Select Plant Hire boosts sustainable fleet

Select Plant Hire’s powered access division is investing in nine fully electric and hybrid articulating boom lifts. The post Select Plant Hire boosts sustainable fleet appeared first on Construction Management.

Select orders more large luffers

Select Plant Hire has ordered four new Terex CTL1600 luffing jib tower cranes.

Laing O’Rourke adopts battery-powered generators

Laing O’Rourke has been using Chinese ‘smart batteries’ to power cranes London’s Olympia Redevelopment for the past six weeks.

Select buys world's biggest electric drill [– with video]

Laing O’Rourke subsidiary Select has become the first company in the world to take delivery of Liebherr’s battery powered drilling rig, the LB 30 Unplugged.

Select study backs white cranes for visibility

White tower cranes are less likely to have aircraft crash into them than red or blue ones, according to a study by the white tower crane people.