Research team creates 'bio bitumen' from algae08/05/2024 A research partnership including biology, science, engineering, business, and industry experts is working on producing a low-carbon 'bio bitumen' made from algae. |
New concrete sensors use 'enhanced AI' to predict strength05/04/2024 Tarmac has launched a new system of digital sensors to optimise concrete mixes, lower carbon emissions and reduce on-site construction time, using 'AI-enhanced' analysis. |
Tarmac pilots 80% carbon cut to achieve 'lowest levels ever'31/10/2023 Three local roads in the North East have become the lowest carbon highways ever to be resurfaced in the UK, Tarmac has said. |
Tarmac launches 'world first' electrically powered bond coat sprayer15/05/2023 Tarmac has brought 'the world's first electrically powered bond coat sprayer' to UK roads to support the transition to net zero. |
Rutland tender £74m contract (now the snow has thawed)04/01/2023 Rutland County Council is seeking bidders for a highways term maintenance contract worth up to £74m over 20 years. |
Tarmac to end hot mix after 120 years22/06/2022 Tarmac has announced that it is phasing out traditional hot mix asphalt for highways projects after 120 years. |
Barnet bounces back better with waste tyres16/12/2021 Barnet Council has said its highways contractor is achieving ‘significant improvements in the sustainability of road resurfacing’ with new asphalt technology that uses rubber waste from tyres and reduces embodied carbon. |
Tarmac23/09/2021 A road in Bradford has become the first in West Yorkshire to be resurfaced with asphalt manufactured from waste tyres. |
Tarmac's deeds win warm words in Congleton27/05/2021 Tarmac has successfully supplied and installed a specialist asphalt surface course to a large highways project in East Cheshire. |
Comment: What will you do differently in a post-pandemic world?16/04/2021 Brian Kent, national technical director at Tarmac, takes a look at what the highways industry can do to reinvent our towns and cities in a post-pandemic world. |
JCB and Tarmac team up against potholes15/04/2021 Tarmac and JCB have successfully trialled JCB’s new pothole machine in partnership with Rutland County Council. |
New SRN trial adds anti-ageing to the mix13/04/2021 Developers of a new blend of materials described as 'an anti-ageing cream for roads' say it could cut repairs and environmental impacts. |
Research 'shows lack of respect for highways workers'17/12/2020 Tarmac has called on the Government to change the law to give highway workers the same level of protection from abuse as emergency workers. |
We need a collective change of mindset21/10/2020 As Tarmac calls for greater use of warm mix asphalt, its technical director, Brian Kent, identifies a possible lack of understanding about its benefits. |
Use warm mix to cut jams, Tarmac says15/10/2020 A major contractor and supplier has called for new thinking in road construction after a new survey showed that people believe traffic levels are almost back to pre-pandemic levels across the UK. |
2020: a year to forget and remember02/10/2020 Paul Fleetham, managing director, contracting at Tarmac, argues that RIS 2 provides a major opportunity to assess how the sector can boost productivity, accelerate decarbonisation, develop skills and deliver a better performing, resilient industry. |
New bridge arrives in Cambridge under police escort13/05/2020 Tarmac and SH Structures have achieved a major milestone on a transformational project in Cambridge with the delivery of the new Abbey Chesterton Bridge. |
Comment: Coronavirus, key workers and the front line of resilience07/04/2020 Paul Fleetham, managing director of Tarmac Contracting, celebrates the amazing work of the highways sector as it keeps up the fight against COVID-19. |
Tarmac takes aggregate off the road for new asphalt plant09/01/2020 The first freight trains have delivered aggregate to the site of a new asphalt and aggregates facility under construction by Tarmac in north east Birmingham. |
Tarmac pledges 'efficient and effective stewardship' on new A1(M) deal18/10/2019 Tarmac has been awarded a nine-year extension on a highways maintenance contract for a section of the A1(M). |
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