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Are you using the wrong construction equipment?

|Date: October 14, 2024

Are you using the wrong construction equipment?

Wise Up! Cast your mind back to Christmas 1971, if you’re old enough that is, and you are watching the Mo ...

Wise Up! Cast your mind back to Christmas 1971, if you’re old enough that is, and you are watching the Morecambe and Wise Christmas special. Eric is playing Grieg’s piano concerto in front of pianist, ...

October 14, 2024
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CEA’s and CPA’s launch into Labour’s election commitments

|Date: September 05, 2024

CEA’s and CPA’s launch into Labour’s election commitments

No sooner had Sir Keir deftly pickpocketed the keys to No.10 from the outgoing Rishi Sunak, than he was t ...

No sooner had Sir Keir deftly pickpocketed the keys to No.10 from the outgoing Rishi Sunak, than he was the object of heartfelt congratulations from two of our industry’s trade bodies, the CEA and CPA ...

September 05, 2024
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Intermat exhibition in Paris

|Date: May 29, 2024

Intermat exhibition in Paris

“It’s not new, it’s now.” This was the observation of one exhibitor at the recent Intermat exhibition in ...

“It’s not new, it’s now.” This was the observation of one exhibitor at the recent Intermat exhibition in Paris, which CPN attended ( more of that in next month’s issue). He was referring to the ongoin ...

May 29, 2024
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Clean bill of health?

|Date: April 04, 2024

Clean bill of health?

By the time you read this the date for the government’s call for evidence on non-road mobile machinery (N ...

By the time you read this the date for the government’s call for evidence on non-road mobile machinery (NRMM) and its decarbonisation options will have passed – it was the 26th of March for the rec ...

April 04, 2024
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Creative accounting

|Date: February 12, 2024

Creative accounting

Sir Jon Thompson’s recent appearance in front of the Transport Select Committee was almost as funny as it ...

Sir Jon Thompson’s recent appearance in front of the Transport Select Committee was almost as funny as it was extraordinary. The HS2 Ltd executive chairman told the committee that the estimated cost f ...

February 12, 2024
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Scottish Plant Owners Association calls for delay on red diesel legislation

|Date: March 04, 2022

Scottish Plant Owners Association calls for delay on red diesel legislation

The Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) has issued guidance to its members ahead of new legislation ...

The Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) has issued guidance to its members ahead of new legislation on April 1st which will remove the construction sector’s entitlement to use red diesel and reba ...

March 04, 2022
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Construction Equipment Association response to the Leeds HS2 leg to be scrapped

|Date: November 19, 2021

Construction Equipment Association response to the Leeds HS2 leg to be scrapped

The Construction Equipment Association have commented on the government's controversial decision to scrap ...

The Construction Equipment Association have commented on the government's controversial decision to scrap HS2's eastern leg from Birmingham to Sheffield and Leeds. “The demise of Phase 2b, East Midlan ...

November 19, 2021
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How the construction industry can “build back better for the world”

|Date: June 29, 2021

How the construction industry can “build back better for the world”

This time last year, the UK was still deep in the grips of the pandemic’s first wave. But as we hunkered ...

This time last year, the UK was still deep in the grips of the pandemic’s first wave. But as we hunkered down – transport grinding to a halt, construction put on hold – there was a surprising glimmer ...

June 29, 2021
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Cabbed dumpers | The way forward

|Date: July 31, 2019

Cabbed dumpers | The way forward

To improve our customers’ site safety and meet growing demand, all new 6.0t and 9.0t dumpers purchased go ...

To improve our customers’ site safety and meet growing demand, all new 6.0t and 9.0t dumpers purchased going forward will be cabbed. Ken Stewart, GAP’s Head of Procurement, explained: “Due to the reco ...

July 31, 2019
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