Highway maintenance

Northallerton Link Road reaches new milestone

A important new link road in North Yorkshire took a massive step towards completion when the central span of the railway crossing bridge was lowered into place. Contractors, Eric Wright Civil Engineering, worked through the night to put the steel work into place – with the western section completed the following day. The road – […]

Innovative electrical equipment trialled by Essex Highways to cut down noise and air pollution

Essex Highways is trialling two new innovations – an electric mini-excavator and a battery-operated wacker plate which is used to compact the ground and aggregates into a solid sub base before laying a road or pavement top surface. Both new machines are run purely on battery power meaning a reduction in both air and noise […]

Dyer & Butler Achieves Gold Level Status with Supply Chain Sustainability School

Dyer & Butler, a part of M Group Services, has been awarded Gold level status by the Supply Chain Sustainability School (SCSS). Gold is the highest level of SCSS membership and the achievement is a signal of Dyer & Butler’s continued commitment to delivering value to its aviation, highways and rail sector clients by driving […]

Hampshire County Council and Milestone Infrastructure invest in new road material recycling hub

A partnership between Hampshire County Council, Milestone Infrastructure and specialist recycling contractor, OCL, has invested in a new purpose-built recycling centre for Hampshire Highways’ road materials. The plant in Micheldever is being used to provide the means to reprocess and recycle material generated from road repairs, for re-use in road maintenance, leading to reduced carbon […]

Unsung hero of world’s first ‘Tarmac’ road honoured

An unsung hero credited with inventing the modern road surface has been celebrated with the unveiling of a commemorative blue plaque in Nottingham. Edgar Hooley, a Nottinghamshire County surveyor, perfected the method of making road surfaces stick in the early twentieth century, with Radcliffe Road in West Bridgford subsequently becoming the very first Tarmac road […]

Rhondda Cynon Taf Council to adopt seven private roads as part of pilot project

Rhondda Cynon Taf Council has agreed pilot projects to deliver highways improvements at seven private roads, including carrying out a Welsh Government pilot for one of the locations. Each road will then be permanently adopted by the council. At their meeting this week, cabinet members considered a report proposing a pilot programme of works at […]

Kiely Bros joins Minister Group to create ‘Midlands Highways Hub’

Highway maintenance specialist, Kiely Bros, has joined Minster Group at its expanded headquarters near Lincoln to create a “Midlands Highways Hub”. Road surfacing and civil engineering specialist Minster Group has expanded its Lincoln site to include new office premises for road and line marking specialist Kiely Bros. Kiely Bros has signed a new 10-year lease […]

Twelve rural roads to be treated this autumn in Dorset thanks to Pothole Fund investment

Twelve rural roads are being reconstructed in Dorset this autumn thanks to the Department for Transport’s Pothole Fund. Dorset Highways has identified roads that have evolved from tracks and have very little construction, and have significant cracking, undulation or pothole damage, for permanent repair. This programme of work will use in-situ recycling to strengthen the […]