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Caterpillar and Kennametal announce cutting tool technology partnership
Caterpillar and Kennametal announce cutting tool technology partnership Caterpillar Inc. is pleased to announce that an agreement has been reached with Kennametal Inc. to provide Caterpillar customers...
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WSP to support UK roll-out of connected and autonomous vehicles
WSP to support UK roll-out of connected and autonomous vehicles WSP has been commissioned by Highways England to drive forward its connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) programme over the next four...
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Aspin Group rebrands to support ambitious growth plans
Aspin Group rebrands to support ambitious growth plans Aspin Group has unveiled a new corporate identity as part of ambitious growth plans to double turnover to reach £85m by 2020. The changes will se...
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New Zealand opens consultation on 110 km/h speed limit proposal
New Zealand opens consultation on 110 km/h speed limit proposal The NZ Transport Agency is inviting people to have their say on a proposal to introduce 110 km/h speed limits on the tolled section of t...
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Highways England Strategic Design Panel vision and progress report published
Highways England Strategic Design Panel vision and progress report published The first report of a panel set up to put good design at the heart of England’s road improvement projects is published toda...
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PERI opens new scaffold production plant in Germany
PERI opens new scaffold production plant in Germany Germany based PERI GmbH has just completed new production to further their growth of their scaffolding division. As expansion possibilities at the m...
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Volvo Construction Equipment joins the battle to make zero the hero
Volvo Construction Equipment joins the battle to make zero the hero World Green Building Week may only happen once a year, but Volvo Construction Equipment dedicates every day to driving energy effici...
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EU Bank supports first tramway line in Tampere, Finland with €150m loan
EU Bank supports first tramway line in Tampere, Finland with €150m loan To meet the needs of the growing city and urban area, a modern tramline system has been designed for Tampere. Fostering sustaina...
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Bechtel signs contract for 473 km Nairobi to Mombasa Expressway in Kenya
Bechtel signs contract for 473 km Nairobi to Mombasa Expressway in Kenya The Kenya National Highways Authority (KeNHA) is set to roll out the construction of the 473 Kilometres Nairobi to Mombasa (A8)...
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Three ways that universities can improve their parking acumen with intelligence
Three ways that universities can improve their parking acumen with intelligence Across the Higher Education sector, universities are having to become increasingly streamlined, find new ways to exploit...
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Giant funnel bins to tackle North West England’s motorway litter problem
Giant funnel bins to tackle North West England’s motorway litter problem New giant funnel bins are being installed at motorway service areas across the North West in a bid to reduce the amount o...
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The Day Group in London relies on Volvo reliability and technology
The Day Group in London relies on Volvo reliability and technology “They’re a good tool for the job…” is the opinion of Stuart Holmes, plant manager for Day Group Ltd, as the company purchases m...
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Dreamliners flying high as Heathrow hits new low noise record
Dreamliners flying high as Heathrow hits new low noise record Heathrow’s new “Fly Quiet and Clean” report shows airlines are increasingly using the quietest, cleanest aircraft in their routes to Brit...
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MixIt in London expands with a fifth Rapid pan concrete mixer
MixIt in London expands with a fifth Rapid pan concrete mixer Rapid International Ltd, based in County Armagh, Northern Ireland, has recently supplied London concrete contractor, MixIt Ltd, with its f...
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Pre-construction planning software helps build Winery Visitor Centre
Pre-construction planning software helps build Winery Visitor Centre In the world of fine wine there was a time long ago when those with sophisticated palettes would harrumph and turn up their nose at...
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Mabey props up Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury – the grandparent of skyscrapers
Mabey props up Ditherington Flax Mill in Shrewsbury – the grandparent of skyscrapers The world’s first iron-framed building is set to be propped up by Mabey, as the bridge and engineering servic...
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HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed witnesses first Autonomous Air Taxi test flight in Dubai
HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed witnesses first Autonomous Air Taxi test flight in Dubai HH Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, attended the maiden concept flight of...
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McCann keeps the wheels in motion with the appointment of a new Fleet and Plant Manager
McCann keeps the wheels in motion with the appointment of a new Fleet and Plant Manager Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm, McCann, has continued to expand its team with the appoin...
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Balfour Beatty JV wins HKD $800m deluxe residential development project in Hong Kong
Balfour Beatty JV wins HKD $800m deluxe residential development project in Hong Kong Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, today announces that its 50:50 Far East joint venture, Gamm...
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SENNEBOGEN celebrates 65 years of growth
SENNEBOGEN celebrates 65 years of growth In 1952, company founder Erich Sennebogen Sr. put his heart and soul into founding a company that, today, could not be more innovative, more international, or...
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High-speed Grinding Technology deployed in France for the first time
High-speed Grinding Technology deployed in France for the first time The operating company Tisséo is commissioning Vossloh to carry out preventive maintenance on Toulouse’s tram network. The thr...
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Safety work begins on busy Waikato Highway in New Zealand
Safety work begins on busy Waikato Highway in New Zealand Work is about to begin to make State Highway 3, from SH37 to Te Kuiti, safer for everyone who uses it. Almost $6m will be spent adding side ba...
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Metsä Wood promotes top-down Timber as a solution for urbanisation
Metsä Wood promotes top-down Timber as a solution for urbanisation The urbanisation dynamic is driving ever greater demand for taller structures in increasingly dense cities. Whether architects and co...
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Historic London Courthouse beautifully brought back to order
Historic London Courthouse beautifully brought back to order The Old Sessions House in Clerkenwell, London, a grand, former courthouse that once had a reputation for dishing out some the harshest sent...
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RIDGWAY Rentals takes delivery of £9M worth of new Komatsu Machines
RIDGWAY Rentals takes delivery of £9M worth of new Komatsu Machines Based in Oswestry, Shropshire, third-generation family owned business RIDGWAY Rentals Ltd is all set to take delivery of 60 large ea...
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Burnside Plant and Piling Contractors switch to Volvo
Burnside Plant and Piling Contractors switch to Volvo Following his first impressions at Volvo’s ‘Live It Dig It’ event at Alloa, Scotland, this March and a successful demonstration, Ian Orr, Propriet...
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W Resources in Spain expands production by 75% with Metso technology
W Resources in Spain expands production by 75% with Metso technology W Resources has selected Metso to build a high-capacity crushing plant for their La Parrilla Project in the south of Spain. With th...
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Split the cost, share a lift – car sharing benefits business and car owners
Split the cost, share a lift – car sharing benefits business and car owners Did you know that a typical commuter in the UK who car shares every day saves on average, about £1,000 a year? Nationa...
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Major A21 upgrade in UK completed
Major A21 upgrade in UK completed 35,000 drivers a day are benefiting from a major upgrade on the A21 connecting Hastings and London, between Tonbridge and Pembury in Kent, which was officially opened...
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HOLT CAT awarded Texas distributor network by Metso
HOLT CAT awarded Texas distributor network by Metso Metso continues to strengthen its North American distributor network with the latest addition of HOLT CAT®, based in San Antonio, Texas. HOLT CAT wi...
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Alternative fuels investment anxiety revealed in new UK report
Alternative fuels investment anxiety revealed in new UK report A report jointly commissioned by the AA and BT’s Fleet Solutions reveals business and SME anxiety about the investment required into the...
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One Big, Bad Dozer! The Cat D10 turns 40
One Big, Bad Dozer! The Cat D10 turns 40 With its cutting-edge elevated sprocket design, the Cat D10 changed the face of the dozer market Forty years ago this September, Caterpillar rolled off of its...
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Mabey helps deliver bypass in the UK’s third most congested city
Mabey helps deliver bypass in the UK’s third most congested city The new Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route will cut journey times, reduce pollution costs and improve safety. Leading bridge and enginee...
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Fundamentals of IoT for Construction
Fundamentals of IoT for Construction Probably the best definition of the Internet of Things (IoT) appears in a Forbes magazine article written by the futurist Jacob Morgan. According to Morgan, the Io...
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Metso Peru shows off their latest Mining Innovations at Perumin 2017
Metso Peru shows off their latest Mining Innovations at Perumin 2017 At Perumin, one of the main mining exhibitions in Latin America, Metso will introduce its latest innovations for exceeding the mini...
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Siemens upgrades their hosted traffic management platform
Siemens upgrades their hosted traffic management platform Siemens, a global leader in traffic management technology, has announced major upgrades to the latest hosted application modules for Stratos,...
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Fort Portal-Kamwenge Road in Uganda commissioned
Fort Portal-Kamwenge Road in Uganda commissioned President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda has commissioned the 66km Fort Portal-Kamwenge road. This road runs from Kamwenge District to Fort Portal to...
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McCann wins £1.2m contract for Street Furniture Electrical Services to Swindon Council, UK
McCann wins £1.2m contract for Street Furniture Electrical Services to Swindon Council, UK Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm, McCann, has won an estimated £1.2m contract to provid...
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Signalling the way forward for traffic controls
Signalling the way forward for traffic controls The JCT Symposium always signals the start of the next round of events for Clearview Intelligence. JCT takes place at the University of Warwick every Se...
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ALE’s largest and smallest cranes operate in London at the same time
ALE’s largest and smallest cranes operate in London at the same time As part of ALE’s largest crane fleet, the AL.SK190 was working for specialist contractor Keltbray on the Earls Court project, whils...
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London Underground Elizabeth line track installation is complete
London Underground Elizabeth line track installation is complete A significant milestone has been marked today with the official completion of the permanent track for the Elizabeth line – London’s new...
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Major new ITS contract awarded to Siemens in Northern Ireland
Major new ITS contract awarded to Siemens in Northern Ireland A new long-term contract to maintain traffic management equipment throughout Northern Ireland (NI) for a minimum period of four years has...
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Clearview Intelligence shortlisted for two Highways Awards
Clearview Intelligence shortlisted for two Highways Awards Clearview Intelligence solutions feature in not one, but two shortlisted submissions in the recently announced Highways Awards 2017. Clearvie...
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Balfour Beatty wins £36m extension to operate and maintain UK M1-A1 Link Road
Balfour Beatty wins £36m extension to operate and maintain UK M1-A1 Link Road Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has been awarded a £36 million contract extension to its existing...
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Hyperloop One announces 10 winners for Hyperloop One Global Challenge
Hyperloop One announces 10 winners for Hyperloop One Global Challenge Hyperloop One, the only company in the world that has built a full-scale Hyperloop system, today announced the winners of its Hype...
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Volvo keeps their staff on their toes – helping construction with exercise
Volvo keeps their staff on their toes – helping construction with exercise Working in the construction industry can be tough, strenuous and at times, stressful. It’s a manual industry where inju...
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Winners announced at the Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2017
Winners announced at the Biodiversity Challenge Awards 2017 Last night’s BIG Biodiversity Challenge Awards saw a thrilling finale to this year’s competition, with eight well deserved winning entries r...
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Parsons helps Bridges to Prosperity construct a footbridge in Panama
Parsons helps Bridges to Prosperity construct a footbridge in Panama Parsons, in partnership with Bridges to Prosperity (B2P), recently sent an 11-member team to Rio Grande—a small community of 200 pe...
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ZÜBLIN, a Strabag subsidiary awarded €309m contract in Singapore
ZÜBLIN, a Strabag subsidiary awarded €309m contract in Singapore ZÜBLIN, a subsidiary of European-based construction group STRABAG SE, has been hired by PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, to buil...
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Major boost for south-west England as plans published for £1.6 billion A303 Stonehenge upgrade
Major boost for south-west England as plans published for £1.6 billion A303 Stonehenge upgrade The route for the £1.6 billion A303 upgrade near Stonehenge, a key part of the ‘South West expressway’, h...
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