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Streetworks contractor prosecuted after worker hit by bus
A utilities contractor has been fined £12,000 after a worker was injured when clipped by a bus passing through its roadworks. Rebeck Communications Ltd was employed to lay a pipe across Station Road in Long Bucky,...
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BAM sells Dutch precast plant
The plant was used for the production of elements including Xbloc armour units, which are used for breakwaters and sea defences. The facility in Zuidbroek will be Betonfabriek Vrijenban’s third in the Netherlands. The company already...
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Team picked for $348m section of Californian high-speed rail
Ferrovial is set to be awarded a US$348m (£237m) contract for a 35km stretch of high-speed railway in California, USA. The California High-Speed Rail Authority has identified California Rail Builders as the apparent best value proposer...
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Hawk gets new shareholder and eyes move into quarrying
Shropshire-based plant hire and earthworks company Hawk Group has received an £8m injection from Business Growth Fund (BGF) in return for a share of the business. The percentage of the business sold to BGF has not...
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Councils blame housing backlog on skills shortage not planners
There are nearly half a million homes with planning permission waiting to be built, according to new research. The Local Government Association (LGA) commissioned Glenigan to produce a number for the house-building industry’s backlog of unbuilt...
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Government softens renewable energy subsidy cuts
In the wake of intense industry lobbying the government has decided to cut its feed-in-tariff subsidy for solar energy by 64% instead of the originally proposed 87%. The new tariff for domestic-scale solar is set at...
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Construction begins of world’s first commercial droneport
Construction is now under way of what is claimed to be the world's first commercial airport for use exclusively by drones. The Aerodrome is working with the city of Boulder City to build the droneport and...
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