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Engineers with a head for heights rock up for specialist work on National Highways’ A417 scheme

GT Jones’ engineers carrying out rock dentition work across the Cotswolds escarpment As this video shows, engineers have been scaling the heights to carry out strengthening...

Re-flow – Re-flow 1.9: Split BoQ into sections and boost operational control

The benefit of field management software like Re-flow over bespoke systems is that it keeps on evolving and improving. Feature requests that come from...

North Lanarkshire pioneers low-carbon road built with recycled plastic technology in UK first

A road in Motherwell has become the first in the UK to trial a pioneering technology that replaces part of the bitumen in asphalt...

Re-flow – Toppesfield Re-flow review: the surprise benefits of field operations software

Six years ago, Toppesfield chose Re-flow Field Management to unlock a digital flow of data between their sites and offices – and to put...

National Highways takes top biodiversity prize for nature revival work

National Highways along with The Wildlife Trusts have been named the overall winner at the 2025 Biodiversity Challenge Awards for the delivery of a...
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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.