Focus on fewer projects helps Oliver Connell boost profit

Working on fewer projects has enabled groundworks and reinforced concrete specialist Oliver Connell to grow its turnover and pre-tax profit, its directors have said. Newly released accounts for the year to 30 June 2026 show that pre-tax profit rose by 3.5 per cent to £23.4m,… The post Focus on fewer projects helps Oliver Connell boost profit appeared first on Construction News.

Bigger projects pay-off for Oliver Connell

RC frame and groundworks specialist posts strong set of numbers

Coventry's City Centre South begins to take shape

With demolition and groundworks complete, The Hill Group has marked the start of work on the first tower at Coventry's City Centre South, where the developer is building 200 affordable homes for investor Legal & General.

Site Drainage and Vacuum Tankers: What Groundworks Teams Should Know

The post Site Drainage and Vacuum Tankers: What Groundworks Teams Should Know appeared first on UK Construction Blog. Wet ground stops a groundworks programme faster than almost anything else. A trench fills overnight, a welfare tank reaches capacity on a Friday, or an old septic tank turns out to sit exactly where the new footings go. None of it is dramatic, but all of it costs days. These problems are becoming more common […]

Groundworks firm went under owing suppliers £4m

More than 250 firms left holding unpaid invoices

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.