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Chellan – Retaining Achilles Accreditations as Commitment to Quality and Continuous Improvement Continues

Chellan Highway Safety Services has successfully completed its annual Achilles assessments, retaining a suite of accreditations that demonstrate the company’s ongoing commitment to safety,...

ACO – Why did the adder cross the road? Because it had no other viable options

The number of adders in the UK has seen significant decline over the past few decades and surveys show that 90% of monitored populations...

ACO – New mindset needed to protect from water bankruptcy as droughts and temperatures on the rise

Terry Wilkinson, Specialist Design & Application Engineer at ACO Following predictions that Summer 2026 will see droughts in the UK, ACO Technologies is urging those...

Re-flow – How to build a carbon report with less guesswork

Many businesses might already be producing carbon reports that look clean, professional, and complete – but there’s a decent chance they were, at least...

Why Progress Monitoring is Changing UK Highways and Construction Projects

Across the UK highways and construction sector, progress monitoring has become one of the biggest advantages of modern drone technology. From major infrastructure schemes like...
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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.