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Volvo CE continues the Megaproject story – Moving the city of Kiruna
Volvo CE continues the Megaproject story – Moving the city of Kiruna The latest episode of ‘The Megaproject Listing’ takes viewers to the northernmost city in Sweden, Kiruna – where the city is...
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PERI scaffold solutions prop up the Williams Bridge refurbishment in Rotterdam
PERI scaffold solutions prop up the Williams Bridge refurbishment in Rotterdam The refurbishment of the pylons on Rotterdam’s Williams Bridge proved to be a tremendous challenge for installing t...
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JCB backs Stoke on Trent’s bid for City of Culture in the UK
JCB backs Stoke on Trent’s bid for City of Culture in the UK JCB today threw its weight behind Stoke-on-Trent’s bid for UK City of Culture status as the clock ticks down to decision day. Stoke-o...
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Highways England lifting 400 miles of roadwork to ease Christmas congestion
Highways England lifting 400 miles of roadwork to ease Christmas congestion A £15bn investment on motorways and major A-roads is helping motorists and hauliers this festive season get to their destina...
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PERI Group reorganise their Management Structure
PERI Group reorganise their Management Structure The shareholders and the Advisory Board of the PERI Group have decided to change the management organization of the family-owned company: As of January...
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Envirobuild aims to protect over 40,000 acres of rainforest through Rainforest Donations
Envirobuild aims to protect over 40,000 acres of rainforest through Rainforest Donations EnviroBuild, the leading sustainable construction company, aims to protect over 40,000 acres of rainforest this...
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A promising but bumpy road ahead for blockchain
A promising but bumpy road ahead for blockchain Do you remember the world before the internet? Can you imagine your life without it? Prepare yourself, because another revolutionary technology is about...
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Galliford Try leads the way with new employee wellbeing programme
Galliford Try leads the way with new employee wellbeing programme Galliford Try, the leading housebuilding and construction group, has launched its new employee wellbeing programme ‘Be Well’ and a new...
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Zero tolerance corruption standards to unlock PPP for Sustainable Development
Zero tolerance corruption standards to unlock PPP for Sustainable Development A new standard on zero tolerance to corruption in Public Private Partnerships (PPP) developed by the United Nations Econom...
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Highways England gets green light for new Kent M20 motorway junction
Highways England gets green light for new Kent M20 motorway junction A £104m project to create a new motorway junction on the M20 in Kent has been granted development consent by the Secretary of State...
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John Deere completes Wirtgen acquisition
John Deere completes Wirtgen acquisition Deere & Company announces that they have completed its Wirtgen acquisition, taking control of the leading manufacturer worldwide of road construction equip...
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Balfour Beatty is driving Britain’s highways skills agenda forward
Balfour Beatty is driving Britain’s highways skills agenda forward Following on from discussing the challenges and solutions in building a sustainable skills base in the nuclear sector, Balfour...
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New report shows Heathrow Airport Noise footprint at smallest recorded levels
New report shows Heathrow Airport Noise footprint at smallest recorded levels A new annual noise contour report shows that Heathrow airport’s noise footprint continues to shrink – with over 52,000 few...
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CIMIC’S Leighton Asia wins A$390m Hong Kong Airport works
CIMIC’S Leighton Asia wins A$390m Hong Kong Airport works CIMIC Group company, Leighton Asia, with joint venture partner Chun Wo Construction and Engineering Company Limited (‘Chun Wo’), has been sele...
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Falk Mill Products rebranded as Metso Gears and Pinions
Falk Mill Products rebranded as Metso Gears and Pinions In 2015, Metso acquired from the US-based company Rexnord Industries, LLC, certain intellectual property rights related to Rexnord’s Falk...
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Architects should include “Access to Nature” for buildings designed for people with dementia
Architects should include “Access to Nature” for buildings designed for people with dementia Buildings designed for people living with dementia must prioritise unrestricted access to natur...
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R&W Civil Engineering wins share of £100m M25 Motorway Works
R&W Civil Engineering wins share of £100m M25 Motorway Works R&W Civil Engineering has been awarded a place on the second Call-Off Framework Agreement (COFA-2) to deliver improvement works on...
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Deere puts customers first with new website design
Deere puts customers first with new website design John Deere has completed its global rollout of a new company website that places those who shop for and own John Deere equipment as the number one pr...
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Chairman of R&W wins CECA Outstanding Contribution/Lifetime Achievement Award
Chairman of R&W wins CECA Outstanding Contribution/Lifetime Achievement Award At its annual awards dinner in London on 1 November the Civil Engineering Contractors Association (Southern) named Ray...
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SkyAccess boosts Skyjacks presence in Switzerland
SkyAccess boosts Skyjacks presence in Switzerland Skyjack is increasing its market share in Switzerland with SkyAccess, a sales and rental company in the country, adding more Skyjack equipment to its...
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Safety first for Florida’s I-4 reconstruction
Safety first for Florida’s I-4 reconstruction Floridians are looking forward to an increase in both time and safety when the $2.3 billion I-4 Ultimate interstate megaproject is completed in 2021...
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ALE Heavy Lift completes bridge launch in Serbia
ALE Heavy Lift completes bridge launch in Serbia ALE has completed the launching of the Zezelj bridge, weighing 11,100 tonnes, in Novi Sad, Serbia. The global heavylifting providers were contracted by...
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Parsons awarded Kentucky I-265/I-64 Interchange
Parsons awarded Kentucky I-265/I-64 Interchange Parsons has been selected by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) to present reconstruction options for the I-265/I-64 Interchange in Jefferson Co...
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Energising the nuclear workforce of the future
Energising the nuclear workforce of the future Today, Balfour Beatty launches the latest of its Public Policy papers, Building Nuclear Skills : A workforce for the future, focusing on the challenges i...
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Highways England wins prestigious award for Road to Growth strategy
Highways England wins prestigious award for Road to Growth strategy The Institute of Economic Development (IED) hailed Highways England’s strategic economic growth plan, The Road to Growth with...
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Property consultant remains positive for post Brexit UK construction sector
Property consultant remains positive for post Brexit UK construction sector One of the UK’s leading construction and property consultancies, Thomas & Adamson, believes despite the negative outlook...
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Liebherr wins two design awards for their earthmoving machines
Liebherr wins two design awards for their earthmoving machines Liebherr has received the 2018 German Design Award in the “Excellent Product Design” category for its T46-7 telescopic handle...
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MGS Training School gears up with State of the Art VolvoCE Equipment
MGS Training School gears up with State of the Art VolvoCE Equipment MGS Training Ltd, with its headquarters located at Bargeddie in Glasgow and its 40-acre training centre at Heartlands just off the...
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Samsung C and T wins First North-South Corridor contract in Singapore
Samsung C and T wins First North-South Corridor contract in Singapore Samsung C&T Corporation has been selected as the first contractor to design and construct a stretch of the North-South Corrido...
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Melbourne gets first dedicated, high-speed Busway Lane
Melbourne gets first dedicated, high-speed Busway Lane Melbourne, Australia, gets first dedicated Melbourne busway, built as part of North East Link – slashing travel times and delivering more service...
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Australia’s Melbourne NE Link biggest ever transport project in Victoria
Australia’s Melbourne NE Link biggest ever transport project in Victoria The North East Link will be the biggest transport project in Victoria’s history, finally building the missing link in Mel...
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Construction Climate Challenge Conference calls for ambitious carbon reduction goals
Construction Climate Challenge Conference calls for ambitious carbon reduction goals Industry heavyweights warned guests at a London Construction Climate Challenge conference this week, hosted by Volv...
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AfDB approves €122m loan for Tunisia Road Improvement Project
AfDB approves €122m loan for Tunisia Road Improvement Project The Board of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a loan of €112 million to help finance the North-East Road Connectivit...
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Speed down, save lives!
Speed down, save lives! Brake, the national road safety charity founded and lead the annual Road Safety Week, which takes place this week, the 20th – 26th November. This year’s theme is Speed Down Sav...
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Lower Thames Crossing’s £8bn economic benefit welcomed
Lower Thames Crossing’s £8bn economic benefit welcomed Businesses from across Essex and Kent have been encouraged by Highways England, the organisation delivering the new Lower Thames Crossing, to sta...
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The Wood Awards announce 2017 winners
The Wood Awards announce 2017 winners The winners of the annual Wood Awards, have been announced at a ceremony held on the 21st November at Carpenters’ Hall in London hosted by Johanna Agerman Ross, F...
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Life-saving training for Highways England Traffic Officers
Life-saving training for Highways England Traffic Officers More than 950 Highways England Traffic Officers are being trained in life saving first aid, giving them enhanced skills which may be used to...
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Parsons selected as Technical Advisor for Metrolinx enhanced train control and signalling
Parsons selected as Technical Advisor for Metrolinx enhanced train control and signalling Parsons has begun providing technical advisory services for Metrolinx’s Enhanced Train Control and Conventiona...
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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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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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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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Taking control of the Future brings success
Taking control of the Future brings success Training and access to resources are key The construction industry is dynamic — ever changing and evolving through technology. The way contractors work toda...
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