeder technology pays off Decoupled material transfer from the feed vehicle to the road paver is one of the major drivers in road construction. After all, this process is a critical factor with a considerable impact on the quality of asphalt paving projects. Material feeders are consequentl...
Red Oak delivers warmth, wellbeing and the wow factor A major and ultra-prestigious application in the City of London could really put U.S. red oak on the European map. The European market has been something of a frustration for U.S. red oak suppliers. The species is Americaβs most prolific hardwood, so...
10,000 new trees to boost roadside wildlife habitat in South West England Highways England is starting a major programme of tree and shrub planting along the A30 and A38 in a bid to connect a 105 mile corridor of wildlife habitat. The work is taking place at 21 sites in Devon and Cornwall and involves ....
Northern Victoria Logging Road in Australia gets major upgrade Drivers are set to benefit from a safer and smoother journey along the Shelley-Walwa Road in Victoriaβs north as works start on a major upgrade of the road. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Barnaby Joyce sa...
Kangaroo Island hopping for joy at road upgrade South Australia’s Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure has awarded BMD a road re-sheeting contract on Kangaroo Island, just off South Australia. The 4,405Β kmΒ² Kangaroo Island is southwest of Adelaide and renowned for its protected nat...
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