20/06/2025 | Productivity

Meet AEON, the humanoid robot reshaping the future, at Hexagon Live in Las Vegas. At this year’s event, Peter Haddock spoke with expert Emanuele Aucone, who explained more about AEON’s impressive AI capabilities to learn on the job.

19/06/2025 | Productivity

Peter Haddock gets the Leica Geosystems BLK Arc backpack on and captures the reality of the display area at the event.

18/06/2025 |

Hear how this new solution for the construction industry works in this interview with Peter Haddock and product expert Brad Mullis

16/06/2025 | Productivity

What is a Common Data Environment and why is it so important for delivering a digital construction future?

13/06/2025 | Productivity

"Valves were installed the wrong way round on a project, but the software picked it up, saving a lot of rework and time."

12/06/2025 | People-Skills

From Graduate to Award-Winning Surveying Engineer supporting complex monitoring on HS2 That’s the story of Harriet Langfield, Senior Project Engineer at GEO-Instruments (part of Keller Group), whom I met on-site at HS2’s Victoria Road Crossover Box, a project as complex as it is critical.

11/06/2025 | Productivity

Recently, Peter Haddock met with Gareth, MD of Ultimate Cell, to find out how this little device is reducing fuel consumption and carbon emissions while lowering maintenance costs.

02/06/2025 | Environmental

At its Lincolnshire Energy from Waste site, over one million tonnes of waste has already been converted into electricity. And now the team led by Blair Ward, its Deputy Operations Manager has become the first in the UK to adopt FHOSS Field from FHOSS Safety Solutions.

27/05/2025 | Productivity

One of the most talked-about machines at Bauma, the ‪Hitachi Construction machinery,‬ Landcros one.

25/05/2025 | Productivity

For this episode, Peter Haddock is back with Natasha James, Senior Ecologist at Kier Transportation, to see how the team is shaping the new habitat for wildlife as the road is being built.”

23/05/2025 | Productivity

“This is real-life, in the Irish dirt, electrification in action.”

22/05/2025 | Productivity

Peter Haddock walked around this amazing machine with expert Dr Thomas Jordan. 

22/05/2025 | Productivity

"It's the first time in 15 years we have developed a front shovel on a machine this big." On the Caterpillar Inc. stand at bauma Lucas spoke with Andy Fung taking a look at the all-new 395 front shovel excavator. Truly a unique machine in this weight class.

22/05/2025 | Productivity

“If you retrofit an electric solution and 3D machine control at the same time, you make every kW of energy more productive.” That’s the message from Neil Williams and Holger Pietzsch when Peter Haddock spoke to them about a new industry partnership between leica Geosystems and z-quip, part of moog construction at Bauma.

21/05/2025 | People-Skills

Blackwell Earthmoving launches '25 in 25' recruitment campaign to achieve a 25% female workforce by the end of 2025, doubling the number currently employed.

21/05/2025 | People-Skills

This is James Grant's story of how he used the Operator Skills Hub bootcamps to change his career from the 14 years in the British army to having tickets for multiple machines and using them on a regular basis.

20/05/2025 | Environmental

That's the message from Eva Carranza of Hexagon AB when Peter Haddock met her at Bauma for an update on its R-evolution approach, which is leveraging Hexagon sensors, software and autonomous solutions to run profit-driven, sustainable projects.

19/05/2025 | Productivity

Peter Haddock caught up with expert Jeremiah to talk about their brand-new G140 model on display at the show.

16/05/2025 | Productivity

Peter Haddock caught up with Sam Mercer and Chris Matthew at Bauma to find out and get their first impressions and practical thoughts on the solution that includes 3D machine control from Leica Geosystems and 3D collision avoidance from Xwatch.

15/05/2025 | Environmental

Peter Haddock recently caught up with James Barden, Head of Innovation at its training centre, to find out how a small cell is making a big difference.

12/05/2025 | Environmental

At the new Kirklees College Operator Skills Hub with Flannery Plant Hire I spoke to Andy Rankin, the quality and development manager for the CPCS, who helps to get people into the industry and set the standard needed for the tests within the construction industry

09/05/2025 | People-Skills

Lucas recently went to the ‪Kirklees College‬ opening day of their very own mobile ‪Operator Skills Hub‬ with ‪Flannery Plant Hire‬ where he spoke to Leila Chisholme a young woman who recently joined the industry from a career change. Leila recently moved into the Flannery business, working on the hire desk, and is at the Kirklees college, looking at how they are opening up this skills hub to younger people.

07/05/2025 | People-Skills

New beginnings here with Flennery Plant Hire and Kirklees College as they open their brand new Skills Hub in Huddersfield to assist the Trans Pennie route upgrade along with other major projects within the area.

07/05/2025 | Productivity

Perkins Engines showcases its latest 13-litre 2606 engine at bauma, replacing its current range of three engines, whilst delivering more for each drop of fuel. At Bauma, Peter Haddock caught up with expert Paul Muller, who walked him around the product, pointing out its key features, which allow the 2606 to deliver more power density in a much smaller footprint.

06/05/2025 | Environmental

Peter Haddock caught up with Thierry Brasseur to take a closer look at its largest all electric wheel loader model.