ADEPT Live Labs 2 publishes new decarbonisation behavioural report23/04/2025 A new report has been published today by ADEPT Live Labs 2 showing how behavioural changes can significantly accelerate decarbonisation across the UK’s local roads. |
Exclusive: Shelved DfT decarbonisation guidance revealed10/06/2024 Highways has obtained the draft guidance for councils on decarbonisation that was shelved last year, which the Department for Transport has said could be implemented by the incoming government.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 change27/04/2023 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 ideas30/03/2023 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 partnership06/02/2023 FM Conway has signed a memorandum of understanding with Shell to develop a collaborative decarbonisation strategy. |
EV sales overtake petrol for the first time06/01/2023 Sales of electric vehicles (EVs) overtook those of petrol cars last month for the first time. |
Shell and Tarmac link up for net zero progress07/10/2022 Shell and Tarmac owner CRH have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on cutting carbon emissions. |
Thames tunnel boss makes new CO2 claim13/04/2022 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 procurement12/04/2022 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 carbon21/09/2021 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 study29/07/2021 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 year22/07/2021 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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