ADB finances $177m for road construction in Maharashtra State The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $177 million loan to India to upgrade 450 kilometers (km) of state highways and major district roads in Maharashtra State. Located in central and western India, Maharashtra is India’s third-larg...
MIT teaching robots to perform complex tasks by observing humans Training interactive robots may one day be an easy job for everyone, even those without programming expertise. Roboticists are developing automated robots that can learn new tasks solely by observing humans. At home, you might someday show...
Nordic Investment Bank finances €70m for hydropower in Sweden and Finland NIB has signed a ten-year loan agreement of €70 million with Fortum Oyj to finance the refurbishment of two hydropower plants in Sweden and one in Finland. The investment will improve safety, repair and renew the dam and spillway...
Per Person Per Night improves accommodation booking for travelling contractors While many industries in the UK are struggling under the challenges of Covid-19, the construction industry is still going strong, but they are facing a whole new set of challenges. Ironically, the very people who build our bu...
Aquajet to unveil revolutionary new Hydrodemolition product at online global launch Aquajet, a global leader in Hydrodemolition robot manufacturing, will introduce a revolutionary new product through a worldwide digital launch on Wednesday, May 27, at 2 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST). “We orig...
Digital Twins to have major impact on how we interact with buildings post lockdown We are moving ever closer to a world where Digital Twins developed to aggregate, manage, analyze, visualize, and predict information for today’s smart cities, manufacturing plants, and building construction sites, can be...
Trimble launches Roadworks 2D Paving Platform for advanced Paving Machine Control Trimble has announced Trimble® Roadworks 2D Paving Control Platform for asphalt pavers, an automatic screed control system that can improve the accuracy and productivity in applications of asphalt paving. Trimble Roadworks...
Dennis Automotive launches £1 million campaign to #GetBritainMovingAgain Dennis Automotive, publishers of Auto Express, evo, Car Throttle, Octane, Carbuyer and DrivingElectric, has announced a million-pound campaign to support the UK car industry as it looks to reopen and rebuild as a result of the Coro...
Artificial Intelligence keeping an eye on road safety will give fleet managers a helping hand The use of dash cam technology is on the rise, and for good reason. Last year, Scotland Yard revealed the extent to which its use has increased for the investigation of road incidents, with an average of 640 pi...
EBRD finances €75m for modernisation of Tbilisi metro in Georgia Residents of Georgia’s capital Tbilisi will benefit from a €75 million sovereign loan, with €65 million provided by the EBRD and €10 million by the Green Climate Fund (GCF), for the modernisation of the metro network, its main form of publ...
M56 Manchester to Wales motorway set for £12 million improvements The motorway which links Manchester to North Wales is getting £12 million worth of improvements to provide better journeys for drivers. Highways England is carrying out a series of maintenance schemes along a 28-mile-stretch of the M56 du...
Bollinger Motors unveils Class 3 Electric Commercial Truck Platform Bollinger Motors announces plans to produce and sell the all-electric B2 Chassis Cab. The Bollinger B2CC is the world’s first and only Class 3 all-electric chassis-cab truck platform, and it offers unlimited work truck variants. “The Bo...
TRL calls for safer voice-controlled in-vehicle technologies TRL, the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory, has recently authored a report – commissioned by IAM Roadsmart, FIA Road Safety and Rees Jeffreys Road Fund – into the impacts of in-vehicle infotainment systems such as Android Auto and Apple CarPl...
How Council Highways departments can break down data silos for digital transformation Local authorities put in a great deal of investment and planning time every year in maintaining and developing the nation’s highways and surrounding infrastructure. There is much to be gained from coordinating activiti...
World Economic Forum and Construction CEO’s offer local Governments Coronavirus support The World Economic Forum and top CEO’s from the world’s largest construction and infrastructure companies have written an open letter to local governments around the world to help with their COVID-1...
Portsmouth based Parchow Groundworks invest in twenty LiuGong Excavators Based in Waterlooville near Portsmouth, UK, Parchow Groundworks Ltd have become the latest business to invest in LiuGong excavators, which are being supplied by LiuGong Direct UK, who are also based in Portsmouth. Parchow Groundwor...
Keele University experts advise policymakers on road safety during and after lockdown Criminology experts from Keele University are studying the impact of the coronavirus lockdown on Britain’s road network, in a bid to make the roads safer during and after the lockdown. As the country remains in lockdo...
Yanmar launches Buy Now Pay Later sales initiative in the UK Yanmar Compact Equipment EMEA has announced a limited-time sales initiative across the UK and Ireland, to make purchasing state-of-the-art plant equipment simple, accessible and hassle-free. For all excavators, carriers and wheel loaders purch...
Northern Asphalt Surfacing moves into their first premises in Leigh A road surfacing business, set up just four months ago, is celebrating after moving in to its very first premises at Moss Industrial Estate, in Leigh. Northern Asphalt Surfacing has won some significant contracts since it started tradin...
Bosch shows coronavirus commitment with technological innovations After shutting down production at nearly 100 Bosch locations worldwide this month, the company is systematically preparing for a gradual ramp-up of manufacturing. “We want to ensure reliable supplies to meet our customers’ demand as it gr...
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