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Galliford Try awarded £24m contract for new M49 junction at Avonmouth, UK
Galliford Try awarded £24m contract for new M49 junction at Avonmouth, UK The design and build scheme will feature a new grade separated junction with a roundabout spanning the motorway which will inc...
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New EIB €8.9 billion financing to support climate, water, transport, enterprise and education
New EIB €8.9 billion financing to support climate, water, transport, enterprise and education The December board meeting of the European Investment Bank (EIB) yesterday approved a total of €8.9 billio...
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Inrix predicts over 20 million vehicles will hit UK roads this Christmas causing 4 hour delays
Inrix predicts over 20 million vehicles will hit UK roads this Christmas causing 4 hour delays More than 20 million vehicles will hit the road this festive period resulting in significant delays, acco...
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Santa backs Highways England call for motorists to check their vehicles this Christmas
Santa backs Highways England call for motorists to check their vehicles this Christmas With just 13 days to go before Christmas, Highways England has called on the main man to help remind drivers to c...
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Siemens unveils all-new passively safe traffic signal poles
Siemens unveils all-new passively safe traffic signal poles Siemens, a global leader in traffic management technology, has unveiled a new range of passively safe traffic signal poles. Performance-rate...
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EIB supports upgrade of Kharkiv Metro in Ukraine
EIB supports upgrade of Kharkiv Metro in Ukraine The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending EUR 160m to finance improvements to the public transport system in Ukraine’s second largest city. EIB fun...
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South Yorkshire historic military bridge makes final journey
South Yorkshire historic military bridge makes final journey One of the last military bridges installed to form access to RAF Sandtoft, a Second World War airfield, has been removed after it was insta...
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New Zealand’s Waikato Expressway gets 110km/h speed limit sections
New Zealand’s Waikato Expressway gets 110km/h speed limit sections From today the speed limit on the Tauranga Eastern Link Toll Road (SH2) and the Cambridge section of the Waikato Express...
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Heathrow welcomes 50th electric vehicle as part of pledge to ‘Go Electric’
Heathrow welcomes 50th electric vehicle as part of pledge to ‘Go Electric’ Heathrow has reached a key milestone in its pledge to ‘Go Electric’ with the delivery of the 50th electric vehicl...
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Maximise driver confidence through intelligent road markings
Maximise driver confidence through intelligent road markings Highways England are adding more than 240 miles of extra capacity to the strategic road network by expanding the use of smart motorways and...
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Norway to build world’s tallest timber building
Norway to build world’s tallest timber building “Mjøstårnet” will be more than 80 metres tall and stand 30 metres higher than what is today considered the world’s tallest timber building. “Mjøstårnet...
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Siemens hosts Women in ITS (UK) in England
Siemens hosts Women in ITS (UK) in England Leading traffic technology supplier Siemens hosted the latest Women in ITS interest group meeting at its offices and manufacturing centre in Poole, Dorset th...
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McCann begins work on £25m LED street lighting for Calderdale, Yorkshire
McCann begins work on £25m LED street lighting for Calderdale, Yorkshire Civil and Electrical Engineering firm, McCann, has begun work on a £25m contract to replace and maintain street lighting across...
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INTERMAT Construction Observatory flags €1,600 billion projects in EMEA
INTERMAT Construction Observatory flags €1,600 billion projects in EMEA INTERMAT, the international trade show for the construction and infrastructure sector, has unveiled its first Construction Indus...
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American Concrete Institute expands mission to focus on Global Concrete Standards
American Concrete Institute expands mission to focus on Global Concrete Standards The American Concrete Institute announces that its mission has been expanded to reflect its proactive approach to advo...
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First glimpse of updated Highways England Road Design Manual set for 2018
First glimpse of updated Highways England Road Design Manual set for 2018 Highways England is set to release an updated set of road design standards in 2018 which will be used across the United Kingdo...
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Tarmac partners with the Duke of Edinburgh Awards to develop youth skills
Tarmac partners with the Duke of Edinburgh Awards to develop youth skills Tarmac has launched a new partnership with The Duke of Edinburgh Awards (DofE), the UK’s leading youth charity, to enable more...
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BAM to deliver Visual Control Tower at Dublin Airport
BAM to deliver Visual Control Tower at Dublin Airport The Irish Aviation Authority has awarded the construction of the new Visual Control Tower (VCT) at Dublin Airport to BAM Ireland, the Irish operat...
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England to Wales Severn bridge transfer to public ownership draws closer
England to Wales Severn bridge transfer to public ownership draws closer People travelling over the Severn bridge will soon benefit from cheaper journeys as the bridges return to public ownership earl...
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Williams Racing F1 driver Lance Stroll shares his secrets at the JCB Academy
Williams Racing F1 driver Lance Stroll shares his secrets at the JCB Academy Williams Martini Racing Formula One driver Lance Stroll today shared some of the secrets of his sporting success during a v...
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GSSI showcases their latest GPR Technology at World of Concrete 2018
GSSI showcases their latest GPR Technology at World of Concrete 2018 GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, will be highlighting its latest GPR technology...
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£600 billion UK National Infrastructure Pipeline puts the cart before the horse
£600 billion UK National Infrastructure Pipeline puts the cart before the horse The announcement by the British Government that some £600 billion is to be spent on national infrastructure investment i...
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Skyjack boosts Ashbrook fleet as rental company quickly expands its business
Skyjack boosts Ashbrook fleet as rental company quickly expands its business Skyjack continues to gain traction with UK rental company, Ashbrook, which is quickly expanding its fleet of mobile elevati...
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Major Metro Tunnel construction works on display in Australia
Major Metro Tunnel construction works on display in Australia Locals and visitors will be able to watch construction of the biggest public transport project in Victoria, Australia’s history from new v...
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A mini-recycling plant in every home?
A mini-recycling plant in every home? A major British waste and recycling company believes people should be able to recycle plastics in their own homes, and new-build houses should come with the techn...
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ADB approves US$400m to modernise Azerbaijan’s North-South Railway Corridor
ADB approves US$400m to modernise Azerbaijan’s North-South Railway Corridor The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved two loans totalling $400 million to help strengthen...
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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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