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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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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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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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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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Hyundai Construction Equipment has appointed Hodge Plant as its dealer for Scotland.
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L&Q has appointed Cardo as a delivery partner for its major works investment programme.
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Offsite timber frame manufacturer Donaldson Timber Systems has appointed Grant Sanderson head of technical.
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The University of Wolverhampton has launched knowledge transfer partnership with Drywall Steel Sections Ltd to speed the design and costing of steel frame and drywall systems using AI.
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Essex-based temporary power provider Templant has been acquired by Camfaud Group, the UK’s largest concrete pumping company and part of Concrete Pumping Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBCP)
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HSE has issued guidance making dry cutting of engineered stone illegal and demanding the use of lower silica content materials, pointing to the risk of silicosis, following the deaths of two workers in the sector.
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Fiona Howie, chief executive of the Town and Country Planning Association, has moved to Cratus Group, where she is now director of communities and placemaking.
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Members of the GMB union at Crane BS&U, part of the Process Flow Technologies division of US-owned Crane Co, have started strike action in Hitchin.