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The UK’s Structural Concrete Alliance has shortlisted three projects for the 2016 Structural Concrete Alliance Award for Repair and Refurbishment, with the winner to be announced by journalist Kate Silverton at the Concrete Society Awards Dinner to be held at the Grosvenor Hotel, Park Lane, London on 17 November.

The winners were chosen from entries received from members of the three trade associations which make up the Structural Concrete Alliance: the Concrete Repair Association (CRA); Corrosion Preven

Indian tyre manufacturer BKT has launched its new website, m.bkt-tires.com, which it says offers improved content research and browsing from any mobile device.

The selection of specific contents presented in an optimal layout for smartphones and tablets enhances the users’ browsing experience making it even more captivating and intuitive, says BKT.

BKT says it has thought of the users from any part of the globe including in the mobile version the option to choose between two measurement standards as f

Aibotix, a leading provider of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solutions, has been presenting the latest innovations in UAV technology at INTERGEO 2016 in Hamburg, Germany, in celebration of the five-year anniversary of its Aibot X6 UAV.

“The way surveyors and inspection professionals are working has changed significantly during the last five years,” says Lothar Assenmacher, managing director.

“The success of UAVs like the Aibot X6 is not only capturing aerial data but saving time and costs. We have be

Ermes Gemo from Italy has been crowned Operators Club champion for the second time, following a year of gruelling local heats and a final test of speed, precision and technique at Volvo Construction Equipment’s (Volvo CE) compact excavator plant in Belley, eastern France.

On Saturday 8 October 2016 Volvo CE pitted 20 of Europe, Middle East and Russia’s most talented operators against each other in one of the construction industry’s toughest tests of precision operation – the Operators Club Final. Repre

Leading UK infrastructure services company FM Conway has won a Gold Medal at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents’ (RoSPA) 2016 Health and Safety Awards.

Held in London, England the annual ceremony brings together organisations from a range of industries to celebrate best practice in health and safety management. The prestigious RoSPA Gold Medal is given to companies whose health and safety practices have been judged as gold level standard for at least five consecutive years. Entrants mu

Marangoni will launch its new ‘Marangoni Technical Compounds’ business unit during the K Trade Fair in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Eurorubber, a company that operates in the technical compounding industry providing rubber compounds for many key industrial sectors, and German subsidiary MRSD (formerly Ellerbrock Reifenrunderneuerungs-Technologie) will be showcasing Marangoni Technical Compounds at the 19-26 October 2016 event.

The establishment of the new business unit by the Rovereto, Italy-based retread tyr

A new Cemex UK quarry in Cromwell, county Lincolnshire has just started supplying high quality sand and gravel into the local market and the area around north Nottinghamshire in England.

The new 26.5 hectare site will provide approximately 200,000 tonnes/year and has reserves of an estimated 2.4 million tonnes. It is located close to the A1 giving easy access to market and with no neighbouring towns or villages between the quarry and this major highway, it means that trucks are not disturbing local commu

Norway is now drawing up plans for a road tunnel mega project. The Rogfast tunnel will be record beating link when it is complete as it will run for a total of 27km. This will make it the longest road tunnel ever constructed and at depths reaching 390m below sea level, also the world’s deepest. The route runs from Randaberg, close to the city of Stavanger, to Bokn, in Rogaland, with an additional spur connecting to the island of Kvitsøy. The first stages of the construction work are expected to commence in

Cemex Latam Holdings has made senior level position organisational changes at CLH and Cemex Colombia that will enhance the level of leadership, administration, and corporate governance practices.

the board of directors of CLH, taking into consideration a favourable report from its Nominating and Compensation Committee, resolved to split the roles of Chairman of the Board of Directors of CLH; Chief Executive Officer of CLH, and Director of Cemex Colombia. Additionally, a new Chairman of the Board of Direc