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sees.ai wins UK Government drone funding to protect workers in highway infrastructure
sees.ai wins UK Government drone funding to protect workers in highway infrastructure Advance drone system sees.ai, leading a consortium of eight partners that includes Atkins, has won a share of £30...
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Network Rail begins work on second section of new Dawlish sea wall
Network Rail begins work on second section of new Dawlish sea wall Network Rail has started work on the second section of the new, bigger sea wall at Dawlish, in Devon, which will provide greater prot...
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Wirtgen W-220-Fi and Mill Assist remove road surface to 46 cm depth in two passes
Wirtgen W-220-Fi and Mill Assist remove road surface to 46 cm depth in two passes In Illinois, USA, a Wirtgen W 220 Fi large milling machine is being used to remove an entire road surface in just two...
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Pioneering fluid analysis lab keeps construction machines up and running
Pioneering fluid analysis lab keeps construction machines up and running Fluid analysis reveals a lot about the health of a machine. Finning UK & Ireland, official distributor for Caterpillar® equ...
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EMEC-Prototyping celebrates 10 year anniversary with new HQ and larger test lab
EMEC-Prototyping celebrates 10 year anniversary with new HQ and larger test lab EMEC-Prototyping’s history started 10 years ago with Powertools development for the company Bosch. Test benches and proc...
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Southampton University process for turning carbon emissions into plastics
Southampton University process for turning carbon emissions into plastics Scientists from the University of Southampton have invented a hybrid catalyst platform that can efficiently and sustainably c...
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Sika expanding production in France
Sika expanding production in France Sika has started production of shotcrete admixtures at its main plant at Gournay-en-Bray, north west of Paris. The set accelerator marketed under the Sigunit® brand...
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Cadent the first utility company to join the UK’s Local Council Roads Innovation Group
Cadent the first utility company to join the UK’s Local Council Roads Innovation Group Cadent, the UK’s largest gas distribution network, has become the first utility company to join the Local C...
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Sterling Construction awarded $35m projects by the Nevada DoT
Sterling Construction awarded $35m projects by the Nevada DoT Sterling Construction subsidiary Road and Highway Builders has been selected by the Nevada Department of Transportation to perform asphalt...
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Terex Trucks TA400 Articulated Hauler gets tough in Australia
Terex Trucks TA400 Articulated Hauler gets tough in Australia Landfill operations can be tough, but that’s exactly when Terex Trucks’ articulated haulers excel. Civil and demolition company DECC recen...
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Kar-go Delivery Bot begins contactless delivery trials to care homes in the UK
Kar-go Delivery Bot begins contactless delivery trials to care homes in the UK Kar-go, an autonomous delivery vehicle designed by British start-up, Academy of Robotics, becomes the first custom-built...
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Highways England announces M6 Motorway roadworks set to finish six months early
Highways England announces M6 Motorway roadworks set to finish six months early Major roadworks on the M6 in Staffordshire are set to finish six months ahead of schedule thanks to the introduction of...
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Metso Outotec wins iron ore pelletizing plant order in China
Metso Outotec wins iron ore pelletizing plant order in China Metso Outotec has signed a contract with Beijing Shougang International Engineering Technology Co. Ltd on the delivery of new environmental...
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Eurovia UK investing in creating opportunities for young people in highways
Eurovia UK investing in creating opportunities for young people in highways As recent government announcements have highlighted, the need for transformational investment in training and skills, has ne...
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Hillsborough County selects Iteris for $8m Smart Mobility and safety initiative
Hillsborough County selects Iteris for $8m Smart Mobility and safety initiative Iteris, a global leader in smart mobility infrastructure management, today announced that it has been awarded a four-yea...
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Gammon Construction celebrates ISO 14064 Carbon Accounting Standard award
Gammon Construction celebrates ISO 14064 Carbon Accounting Standard award Gammon Construction Limited has become the first company in Hong Kong to have its greenhouse gas emissions inventory verified...
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Middlesbrough Council completes the A66 throughabout
Middlesbrough Council completes the A66 throughabout WORKS to introduce a major improvement scheme at one of the busiest junctions in Middlesbrough are now complete. The A66/A171 Cargo Fleet Junction...
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DOKA Citygate project highlights the potential of BIM and 3D
DOKA Citygate project highlights the potential of BIM and 3D One of Northern Europe’s tallest office buildings is rising into the sky in the Gårda district in Göteborg. The 144 metre high buildi...
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Standard Plant Hire expands fleet with VolvoCE Excavators
Standard Plant Hire expands fleet with VolvoCE Excavators Since purchasing its first Volvo excavators in the spring of 2019, Bromley based Standard Plant Hire Ltd has added a further four, twenty tonn...
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UK construction companies urged to act quickly to take advantage of tax relief benefits
UK construction companies urged to act quickly to take advantage of tax relief benefits Companies are being urged to act quickly to ensure they take full advantage of tax relief for the purchase of pl...
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Masabi and Jorudan expand MasS with Mobile Ticketing in Okayama Prefecture
Masabi and Jorudan expand MasS with Mobile Ticketing in Okayama Prefecture Masabi, the company bringing Fare Payments as-a-Service to public transit and Jorudan, Japan’s leading trip planning service,...
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Vivacity Labs to deploy AI-controlled road junctions in Greater Manchester
Vivacity Labs to deploy AI-controlled road junctions in Greater Manchester Vivacity Labs and Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) have announced the roll out of AI-controlled ‘smart’ traffic juncti...
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Tomorrow’s Engineers Week reveals online plans to inspire future Engineers
Tomorrow’s Engineers Week reveals online plans to inspire future Engineers Tomorrow’s Engineers Week, now in its eighth year, has come to a close with the announcement of a new online hub to pro...
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Ultium Cells LLC seeking 1,100 new Team Members to power GM’s all-electric future
Ultium Cells LLC seeking 1,100 new Team Members to power GM’s all-electric future GM continues to advance toward an all-electric, zero-emissions future with the construction of its nearly 3 mill...
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M56 Motorway upgrade starts near Manchester
M56 Motorway upgrade starts near Manchester The main construction work on the region’s latest motorway upgrade, along the M56 in Greater Manchester and Cheshire, will get underway this month. The four...
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Volkswagen and Greece to establish ground-breaking mobility system on Astypalea
Volkswagen and Greece to establish ground-breaking mobility system on Astypalea The Volkswagen Group and Greece have agreed to establish a ground-breaking mobility system on the Mediterranean island o...
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Italian Army assess Milrem Robotics autonomous THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle
Italian Army assess Milrem Robotics autonomous THeMIS unmanned ground vehicle The European leading robotics and autonomous systems developer Milrem Robotics demonstrated their autonomous THeMIS unmann...
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Robotic Pothole Innovation plans to revolutionise road repairs
Robotic Pothole Innovation plans to revolutionise road repairs University spin out, Robotiz3d, is to begin developing the world’s first autonomous robot to patrol the streets in search of potholes, fo...
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Six pilot PPP projects could attract $2 Billion for Ukraine’s roads
Six pilot PPP projects could attract $2 Billion for Ukraine’s roads A new study reveals that properly structured public-private partnership (PPP) projects can help Ukraine attract potential inve...
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Solid Oxide Fuel Cell research boosted with US Federal grants for Cummins
Solid Oxide Fuel Cell research boosted with US Federal grants for Cummins Cummins has received two federal grants totalling $4.6 million to advance commercialization of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) te...
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Highways England spots ten thousand tailgaters in just two weeks
Highways England spots ten thousand tailgaters in just two weeks Almost 10,000 vehicles were caught tailgating in the first two weeks of new cameras being tested to clamp down on the offence. Highways...
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Econ Engineering and Safecote’s merge winter de-icer Services
Econ Engineering and Safecote’s merge winter de-icer Services Keeping the nation’s cycleways and pathways clear and ice-free this winter has just got easier with the announcement of an exciting...
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MAJOR appoints Aggregate Machinery Specialist in California
MAJOR appoints Aggregate Machinery Specialist in California MAJOR appoints Aggregate Machinery Specialist as its newest aggregate and mining screen media authorized dealer. Aggregate Machinery Special...
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GM Defense delivers US Army Infantry Squad Vehicle
GM Defense delivers US Army Infantry Squad Vehicle GM Defense LLC, a subsidiary of General Motors, is celebrating the first delivery of the Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV) – a light and agile all-terrain...
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World Bank funding US$120m project to improve 300km of roads in Meghalaya, India
World Bank funding US$120m project to improve 300km of roads in Meghalaya, India The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors has approved a $120-million project to improve and modernize the transpor...
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Velodyne Lidar supplies LineVision with sensors to improve electric utility operations
Velodyne Lidar supplies LineVision with sensors to improve electric utility operations Velodyne Lidar has announced a sales agreement with LineVision, Inc., a provider of solutions to monitor, optimiz...
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Locomation completes on-road Autonomous Trucking technology pilot
Locomation completes on-road Autonomous Trucking technology pilot Locomation has announced the successful completion of an on-road pilot program intended to showcase autonomous trucking technology for...
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Autonomous Trucking initiative welcomed at AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone
Autonomous Trucking initiative welcomed at AllianceTexas Mobility Innovation Zone Hillwood has announced that TuSimple, a global self-driving technology company with a focus on heavy-duty trucks, has...
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The mining industry calls for increased STEM subjects to revive the British economy
The mining industry calls for increased STEM subjects to revive the British economy If it can’t be grown (or fished) it has to be mined, and almost everything we use in everyday life has been mined. M...
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Crédit Agricole CIB supports Gammon Construction’s Green Guarantees in Asia-Pacific
Crédit Agricole CIB supports Gammon Construction’s Green Guarantees in Asia-Pacific Gammon Construction and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank have announced an agreement to implement...
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Highways England celebrates 50 years of Cumbria’s M6 motorway
Highways England celebrates 50 years of Cumbria’s M6 motorway It’s one of the highest and most beautiful stretches of motorway in the country – part of a post-war motorway construction jig...
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BPH Plant expands machine hire fleet to meet increasing demand
BPH Plant expands machine hire fleet to meet increasing demand Sussex-based plant hire company BPH Plant has invested £600,000 in expanding its range of machinery available for hire following increase...
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New Framework for delivering highway maintenance launched in England
New Framework for delivering highway maintenance launched in England Ten councils in the east of England have launched a framework for delivering highway maintenance and improvement schemes that could...
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Hercules Electric Mobility takes on Worksport TerraVis Solar Truck Bed Tonneau
Hercules Electric Mobility takes on Worksport TerraVis Solar Truck Bed Tonneau Worksport has signed an agreement with Hercules Electric Mobility Inc., from Detroit, Michigan, for Worksport’s groundbre...
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Paragon Bank supports start-up FinniGroup to create a family plant hire business
Paragon Bank supports start-up FinniGroup to create a family plant hire business Paragon Bank is enabling three Leicestershire-based sisters to follow in the footsteps of their father by providing fun...
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Triton Construction transfers ownership to Employee Ownership Trust
Triton Construction transfers ownership to Employee Ownership Trust Triton Construction has announced that the business is now owned by its employees after the board of directors transferred ownership...
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Kar-go Delivery Bot approved for use on British roads
Kar-go Delivery Bot approved for use on British roads Britain’s first custom-built vehicle, designed for autonomous delivery on the roads took a giant leap forward as the Driver and Vehicle Standards...
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State of the art Underwater Survey Robot completes successful trials
State of the art Underwater Survey Robot completes successful trials A State of the art underwater survey robot being developed by a collaboration of companies from across the UK is on schedule for co...
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Lynch expands in the UK with 34 Caterpillar machines including an electric dozer
Lynch expands in the UK with 34 Caterpillar machines including an electric dozer UK nationwide plant hire and haulage specialist Lynch has added 34 new Caterpillar® machines to its commercial fleet, a...
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Willowbrook Plant doubles its sales territory in the UK with Hyundai Equipment
Willowbrook Plant doubles its sales territory in the UK with Hyundai Equipment Hyundai is pleased to announce that Hyundai distributor, Willowbrook Plant Ltd, based in Corby in Northamptonshire, has e...
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