decarbonisation

£400k skills cash for decarbonising HDVs

12/06/2025

Transport Scotland has announced a £400,000 skills fund to prepare workforces for the switch to zero emission heavy duty vehicles (HDVs).

ADEPT report: Can authorities nudge their way to net zero?

23/04/2025

A new report from the Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) has been published today by ADEPT Live Labs 2, which concluded that there is ‘no quick fix’ to accelerate decarbonisation but also showed how behavioural changes can help promote the goal across local UK road authorities.

Exclusive: Shelved DfT decarbonisation guidance revealed

10/06/2024

Highways has obtained the draft guidance for councils on decarbonisation that was shelved last year, which the Department for Transport has said could be implemented by the incoming government.

DfT top official says carbon 'as high on agenda as ever'

18/04/2024

The £30m ADEPT Live Labs 2 programme has celebrated its first year with a live Expo setting out its achievements.

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.

Building the path to embodied change

27/04/2023

Nearly 100 construction industry leaders across 84 organisations from Europe, North America and Asia contributed to the development of an industry roadmap to decarbonise the construction value chain in a new report by Shell and Deloitte, entitled Decarbonising Construction: Building the path forward.

National Highways in want of net zero ideas

30/03/2023

National Highways has launched a competition to find ‘innovative’ solutions for net zero carbon maintenance and construction, with up to £110,000 available to successful entrants.

FM Conway and Shell sign decarbonisation partnership

06/02/2023

FM Conway has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shell to develop a collaborative decarbonisation strategy.

EV sales overtake petrol for the first time

06/01/2023

Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) overtook those of petrol cars last month for the first time.

Shell and Tarmac link up for net zero progress

07/10/2022

Shell and Tarmac owner CRH have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cutting carbon emissions.

Thames tunnel boss makes new CO2 claim

13/04/2022

National Highways is set to claim a huge fall in projected traffic emissions from the planned Lower Thames Crossing, the project’s boss has said.

Councils urged to stop using trials to get around procurement

12/04/2022

Key figures in the sector have called on highway authorities to move on from using trials as a way of circumventing procurement rules and turn carbon reduction innovations into business as usual.

Eurovia digs deeper to cut carbon

21/09/2021

Eurovia Contracting has ordered two more Volvo electric excavators as its parent company looks to increase its use of electric plant, equipment and vehicles.

DfT funds eHighways study

29/07/2021

The Department for Transport (DfT) has awarded funding through Innovate UK to a consortium to lead a major UK study on the electrification of long-range lorries using overhead wires on motorways.

National roads review to begin later this year

22/07/2021

The Government's promised review of its national roads strategy will begin later this year and is scheduled to be completed no later than spring 2023.

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