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The Treasury’s spending round for the next financial year contains a £6m allocation to the Department for Transport to develop plans for Crossrail 2.

admin2019-09-18T15:52:48+00:00September 18th, 2019|

John Sisk & Son has invested €150k on an air balancer device to aid manual handling on its Wembley Park E05 site in London.

admin2019-08-29T08:44:49+00:00August 29th, 2019|

A West Midlands-based firm has been fined £16,000 after construction work caused poisonous gas to escape a boiler into a family home in Birmingham.

admin2019-08-23T08:23:40+00:00August 23rd, 2019|

JCB has started production of the construction industry’s first fully electric mini excavator!

admin2019-08-20T22:57:46+00:00August 20th, 2019|

Engineering contractor Spencer Group is offering all staff free wrist-bands that track their moods and emotional wellbeing.

admin2019-08-13T15:38:34+00:00August 13th, 2019|

A construction company and one of its employees have been sentenced for health and safety breaches after another worker was struck by an excavator and was killed.

admin2019-08-08T20:44:26+00:00August 8th, 2019|

Build UK members are continuing to improve their payment performance with the average time to settle bills by contractors now 40 days.

admin2019-08-01T16:17:02+00:00August 1st, 2019|

Accident rates among leading electrical contractors fell again last year contributing to a 90% drop since 2001.

admin2019-07-26T21:52:33+00:00July 26th, 2019|

In construction news today, Highways England has confirmed plans to start 26 schemes this year in what will be one of the biggest years of starts in the present Road Investment Strategy (RIS).

admin2019-07-22T21:54:04+00:00July 22nd, 2019|

Galliford Try, Alun Griffiths, Severfield and Ferrovial Agroman are among 18 companies that have today been suspended from the Prompt Payment Code for failing to pay suppliers on time.

admin2019-07-17T15:43:21+00:00July 17th, 2019|