Network road pricing is inevitable to manage increasing congestion on city motorways and to facilitate more efficient transport networks, says 891 Transurban chief executive Scott Charlton.
Contractor Balfour Beatty is to construct new truck parking facilities alongside the M20 motorway in Kent in the UK. The package of works was awarded by Highways England and the £130 million deal covers the development of the proposals during the Early Contractor Involvement (ECI) phase of the project. This deal also includes the construction of the lorry area subject to a decision to proceed from the UK Government. The £250 million truck parking area was initially announced by the UK’s Chancellor of the Ex
According to RMIT - the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - 10 project sites around the Australian city will use an estimated 21,000kg of recycled plastic.
Hill & Smith Holdings PLC, the international group with leading positions in the supply of infrastructure products and galvanising services to global markets, said performance of the group between July 1 and November 14, 2012, had been “robust”. Net debt as at 31 October 2012 was £93.3m, compared with £89.1m as reported at the half year. The increase, revealed in Hill and Smith’s Interim Management Statement, was said by the Group to principally reflect its investment in a new galvanising plant in the USA,
