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15th Jan 2025
Eurovia and Highway Data Systems Sign Three Year Agreement to Automate Asphalt Quality Assurance on Site.
Eurovia Surfacing and Highway Data Systems have signed a three year agreement that will see the technology company provide automated quality assurance services to the industry leading contractor on their highway maintenance and construction projects nationwide. The partnership announcement follows years of shared work helping to improve the standard of materials testing, with the team…
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Can UK construction deliver the £27bn for roads and HS2 simultaneously? Not without a productivity overhaul.
The Government’s decisions to invest significantly in the nation’s infrastructure have gone down quite well generally. There is a dire need to improve the connectivity in the country and it is a clear way to improve the economy. However, I do not believe that it will be possible to deliver this leviathan infrastructure program without…
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Why Use the Rate of Spread App for Pre-Coated Chippings?
The 2019 chipping season might be underway but we in the asphalt industry are still measuring the rate of spread of pre-coated chippings the same way that we did in the 1970’s. If chipping trays have done us so well for so long, why change? I would argue that any technician who has been out…
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Why Are You Paying So Much for Highways Testing?
If you need to know what condition a road is in before you resurface it, or you have a potential dispute over textures or straight edge, the last thing you should be doing is paying through the nose for traffic management so that a technician can go out and do some standard testing! The Highway…