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National Highways chief executive to step down

Nick Harris has announced he will step down from his position as Chief Executive of National Highways after five years leading the organisation. He will...

M42 scheme recycling drive benefits local communities

National Highways volunteers at Forest oak School A recycling drive by the team behind National Highways’ M42 junction 6 scheme is seeing local communities benefit...

National Highways’ Elaine Billington Joins Supply Chain Sustainability School Board

Elaine Billington MBE, Chief People Officer at National Highways, has been appointed to the Board of the Supply Chain Sustainability School, strengthening the School’s...

Lord Blunkett to drive industry transformation with Lower Thames Crossing Skills Taskforce

Lord Blunkett and Natalie Bonnick, Head of Supply Chain and Skills, Education & Employment for the Lower Thames Crossing, discuss the skills challenges in...

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.