21/03/2025 | Environmental

Operator Trevor Quinn of COD Plant and Civil Engineering gives the Liugong 922FE excavator the double thumbs up.

11/03/2025 | Productivity

For our next episode, Peter Haddock is joined again by Mark Sabbato Construction Manager for Kier Transportation on the National Highways A417 Missing Link road project. 

24/02/2025 | Environmental

ProjecProject Coeus is a partnership between Perkins Engines, Loughborough University and Equipmake, a UK-based engineering specialist focused on the electrification of products.

21/02/2025 | Environmental

On the A417 project, Kier Group Senior Ecologist Natasha James and her team have been working to ensure wildlife is protected, trees planted and the whole project delivers not just a much needed new road, but maximises biodiversity and conservation of the surrounding area. 

17/02/2025 | People-Skills

That’s the message from John Fraser of Leica Geosystems part of Hexagon, when Peter Haddock talked to him underground at the Cornish Metals Inc. South Crofty Mine as part of our Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter (CSM) mini series.

11/02/2025 | People-Skills

Our graduates have great earning opportunities, multiple job offers and can travel the world… so apply now”, says Associate Professor, Matthew Eyre of the Camborne School of Mines, University of Exeter. 

10/02/2025 | Productivity

“Once we’re ready to bring an AGTEK site model to life, we install it on our surveying equipment like our Leica Geosystems part of Hexagon ICG70 GPS rover and ICR80 robotic total station, as well as on the excavators that use the MC1 machine control solution, explained surveyor Alex Miles of RMG Groundworks Ltd when Peter Haddock met him onsite. 

24/01/2025 | Productivity

Peter Haddock visited its state-of-the-art electric machine workshop facility in Norway, where it looks after all of its growing electric fleet with specialist engineers and equipment

23/01/2025 | Productivity

In a recent visit to a site in Wales, Peter Haddock caught up again with operator Scooby, who he first met three years ago on a site with RMG Groundworks where he was using Leica Geosystems 3D Machine Control.

13/01/2025 | Productivity

Product specialist STEPHANE DIEU spoke to Peter Haddock about the DD130-7 Dozer and the importance of its new 3D machine control partnership at its recent press event.

10/01/2025 | People-Skills

Andy Perry, Flannery Plant Hire trainer talks about the benefits of delivering Eco-operator training with the Blackwell Earthmoving Limited team on HS2 (High Speed Two) Ltd.  

09/01/2025 | Productivity

“When you can use technology to make a project viable and successful, it’s a game-changer for the industry and the economy. And it all starts with leveraging the right tools and expertise at every step."

08/01/2025 | Safety

Getting Safety and Compliance right, particularly with larger machines, is critical for our sector and certainly worth reviewing in 2025.

07/01/2025 | Productivity

In this video, Lucas Haddock showcases the JCB machines 145XR and its capabilities In the Kevin Quarry. As a new machine, Oliver Sands explains the new innovations and different applications it can be used for. From the Cab to the new X series engine, you’ll learn here how the JCB 145XR can be used to help you on site.

07/01/2025 | People-Skills

2025 will be a big year for AI and machine learning, and Liebherr Group is gearing up to take full advantage of the technologies.

06/01/2025 | Environmental

PPE - wash it, recycle it or throw it away? Each decision makes a carbon impact, and even changing the type of glove you use on a major project like HS2 can save 100 tonnes of Carbon.

03/01/2025 | Productivity

Melissa from Falcon Plant Hire talks through its Infobric software and how it is changing the business

31/12/2024 | People-Skills

We look back with a showreel featuring some of our videos you can see on our website with Peter Haddock

19/12/2024 | People-Skills

In this video, Peter Haddock talks through a table full of PPE, with David from Onsite Support Ltd sharing his top tips on what protection is available for everyone of all shapes and sizes.

18/12/2024 | Productivity

Peter Haddock discovers how a Suction Excavator works and what the team does to test the equipment, and Frank explains all the options available. 

15/12/2024 | People-Skills

How do we get more young people between 12 to 18 excited about the plant sector? Give them a challenge, a team and create a unique industry competition to build a working material handler showcased to thousands at PlantWorx Construction Exhibition 2025 in Newark on 23rd - 25th September.

15/12/2024 | People-Skills

On 7th November, the Construction Plant Hire Association (CPA) held its annual conference entitled ‘Shaping the Future: Insights for the Plant-Hire Sector’, with a range of topics discussed by industry leaders, including skills, decarbonisation and sustainability.

13/12/2024 | Environmental

“We’re going to fit a dozer blade to our Liugong 870HE electric Wheel Loader as it has the pushing power. “And by combining it with 3D Machine Control from Leica Geosystems, we can meet customer grading needs.”

13/12/2024 | Productivity

Peter Haddock visits Aaron Walsh founder of Falcon Plant Hire Having spent over 10 years in the plant hire sector working in various roles at large hirers, Aaron Walsh, Founder of Falcon Plant, decided to go all in and open his own plant hire business in October 2019.

12/12/2024 | Productivity

RMG Groundworks Ltd turned a brownfield site into a housing estate, combining AGTEK Development Company, Inc. software with Leica Geosystems part of Hexagon surveying solutions and 3D machine control.