Cold Comfort calls for open minds to tackle winter roads The UK’s highways leaders could look to Canada, Russia and even over their nearest county boundary to find new ways to tackle winter conditions – but extreme winter weather now goes well beyond the need to grit roads and shovel snow – these are th...
CASE debuts DL550B Compact Dozer Loader at ConExpo CASE Construction Equipment debuted the all-new DL550B — the industry’s first fully integrated compact dozer loader. Unveiled at CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2017 as a concept machine named “Project Minotaur”, the DL550B leverages the footprint of a compact track lo...
CDE hailed as one of Ireland’s Best Managed Companies CDE has been named as one of Ireland’s Best Managed companies in the Deloitte Best Managed Companies Awards programme, in association with Bank of Ireland. The company, which demonstrated superior business performance for the twelfth year, was...
Metso introduces large-capacity Lokotrack ST4.10 mobile screen at ConExpo Metso has showcased their latest addition to its mobile screens range, the Lokotrack® ST4.10™, at the Metso booth C31531 in the CONEXPO-CON/AGG construction show in Las Vegas on March 10-14. The new mobile screen now being...
Colas introduces the French Exopush rake Exoskeleton to the UK Colas has launched the Exopush in its UK business. Exopush is an exoskeleton designed to give power assistance to operatives working on levelling with a rake. Amongst emerging benefits will be productivity gains and increased efficiency plus...
CASE unveils the 580EV Project Zeus – the first fully electric Backhoe Loader CASE Construction Equipment introduces “Project Zeus” — the 580 EV (Electric Vehicle), the construction industry’s first fully electric backhoe loader. The power and performance of the 580 EV is equivalent to other diese...
EIB and leading road safety NGOs partner to halve road deaths by 2030 The European Investment Bank (EIB) today entered a partnership with the three NGOs leading Road Assessment Programmes (RAP) as part of the global drive to halve the 1.35 million annual global road deaths by 2030. The Memorandum of Und...
ADB financing $42m for critical transport infrastructure in Bangladesh The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $42 million in project readiness financing (PRF) for a facility to help improve transport connectivity and promote multimodal transport in Bangladesh. “Bangladesh’s transport network is c...
EBRD Green Cities Action Plan to transform public transport in Sarajevo The EBRD is financing major investments to improve public transport in Sarajevo, with CO² emission reductions likely to exceed 30%, in an effort to tackle the alarming air pollution in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Two loan...
World Bank report safer roads will add over $1 Trillion to South Asian Economies South Asia’s eastern subregion, comprising Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, and Nepal, needs to invest an estimated extra $118 billion in road safety over the next decade to halve its road crash fatalities, says a new World Bank...
INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard finds congestion cost Britain £6.9 billion in 2019 INRIX, a global leader in transportation analytics and connected car services, has published the 2019 INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard, which identified, analyzed and ranked congestion and mobility trends in more than 900 ci...
Industry thought leaders share advice in new NEBOSH Health and Safety Career Guide NEBOSH, one of the world’s leading providers of health and safety qualifications and courses, has created Do Something Great: Your Health and Safety Career a special, free guide for those thinking about a career in health...
Innovating companies could reduce UK Corporation Tax to 10 percent Data provided by HMRC in October 2019 showed that over £1 billion in tax relief was claimed by 1,170 companies under a scheme called Patent Box. The scheme is designed to reward companies who invest in innovation and seek to protect thei...
An expert guide to Sonic Drilling A wide range of specialist equipment has been utilised over the past few decades in the construction industry. The drilling industry, in particular, has seen huge progress in terms of the apparatus used, and the technologies involved. One of the most pertinent examples...
COVID-19 and the Construction Industry The construction industry has had a particularly difficult few years, with uncertainty around Brexit, high numbers of insolvencies, high-profile building safety concerns, and more. So, the outbreak of coronavirus disease COVID-19, which started in China at the very...
Tenstar Simulations showcasing their World of Simulation at CONEXPO 2020 Tenstar Simulation, a specialist in the simulator industry that offers a wide range of professional machine education simulators for Construction, Transportation and Agriculture, is showcasing their World of Simulation at ConExpo 2...
TU Wien unveils the Unfoldable Bridge in Austria There are many different methods for erecting bridges – but the new technique developed by TU Wien, the balanced lowering method, is quite spectacular: the bridge is not built horizontally, as would normally be case, but erected in a vertical position and...
GM unveils Ultium electric vehicle batteries and Platform with their new EV Global strategy General Motors is gathering hundreds of employees, dealers, investors, analysts, media and policymakers to share details of its strategy to grow the company’s electric vehicle (EV) sales quickly, efficiently and...
CASE unveils all new E Series single-drum Vibratory Rollers CASE Construction Equipment has introduced the new E Series single drum vibratory soil compactors — three new models ranging in max operating weight from 18,520 pounds (the new SV207E) up to 33,400 pounds (the new SV213E). With best-in-class ce...
MIT explores 3D-printed CurveBoards to integrate electronics onto physical prototypes MIT researchers have invented a way to integrate “breadboards” — flat platforms widely used for electronics prototyping — directly onto physical products. The aim is to provide a faster, easier way to test circuit func...
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