The UK is now benefiting from the installation of sophisticated automated traffic management equipment and information signs on its motorway network. But with heavy traffic volumes on these roads, novel techniques have had to be implemented. One such operation, organised by client The Highways Agency and its consulting engineer A.One+, has recently been underway on the M56 motorway between Junctions 9 and 16 in north-west England under the Triple Package Advanced Works designation. To minimise traffic distu
UK hire specialist, Sykes Pumps, is playing a vital role in delivering Scotland’s biggest transport infrastructure project in a generation - The Forth Replacement Crossing (FRC).
Once completed later this year, the new road bridge will be the longest three-tower cable-stayed bridge in the world. Forth Crossing Bridge Constructors (FCBC) consortium is using 42,000 tonnes of steel.
Getting all that steel out into the Firth of Forth is a delicate operation. The project involves transferring 7,000tonne se
