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ADEPT calls for greater government support to deliver fair EV charging network

Local authorities need stronger Government support to deliver a fair and accessible electric vehicle charging network, according to the Association of Directors of Environment,...

National Highways opens UK’s first heathland green bridge over A3 in Surrey

The UK’s first ever heathland green bridge has now opened to walkers, cyclists and horse riders in Surrey. The Cockcrow Bridge connects Ockham and Wisley...

Hertfordshire reviews highways supply strategy amid rising material cost pressures

Hertfordshire County Council is reviewing its highways supply and procurement strategy as rising global oil prices and international instability place increasing pressure on construction...

Stories, not spreadsheets: the sustainability event aimed at the people who keep places running

A new UKGBC leadership event puts communication at the centre of sustainability delivery. For councils and contractors, the lesson is blunt: good engineering still needs a coherent answer to what changes, who benefits, and why the disruption is worth it.

Britain’s roads were built for a climate that no longer exists

Heat lingers longer. Rain arrives harder. And the network itself is older than the weather now testing it. Resilience has stopped being a conference theme and become a maintenance problem.

Thousands of streetlights, one quiet transformation across Warrington and Liverpool

A fresh push on LED streetlights in Warrington and Liverpool points to a quieter kind of road upgrade: less power, lower maintenance and a different night-time streetscape for drivers and residents.

National Highways – 650,000kWh a year: inside the solar retrofit of 16 working highway depots

National Highways has fitted 825kW of solar, 760kWh of battery storage and 18 heat pumps across 16 operational sites, all while maintenance crews kept working. The programme will generate nearly 650,000kWh of renewable electricity annually.

Clean-up completed after fly-tippers dump hazardous materials

Contaminated soil, polluted culverts and trees soaked in oil — the true cost of one roadside dump in Northamptonshire.

A former coal plant will fuel Britain’s biggest road project with hydrogen

National Highways has ordered 2,500 tonnes of green hydrogen to replace 12 million litres of diesel on the £10bn Lower Thames Crossing — the largest volume ever supplied to a British construction site.