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14/10/2022 | Environmental

Portacabin in a field or a five star hotel like training facility designed for learners and the wider construction community? – Peter Haddock pays a visit to the new £3m state-of-the-art AccXel construction and plant training centre of excellence in Gloucestershire, which is set to reshape the industry.

12/10/2022 | Environmental

As the UK's first all-electric telehandler to join the Flannery Plant Hire fleet from UK dealer GGR Group, the Faresin 6.26 has recently finished a 12 month shift with Tier 1 contractor Morgan Sindall.

01/09/2022 | Productivity

Komatsu UK has been manufacturing its medium to large excavator range for the UK and export markets at its facility in Birtley, County Durham, for over 35 years. And on a recent tour of the facility, I witnessed the whole process, from boom fabrication to the dancing digger test area and proving ground.

17/08/2022 | Safety

How do we keep people and plant operating in harmony while helping operators focus on moving material and keeping site operatives safe? That's been the number one focus of the industry forever, and more recently, it's helped to drive a digital revolution in new safety solutions.

20/07/2022 | Safety

At the recent Hexagon Live event in Las Vegas, Peter Haddock met with Josh Weiss, the Chief Operating Officer at Hexagon Geosystems, the parent company for Leica Geosystems.

20/07/2022 | Productivity

Launched in May 2022, the new Cat Compact Wheel Loader range is the latest group of products to get the Caterpillar next generation treatment and a lot has changed, as Peter Haddock discovered.

15/06/2022 | Environmental

With so much talk about real-time insights from live job sites and the potential impact this technology can have in the real world, the penny finally dropped at this year's Futureworx show when Plantforce brought it all to life.

10/06/2022 | Productivity

With a growing population and demand for housing around Helsinki, Finland, the country is preparing the ground for its biggest ever bridge project. Known as the Kruunuvuori Bridge, it will be Finland's longest and tallest bridge constructed in a steel and concrete composite design.

18/05/2022 | Environmental

Collaboration is one of those words that is often overused and misunderstood. It's defined in numerous ways, but essentially, it's about businesses working together to create or achieve the same thing.

13/04/2022 | Productivity

For Solihull based Shannonside Civil Engineering, the last 12 months have seen another major transition since it was first founded in 2004 by Managing Director Brendan Carty as a single site operation with six staff.