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Leguan launches electric spider lifts
Leguan has announced the global launch of a new electric option for its range of all terrain spider lifts.
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Travis Perkins keeps Wandle work flowing
Wandle Housing Association has appointed Travis Perkins Managed Services (TPMS) as its new supplier, with digital tools helping ensure a reliable flow of building materials.
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Roadways delivers early in Portsmouth
Roadways, working as sole asphalt surfacing contractor for VolkerStevin and Boskalis Westminster joint venture, VSBW, delivered a key phase of the Southsea Coastal Scheme in Portsmouth two months early.
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RPS brings sun to Vico homes
RPS Group has formed an £8.2m partnership with Vico Homes, which will see it install PV panels on over 2,000 social homes in West Yorkshire, funded in part through the Warm Homes: Social Homes Fund.
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Peri UK delivers HPC reactor formwork
Peri UK has delivered bespoke formwork for the the reactor dome at Hinkley Point C, allowing concrete to be poured for structures that curve in multiple directions.
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McPhillips delivers green space in Kidderminster
McPhillips has completed Talbot Park, a £4.3m green space and urban connectivity project forming part of the regeneration of Kidderminster's town centre.
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Heidelberg lays sustainable asphalt at Eurotunnel
Heidelberg Materials UK has resurfaced the Kent entrance to the Eurotunnel service tunnel, using a carbon-reducing asphalt.
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Sliding into the UK
Slide rail systems have been an important tool for safe ground works in mainland Europe for decades but have failed to catch on in the UK. Now, two companies are trying to change that and taking very different approaches. Will North reports.
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Piling without the impact
Flooding and erosion, driven by climate change, will require extensive ground engineering. This comes with its own environmental impacts. Piling contractors must find ways to deliver this work, while minimising noise and vibration. Will North reports.
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British Land appoints McLaren for West One
McLaren has been appointed by developer British Land to deliver a £99m office retrofit and expansion at Bond Street Underground Station, designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris.
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Barhale, Suez, ice pigs, to finish Greenwich trunk main
Thames Water has picked Barhale to complete the final leg of the £17m Greenwich Trunk Main in South London, using ice pigging with Suez to efficiently commission the line.
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Hodge to sell Hyundai in Scotland
Hyundai Construction Equipment has appointed Hodge Plant as its dealer for Scotland.