A material made from the cell walls of plants is helping reduce the carbon footprint of roads in Rotherham.
Can asphalt really be carbon negative? If asphalt specialists SteelPhalt are to be believed, the answer is yes. SteelPhalt in collaboration with Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC) is trialling the use of…
Slotting new road infrastructure above an existing route required a digital solution to overcome design challenges and move the work onto site more quickly.
When asked how the project team managed to fast track a $1.5bn (£1.2bn) road upgrade in the United States from design onto site, the team points to…
A relief road in Lincolnshire currently under construction has had £27M funding for the final section of work pulled, leaving the last part of the project unlikely to start until after 2030.
Lincolnshire County Council has revealed construction on the southern section of the Spalding Western Relief Road is not going…
A dearth of relevant up-to-date knowledge about one of construction’s principal structural materials threatened to hinder the biggest ever programme to rebuild and revitalise England’s many concrete roads.
A dearth of relevant up-to-date knowledge about one of construction’s principal structural materials threatened to hinder the biggest ever programme to rebuild…
National Highways chief executive Nick Harris and Welsh strategic road network deputy director Andy Falleyn are to speak at the ICE’s Summer Prestige lecture in June.
They will explore how investment approaches to environmental and infrastructure challenges in England and Wales are affecting road construction and asset management. The lecture will…
Sweden has revealed plans to equip a 21km stretch of the E20 motorway between Hallsberg and Örebro with the capability to charge electric vehicles (EVs) on the move.
The Swedish Transport Administration - Trafikverket - has said that hopes the E20 will be the first section of 3,000km network capable of…
I read with interest NCE’s summary of the Environment Agency response to the Thames Water draft Water Resource Management Plan which puts forward plans for water transfer between the Rivers Severn and Thames (Online, 29 March). I found what was not said by the Environment Agency even more interesting though.…
A £27M National Highways motorway bridge across the M56 near Runcorn in Cheshire has opened to drivers. The new A533 Expressway bridge between junction 11 and junction 12 of the M56 is a 67m, two-span concrete bridge, consisting of a single two-lane carriageway and a combined footpath and cycleway. The…
A scheme to repair and refurbish a road bridge in Porth, South Wales, will continue on Monday 17 April.
Contractor Centregreat will replace the bearings on the northern side of the bridge, conduct remedial works to a wingwall, waterproof the bridge and complete final resurfacing work in its second phase of…
The first reconstruction scheme under National Highways’ Concrete Roads programme is a challenging testbed.
National Highways can hardly have chosen a more difficult project with which to kick start the reconstruction element of its programme to rebuild and revitalise England’s concrete roads. The 8km A11 dual carriageway between Spooner Row and…
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