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Re-flow – Client spotlight: QMS striving for sustainability in road marking

Last year at Highways UK, long‑term Re‑flow partner QMS unveiled a new, more sustainable approach to line marking: the new EcoRib™ and ColdMark™ machine. Headline...

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...

Kiely Group – Kiely Group Hosts CPD-Accredited Surface Treatment Seminar with IHE at the Forest of Arden

As a Professional Development Partner of the IHE, Kiely Group recently hosted their very first CPD-accredited Surface Treatment Seminar in partnership with the Institute...

Tarmac – Tarmac and National Highways deliver groundbreaking carbon savings in strategic road network resurfacing trial

A cutting-edge trial on the A64 has delivered the UK’s lowest carbon resurfacing scheme on the strategic road network without using carbon offsetting. Tarmac, a...

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.