Tarmac highlights sustainability performance with 2021 report launch
Tarmac, the UK’s leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions company, has highlighted its commitment to creating a more sustainable built environment with the online publication of its new 2021 Sustainability Report. The report sets out the positive progress the business has been making against its key targets, including the ways that whole-life thinking is […]
Galliford Try’s Highways business wins place on Midlands Highways Alliance Plus Medium Schemes Framework
Galliford Try’s Highways business has been reappointed to one of its key local authority frameworks, being named as one of the successful contractors on the Midlands Highways Alliance Plus (MHA+) Medium Schemes Framework. The framework is valued at £1bn and will run for the next four years, with the potential to extend for a further […]
Resilient roads and flourishing communities
Christina Liassides of Gaist on the importance of utilising technology to deliver resilient roads. Well-maintained, resilient roads underpin flourishing local economies and communities. But those responsible for developing local highways strategies face multiple challenges: Constrained budgets, sustainability pressures, increasing customer expectations and the need to conform to the highest safety standards. Responding successfully to these […]
Aggregate Industries switches to warm mix asphalt as it continues with sustainability pledge
Driving forward with its commitment to becoming the UK leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, Aggregate Industries has transitioned to warm mix asphalt (WMA) production as standard across its asphalt product portfolio. Boasting a wealth of benefits from carbon savings, reduced build costs and enhanced life-expectancy, warm mix asphalt offers the same high quality and performance […]
Tarmac leads the change to low temperature asphalt in net zero drive
Low carbon asphalt is set to become a feature of UK roads as Tarmac makes the most significant sustainable improvement to its range of asphalt mixtures since the business perfected the method of making road surfaces stick in the early twentieth century. The company, whose original founder Edgar Hooley first patented traditional hot mix asphalt […]
Kier Highways awarded major highways maintenance works and services contracts by North Northamptonshire Council and West Northamptonshire Council
Kier Highways has officially announced it will be providing highways services across North and West Northamptonshire, having been awarded separate contracts by the new councils for the two areas. The awards will see Kier as the sole highway services provider to North Northamptonshire Council and West Northamptonshire Council delivering their new contracts, each valued at […]
Highways projects must take lead in tackling waterway pollution
Highways engineers are being urged to increase the focus on surface water treatment at the design stage following the recent World Environment Day 2022. This year’s World Environment Day called for collective, transformative action to celebrate, protect and restore the planet. As the highways industry continues to find new ways to protect the planet, ACO Water […]
New RSTA conference to examine the importance of managing skid resistance on UK network
A new conference that has been set up to drive the debate on the subject of managing skid resistance on the UK road network, will take place in Reading on September 14th. Managing Skid Resistance UK – The Facts and the Friction-will give local authorities and other road operators insight into how to better manage […]
Via East Midlands appoints new Managing Director
Nottinghamshire County Council owned highways company, Via East Midlands, has announced the appointment a new MD following the retirement of the current post holder, Doug Coutts, following a successful 40-year career in the highways sector. Dan Maher, currently the Managing Director of the Arc Partnership, the Council’s property joint venture company, will be taking on […]
Cheshire West and Chester Borough start search for contractor for highway works
Cheshire West and Chester Borough Council have started the search via a tender which could be worth up to £400m across the length of the contract. The council is looking to appoint a contractor on an initial seven year contract, worth around £20 million each year with the possibility of two four-year extensions on top, […]