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ERA reports Europe’s equipment rental market continues to grow
ERA reports Europe’s equipment rental market continues to grow The European Rental Association (ERA) has launched the ERA Market Report 2019 and reveals for the year 2018, in the EU-28 and EFTA...
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Clearview to launch first of its kind pedestrian and cycle counter at Highways UK
Clearview to launch first of its kind pedestrian and cycle counter at Highways UK With the Highways UK show fast approaching, Clearview Intelligence have been gearing up to showcase their new first of...
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British Construction firms fined £36m for breaking competition law
British Construction firms fined £36m for breaking competition law The British Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has issued three firms with fines totalling more than £36m for breaking competiti...
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Are we doing enough to combat construction waste?
Are we doing enough to combat construction waste? As the effects on the world become too great to deny, we’re seeing more and more focus turning towards the level of waste produced globally. A widespr...
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Modular construction can help to solve the UK housing crisis
Modular construction can help to solve the UK housing crisis Modular Construction is not a new concept, but has been used all around the world for decades. In the UK this method of construction has re...
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The Executive Hire Show gearing up for a great 2020 event
The Executive Hire Show gearing up for a great 2020 event The tool, equipment and compact plant hire industry continues to go from strength to strength according to reports from the organisers of the...
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StripesnSigns on the fast track in East and Central Africa
StripesnSigns on the fast track in East and Central Africa StripesnSigns by Edgepoint Company Ltd, a construction company in Tanzania that began their operations in 2011 has won all 6 major Tanzanian...
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Network Rail offering epic career choice with Level 3 Engineering Apprenticeships
Network Rail offering epic career choice with Level 3 Engineering Apprenticeships Network Rail are recruiting for the next batch of future rail leaders through the Engineering Apprenticeships scheme....
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Autonomous vehicles identified as the most relevant strategic advance for airport
Autonomous vehicles identified as the most relevant strategic advance for airport Aebi Schmidt invited over 200 airport professionals from 38 countries to an experience day on Tuesday, 8 October. The...
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Beijing Daxing Airport relies on Thales and BEST for Air Traffic Management
Beijing Daxing Airport relies on Thales and BEST for Air Traffic Management Beijing Daxing International Airport becomes officially operational on September 25. Thales and Beijing EasySky Technology L...
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Miles Macadam completes Europe’s only multi-storey coach park
Miles Macadam completes Europe’s only multi-storey coach park North West based specialist surfacing company, Miles Macadam, has completed works to surface Europe’s first multi-storey coach parki...
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NEBOSH signs Memorandum of Understanding with Mental Health UK
NEBOSH signs Memorandum of Understanding with Mental Health UK To mark World Mental Health Day 2019 NEBOSH has announced plans to work with Mental Health UK. The memorandum of understanding, which was...
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Highways England starts survey for a new Merseyside bypass
Highways England starts survey for a new Merseyside bypass Environmental specialists have begun carrying out surveys as part of design work for a new Merseyside bypass to the Port of Liverpool. Contra...
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SWECO awarded two big road upgrade contracts with Galliford Try
SWECO awarded two big road upgrade contracts with Galliford Try Engineering consultancy Sweco is set to deliver two major road programme upgrades worth £435 million, in partnership with lead contracto...
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SE England transport strategy to transform economy and hit net-zero carbon by 2050
SE England transport strategy to transform economy and hit net-zero carbon by 2050 An ambitious transport strategy plan to more than double the South East’s economy by 2050, create half a million new...
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Belt and Road Initiative is the world’s largest infrastructure and investment project
Belt and Road Initiative is the world’s largest infrastructure and investment project Volvo Construction Equipment (VolvoCE) takes on its most ambitious project yet: the development of China’s v...
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NEBOSH launches Safety Simplified to shake up workplace safety training
NEBOSH launches Safety Simplified to shake up workplace safety training NEBOSH, one of the world’s leading providers of health and safety qualifications, has launched Safety Simplified, a brand new ap...
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EBRD road projects in Georgia and Tajikistan are highlighting drone potential
EBRD road projects in Georgia and Tajikistan are highlighting drone potential Are we on the cusp of a new era for the transport sector, one driven by disruptive technologies, such as the aerial survey...
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The Asphalt Institute Foundation receives $500K grant from ExxonMobil
The Asphalt Institute Foundation receives $500K grant from ExxonMobil ExxonMobil and Imperial will join the Asphalt Institute (AI) in celebrating its 100-year anniversary at the Lexington, Kentucky he...
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JCB helps London skills company deliver Electric Digger training
JCB helps London skills company deliver Electric Digger training The company has provided a JCB 19C-1E electric digger – the world’s first electric mini excavator to go into full production – to the S...
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Insolvency in the Construction Sector
Insolvency in the Construction Sector In the past five years, insolvency rates in the construction industry have increased more quickly than in other industries across the UK. This article considers t...
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Brexit and a non-existent summer put a damper on construction hiring in the UK
Brexit and a non-existent summer put a damper on construction hiring in the UK This year, the annual increase in construction hiring in the UK over the summer didn’t happen, according to recruiter Ran...
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Asphalt Recycling is all about the Perfect Process Chain
Asphalt Recycling is all about the Perfect Process Chain In order to turn aggregates and bitumen into asphalt for road construction, a thermal mixing process is needed – this is what an asphalt mixing...
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Barcelona buys 42 high-tech trains to modernise metro with €268m EIB support
Barcelona buys 42 high-tech trains to modernise metro with €268m EIB support A €268m operation to replace the 42 oldest trains running on the Barcelona metro was finalised with the signature of the co...
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Canadian bridge installation accelerated with specialist support from ALE
Canadian bridge installation accelerated with specialist support from ALE The Champlain Bridge stretches for over 3km over the Saint Lawrence River and is one of the busiest routes in Canada, connecti...
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PHILCONSTRUCT set to highlight new technologies in construction for a 30th year
PHILCONSTRUCT set to highlight new technologies in construction for a 30th year Projections by industry experts indicate that the construction industry in the Philippines will further increase its con...
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Gammon wins Advanced Manufacturing Centre project in Hong Kong
Gammon wins Advanced Manufacturing Centre project in Hong Kong Gammon Construction Limited (‘Gammon’), jointly owned by Jardines and Balfour Beatty, has been awarded the HK$4.75 billion works contract...
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Createc wins 2nd Queen’s Award for their complex nuclear innovations
Createc wins 2nd Queen’s Award for their complex nuclear innovations An innovative company known for finding solutions to some of the world’s most complex industrial challenges has been presente...
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Construction Equipment Association recruit expert to the CESAR Network Team
Construction Equipment Association recruit expert to the CESAR Network Team The Construction Equipment Association (CEA) has announced the appointment of Clive Harris as a consultant to help deliver t...
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Australia announces massive road maintenance blitz for Victoria roads
Australia announces massive road maintenance blitz for Victoria roads The Australian Government has announced more than $870 million to improve the hundreds of freeways, arterial and country roads in...
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The Middle East in Focus: Transportation, Innovation, Disruption and Gulf Traffic
The Middle East in Focus: Transportation, Innovation, Disruption and Gulf Traffic Gulf Traffic, an annual event that takes place from the 9 – 11 of December this year, will bring to light some of the...
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McConnell Dowell Constructors awarded 2nd Murray River bridge crossing in Australia
McConnell Dowell Constructors awarded 2nd Murray River bridge crossing in Australia Construction on a vital second river crossing between Victoria and New South Wales at Echuca and Moama is a step clo...
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Lord Bamford opens new £50 million JCB Headquarters in Germany
Lord Bamford opens new £50 million JCB Headquarters in Germany JCB Chairman Lord Bamford has officially opened a new headquarters for one of its most important European businesses in an investment wor...
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EIB provides €200m to support clean urban transport in Spain
EIB provides €200m to support clean urban transport in Spain The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided almost €200m for clean urban transport to cut the polluting emissions produced by buses in...
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South Africa is embracing the benefits of Plastic Roads
South Africa is embracing the benefits of Plastic Roads The South African Department of Science and Innovation together with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research are hard at work on an e...
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EIB funding €115 million for electric buses in Rotterdam and the Hague
EIB funding €115 million for electric buses in Rotterdam and the Hague The European Investment Bank (EIB) has signed a loan agreement worth €115 million with public transport provider RET of Rotterdam...
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Highways England brings new way of working to the East of England
Highways England brings new way of working to the East of England A new way of maintaining and improving motorways and major A roads in the East of England launched on Tuesday. The new approach will s...
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EIB investing €151 million for better and safer road networks in Lebanon
EIB investing €151 million for better and safer road networks in Lebanon The European Investment Bank (EIB) and the Council for Development and Reconstruction (CDR) signed a financing agreement of €15...
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Anglo American leading the way with IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining
Anglo American leading the way with IRMA Standard for Responsible Mining Anglo American announces that its Unki platinum mine in Zimbabwe is the first to publicly commit to be independently audited ag...
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Highways Awards look at British innovation and digital roads that mend their own potholes
Highways Awards look at British innovation and digital roads that mend their own potholes Since the Romans put us on the straight and not-so-narrow road, the UK has become a world leader with British...
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Six people a month risk their life to cross the rail tracks in Grays, UK
Six people a month risk their life to cross the rail tracks in Grays, UK Over six people a month are putting their lives at risk by walking across the rail tracks at a level crossing in Grays. The lat...
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Highways England gets green light for major M6 roundabout improvement
Highways England gets green light for major M6 roundabout improvement A multi-million-pound transformation of a key motorway junction in Cheshire will get underway next year after the Government gave...
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Control and software automation specialist QSI Group expanding with Actemium rebrand
Control and software automation specialist QSI Group expanding with Actemium rebrand QSI Group, part of VINCI Energies UK & RoI since 2017, has been rebranded as Actemium Automation Teesside as it...
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Methane Rangers and Dirt Demons win Case sponsored National Gas Rodeo Championships
Methane Rangers and Dirt Demons win Case sponsored National Gas Rodeo Championships The 2019 National Gas Rodeo, organized by MEA Energy Association and sponsored in part by CASE Construction Equipmen...
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The OCU identifies the cleanest and most neglected cities in Spain
The OCU identifies the cleanest and most neglected cities in Spain The Organization of Consumers and Users ( OCU ) has carried out a study to identify the cleanest cities in Spain. The result shows th...
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Behind the scenes at the new Jaguar Design Studio
Behind the scenes at the new Jaguar Design Studio Beautiful design has always been at the heart of Jaguar; exciting proportions, elegant form and innovative luxury. Recent World Car Design of the Year...
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Highways England helps to Get Cumbria Buzzing to make A roads bee friendly
Highways England helps to Get Cumbria Buzzing to make A roads bee friendly Colourful carpets of grasses and wildflowers are being sown and planted as Highways England looks to get Cumbria Buzzing and...
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Minster Surfacing celebrates 20th anniversary with the launch of Minster Group Ltd
Minster Surfacing celebrates 20th anniversary with the launch of Minster Group Ltd Celebrating 20 years since Civil engineering firm Minster Surfacing was launched, the company is now rebranding as pa...
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Evo-Chev Passive Chevrons installed at Heathrow Airport
Evo-Chev Passive Chevrons installed at Heathrow Airport A number of Evo-Chev passive chevrons made by TMP Solutions have been installed as part of a road refurbishment scheme near Terminal 5 at Heathr...
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