Hull’s TravelWise Week campaign shortlisted for national award

Hull City Council could secure back-to-back national awards for promoting active and sustainable travel to residents, businesses and communities, after being shortlisted for the 2024 TravelWise Week Awards. Modeshift, the not-for-profit sustainable travel organisation that organises TravelWise Week, has confirmed that Hull City Council has been shortlisted in the TravelWise Week Campaign – Local Authority […]

ITS Nationals Network Award judge appointed

The esteemed ITS professional Jennie Martin MBE is leading the judging panel for the inaugural ITS Nationals Awards taking place next month in Switzerland, sponsored by  The Traffic Group, Ohmio, IDASO, Neology and SWARCO. The awards are designed to showcase how national Intelligent Transport Systems associations across Europe are supporting their fee-paying members in their countries and beyond. They are […]

Highways UK Excellence Award winning announced

Awards winners have been announced at the Highways UK Excellence Awards, held on the first night of the event at the VOX conference centre at the NEC and sponsored by Heidelberg Materials. The awards, which continue to grow, year-on-year were hosted by television presenter Matt Baker and attended by over 400 guests. The winners were: […]

ITS Nationals Network Awards deadline looms as sponsors confirmed

The 30 members of the Network of National Intelligent Transport Systems Associations are preparing their entries for one of five new awards celebrating the best of the ITS Nationals Network with the deadline for entries being Wednesday 23 October 2024. The new ITS Nationals Awards will be celebrated as part of the 20th Anniversary of […]

Surrey Highways wins prestigious national engineering award

Surrey County Council has been recognised at the Ground Engineering Awards for innovative highways works on the A323. Highways Officers and contractors Ringway worked with engineering company Geobear to develop a solution to stabilise the deep clay soil beneath a section of the road. This first-of-its-kind application of Geobear’s injected geopolymer treatment in the UK, […]

Blakedale announced as Highways Heroes 2024 Drinks Reception and Award sponsor

Blakedale, the UK’s leading supplier of specialist traffic management vehicles in the UK, has been named as the official Drink Reception sponsor for the 2024 Highways Heroes Awards. As part of the agreement, the company will also become one of the awards sponsors for the event, which takes place on 28th November at the London […]

Shropshire Council shortlisted for national award for road maintenance work

Shropshire Council has been shortlisted for a national award for the impact of its new approach to maintaining and improving the county’s roads. The council is one of the finalists for the ‘Innovation’ award at the LGC (Local Government Chronicle) Awards 2024, with the winner set to be announced in June. By 2020 the council’s […]

Excellence award for inspirational females driving forward major motorway upgrade

A female team leading a multi-million motorway improvement scheme and paving the way for generations of women and girls to become future leaders of the construction industry, has won an award at the Construction News and New Civil Engineer Inspiring Women in Construction and Engineering Award for Excellence in Leadership. The project team was crowned in […]

Celebrating M Group Services people who have gone beyond expectations

M Group Services, the leading provider of services to essential infrastructure markets in theUK, has celebrated the delivery and dedication of people who have gone the extra mile in its first Beyond Expectations Awards ceremony.Designed to recognise great performance across M Group Services and its operatingbusinesses, the event was hosted by Andrew Findley, M Group […]

Farrans wins Best Highways and Transportation project at regional CIHT event for A1M

Civil engineering and building contractor, Farrans Construction, has won the Best Highways and Transportation Project at a recent CIHT Yorkshire and Humber event for its delivery of Junction 47 A1M for client North Yorkshire County Council. The £10m project involved widening of three of the four slip roads onto and off the roundabout to increase […]

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