tarmac

01/09/2011

Tarmac National Contracting has been awarded an £8m highways contract with Surrey County Council to deliver up to 30 maintenance schemes.

07/06/2012

A new surfacing alternative to tarmac has been launched made with plant seeds used to treat constipation.

17/10/2012

Tarmac is launching a new highways division to help cut the cost of resurfacing roads for contractors and clients.

29/04/2013

A Portishead plant hire company has been fined £100,000 after a worker was killed while operating a tarmac cutter in Box, Wiltshire.

03/08/2015

CRH has completed a deal which sees two British construction brands, Tarmac and Blue Circle come together to form Tarmac.

10/08/2015

Tarmac has become the first company in the UK to trial a new Econic concrete mixer – a vehicle designed with road user safety in mind.

21/09/2015

Tarmac has unveiled a £6.6 million asphalt plant inside the M25 at Harper Lane, Hertfordshire.

22/09/2015

A local authority in Scotland is the first to adopt lower-temperature asphalt.

28/09/2015

Tarmac has been awarded a two-year extension on its highways maintenance contract with Nottinghamshire County Council.

28/10/2015

Tarmac has started the recruitment process for its largest graduate intake to date with 37 university leavers set to join its nationwide programme next year.

02/11/2015

Tarmac has been awarded a £3 million contract to carry out improvements on the A12 and A14 in Essex and Suffolk.

10/11/2015

Tarmac has been awarded a five-year £30 million highways maintenance contract with Knowsley Council.

02/02/2016

Tarmac is encouraging more people to consider a career in construction through the launch of a new recruitment campaign.

15/03/2016

Tarmac has announced the creation of up to 50 new apprenticeships for 2016 to coincide with National Apprenticeship Week which is taking place from 14-18 March.

31/05/2016

A record amount of tarmac has been laid in a single night – more than 1,100 tonnes – by contractors working on behalf of Highways England.

14/07/2016

Tarmac and Amey have set a new record for laying asphalt in Scotland after delivering almost 2,500 tonnes in under 30 hours on a section of the M9.

01/08/2016

Tarmac has acquired 11 readymix concrete sites from Breedon Aggregates and Hope Construction Materials.

22/08/2016

National Road Planing (NRP), Tarmac’s road planing contractor has developed a new lighting solution to highlight safety zones around planing machines.

04/10/2016

A partnership between Tarmac and Nottinghamshire County Council has become the first highways maintenance contract in the UK to achieve Ultra Site status with the Considerate Constructors Scheme.

14/11/2016

Demand for asphalt has begun to fall after two years of solid growth, according to research carried out by BDS Marketing.

01/03/2018

Tarmac has so far taken on 45 former employees of the failed construction and outsourcing giant Carillion, including two apprentices, and is encouraging others to apply for work.

04/04/2018

The 20km-long Norwich Northern Distributor Road (NNDR) is nearing completion and leading materials group Tarmac is applying the finishing touches with some of the latest major additions to its fleet.

03/05/2018

Tarmac has bolstered its contracting senior management team with the appointment former Carillion MD of Andy Brown as director, Tarmac Infrstructure.

03/05/2018

Thanks to a new piece of kit, Highways England and its contractors are working hard to speed up resurfacing work on a major scheme.

14/06/2018

The latest Highways round table, in partnership with Tarmac, sought the views of a group of new entrants and some of those seeking to be part of the solution, on the enduring question of how to make the sector a more attractive and better-understood proposition.

05/07/2018

Tarmac has secured an extension to its major highways maintenance contract with Norfolk County Council worth up to £40m.

01/08/2018

Tarmac gives Highways an exclusive insight into how it unlocks efficiencies using planning, plant, software and data.

28/09/2018

Tarmac is rolling out a new digital system for tracking and recording deliveries to boost efficiency and enhance its customer service.

23/01/2019

Brian Kent, technical director at Tarmac – which built the country's first motorway, the Preston Bypass – looks at how things have changed in the road building sector - and will change in the future.

23/01/2019

John Baxter, who worked on the Preston bypass as a young civil engineer, speaks exclusively to Dominic Browne about the project and lifelong fellowships built on the road