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 […]

Nominations open for “bigger and better” ITS (UK) Awards

The brightest and best innovators in the country’s transport technology industry are being urged to enter the 2022 ITS (UK) Awards, as the nominations process gets underway. There are eleven awards up for grabs this year, as the UK’s Intelligent Transport Systems industry association significantly expands its event to better recognise the huge contribution technology […]

ITS (UK) announces awards shortlist

Digital road solutions, CAV testing techniques and a fusion of transport modelling with live traffic data to improve air quality are among the shortlists for two of the categories in the prestigious ITS (UK) awards. A video analytics platform and a bus occupancy data solution are also in the running for the top prizes which […]

Jenoptik average speed installation wins road safety award

Automated enforcement specialists Jenoptik Traffic Solutions UK have won the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation Road Safety Award 2021 for an average speed solution which tackled the problem of antisocial driving on a stretch of the A10 in North London. The Jenoptik SPECS network was delivered on the A10 in Enfield after problems with […]

A9 dualling project wins two awards

The A9 Dualling: Luncarty to Pass of Birnam project, part of Transport Scotland’s £3 billion infrastructure programme to dual the A9 from Perth to Inverness, has received two awards. The project won Infrastructure Project of the Year at the recent Go Awards Scotland 2020, and secured a prestigious industry accolade as main contractor, Balfor Beatty […]

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