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Roads that eat pollutants

Titanium dioxide has been turning up in a lot of applications recently: road surfaces, sound barriers, construction site hoardings, roof...

New aggregates help decarbonise roads

Last month [March] Durham County Council became the first road authority to use a carbon negative aggregate called ACLA in an asphalt...

Energy transition: ports lead the way

There has been a raft of stories this year that demonstrate how our ports are playing a vital role in energy transition and the UK’s...

Road surface treatment: a stitch in time saves cash and carbon

It’s no coincidence that the increase in potholes in our roads coincides with a decrease in surface treatments, according to Paul Boss,...

ANNOUNCEMENT: THERMAL ROAD REPAIRS BECOMES A CROWN COMMERCIAL SERVICE SUPPLIER

ANNOUNCEMENT: Thermal Road Repairs are delighted to announce that we have been named as a supplier on the Crown Commercial Service's...

Highway maintenance budgets up – but not in real terms

On Tuesday this week [19 March] the Asphalt Industry Alliance published its Annual Local Authority Road Maintenance (ALARM) survey....

Pothole, potholes everywhere...

Autonomous vehicles and potholes: it just won’t work

Earlier this month [March] there was exciting news from Sunderland. The city will be trialling three self-driving shuttle buses which...

World first: highways SME Thermal Road Repairs gains PAS 2080 accreditation

Thermal Road Repairs, which manufactures and supplies low-carbon pothole repair technology, has become the first SME in the highways...

Getting to grips with PAS 2080

The clock is ticking for National Highways’ supply chain. By the end of 2025, they must all have PAS 2080 accreditation to prove that...

The cost of road closures – why speed matters

Local road networks are vital to both national and local economies. Almost every journey begins and ends on local roads. Hence any...

Climate change: are our roads resilient?

Last week, the EU’s climate change service reported that for the first time, global warming had reached 1.52 degrees C for the 12 months...