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 Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) will help to catalyse countries’ efforts to strengthen transparency, ac...
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 today (Friday 1 December). Junction 10a will serve communities and businesses around Ashford, improving...
Zirocco Surface Dryer heats up the road marking industry As the Winter time fast approaches and the weather gets colder, windier, and wetter, line marking jobs are slowing down. This is due to the inability to mark damp or wet surfaces, as the surface will not be able to provide the right conditions for...
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 equipment. In June, Deere announced a definitive agreement to purchase the international privately-held compa...
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 Beatty today presents fourteen key points in tackling the highways skills shortage in the Highways secto...
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 fewer households impacted by noise compared to 2006. Independent analysis from the Civil Aviation Authority...
Citilabs leverages location data for Total Population Movement Analytics across the USA Citilabs’ Streetlytics provides complete hour-by-hour origin-destination and road volume analytics for the entire United States. Leading mobility analytics solution provider Citilabs, harnessing smart phone and conne...
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 selected by the Airport Authority Hong Kong to construct the A$390 million Terminal 2 (T2) foundation and su...
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 Mill Products business. This acquisition allowed Metso to provide replacement gears and pinions for its...
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 nature, support for wayfinding and navigation, and the safety of the environment – new research has fou...
Talbert 35 tonne Close-Couple Low-bed Trailer delivers day to day dependability Talbert Manufacturing, a North American leader in specialized heavy-haul solutions, gives contractors an efficient and safe way to haul day-to-day loads with its 35CC-HRG low-bed trailer. The lowboy unit is rated at 70,000 p...
Citilabs unveils Streetlytics to create platform of total population movement Location Data can tell you where the sampled people are coming from and going to, when they are traveling and where they live and work. But Location Data by itself cannot answer the questions of ‘how many’ and ‘how did they ge...
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 the M25 and associated motorways. The Contract procured and managed by Connect Plus on behalf of Highway...
Oxfordshire deploys Siemens traffic weight enforcement system A new traffic enforcement system has been introduced by Trading Standards in Oxfordshire to help protect one of the oldest river crossings on the River Thames at Newbridge. Supplied and supported by leading traffic technology supplier Siemens...
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 priority for information offered on its pages. The site design is mobile responsive and works on a variety...
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 Ransom, founder and chairman of Hampshire-based R&W Civil Engineering, as the winner of its Outstan...
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 fleet. SkyAccess uses Skyjacks mobile elevating work platforms (MEWPs) for a variety of applications i...
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. Ashby Cockrell, 68, avoids Florida’s interstate 4 (I-4) whenever he can. To avoid the traffic and acci...
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 Azvi to perform the bridge launch of the 474 metre long bridge. The project started in June 2017 and in...
Latin American Liebherr dealers hold conference in Chile Liebherr invited sales partners from eight Latin American countries to a dealers’ conference in Chile. In addition to visiting the airport site in Santiago and a presentation of the NC-B series tower cranes, the focus of the three-day event...
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