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.

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.

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 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.

Contaminated soil, polluted culverts and trees soaked in oil — the true cost of one roadside dump in Northamptonshire.

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.