A strategic alliance has been established by Bentley and Trimble – Mike Woof and Guy Woodford report A major move in the construction software sector has been seen following the announcement of a strategic alliance between Bentley Systems and Trimble. Both companies have been acquiring smaller firms and expanding their product portfolios and have worked together in the past but this new development will result in far closer integration.This alliance between Trimble and Bentley aims to create a new benchmark
New guidelines have been introduced to improve how the Highways Agency (HA) and emergency services work together. Under the guidelines, part of a Government strategy to reduce the US$1.5billion (£1bn) cost of motorway incidents, the police, fire and ambulance services and the HA have signed up to the CLEAR booklet - drawn up by Agency to tackle congestion caused by lane closures. Launched last year by Roads Minister Mike Penning, The CLEAR (Collision, Lead, Evaluate, Act, Reopen) initiative aims to get tra
Time for a taxi ride around New York City, but back in 1928. Sit back and take a cruise, albeit tongue-in-cheek, around some of central New York’s better streets. But look closely. Rail lines were a prominent feature of those wider city streets as cars and trams mixed it along the boulevards, with people happily running between vehicles any which way. The roads surface looked as if there were no wear course, but simply a base course.
