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Tarmac has won a major new contract with National Highways to maintain, repair and renew roads across England as part of its Pavement Delivery Framework (PDF). Running from April 2023 to March 2028, the framework will see Tarmac supply the materials, plant and labour to carry out patching, surfacing and...

A children’s playground in Shiplake, Henley-On-Thames, has undergone a vast renovation and expansion, thanks to a £50,000 donation from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund. The playground, located at the Memorial Hall off Memorial Avenue, had just swings, a slide, a springer chair and a climbing frame, until the revamp took...

Working with Tarmac, the success of an industry-first Skanska UK and National Highways low carbon concrete trial will be extended to permanent roads.

Settle Swimming Pool, in North Yorkshire, has been renovated thanks to a donation of £50,000 from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund. The community swimming pool – originally built in 1970s – was in need of major repairs, requiring additional funding. With the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund contribution, the pool has...

An innovative hydrogen fuel supplement system has been named as the winner of Tarmac’s 2022 Supplier Innovation Challenge, an initiative that encourages suppliers, organisations and individuals to submit ideas which can support the acceleration of the company’s journey to net zero.   

Local residents are being encouraged to get digging at a series of tree planting days, as part of Panshanger Park’s contribution to the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative. Designed to create a living legacy in Her Majesty’s name, a new public woodland is set to be created at the Hertford-based park...

The construction industry’s first-ever Tarmac Fairy makes her debut in this year’s Tarmac festive film – will she spend the festive period searching high and low, wondering where everyone has gone? Or will she find a way to unlock the spirit of Christmas?

Tarmac has unveiled the UK’s first battery electric concrete mixer featuring a hand-drawn design by an eight-year-old competition winner from Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands.

Bradfords Building Supplies has taken its first delivery of Tarmac bagged cement loaded on Pallet LOOP pallets into its Glastonbury branch, marking the first end-to-end trial of a new circular economy pallet re-use scheme for the UK construction sector.

On the one-year anniversary of a project designed to boost trout numbers in Yorkshire, a study by a national conservation charity has highlighted the initiative is proving a success.