06/10/2023 HRN Tractors and Hill Engineering help Kubota’s new KX085-5 debut in Scotland. Kubota’s new eight-tonne mini-excavator, the KX085-5, has debuted in Scotland, complete with an award-winning Tefra quick hitch from Hill Engineering. The mono-boom KX085-5 has been supplied to Jarvie Plant Hire, who have nine sites throughout Scotland and the north-west of England, by
04/10/2023 Back-to-back wins for Groundforce Training at prestigious industry awards. Groundforce Training are not only celebrating their 10th anniversary this year but have topped it off by winning the award for Water Industry Training Organisation of the Year for the second year in a row. Chris Gearren, Groundforce Training manager, collected the prestigious award at
03/10/2023 Trench and manhole box designs set to become quicker and easier with extension of digital design tool from Groundforce Shorco. Groundforce Shorco has introduced another industry first in temporary works solutions. Engineers and temporary works coordinators are set to get unprecedented access to create their own trench and manhole box designs, thanks to a
19/09/2023 Two Groundforce bridges help APL Construction span a watercourse in Scotland. The longest bridge ever built by Groundforce Bridge has helped civil engineers APL Construction span a challenging 11m watercourse and flood area in Scotland. The mammoth bridge comprised two 17.6m x 3.5m structures laid end to end and was complemented by a single
06/09/2023 New Sunward SWE 155FW wheeled excavator set to make its European debut. A game-changing 15-tonne wheeled excavator is set to be launched by Sunward Europe at the MATEXPO exhibition (September 6-10) near the company’s European headquarters. Fresh off their IF Design Award win for their zero-tail model, the Sunward design team has struck gold
29/08/2023 Temporary roadways by TPA help with a bridge demolition for Amco Giffen. Portable roadways by specialist temporary access solutions supplier TPA have helped Amco Giffen complete the first of two phases of a bridge demolition project for Network Rail. TPA’s 3m-wide heavy duty aluminium panels were used to protect the grazing fields to the
14/08/2023 Kattrak international have supplied Ten Sunward machines to Advance Construction Scotland. Groundworks and civil engineering contractors Advance Construction Scotland (ACS) were so impressed with a trial of a Sunward compact excavator they went on to buy 10 of them! The Bellshill-based company, which celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, ended up purchasing nine Sunward
09/08/2023 Roof slates by Welsh Slate feature on the renovated Cleveland Pools. The UK’s oldest public open-air swimming baths, once used as a trout farm, are enjoying a new lease of life, thanks in part to Welsh Slate. Some 75m2 of Welsh Slate’s new Penrhyn Heather Blue roofing slates feature alongside salvaged originals on the