Contractor picked for £35m Northumberland anaerobic digestion plant

O’Brien Moran & Co has been appointed as main contractor for Suez’s £35m anaerobic digestion facility in Ellington, Northumberland. The Horsham-based contractor had started enabling and groundworks at the site, with construction expected to take about 18 months. Testing and commissioning were due to follow… The post Contractor picked for £35m Northumberland anaerobic digestion plant appeared first on Construction News.

Kilmac goes full Trimble for surveys

Kilmac Ltd has bought a full suite of Trimble off-machine equipment from Sitech, for use on civils and groundworks surveys in Scotland.

Groundworks firm fined after seatbelt-less driver breaks ankle

A court has fined a groundworks company £20,000 after a dumper-truck driver who had been told not to wear a seatbelt broke his ankle and foot when the vehicle overturned. Cheshire-based Jim Yates & Sons Ltd was also ordered to pay £4,824 in costs at… The post Groundworks firm fined after seatbelt-less driver breaks ankle appeared first on Construction News.

Worker crushed as dumper truck overturns

Driver told by groundworks contractor not to wear seat belt

Groundworks firm Mackoy went under owing suppliers £5.5m

180 unsecured creditors will get just 5p in the pound after pre-pack deal

Case study - Breaking competition law: construction cartel in groundworks

Lessons learnt from the CMA’s investigation into 3 major suppliers of groundworks products to the construction industry after they broke competition law.

DS Watson Civil Engineering (Anglia) Limited

DS Watson Civil Engineering (Anglia) Ltd is a well-established, privately owned groundwork and civil engineering company with 50 years of experience, working with developers and main contractors. Based in Beccles, Suffolk, DS Watson primarily operates across Norfolk, Suffolk, and Essex, with additional projects completed in Cambridgeshire and Hertfordshire. Our skilled workforce enables us to deliver high productivity across all sites within these regions. Our goal is to provide a high-quality service and end product to our clients. This is achieved through the expertise of our professional and technically skilled personnel, both on-site and in the office.

International Plant Sales

The IPS team are product specialists and have worked in the industry for many years. We can tell you in an instant the machines we have in stock, their technical specification and history. Need shipping? No problem, as we can also arrange for world-wide delivery. International Plant Sales is not an agency or re-seller. Each of our machines are being sold directly by the owner, the H. E. Services Group. This means that you are guaranteed a young machine in excellent condition at a great price. We also sell used Diggerland machinery including: Komatsu Excavators, Skid Steer Loaders and JCB 3CX Backhoe Loaders. Diggerland machines have low hours and are in pristine condition as they have never been used on a construction site.