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Aggregate Industries wins pavement contract for £200m scheme in Preston
Aggregate Industries wins pavement contract for £200m scheme in Preston The contracting division of Aggregate Industries has announced that it has won and started working on the prestigious contract to construct the new Preston Western Distributor Road (PWDR). The PWDR is the first major new bypass...
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Scientists call for policy changes to reduce Europe’s emissions from buildings
Scientists call for policy changes to reduce Europe’s emissions from buildings To live up to their climate pledge under the Paris agreement, EU lawmakers must ensure all 250 million existing as well as all new buildings in the EU become nearly zero greenhouse gas emitters. In a new report, exp...
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Bobcat launches new generation of R-Series Telehandlers
Bobcat launches new generation of R-Series Telehandlers Bobcat is launching the company’s new generation R-Series telehandler range, providing a choice of 12 models with Stage V engines. The new telehandlers cover lifting heights from 6 to 18 m with maximum lifting capacities between 2.6 and 4...
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Largest Cheshire infrastructure project paved with specialist Tarmac Asphalt
Largest Cheshire infrastructure project paved with specialist Tarmac Asphalt Tarmac, the UK’s leading sustainable construction solutions and building materials company, has successfully supplied and installed a specialist asphalt surface course to the largest infrastructure project East Cheshire has...
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UK Cladding contractors need expert advice on professional indemnity insurance
UK Cladding contractors need expert advice on professional indemnity insurance Construction professionals are being urged to get expert advice when buying professional indemnity insurance in the face of rising premiums and potential claims associated with building cladding. Stephen Ward, from RAW In...
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Thermal Recycling pioneers Calmag Asbestos Roof Sheet substitute
Thermal Recycling pioneers Calmag Asbestos Roof Sheet substitute Calmag, the sustainable asbestos-free construction product produced by Thermal Recycling at its pioneering demonstration facility in Wolverhampton, has been proven to be an effective cement substitute. In June 2020, Thermal Recycling w...
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Gold mines in Liberia and Burkina Faso order Metso Outotec Premier and Vertimill mills
Gold mines in Liberia and Burkina Faso order Metso Outotec Premier and Vertimill mills The Turkish conglomerate Mapa Group has awarded Metso Outotec a contract for the delivery of key grinding technology to their gold mine expansions in Liberia and Burkina Faso. The value of the order is approximate...
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Halo Urban Air Mobility orders 200 eVTOL aircraft from Embraer
Halo Urban Air Mobility orders 200 eVTOL aircraft from Embraer Halo, the first global provider for private urban air mobility, has placed a firm order of 200 Eve Urban Air Mobility vehicles, making it the launch customer for this aircraft. The electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft...
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Scotland’s TA400 Terex Trucks perfect for US large-scale projects
Scotland’s TA400 Terex Trucks perfect for US large-scale projects As the US construction sector is recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic, President Biden is working on a major infrastructure bill. This is the perfect time for Scottish manufacturer Terex Trucks to put a spotlight on its largest...
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Zurich commits to staying green with VolvoCE Electric Construction Equipment
Zurich commits to staying green with VolvoCE Electric Construction Equipment Small but mighty electric compact machines from Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) are being put through their paces by Swiss customers for the first time in one of the most sustainable cities on earth – and the result...
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British Safety Council welcomes new Building a Safer Future Charter
British Safety Council welcomes new Building a Safer Future Charter The Building a Safer Future (BSF) Charter has launched its ‘Charter Champion’ initiative to help companies drive the systemic culture change required to put building safety first. The Charter, which is open to all, will help compani...
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Supporting the evolution of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
Supporting the evolution of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are closer than they‘ve ever been, but as the challenges of bringing concepts to market become more evident, so too does the value of specification and validation support services for OEMs. In this...
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Gammon Construction partners with 3D Repo to Boost Safety and Productivity
Gammon Construction partners with 3D Repo to Boost Safety and Productivity Gammon Construction Limited has formed a strategic partnership with 3D Repo, a multi-award winning cloud-based platform for Building Information Modelling (BIM) data. Gammon is the first organisation in Hong Kong to use the 3...
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Zutec QA and defect management software to streamline Thames Tideway Tunnel project
Zutec QA and defect management software to streamline Thames Tideway Tunnel project Construction technology company Zutec Holding AB, has announced that it will supply the BAM Nuttall, Morgan Sindall and Balfour Beatty (BMB) joint venture with digital quality assurance solutions for the West section...
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Doosan Infracore accelerates Battery Pack business with new prototype
Doosan Infracore accelerates Battery Pack business with new prototype Doosan Infracore has announced that the company has manufactured the battery pack prototype no. 1 that it developed in-house. The prototype is expected to help Doosan Infracore accelerate its battery pack business and motorized pr...
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EIB reports €10 billion investment gap in AI and blockchain in the EU
EIB reports €10 billion investment gap in AI and blockchain in the EU Today, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and European Commission published a new study on the state of play in artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies in the European Union: “Artificial intelligence, blockchain and th...
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Malaysian runway rehabilitated with Wirtgen Cold Milling Machines
Malaysian runway rehabilitated with Wirtgen Cold Milling Machines On the basis of positive past experience, the contractor opted for high-performance Wirtgen cold milling machines as well as pavers from Vögele and rollers from Hamm for the complete rehabilitation of runway 1 at Kuala Lumpur Internat...
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Lafarge Western Canada goes green with EcoPlanet Ultra Low Carbon Cement
Lafarge Western Canada goes green with EcoPlanet Ultra Low Carbon Cement In 2020, LafargeHolcim announced a global commitment to creating building material products that meet lower CO² standards. Today, Lafarge introduced the ultra-low carbon cement product, EcoPlanet to the Pacific Northwest, part...
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Improving on-site ergonomics reduces injuries
Improving on-site ergonomics reduces injuries As well as being exposed to a high risk of injury from accidents, construction workers report 20% more back pain than employees in any other industry. Although back sprains are the most likely to cause disabling injury, other musculoskeletal injuries fro...
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Sacyr iChallenges open 4th innovation and co-creation program
Sacyr iChallenges open 4th innovation and co-creation program Today, Sacyr announced the launch of the fourth edition of Sacyr iChallenges, Sacyr’s open innovation and co-creation program targeted at the innovation community to overcome four business challenges set by the company. This call, w...
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Ferrovial Airports appoints new CEO Luke Bugeja
Ferrovial Airports appoints new CEO Luke Bugeja The Board of Directors of Ferrovial today appointed Luke Bugeja as CEO of Ferrovial Airports, in place of Jorge Gil, who has held that position since December 2012 and will remain on for several months to ensure a smooth handover. Bugeja has over 30 y...
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UK’s Spring Heatwave sparks heat safety warnings
UK’s Spring Heatwave sparks heat safety warnings We all love a bask in the sun from time to time — especially if it’s on a warm beach or in your garden on a summer’s day. But when you work outdoors, overly warm weather may not be ideal for your health or for the projects that ...
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Autonomous Mobility-as-a-Service is just 2-3 years away
Autonomous Mobility-as-a-Service is just 2-3 years away “Autonomous cars will be here in 2 years” has been a standard sentence from the industry for the past 5 years or so. Now there is good reason to expect autonomous ride-hailing services to hit our roads within 3 years. So, what has happened in t...
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Heat Safety takes centre stage on Heat Awareness Day
Heat Safety takes centre stage on Heat Awareness Day May 31st is National Heat Awareness Day. New innovations, tools, and education from Magid are revolutionizing heat safety! According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, every day 11 workers are seriously injured or die from heat stress with an aver...
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How businesses can benefit from Bulk Container Liners
How businesses can benefit from Bulk Container Liners Have you ever had to take time out of your busy day to clean up a mess in one of your storerooms? The inconvenience and hassle just slows down productivity – but there’s help. Container liners are designed for easy use in these scenar...
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10 safety and maintenance tips for heavy equipment
10 safety and maintenance tips for heavy equipment More than 20,000 workers are injured on road construction project sites every year. A little over a third of these workers were injured from contact with heavy equipment. In most cases, mishaps involved collisions, backovers, and rollovers. Quite a...
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Sacyr and Fininc opens 35km section of new Pedemontana-Veneta Highway in Italy
Sacyr and Fininc opens 35km section of new Pedemontana-Veneta Highway in Italy Today, the SIS consortium, consisting of Fininc (51%) and Sacyr (49%), has put the fourth section of the Pedemontana-Veneta highway into service, by opening the 35-kilometer Bassano Ovest-Montebeluna toll section. With th...
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TerraClear raises $25m for AI Robotic Rock Picker
TerraClear raises $25m for AI Robotic Rock Picker TerraClear, an applied AI and robotics company, announced Series A funding of $25 million led by Madrona Venture Group, bringing the company’s total funding to $38 million. Rocks in fields break machinery, slow precision farming, and take up valuable...
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Plus self-driving truck completes 4,000 mile Silk Road Journey
Plus self-driving truck completes 4,000 mile Silk Road Journey Plus, a global provider of self-driving truck technology, announced today the completion of a Silk Road expedition by an autonomous truck powered by the company’s supervised autonomous driving system, PlusDrive. The 4,000-mile long-haul...
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Lattice sensAI Solution Stack simplifies AI/ML Models on Smart Edge Devices
Lattice sensAI Solution Stack simplifies AI/ML Models on Smart Edge Devices Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, the low power programmable leader, today announced enhancements to its award-winning Lattice sensAI™ solution stack for accelerating AI/ML application development on low power Lattic...
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Esri ArcGIS Platform chosen by Relive Outdoor Activity SaaS App
Esri ArcGIS Platform chosen by Relive Outdoor Activity SaaS App Esri, a global leader in location intelligence, announced today that Relive, a company which developed an app that chronicles outdoor adventures and journeys by letting users relive those moments, is among the latest to shift to ArcGIS...
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Velodyne Lidar wins Smart 50 Award for Intelligent Infrastructure solution
Velodyne Lidar wins Smart 50 Award for Intelligent Infrastructure solution Velodyne Lidar today announced its Intelligent Infrastructure Solution, powered by Bluecity, was named a winner of the 2021 Smart 50 Award, recognizing the solution’s innovation in smart city applications. The awards, present...
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MIT develops slender robotic finger to identify objects underground
MIT develops slender robotic finger to identify objects underground Over the years, robots have gotten quite good at identifying objects — as long as they’re out in the open, but discerning buried items in granular material like sand is a taller order. To do that, a robot would need fingers that wer...
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Manitou launches new Manitou Group Attachments brand
Manitou launches new Manitou Group Attachments brand Manitou Group, a worldwide reference in handling, aerial lift platforms, and earthmoving, is launching a new brand dedicated to its attachments offer: “Manitou Group Attachments” is intended to simplify and harmonize the attachments offer for user...
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Delta launches AX-308E CODESYS-based AS Series Motion Controller
Delta launches AX-308E CODESYS-based AS Series Motion Controller Delta, a global leader in power and thermal management solutions and industrial automation systems, has introduced the AX-308E as the first of its compact, mid-range AX-3 Series PLC motion controllers. It is based on CODESYS, the devel...
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Rio Tinto and Comptech partner for electric vehicle and 5G casting alloys
Rio Tinto and Comptech partner for electric vehicle and 5G casting alloys Rio Tinto and Comptech are partnering to bring a new generation of aluminium alloys to the market for use in advanced technologies such as electric vehicles and 5G antennas. Rio Tinto’s metallurgical experts have designed the...
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Volta Zero introducing electric trucks to Italy
Volta Zero introducing electric trucks to Italy Volta Trucks, the leading full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer, has confirmed that the Volta Zero will make its Italian debut between 7 and 11 June in Milan. The customer event in Italy comes soon after similar successful French and Spanish ev...
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CPI Euromix gets educated on Sustainability Leadership and Corporate Responsibility
CPI Euromix gets educated on Sustainability Leadership and Corporate Responsibility CPI EuroMix Chief Operating Officer Tony O’Sullivan recently completed a Sustainability Leadership and Corporate Responsibility programme at the London Business School led by sustainability strategy scholar Ioannis I...
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BENNINGHOVEN celebrates first asphalt plant made at Wittlich factory
BENNINGHOVEN celebrates first asphalt plant made at Wittlich factory At a major company event thrown by Belgian construction company Bodarwé, lots of guests celebrated the commissioning of a Benninghoven TBA 4000 mixing plant. The guided tour of the relevant components, e.g. the 20 m high weighing a...
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Cat announces new 980 and 982 medium Wheel Loaders
Cat announces new 980 and 982 medium Wheel Loaders Offering premium performance in the 9- to 11-tonne (10- to 12-ton) wheel loader class, the new Cat® 980 and 982 medium wheel loaders are up to 10% more productive and lower maintenance costs up to 20% when compared to the previous 980M and 982M powe...
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Improving air quality at construction sites
Improving air quality at construction sites One of the challenges of inner-city construction is the pollution and compromised air quality it can cause. With almost 39 percent of the U.S. population living in cities, the environmental impact of the ongoing construction has long been a complaint from...
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Brokk expands and streamlines with move to new HQ in Washington State
Brokk expands and streamlines with move to new HQ in Washington State Brokk, the world’s leading manufacturer of remote-controlled demolition machines, relocates its Monroe, Washington headquarters, consolidating service for customers in western North America. The move brings administration, sales,...
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RSP UK launches the Breaker Boom suction excavator to transform plant hire
RSP UK launches the Breaker Boom suction excavator to transform plant hire RSP UK were thrilled to announce a world first with the release of their suction excavator that will transform the plant hire industry! 2021 will see the German based manufacturer bring a new solution specifically to the UK m...
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Quartz featuring Concrete Deck Analysis platform at World of Concrete 2021
Quartz featuring Concrete Deck Analysis platform at World of Concrete 2021 Quartz, a construction technology company leveraging advanced perception systems to see and understand everything on a construction site, will exhibit at World of Concrete 2021, June 7-10, at the Las Vegas Convention Center....
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ADASTEC selects Teledyne FLIR sensors for flowride.ai Autonomous Bus Platform
ADASTEC selects Teledyne FLIR sensors for flowride.ai Autonomous Bus Platform In conjunction with the development of autonomous passenger vehicles, OEMs and innovators are also working on public transport vehicles as part of the larger push to develop an autonomous vehicle ecosystem. One company mak...
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Hill and Smith Ltd consolidates to create new Vehicle Restraint business
Hill & Smith Ltd consolidates to create new Vehicle Restraint business A new business group has been formed combining the strength and expertise of four leading UK road safety barrier firms. The new group brings together Asset VRS, Varley & Gulliver, Hardstaff Barriers and Hill & Smith B...
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Enhance Site Safety with Active Channel Management
Enhance Site Safety with Active Channel Management Reliable communications are at the heart of safe, modern day traffic management. But with the radio spectrum filling, communications congestion can hinder reliability and site safety. Dr Darren Hudson of Traffic Group Signals explains why the adopti...
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RH Commercial Vehicles opens 2nd Isuzu Truck dealership in England
RH Commercial Vehicles opens 2nd Isuzu Truck dealership in England Following the successful appointment of RH Commercial Vehicles as its truck dealer in Northampton in the autumn of 2020, commercial vehicle manufacturer Isuzu Truck UK has once again combined forces with RH Commercial Vehicles, with...
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Electromobility heads off-road with electric construction equipment
Electromobility heads off-road with electric construction equipment Electric car sales are increasing every year, more and more cities are using electric buses, and the first generation of electric trucks is hitting the highways — when it comes to electromobility, a lot of the early progress has bee...
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Inhibit corrosion in vessels containing saltwater or brine
Inhibit corrosion in vessels containing saltwater or brine Marine environments are extremely aggressive and corrosion protection in these areas requires an especially careful approach. Application of VpCI® inhibitors in the hydrostatic testing process is of great importance since the test water can...
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Fawkes and Reece expand with acquisition of Recruitment Specialist Bromak Ltd
Fawkes and Reece expand with acquisition of Recruitment Specialist Bromak Ltd Leading UK Southern Based construction recruiter Fawkes & Reece further expands its recruitment coverage in the UK by the acquisition of Bromak Ltd. Based in Bolton, Bromak has four offices located around the Midlands...
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Seamless 5G mmWave Connectivity enables Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything
Seamless 5G mmWave Connectivity enables Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Movandi, a leader in new 5G millimetre wave (mmWave) technology today announced a successful demonstration of mmWave repeaters, delivering on the promise of seamless 5G cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communications for th...
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SITECH looks at investing in Construction Training
SITECH looks at investing in Construction Training Operator training can save on costs, increase productivity and maximise site safety, all for less than one per cent of the cost of the equipment. So, how do you find out what training is available so that you can choose the right course? In this art...
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RICS launches new global best practice for Land Measurement guidance
RICS launches new global best practice for Land Measurement guidance New guidance on the measurement of land for development projects such as new housing and commercial development have been published by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors today, which defines common measurements used acros...
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Top 8 challenges with Inner City Construction
Top 8 challenges with Inner City Construction Construction can be a complex and challenging process no matter where the work site is. With so many stakeholders, building codes, and unpredictable factors involved, the path from design to project completion is rarely straightforward. Building in the i...
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CCC Waste Recycling partners with CDE to deliver UK’s largest waste recycling plant
CCC Waste Recycling partners with CDE to deliver UK’s largest waste recycling plant CCC, a family-owned business based in Liverpool, has announced a major investment in a new waste recycling plant from wet processing experts CDE. Established in 1986, the company, headquartered in Kirkby, Mers...
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UK Power Networks creates Virtual power station
UK Power Networks creates Virtual power station A ‘virtual power station’ equivalent to the electricity generation of a gas-fired power station, is being created by UK Power Networks. New contracts for energy capacity worth £30 million are being awarded to 17 innovators in the energy, tech and car s...
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Sustainable Financing and Fintech could boost ESG activity
Sustainable Financing and Fintech could boost ESG activity An increasing number of businesses are focusing on how to embed ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) goals into their strategies. As the notion of sustainability is gaining more ground in the finance sector as well, Marius Galdikas, CEO...
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Evonik and Farsoon collaborate on high temperature 3D printing materials
Evonik and Farsoon collaborate on high temperature 3D printing materials The specialty chemicals company Evonik and China’s largest SLS 3D printer manufacturer Farsoon are strengthening their collaboration in powder-based 3D printing. Both companies aim to open up market access to new large-sc...
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GSSI announces training dates for GPR equipment operation
GSSI announces training dates for GPR equipment operation GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, announces a comprehensive training program for new and existing customers on how to use GSSI equipment safely and effectively in the field. More than a hundre...
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