After more than a decade of road works and repairs outside his business, one Winnipeg, Canada, resident told World Highways that enough is enough.
“I’ve got no malice towards the contractors,” Gordon Partridge told World Highways. “Contractors are simply where they are told to be. It’s the city officials. The left hand doesn‘t always know what the right hand is doing.”
What he has is “ambivalence and frustration at the situation”. As the health centre owner and chiropractor explains, “there’s two seas
The recent news over the falling share prices around the world due to Chinese economic instability is of major concern for the construction sector. The knock-on effect of a downturn and economic instability in China has impacted around the world, with stock markets in Europe and the US having taken a tumble.
This development should not be a surprise however. It is a situation that has been coming for some time due to the high level of spending in China and which many in the construction industry have bee
The project in the City of Westminster – part of the London urban area - achieved a total embodied and operational carbon saving of 78% – equal to around 100 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent.
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and Transport for London (TfL) are keen to trial cutting-edge pedestrian crossing sensors to help make it easier and safer for people to cross the road throughout England’s capital.
The news comes alongside the completion of the first phase of the Pedestrian Countdown programme and the publication of 'Safe London Streets - Our Six Road Safety Commitments', a new document which makes clear how TfL, the boroughs and its partners will meet London's target of reducing the nu
