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BRITAIN FACES a rapidly escalating road maintenance crisis following further reductions to local authority budgets.

Research carried out by the Institution of Civil Engineers has revealed that the backlog of maintenance work on local authority roads in the UK now stands at £4.1bn, an increase of 20% over the previous year.And…

CAR COMMUTERS will brave jams and even road tolls if they have a free parking space provided by their employers waiting for them at the end of their journey, according to early findings from the Leicester Environmental Road Tolling Study.

'We are finding that car commuters who have to pay £6…

NEW FIRE regulations proposed by the government could make sprinklers obligatory in supermarkets and other large uncompartmented single story retail premises.

The recommendations are contained in an 175 page consultation paper on proposed amendments to Part B of the Building Regulations published by the Department of the Environment Transport and the…

HISTORIC TEST tanks used to develop the Dambusters bouncing bomb during the Second World War are under threat of demolition by a £300M Private Finance Initiative redevelopment of the National Physical Laboratory's site at Teddington in Middlesex.

English Heritage is campaigning for at least one of the tanks to be saved…

THE INSTITUTION of Civil Engineers has sold its directory publishing business to Emap Construct, in effect tidying up a remnant from the sale of the Thomas Telford magazine business in June 1995.

Three of the six directories are linked with magazines already published by Emap: the NCE Roads, Traffic & Transport…

NEVILLE SIMMS, chief executive and deputy chairman of Tarmac, picks up a knighthood in this year's New Year's Honours for services to the construction industry throughout his career spanning four decades. Simms also chairs the Major Contractors Group, was instrumental in the formation of the Construction Confederation which evolved after…

OVE ARUP'S 4,000 staff will share some £4.9M of the firm's £7.3M profit for 1997 - a result up by 30% from last year despite lower than expected returns from other overseas work.

International profitability was hit by increases in the value of the pound. The annual report shows that while…

Nicholas Bennett takes over from Hugh Woodrow as chief executive of the Association of Consulting Engineers on 1 April. He is a former MP for Pembroke and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Wales until 1992 and has recently worked as a consultant to Price Waterhouse.

Graham Shennan (M) has joined the…