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March 27, 2019
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The Collaborative Learning Circle™ | Driving careers for young apprentices
Highways Industry Posted On March 6, 2019


The Collaborative Learning Circle (CLC) continues to gather momentum as recently, on 20th February 2019, all supply chain partners flocked to Wolverhampton to support associated charity, OnSide via a Career Awareness Day at the Wolverhampton OnSide Youth Zone. The CLC […]


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Highway Care make strategic leadership appointment

Highway Care have appointed Neil Levett, of Levett Business Services,to join their senior leadership team to support them with enhancing […]

Highways Industry Posted On February 28, 2019

Chevron awarded BSC International Safety Award for protecting its employees

Chevron awarded BSC International Safety Award for protecting its employees from the risk of injury and ill health at work Chevron […]

Highways Industry Posted On February 28, 2019

Probe launched after cabin drops on A9 worker, causing serious injuries

A worker was crushed by a falling portable cabin in a horrific accident at a Perthshire construction site. The man, who […]

Highways Industry Posted On February 27, 2019

Balfour Beatty hit with £600k fine over Third Don Crossing death

Balfour Beatty hit with £600k fine over Third Don Crossing death as separate incident sees another employee suffer serious injury Industry […]

Highways Industry Posted On February 27, 2019

Flyovers unsafe for vehicles or even people to be demolished

Two 48-year-old flyovers in the centre of Liverpool, England are to be demolished after an inspection found them unsafe for […]

Highways Industry Posted On February 26, 2019

Wanted: Two-mile runway directly over the M25

Heathrow has defended plans for its new runway to be built over the M25 in the face of claims that […]

Highways Industry Posted On February 26, 2019

Kier | Raising the bar on safety – it’s time to talk

Kier Highways’ mental health wellbeing campaign “Safety in Mind” is gathering pace with the release of its third video. The latest […]

Highways Industry Posted On February 7, 2019

VIDEO| Incredible footage showing the dangers our road workers face every day

Highways Industry have compiled exclusive footage of evidence captured by SafetyCam, a road worker protection system. The video shows public incursions […]

Highways Industry Posted On January 28, 2019

How Leeds could become world’s first city to use drones to prevent potholes.

Engineers working on a multi-million pound project to turn Leeds into the world’s first “self-repairing city” have developed drones with […]

Highways Industry Posted On January 21, 2019

Half of bridges in some areas could collapse under heavy lorries as cash-strapped councils put off repairs

Half the road bridges in some areas could collapse if used by the heaviest lorries. Some 3,177 bridges in Britain maintained […]

Highways Industry Posted On January 7, 2019

Chevron shares in East Midlands Asset Delivery Community’s success at the ICW Collaborative Working Awards 2018

Chevron are proud to be recognised alongside fellow East Midland Asset Delivery Community members at the recent Institute for Collaborative […]

Highways Industry Posted On January 7, 2019

Kier | The quest for innovation brings real results

Undoubtedly an industry leader, Kier Highways have been flying the flag for the development of innovations to enhance best practice […]

Highways Industry Posted On January 7, 2019

Kier | Time to address safety

 Making safety paramount is a message that is portrayed to anyone and everyone who is on the UK road network […]

Highways Industry Posted On December 13, 2018

Kier | Launch of the UK’s first surface dressing innovation

 Kier and Rory J Holbrook Ltd have worked collaboratively to launch a brand-new surface dressing innovation used for the first […]

Highways Industry Posted On November 20, 2018

Motorists urged to think twice about drink driving after Telford man sentenced for M3 crash

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Highways Industry Posted On November 12, 2018

Driver hits 109mph on M6 during smart motorway roadworks

The driver took no notice of the 50mph limit through the works near Coventry. A driver was clocked hitting speeds of […]

Highways Industry Posted On November 12, 2018

You can now be banned from driving for making this simple motorway mistake

UK MOTORISTS are being reminded of a driving law on the motorway which could see them be banned from driving […]

Highways Industry Posted On November 12, 2018

Kier | Collaboration at the House of Lords for the start of a game changer

Kier Highways & The Collaborative Learning Circle are delivering a clear message that the development of collaboration between supply chain […]

Highways Industry Posted On November 1, 2018

WJ | VIDEO | Is this Artificial Intelligent Robot the future of reducing risk?

WJ Roadmarkings Group are to demonstrate the latest innovation in their business, a Robotic PreMarker to reduce risk to the workforce. Existing methods […]

Highways Industry Posted On October 30, 2018

Carnell | SafetyCam Wins CIHT East Midlands Award

Carnell’s SafetyCam road worker protection system has won the CIHT East Midlands Health & Safety Award. SafetyCam was first deployed by […]

Highways Industry Posted On October 29, 2018

“Tired” driver stops on Smart Motorway leading to horror crash on the M1

A driver is lucky to be alive after he was "so tired" he stopped for a rest in the wrong […]

Highways Industry Posted On October 25, 2018

VIDEO | Carnell | Innovation to protect Road Workers is significant

Road workers are subjected to hazards whenever they set foot on the strategic road network. Continuous innovation has been required […]

Highways Industry Posted On October 25, 2018

How are Highways England transforming Road Marking? Here’s how!

Transforming Road Markings Competition - Supported by Kier. Here at Highways England it has been identified that specific research is to […]

Highways Industry Posted On October 2, 2018

Who will be triumphant at the Highways Awards 2018?

Highways Awards 2018_1 from HighwaysIndustry.Com on Vimeo. The Highways Awards is organised by Highways magazine and SMART Highways magazine and is […]

Highways Industry Posted On September 25, 2018

Former manager at collapsed Carillion gets £90,000 council job

A FORMER Carillion manager – the company whose work and collapse will cost Oxfordshire taxpayers millions of pounds – will […]

Highways Industry Posted On September 6, 2018

MVIS | New VMS app delivers greater speed and flexibility

Traffic managers are now able to control their variable message signs (VMS) with greater flexibility and speed, with a new […]

Highways Industry Posted On September 6, 2018

Calling All Apprentices

Who are the Rising Stars in Your Organisation? Entries for the CIHT (Chartered Institution of Highways & Transportation’s) National Apprentice of […]

Highways Industry Posted On August 31, 2018

Highways England’s regional control centre goes ‘open house’

Highways England is throwing open the doors of its high-tech regional control centre at Newton-le-Willows in Merseyside as part of […]

Highways Industry Posted On August 31, 2018

Balfour Beatty completes £6.5m Dundee flood protection scheme

The new flood protection scheme is set to reduce the risk of flooding and to protect homes and main roads […]

Highways Industry Posted On August 31, 2018

Balfour Beatty set to be awarded major section of A9 Contract by Transport Scotland

Transport Scotland has today (Wednesday 29th August ) announced its intention to award the construction contract for the next major […]

Highways Industry Posted On August 31, 2018

Coeval | Discipline in design

Coeval’s time exhibiting at this year’s Traffex Seeing is Believing two-day show in Bruntingthorpe has come and gone, unlike the […]

Highways Industry Posted On August 2, 2018

Number of vehicles on England’s roads jumps by 2.5m in five years

The number of vehicles on England’s roads has increased by nearly 2.5 million over the past five years, it has […]

Highways Industry Posted On July 30, 2018

DRIVER WARNING – Littering from your car could now land you a £150 fine

MOTORISTS in the UK are being urged not to litter in the UK after a recent spate of fires being […]

Highways Industry Posted On July 30, 2018

R & C Williams | The contractor to collaborate with

  R & C Williams, based at the heart of Spaghetti Junction are a ground breaking civil engineering company with over […]

Highways Industry Posted On July 18, 2018

Driver fuming after M20 smart motorway roadworks sent him on ‘unnecessary’ 22 mile diversion

It has been claimed that not enough signs are being put up warning drivers of closures, resulting in hours of […]

Highways Industry Posted On July 16, 2018

Traffex SIB 2018 | Highways Innovation is gaining momentum

Innovation and technology is moving fast in the highways sector. That cannot be denied. A once notoriously ‘old school’ industry of […]

Highways Industry Posted On July 11, 2018

Around the globe | Driver travels through new concrete road

Road signs are there for a reason A driver in Minnesota wasn't having any of it, and decided to go around […]

Highways Industry Posted On July 3, 2018

Roadwork permits help cut driver disruption

Councils across England are being urged to take up a congestion-busting scheme that reduces disruption caused by roadworks. An evaluation report, […]

Highways Industry Posted On June 18, 2018

China is testing a “smart highway” that can generate electricity and charge electric cars

In the Chinese city of Jinan, a 1-km-long section of motorway was equipped with solar panels as a road surface. […]

Highways Industry Posted On June 18, 2018

Offenders face twice the fine for roadwork chaos

Fines for firms that cause misery on the roads by bungling roadworks would double to a maximum £100,000 under a […]

Highways Industry Posted On June 18, 2018

Kier | Driving the industry forward

Kier Highways are currently proving to be exceptional in the highways sector with a whopping 11 award nominations at the […]

Highways Industry Posted On June 15, 2018

SafetyCam | Revolution in road worker safety collects major accolade

SafetyCam emerged victorious in the Health & Safety at Work category at the CIHT Awards 2018 and went on to […]

Highways Industry Posted On June 15, 2018

Coeval | More damage and disruption caused by ‘Bridge Strikes’.

More damage and disruption caused by ‘Bridge Strikes’. But is the solution right in front of our eyes? So-called ‘bridge strikes’ continue […]

Highways Industry Posted On May 25, 2018

£400m A1 upgrade brings safer, faster journeys for drivers

Chris Grayling officially opened a new section of Britain’s longest road, the A1, on Thursday 17 May, helping to give […]

Highways Industry Posted On May 21, 2018


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