Highways England in Construction and Infrastructure
Highways England is becoming increasingly important across global construction, infrastructure and industrial technology, influencing how projects are visualised, coordinated, delivered and managed over time.
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From planning and design to field execution and asset management, this topic sits at the centre of digital change across the built environment, helping teams improve visibility, accuracy, coordination and long-term performance.
The only motorway in England which drivers need to come off to continue their journey on the same motorway could be about to get its missing link. The anomaly was created...
A digital revolution in the construction industry could dramatically increase productivity and save billions of pounds, while radically reducing disruption to the public...
New aerial photographs of the M6 in Cheshire show how much progress Highways England has been making since it started a Β£43 million project at junction 19 near Knutsford...
Six motorway gantries which will house up-to-date technology to improve safety have been put up on a section of the M6 without the need for any road closures thanks to th...
Highways England is today launching its search to find archaeological specialists to carry out excavation work ahead of the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down upgrade past Sto...
Major upgrades to a northern Trans-Pennine route are a step closer today with the official preferred route announced for the Β£1 billion A66 upgrade. The announcement reve...
The M4 between junctions 6 and 8/9 near Slough and Maidenhead in Berkshire has fully reopened after work to lift huge steel beams into place over the motorway finished ea...
Britainβs biggest road-building project, the A14 is opening for traffic eight months ahead of schedule, Highways England announced today. The upgraded road was originally...
The motorway which links Manchester to North Wales is getting Β£12 million worth of improvements to provide better journeys for drivers. Highways England is carrying out a...
Nottingham-based civil and electrical engineering firm McCann has been announced as a finalist in the 2020 Highways England Awards after Project Supervisor Keith Scott wa...
Britainβs most ambitious roads project in a generation, the Lower Thames Crossing, will begin its next phase of public consultation next week, Highways England has announ...
Motorway users and people living around the M6 at Knutsford in Cheshire can find out more about the Β£43 million junction 19 roundabout improvement at Highways England pub...
Environmental specialists have begun carrying out surveys as part of design work for a new Merseyside bypass to the Port of Liverpool. Contractors working for Highways En...
A new way of maintaining and improving motorways and major A roads in the East of England launched on Tuesday.Β The new approach will see Highways England take a more hand...
A multi-million-pound transformation of a key motorway junction in Cheshire will get underway next year afterΒ the Government gave the green light for the M6 roundabout pr...
Colourful carpets of grasses and wildflowers are being sown and planted as Highways England looks to get Cumbria Buzzing and encourage wildlife to thrive and create beaut...
The latest in a series of Highways England contracts to carry out up to Β£8.7 billion of work on Englandβs motorways and major roads has been announced. As part of its gro...
People living near a major Highways England roads project have benefitted from new quieter roadworks as hydraulic piling equipment was used to force steel sheets into the...
Extra lanes and new technology on one of Englandβs busiest stretches of smart motorway are saving commuters up to 40 minutes each week. Highways England completed the big...
Association for Project Management (APM), the chartered body for the project profession, has today announced that it is working with the major projects profession team at...
Highways Englandβs Β£5 million project to transform Norcross roundabout – one of the busiest junctions along the A585 in Lancashire – will hit top gear from Sa...
Repair teams at M5 Oldbury swapped scaffolding and concrete repairs for the classroom in a series of special visits to help train the next generation of construction work...
Six stone and cast-iron mileposts across roadsides in Yorkshire have been restored, protecting a historical feature and enhancing cultural heritage. The milestones, two o...
One of the biggest ever motorway emergency exercise will take place on the M62 this weekend to help improve responses to major road incidents. Around 100 workers from Gre...
SsangYong Motors UK has been awarded a contract to supply 32 vehicles to Highways England, to be deployed initially in Highways England areas in the north west (area 10),...
A Β£78 million upgrade of the M6 junction 10, which will ease congestion and speed up journeys for the thousands of drivers who use it every day has taken a big step forwa...
Highways England is today launching its search to find potential contractors for the A303 Amesbury to Berwick Down scheme past Stonehenge. The company, responsible for th...
Technology which could improve air quality in local communities by helping the way drivers leave motorways was named today as one of the successful entries in a multi-mil...
The first in a series of contracts with supply chain partners to carry out up to Β£8.7 billion of work on Englandβs motorways and major A-roads have been signed. Highways...
Go Plant Fleet Services has been carrying out a major road sweeping operation on Highways Englandβs Β£1.5 billion A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon improvement scheme for the pa...
Ghost markings and blacked out lines on the road, which can confuse drivers, could become a thing of the past thanks to Highways Englandβs global search for a solution to...
With a crowd of more than 340,000 spectators and more than 125,000 vehicles heading to the Formula 1 British Grand Prix this weekend, Highways England has come up with a...
Electronic message signs have gone all multilingual in a ground-breaking initiative to improve roadworks information for lorry drivers. Highways England has started givin...
Two fully electric powered roadworks vehicles are being trialled by Highways England for the first time, the company announced today. One of the vehicles is being used ac...
The Dartford tunnel saw its longest ever free-flow load pass through it recently when it was used to transport an enormous 41-metre-long footbridge. The footbridge, desti...
Highways England has reached a significant milestone of installing 100 cycle path schemes to improve the safety of cyclists and walkers around the countryβs busiest roads...
Updated plans to transform one of the busiest road links in the East of England have gone on show today.Β Commuters using the A428 between Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire...
Highways England plans to revolutionise construction and maintenance schemes on the strategic road network by introducing the use of connected and autonomous plant (CAP),...
A major project to provide quicker and more reliable journeys for drivers on the M62 near Warrington will enter its latest phase early next month. Contractors for Highway...
A nationwide commercial vehicle provider has reached a significant milestone as part of its commitment to road safety asΒ Go Plant Fleet Services has now put more than 200...
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