New stringent rules from the Department for Transport could see individual local councils lose out on incentive funding worth a third of their annual maintenance income if they fail to meet four core tasks.
On a recent visit to the North East, Highways met the team behind Galvmac to find out more about the company's people-first ethos, the Elastomac repairs solution they deliver and why they get called 'the future of highways maintenance'.
The Department for Transport (DfT) has launched its new Structures Fund to support councils across England in fixing and maintaining key issues such as ‘crumbling bridges, falling flyovers and deteriorating tunnels'.
Transport secretary Heidi Alexander could at least see the funny side when she became the latest victim of the £19bn road maintenance backlog, telling journalists that a pothole worthy of the lunar landscape forced her car to be towed.
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Heidelberg Materials has successfully used hydrogen to decarbonise asphalt production on an industrial scale for the first time in the UK.
Amey has partnered with intelligence platform FYLD to deploy the company’s AI technology across its highways division, with plans to ‘transform how more than 2,500 field workers’ undertake essential maintenance works.
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COMMENT AND ANALYSIS
Comment: Wet wet wet (or poetic licence and the structures fund)
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