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Costain and NavSite Europe partner on abnormal loads application

NaviSite Europe is to provide engineering solutions provider Costain with its NaviSite hybrid cloud hosting services to support the roll out of its complex Electronic Service Delivery for Abnormal Loads (ESDAL) application for Highways England. UK legislation requires highways authorities, structure owners and the police to be notified of vehicles and their loads exceeding standard dimensions. Costain developed the ESDAL application to automate this process and worked with NaviSite to provide a secure a
January 27, 2016 Read time: 1 min
NaviSite Europe is to provide engineering solutions provider 2002 Costain with its NaviSite hybrid cloud hosting services to support the roll out of its complex Electronic Service Delivery for Abnormal Loads (ESDAL) application for 8101 Highways England.

UK legislation requires highways authorities, structure owners and the police to be notified of vehicles and their loads exceeding standard dimensions. Costain developed the ESDAL application to automate this process and worked with NaviSite to provide a secure and scalable hosting solution.

ESDAL is now available as a free service to local councils, government departments and private companies through Highways England’s ESDAL website.

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