Eave secures funding to further improve noise protection for road workers
Technology noise protection start-up, Eave, has secured a £2m investment from Pembroke VCT to help further improve noise protection standards for construction workers Eave already supplies many of the biggest construction companies in the UK—including Galliford Try Highways, Costain-Skanska Joint Venture, Ferrovial, VolkerLaser, Skanska-Costain-Strabag, and BAM Nuttall—and now aims to use Pembroke’s investment to boost its growth and […]
Portsmouth City Council unveils plan for improved transport after investment
Portsmouth City Council has unveiled plans for improving travel in the city after securing over £26m from the government’s Transforming Cities Fund. Working in partnership with Hampshire County Council and the Isle of Wight Council, the joint bid was awarded £55.6 million towards 23 public transport, walking and cycling schemes. The funding comes at a crucial […]
Seven areas are the first to receive investment as part of the new Towns Deal
Barrow-in-Furness, Blackpool, Darlington, Peterborough, Norwich, Torquay and Warrington are set to be the first areas to benefit from up to £178.7m in new Town Deals. The seven communities are the first of 101 places to be offered a Town Deal and work will now begin with these areas to confirm final funding. In Torquay, £21.9m has been […]
Interserve re-appointed to the Eastern Highways Alliance Framework 3
Interserve has been re-appointed to the Eastern Highways Alliance Framework 3. Covering a total of ten councils in the East of England, the framework’s £400m contract will be shared between a number of suppliers, as reported by Highways News last week, with Interserve Construction on two out of three of the contracted projects. The framework has been […]
Refurbishment for footbridge over historic Roxburgh viaduct
Work starts tomorrow on giving a suspended footbridge over the River Teviot a refurbishment to improve its safety. Highways England are managing the work on the on the north side of the 19th century Roxburgh Viaduct – better known as the Teviot Viaduct. Built by the North British Railway in 1850, the distinctively curving 13-arch […]
DfT gives approval to A595 upgrades in Cumbria
The government is set to enhance the safety and capacity of the A595 at Grizebeck, Cumbria, after £12 million of funding announced by Transport Secretary Grant Shapps today. Under plans drawn up by Cumbria County Council, the multi-million-pound investment will see the A595 road upgraded at Grizebeck – with a new 1km stretch built to […]
North Yorks Highways starts search for suppliers
North Yorkshire Highways is looking for companies to submit expressions of interests to provide a number of services as part of its new company NY Highways. These include the following; operated pant, hired plant, vehicle maintenance and repair and road traffic signs. The intention of this EOI is to approach the market for suppliers to […]
Weather forecast over the next few weeks could have negative effect on roads that have not been well-maintained says RSTA
Weather forecasts of freezing air to sweep over the UK by the end of October could prove to be bad news for those local roads that have not be well-maintained, according to the Road Surface Treatments Association (RSTA). Weather forecasters WXCHARTS are predicting that Artic air from a north-westerly direction will sweep over the UK […]
The EV charging project in Scotland makes savings and increases capacity
A new electric vehicle (EV) project is expected to help deliver savings of up to £2.6 million for consumers in Scotland. Project PACE, which is a collaboration between the Scottish Government and SP Energy Networks (SPEN), will install around 180 EV chargers across more than 40 charging hubs in North and South Lanarkshire by April next year. […]
Smart phones could help highway engineers to understand ‘road roughness’ according to university study
Motorists with smartphones could help highway chiefs maintain road quality by sending ‘crowdsourced’ data from their mobiles that would allow engineers to assess when carriageway repairs are needed, according to a new study. by researchers at the University of Birmingham. Road roughness is an important measure of condition and ride quality, but many road athorities […]