Extra lanes to open before Christmas on Manchester smart motorway Drivers will be able to use over ten miles of extra lanes on the M62 near Rochdale in time for Christmas. Highways England is opening a permanent fourth lane in each direction between junctions 18 and 20 as part of a phased opening of the...
Tarmac paves way for fleet safety through commitment to HGV accreditation Tarmac, the UK’s leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business, has been reaccredited to undertake the rigorous Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) audit process for its whole UK and subcontractor...
Balfour Beatty awarded Thames Tideway Tunnel contract to supply plant and accommodation Balfour Beatty’s Plant & Fleet Services business has been awarded a contract in excess of £2 million to supply plant and accommodation to the Balfour Beatty joint venture delivering the west section of the Thames...
JCB celebrates Christmas with a £500 bonus for their employees JCB today announced a £500 Christmas bonus for more than 5,500 UK employees. The pay out was announced this morning across at the company’s 11 plants in Staffordshire, Derbyshire and Wrexham. JCB CEO Graeme Macdonald said: “As we entered 201...
250th Liebherr MK 88 mobile construction crane goes to BKV Liebherr has supplied the 250th MK 88 to Barneveldse Kraanverhuur (BKV). The Dutch crane contractor is a long-term customer of the construction machine manufacturer and already uses a large number of Liebherr machines for its wide range of work....
30-year draft Strategic Transport Plan agreed for North West England Civic and business leaders from across the North of England have agreed a draft Strategic Transport Plan, to be published by Transport for the North, for public consultation early in the new year, which outlines the transport infrastru...
Deep Soil Mixing Ltd achieve ISO 9001 and 14001 Ground remediation and soil stabilisation contractor, Deep Soil Mixing Ltd has achieved certification to two key international business standards – ISO 9001 Standard for Quality Management & ISO 14001 for Environmental Management. Achieving ISO 9...
Telent Technology Services awarded UK road monitoring contract Highways England today paved the way for the future technology which will keep road users as safe and informed as possible on the country’s motorways. The Government company has let the contract for the next generation road communications ne...
Caterpillar expands industrial engine range with a 6 cylinder, 9.3 litre engine To address the diverse requirements of the global off-highway emissions landscape, Caterpillar has taken a customer’s approach to the new Cat® C9.3B industrial engine. Our customers expect Caterpillar engine reliability and...
Komatsu partners with NVIDIA to deploy AI for safer, efficient construction sites Komatsu, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of construction and mining equipment, has selected NVIDIA as its partner to bring AI to jobsites, making them safer and more efficient, NVIDIA announced today. The partners...
Is the construction industry ripe for a new operating model? A white paper by FTI Consulting – written by: Simon Granger – Head of Corporate Finance & Restructuring EMEA, FTI Consulting John Maloney – Senior Managing Director, Business Transformation, FTI Consulting Alastair Farr...
Volvo experiments with automated Quarrying Volvo Construction is a company with a keen eye on the future and is investing heavily in delivering that future with their Volvo Concept Labs. The research division is where, amongst the many innovations they are working on, they have been developing autonomou...
AfDB approves US$153m to improve road and rail transportation in Namibia To help speed up travel and transportation in Namibia, the Board of the African Development Bank has approved a loan of ZAR 2,000 million (US$ 153 million) to the Government of Namibia to upgrade a 210km stretch of railway in the w...
Can hospital parking be a collaborative solution? The need to charge people for parking in the UK, whilst they or their relatives are ill remains a very emotive issue, both with the public and at a political level. Which has meant the management of hospital parking facilities has threatened to become a...
Liebherr luffing jib cranes support Bangkok new Three Neighbourhood development Thai Obayashi is using two Liebherr 160 HC-L cranes and a Liebherr 125 HC-L to construct the Samyan Mitrtown project, near the soon to be opened MRT subway extension. Main contractor Thai Obayashi Corp is using three Liebher...
RJT Excavations crushes it with Volvo in Scotland RJT Excavations Ltd of Jedburgh in the Scottish Borders has opted for another Volvo excavator specifically for a long term crushing contract, based on the overall total cost of ownership for its plant fleet. This most recent addition to RJT Excavations’...
Allego signs up Siemens to support Electric Vehicle fast charging in the UK Allego, a leading provider of Electric Vehicle (EV) charging solutions and cloud services, has appointed traffic technology supplier Siemens to support the deployment and operation of EV fast-chargers in the UK beginning with it...
SMM Sonderbau commissions a new CBS 100 SL Elba concrete mixing plant The Müller construction company, headquartered at Weiding near Cham in Germany’s Upper Palatinate region is renowned far beyond the borders of their region for their excellence in general construction and civil engineering work as wel...
MasterChef inspires engineer to cook up a recipe for self-healing roads Dr Alvaro Garcia, a lecturer with the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Nottingham, has hit on a recipe for success by drawing inspiration from the Spanish version of the popular MasterChef series and come up with an innov...
HxGN SMART Build selected as Singapore’s Virtual Design and Construction Platform HxGN SMART Build has been awarded a grant under Singapore’s Construction Productivity RD&D Grant Call for Building Information Modelling (BIM) and will serve as a collaboration platform to support Virtual Design...
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