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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,...

Coeval – Strengthening Sustainability Journey Through Collaboration with Auditel

Coeval has taken an important step forward in its commitment to sustainability by partnering with Auditel, a leading cost, procurement and carbon solutions company. This...

National Highways chips in to support animals at education project

Arriving with the tractor full of wood chippings. Edward Hopkinson, John Geary and Tony Sheehan from Amey, tractor driver Callum Griffiths from Triple H...

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...

Highways Drone Services – Why Drones Belong in Every Local Authority’s Road Strategy

Across the UK, local authorities face a single challenge: maintaining road networks to the highest standards while balancing cost, safety, and sustainability. For decades, traditional...
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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.