battery-powered pile driving rig

UK’s first fully battery-powered pile driving rig trialled at Ardrossan school site

ROGER Bullivant Limited (RBL) has announced it has trialled the first ever fully battery-powered pile driving rig in the UK at a school site...

Ground engineering event makes new home in Glasgow

PROMOTIONAL FEATURE Free-to-attend Geotex seminars set for the city’s Science Centre on March 14 GEOTEX will return to Scotland this month to shine a light on...

Contractor back at landslide site

THE A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful in Argyll hasn’t given drivers much to be thankful for in recent years as a series...

Cream of the crop: new base gives NPC scope for Scottish expansion

NATIONAL Pile Croppers (NPC) is targeting growth in the Scottish market after opening a new depot in Airdrie. The company specialises in hiring hydraulic pile...
Excavator on construction project

Safe digging specialist earns growth recognition

SAFE digging company LSBUD has been featured as one of the UK's top 100 fastest growing businesses in the annual ORESA Growth Index. The Index...

Safe digging portal breaks record for search enquiries

ONLINE safe digging resource LSBUD has announced that it finished 2022 with 3.75 million search enquiries for underground pipes and cables passing through its central...
Provectus

Getting steamed up over cleaning

A CONTAMINATED land specialist took a novel approach to cleaning up the soil from an old printing works. The site in Somerset had been contaminated...
A83 Rest & Be Thankful

Structural Soils to land £5.5m A83 ground investigation contract

Structural Soils Ltd is set to be awarded a £5.5 million contract to carry out A83 ground investigation work. As the design work for the...

Groundforce awarded first-place framework agreement by Scottish Water

SCOTTISH Water has awarded a first-place framework agreement to Groundforce for the hire of trenching and shoring equipment. The award is based on a ranked...

Transport secretary sees progress in work to improve the Old Military Road

SCOTLAND'S transport minister Fiona Hyslop has visited the Rest and Be Thankful to see first-hand the upgraded section of the diversionary route for the...

New asbestos course launches

KELTBRAY has introduced a new Asbestos in Soils training course, which the group described as the “first of its kind” in the UK. Based in...

New geotechnical solutions help tackle affordable housing shortfall

There is no silver bullet to the shortage of affordable housing across the UK. Debate over the barriers to meeting targets is complex; not...

Turning a Corner on steep slope challenge in the Borders

A steep hill close to the A7 in the Borders wouldn’t traditionally be a site chosen for housing development. However, the new Buckholm Corner...
Cantray Bridge

Highland jobs in drive for deadline

COFFEY Construction is hoping for good weather as it seeks to complete a bridge refurbishment job before the end of the year. The contract from...

Record year for ‘safe digging’ searches

LSBUD, an online safe digging resource, has revealed it welcomed more than 3.4 million searches - a new record - for underground pipes and...

Akela lands major piling contract at 226-home Persimmon development

AKELA Ground Engineering has been appointed by Persimmon Homes East Midlands to deliver piling work for its forthcoming housing development, The Willows, in Norfolk. The...
Precast foundation system

ABeam innovation excels on battery storage project

AKELA Ground Engineering has completed the design and installation of a full precast foundation system to support eight Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) units...
Aerial shot of site

Construction challenges see Moray substation build scrapped

ENGINEERING and construction challenges at the site of the proposed Coachford substation mean it will no longer be built, SSEN Transmission has announced. The facility,...
Collapsed sewer project in Glasgow

Digital engineering is key Driver of success for Mabey Hire

Ryan Smillie (design team leader) and Jamie McLachlan (regional sales manager) from Mabey Hire tell Project Scotland about the use of digital engineering in...

Digging boom: critical need for asset searches

Richard Broome, MD at LSBUD, an online safe digging resource, discusses the surge in asset searches across the Covid-period and examines why the construction...