Demolition Hub Magazine - April 2022

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HUB MAGAZINE April 2022 | Issue #10

DESTINATION USA

Hub reports back from the NDA’s convention in San Diego

DEMOLITION DISCUSSION SPECIAL We celebrate 60 years of Clifford Devlin

UK, European & worldwide demolition

matters Review and pictures from the IDE’s Spring Seminar & Graduation Ceremony

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DEMOLITION EDITOR Paul Argent paul@chambers.media 07813 064 590

That was certainly a rather busy and eventful couple of months.

Tasked with promotional duties for the Institute of Demolition Engineers’ Spring Seminar and Graduation Ceremony and attending the NDA’s Demolition Convention in San Diego, I also began my Foundation Degree in Demolition Management from the IDE and University of Wolverhampton.

Alongside all of this, I made one of the most thorough and enjoyable factory tours I have ever experienced, visiting bespoke demolition excavator specialists, Kocurek. You may have seen our promotional video from the day.

But we have no plans of slowing down – we have an exciting few weeks planned. We are heading out on site with NFDC corporate member Pritchard’s for the demolition of the last three gas holders in Wales and West Utilities’ region and are delighted to be out with Cawarden again for an as-yet unnamed job. Watch this space.

Essex based contractor Clifford Devlin is the subject of our regular DEMOLITION DISCUSSION as we join four new board members in celebrating 60 years with a special extended feature.

Leading processing equipment supplier Blue Group is the subject of SUPPLIER TALK; we have a demolition excavator feature; and regular columnists Richard Dolman and Terry Lloyd. Paul has been busy over these eight weeks with Norfolk and Suffolk Plant Hire and Skillings Crushing; and we have comment from NFDC CEO Howard Button on the removal of the red diesel rebate for the construction sector on 1 April.

I write this in the knowledge that the NFDC Awards are taking place imminently and I wish the very best to all those who entered as well as congratulations to those who won.

I hope you enjoy this packed issue. I am here if you should ever need me – ben@chambers.media

COLUMNISTS

Jacqueline O’Donovan Richard Dolman Terry Lloyd

SALES

Ben Chambers ben@chambers.media 01903 952 648 Luke Chaplin luke@chambers.media 01903 952 643

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CONTENTS

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NEWS

Join, commit, switch by Howard Button, Chief Executive of NFDC Blue Group restructures Murray Plant for attachment sales Finning acquires hydraulic services specialist Hydraquip Dressta adds muscle to global management team with heavyweight appointment Demolition Hub goes global as it announces the launch of Demolition Hub International

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THE EUROPEAN DEMOLITION ASSOCIATION NEWS Groundbreaking Israeli recycling company, GREENMIX joins the EDA

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SITE VISIT

Kocurek factory tour – a bespoke experience.

Ben Chambers visits Ipswich to meet the unique manufacturer and modifier of made to measure excavators

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COMPANY PROFILE

Adam Hindle gives the lowdown on family firm, Approved Hydraulics

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CASE STUDY

Skillfully done: Paul Argent visits Skillings on site at the former Rugeley B power station, where it is showing off its new Liebherr R 945 excavators

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DEMOLITION DISCUSSION

New Clifford Devlin board members, Liam Hennessy, Martin Doble, Ian O’Connor and Derek Aslett speak to Demolition Hub about the company’s 60th anniversary and more

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BRITISH DEMOLITION AWARDS

Winning a demolition award: 2021 BDA winners reveal what recognition meant to them.

Cawarden – Demolition Contractor of the Year Dragon Equipment – Environmental Innovation of the Year Shirrin Travers of Tilley and Barrett – Apprentice of the Year Erith Group – Health and Safety award and Asbestos Contractor of the Year award 4 | DemolitionHUB Magazine

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EVENTS

IDE – Spring Seminar and Graduation Ceremony,

by Ben Chambers Cawarden’s Demolition Director strives for industry excellence Taking CONEXPO-CON/AGG to the next level NDA Convention - San Diego

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CASE STUDY

Paul Argent meets Norfolk and Suffolk Plant Hire

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SUPPLIER TALK

With Sean McGeary of Blue Group

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EXCAVATORS FEATURE

Interviews with product specialists on their latest demolition excavators JCB 220X XD Demolition Excavator Hyundai Construction Equipment A-Series Cat 352 UHD Kobelco SK550DLC-11 Doosan adds third model to demolition excavator range Komatsu PC490hRD-11 SANY SY305 32-tonne excavator Liebherr R 940, R 950 and R 960 Demolition SENNEBOGEN 870 R-HDD

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CASE STUDY

Brown Field Site. Paul Argent visits Brown and Mason following the demolition of yet another of Britain’s obsolete coal-fired power stations

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INTERVIEW

John Woodward of C&D Demolition Consultants speaks to Emma Attwood of Cawarden about upcoming changes to the Health & Safety Executive Manual Handling Training

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CONTRACTS

Builders’ Conference CEO Neil Edwards reports for the UK construction sector.

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by Howard Button, Chief Executive of NFDC As a reader of Demolition Hub, you will no doubt know of the recent removal of the red diesel and biofuel tax rebate for the construction sector and other industries that came in on 1 April, making it illegal to use it in machinery and vehicles in the UK. The government’s move has been sold as a bid to encourage the construction, waste

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management, haulage, logistics and road maintenance sectors, to name a few, towards the use of cleaner and greener alternatives, or the use of less fuel altogether.

NFDC, alongside other trade associations and leading voices in the construction sector lobbied hard against this policy change since the measures were first discussed in early 2020, citing the significant financial impact to our demolition contractor members. As the National Federation of Demolition Contractors, and

voice of the global demolition industry, we partnered with CPA, CECA, WRA, Build UK and others to plead the industries’ case against the financially devastating move.

Despite the collective efforts of a combined voice and the compelling reasons opposing the change, we were unable to revoke or delay the decision.

As a sector we have fought against the move, which comes hot on the heels of the global pandemic and while we find ourselves in a state of post-COVID recovery. The timing represents a double-blow to the industry and our federation.

Many of our members, from small family run businesses to large contractors, incurred unexpected costs ensuring the safety of their workforces as we were encouraged by the government to “keep going” through lockdowns as an essential sector. Compounded by growing concerns over rising materials cost and an increasingly short supply of labour, many called for a delay, if not retraction of the government’s decision.

While not giving up until the final whistle, NFDC encouraged its members to forward plan.

With the support of CECA, NFDC issued guidance to members on what to expect and how to handle the change, looking at increased security measures to combat fuel theft, and how to work closely with clients and customers to make them aware of the changes. NFDC has also been encouraging all members to transition to greener fuel in line with wider climate goals, imploring members to take three steps towards tackling the climate problem: • Join: Join the SME Climate Hub, • Commit: Make the SME Climate Commitment, • Switch: Transition to low-emission fuels on NFDC demolition sites.

NFDC will continue to monitor the impact upon the industry, while providing support to our members and the wider demolition and construction sector.

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Blue Group restructures Murray Plant for attachment sales

Blue Group announced on 29 March that as of 1 April all current product ranges sold by Murray Plant are to be sold and serviced through its three core regional businesses – Blue Southern, Blue Central and Blue Scotland.

Blue Group purchased Murray Plant in 2019 and as Murray Plant has grown significantly in recent years it has taken on several new brands and product lines. As part of its growth strategy, Blue Group decided that all current product ranges sold by Murray Plant would be sold and serviced through its three core regional businesses – Blue Southern, Blue Central and Blue Scotland.

Blue Scotland will operate as ‘Murray Plant – A Blue Scotland Company’. However, both Blue Southern and Blue Central will acquire the attachment product lines and continue to operate as usual under their current trading names.

Blue Group’s product ranges include attachments from world leading brands such as Rammer, Allu, Fortress, Xcentric, Pladdet and OilQuick. Spares for all these brands will now be stocked at the dedicated Blue Spares facilities in Warrington and Stirling for improved access and quicker lead times.

Bringing its attachment products into the three core Blue businesses allows the company to offer regionalised sales, service and administrative teams to provide customers with more comprehensive levels of service and support. With additional local depots and access to more engineers, customers will benefit 8 | DemolitionHUB Magazine

from faster response times and reduced downtime.

The restructure will see minimal change for existing customers as local sales and service representatives will remain the same, but with additional staff resources

being added across all departments to better support customers. All staff previously working for Murray Plant will join the regional business local to them depending on whether they were previously based out of Stirling or Warrington.

Regional contact details: Blue Machinery Southern Harbour Road Trading Estate, Portishead, Bristol BS20 7AT 01275 285 285 Blue Machinery Central Main Office: New Cheshire Business Park, Wincham Lane, Wincham, Northwich CW9 6GG PDI Centre: Hurleston Business Park, Chester Rd, Nantwich CW5 6BU 01606 261 262 Murray Plant – A Blue Scotland Company 9 Craigleith Road, Broadleys Business Park, Stirling FK7 7LQ 03330 151 505 Blue Machinery Spares Warrington Depot - Appleton Thorn Trading Estate, Appleton Thorn, Warrington WA4 4SN 0345 130 0669 Scotland Depot - 9 Craigleith Road, Broadleys Business Park, Stirling FK7 7LQ 01786 469 444

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Finning acquires hydraulic services specialist Hydraquip

On 23 March, Finning, authorised dealer of Cat equipment and parts in the UK and Ireland, announced its acquisition of Hydraquip, the UK’s largest independent provider of mobile hydraulic services.

Hydraquip specialises in providing 24/7 nationwide coverage for hose replacement, assembly and fitting, oil replenishment and general hydraulic servicing. The company’s 130 mobile service vans and highly trained technicians mean jobs are typically completed within three hours of the initial customer call – reducing downtime and generating significant savings for customers.

Tim Ferwerda, Managing Director of Finning UK and Ireland, said: “The acquisition of Hydraquip demonstrates our commitment to build on and extend our reach to provide exceptional product support and aftermarket services for our customers. The company is a great fit with Finning in terms of its family-orientated and customer-focused culture, which complements our current product support service perfectly.

“The Hydraquip brand name will remain in place as we maintain and build upon the high standards of service it is known for. The business

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has an established footprint with hydraulic hose specialists focused on industries such as construction, transportation, waste management, utilities, manufacturing, and materials handling. With our extensive joint network in the UK and Ireland, customers will find it even easier to reap the benefits of reduced downtime and operating costs.”

Hydraquip employs 270 people and serves more than 4,000 customers across a diverse range of industries. Alongside its on-site mobile hose services, the business also sells hydraulic and fluid power products and parts via its website and a network of 27 strategically located branches across the UK. Duncan MacBain, founder of Hydraquip said: “Joining Finning is an extremely exciting move for Hydraquip and will prove a critical step in the continued growth of our offering, enabling Hydraquip to recognise its full potential in the UK and further afield. Our team will remain focused on offering our customers the very best service and support levels – now with the added backing of Finning, its network, and broader aftermarket capabilities.”

Dressta adds muscle to global management team with heavyweight appointment

Dressta, the world renowned, full-line dozer manufacturer has strengthened its sales capability with a heavyweight appointment. Mr. Bartosz Kozik joins the LiuGong Dressta Machinery team as Global Dressta Sales Director with full commercial responsibility for developing and implementing Dressta’s global sales strategy and managing and expanding its sales and distribution channels.

Bartosz brings with him more than 18 years of commercial and strategic experience, having enjoyed senior roles at Volvo CE, Ammann, Ingersoll-Rand, and most recently, as European Business Director for Holms Attachments.

Howard Dale, President of the Board at LiuGong Dressta Machinery said: “We are delighted to welcome Bartosz to the Dressta team. He joins us at an exciting time of investment, expansion and growth.

We are launching a full lineup of next generation dozers including our new TD-15M and our all new, Red Dot award-winning TD-16N. It’s our strongest product portfolio to date and we are confident Bartosz’s proven ability and enthusiasm will help to take Dressta to the next level.”

Commenting on his new position, Bartosz said: “I’m honoured to be joining the Dressta team.

The Dressta brand is one of the most respected brands in the construction equipment industry with a great history, amazing people and a bright future. I am excited to have the opportunity to help shape the next chapter in its story.”

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Demolition Hub expansion DeMOLITION HUB INTERNATIONAL AMERICAS | EMEA | APAC

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Global demolition Demolition Hub is expanding its portfolio with the introduction of the all new Demolition Hub International magazine, which will come out bimonthly in alternate months to the original UK-centric Demolition Hub. Announced by Ben Chambers, Chief Executive of Global News Media, at the National Demolition Association’s Demolition Convention in San Diego, Demolition Hub International is joining the family of brands under the Demolition Hub banner. These include Demolition Hub magazine, Asbestos Hub magazine, the annual Demolition Directory and the British Demolition Awards, now in its fifth year.

Ben Chambers said: “As we will have a huge North American focus in every issue of Demolition Hub International, including NDA news and member interviews, announcing the magazine in California made perfect sense. Interacting with manufacturers and contractors both at World of Concrete in Las Vegas and in San Diego, the message was clear. The way we do Demo Hub in the UK would be of great benefit globally; we had made the right choice.”

The decision to extend the brand comes for several reasons.

We are getting more and more suppliers interested in pushing their equipment and services internationally, in a similar manner to that we offer to the UK and Europe with Demolition Hub. We are forming close links with the NDA, the EDA and other international bodies and global industry events. We have found a winning formula in the way we produce engaging case studies, 12 | DemolitionHUB Magazine

interviews, news and in the magazine overall. We will now be replicating that with an international audience.

As Demolition Hub has once again been confirmed as media partner with next year’s CONEXPO-CON/AGG and the annual World of Concrete, both held in Las Vegas, it makes perfect sense to expand the brand.

Taking a look at the previous issue of Demolition Hub magazine demonstrates our ongoing international development. We ran a story on Australia’s Liberty Industrial, the DEMOLITION DISCUSSION was with James Milburn from Chicagobased Milburn Demolition and we reviewed our experience at Nevada’s World of Concrete.

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The way we do Demo Hub in the UK would be of great benefit globally

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BAUMA 2022:

matters

Full review of the mega show

SUPPLIER TALK: Technology Special

DEMOLITION DISCUSSION:

Scott Homrich President of the NDA

This is a sample copy of Issue #1 and has not been approved as yet.

Going global with the new magazine really was the way forward, while continuing to serve the UK and Irish demolition industries, including some European coverage, with an even closer grasp of who’s who and what goes on here.

Issue #1 of Demolition Hub International will be launched at the 33rd annual construction machinery trade fair, bauma 2022, in Munich.

We will ensure enough copies are printed for all those interested in demolition on a global scale to receive the launch edition.

To be involved in either publication or be added to the circulation please contact Ben Chambers via: ben@chambers. media / +44 (0)1903 952 648

Demolition Hub magazine continues to be produced six times a year, in February, April, June, August, October and December, Demolition Hub magazine will be even more UK and Ireland focused, Demolition Hub International, focusing on the EMEA, APAC and Americas regions, will be launched at bauma in October 2022, with following issues in November, January, March, May, July and September.

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GREENMIX: Building a circular economy

GREENMIX, a ground-breaking Israeli company leading the recycling field in the construction industry, has recently joined both the European Demolition Association and the European Decontamination Institute.

GREENMIX specialises in providing services and products for the construction and infrastructure industry. The group, which has been operating since 1983, began its activity by carrying out earthworks and development, and demolition of buildings in a wide range of projects.

In 1989, the group focused its activity on the field of building demolition, waste management, entrepreneurship, and setting up construction waste recycling plants. To this end, the group conducted research and development of innovative technologies and used unique tools and facilities, while employing expert engineers and teams to build the first model of its kind around the world for the construction industry.

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development of projects, both private and national on a huge scale. The projects focus on the field of recycling and include the setting up of recycling facilities, treatment of construction waste and the execution of the largest and most complex demolitions carried out in Israel in the last three decades. The group continues to initiate, promote, and lead the field of urban renewal (“urban mining”) and the construction waste recycling industries.

Since its inception, the company has engraved on its banner the values of sustainability and has worked tirelessly to promote and realize a vision of 100% recycling and 0% landfilling of construction waste. The company’s activity focuses on turning construction waste into a product with high environmental and economic values, while initiating and developing green, high-quality, and economic solutions that benefit the environment and the construction public. The group works in many years of professional cooperation with government ministries, construction companies, manufacturers, contractors, and research institutes, with the aim of promoting innovation in the field of recycling and assimilating the use of recycled materials.

The founder, Zvika David, has been leading the recycling domain in the construction industry for over thirty years and in fact paved the way for the development of the construction waste recycling industry in Israel in the academic and regulatory industrial aspect by fully standardizing recycling processes and GREENMIX products.

Zvika David, who received a leadership award from the Green Building Council in 2019 for his dedicated work to promote a circular economy in the construction industry, currently serves as Vice President and Chairman of the Infrastructure Division of the Association of Contractors and Builders and Chairman of the Institute for Ceramic and Silica Research at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.

Knowledge, innovation, and technology • Construction waste washing technology: GREENMIX has developed the world’s first washing plant for shredded building waste together with Israeli engineers and industries.

• Production technology: establishment and production of recycling plants for construction waste without separation at source. Adapting the production lines from the initial stage of absorbing and separating the waste to the stage of crushing, rinsing, and creating quality materials and products, which include green concrete mixtures produced with exclusive Israeli technology and attractive production costs.

• Development of a methodology for managing and operating an advanced recycling industry that includes diverse processes, routines, and value propositions from waste mining to its return as products back to the construction industry.

• Supportive information systems for advanced recycling industries, dashboard 360, production management system, supportive logistics and service management systems and ERP systems for centralising all business information.

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Participate in European Demolition Industry Report 2022 EDA’s most awaited report returns in eighth edition

The EDA is bringing back the European Industry Report for 2022, this being the publication’s eighth edition.

The information obtained in the years since its last publication have allowed the EDA to collect reference data of high value for all professionals in the sector.

In order to keep gathering this information, the association has prepared online surveys in 10 languages.

These surveys will be open until 30 April this year.

Based on two separate questionnaires, one for contractors and the other for suppliers,

the EDA’s Industry Report 2022 will provide a better understanding of the market, giving an overview of trends in the industry in Europe.

Any company, whether or not it is a member of EDA, can participate in the survey. However, only those who complete the report will have access to it, so don’t hesitate, take part of a unique publication now.

NFDC Awards 2022 We are delighted to announce the winners of the NFDC Awards 2022 CORPORATE AWARDS:

INDIVIDUAL AWARDS:

Health & Safety award Winner: Connell Brothers Ltd Highly commended: Sam Gilpin Demolition

Demolition Apprentice award Winner: Sarah Stockley, Erith

Training Excellence award Winner: Sam Gilpin Demolition Highly commended: Clifford Devlin Sustainability Champion award Winner: Rye Demolition and Bradley Demolition Highly commended: John F Hunt Can’t Do It Without You Winner: Paul Randall, Greenfield Demolition Supplier of the Year Winner: Highly commended:

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THSP INMALO

Demolition Operative award Winner: Glen Archbold, R Collard Demolition Plant Operator award Winner: Gary Longyear, Hughes & Salvidge Highly Commended: Colin Williams, Cawarden Demolition Supervisor/Chargehand award Winner: Sam Tunnicliff, R Collard Highly Commended: Josh Thomas, Prichard Demolition Demolition Manager award Winner: Kali Hagenstede Highly Commended: Simon King, R Collard

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site visit

Hidden away on a nondescript Ipswich industrial estate, next door to out of town cash and carry stalwart Bookers, sits the quite frankly brilliant Kocurek Excavators.

I was invited on a factory tour

by CFO Rebecca Kelly, whom I had met previously at last year’s British Demolition Awards. Kocurek has supported us since our inception in 2020 and in part for this support I wanted to go see them, put a video together and understand their specialism a little more. I am always happy to meet our clients and those offering something worthwhile to the industry and Kocurek quite clearly offer that.

Over coffee Rebecca introduced me to the vastly knowledgeable, 14-year veteran (still classed as a newbie), Fred Stearn the Technical Sales Manager. Sales may well be a strength for Fred, but that role could not be more apt for a graduate in engineering from the University of Southampton.

Fred talks the talk, the whole time keeping my attention on a very comprehensive tour of the factory.

Clients (and publishers) appreciate that kind of technical knowledge.

We walked through every bay, each set up for an individual specialism, be that MIG/TIG welding, milling, turning, assembly – we had the full tour and I loved every minute of it.

At least twice I witnessed a contraption supporting a welding rig or a boring bar jig. They were more than jigs, however. In fact they were engineering marvels and you won’t see them anywhere else as founder David Kocurek built them himself. Bespoke inventions designed to do one job, be it a horizontal bore or a complicated weld, really are the name of the game in this Suffolk factory.

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Kocurek factory tour – a bespoke experience

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Left to right: Rebecca Kelly, David Kocurek, Ben Chambers, and Fred Stearn

that if he doesn’t know how a bespoke part fits or whether it even can, he will find a way to make it do so.

Fred was saving the best until last as we ventured outside, where an imposing CAT excavator lay in wait. It had recently been modified, with a tiltrotator, cab guard and a new reach of 50m. This was midrange for them and impressive feat to watch as I had my very own demonstration.

After the tour, engrossed by what I’d seen and in no particular rush, Rebecca, Fred, David and I chewed the fat on the industry, the company’s history, employee retention rates, innovation and design.

Kocurek is clearly a very close-

knit company where 60-odd members of staff tend to all eat together at lunch. They are there for a common purpose – to create bespoke engineering modifications for excavators.

And don’t they do it well.

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Company profile:

Approved Hydraulics

by Adam Hindle

Approved Hydraulics started 34 years ago as Geoff Hindle (a man with a van), focusing on repairs and service work to the hydraulic industry. The work covered everything under the hydraulics banner but was focused more towards the truck hydraulic industry – lorry cranes, skip loaders, hook lifts etc.

Over the years the company has changed and evolved to move into new areas. As the repair business became less sustainable due to a lack of engineers and longer free service contracts from equipment manufacturers, the company decided to move into more of a sales role, using the years of handson experience to ensure customers would not only receive the correct parts for the job, but also the backup and knowledge support on how to fit and install components and larger equipment correctly.

The company has always been based around Manchester, covering the north-west as a service and repair company. However, as the company moved into sales, we now cover all the UK and Ireland and more frequently export to Europe and the rest of the world.

Due to the pandemic we have moved to a working at home basis, which has allowed us to employ salesmen in Ireland and Yorkshire to join the team.

We cover a large range of sectors, including almost all in the hydraulic industry in some way. Some are more prominent than others, however, such as the forestry, rail, truck hydraulics, industrial hydraulics for factories, demolition and subsea and offshore.

As well as providing support and knowledge, to become a leader in any market you need to have good quality products behind you.

We hold two main demolition and recycling attachment UK dealerships that we believe offer all of this.

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Intermercato AB (based in Sweden)

CMB is one of Italy’s premium demolition attachment producers.

Originally a breakaway company from Trevi Benne, the company now has many years of experience behind it. It has now obtained business in every country in Europe, America, South America and Russia.

Approved Hydraulics is the sole UK importer for CMB and over the past four years has made some fantastic moves in the forestry and particularly rail markets.

As demolition is the core of CMB, Approved Hydraulics is making a huge push this year to introduce customers to its fantastic range.

Units offer attachments for five to 50 tonne+ machines, the most popular being, pulverisers, shears, primary and secondary crushers, multi processors and quick-change jaw options.

All units, including rotators, are made from 100% SSAH Hardox, Weldox and Strenx, depending on application. Continual investment in technology, machinery and field testing allows CMB to keep quality and performance at its highest.

Approved Hydraulics has been the sole UK agent for Intermercato AB for over 13 years. Intermercato offers the largest range of log grabs in the global market but also manufactures a huge range of other industry attachments. The company’s heavy duty range of TG DG demolition grabs are well known throughout Europe and its latest lighter duty range of sorting grabs, the TG EG range, has had huge success since its release around two years ago.

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Demolition-specific and exclusive UK dealerships

Lotta Hilderbrand, Managing Director of Intermercato said: “Approved Hydraulics have been our partners and sole UK agents for more than 13 years now and we are more than pleased with the way they represent us and our products. They have a very dedicated sales team with high technical ability and sales backup that can be trusted 100%.

As well as demolition attachments, Approved Hydraulics has large market shares in the forestry, rail, subsea and transport sectors.

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Skillfully done

While to many demolition is the removal of an old building or structure, what outsiders don’t see is what has to be cleared once a building is demolished.

This obviously differs from structure to structure and when you start looking at remediating land where power stations once stood, the task in hand just gets bigger.

Rugeley B Power Station was commissioned in 1970 and sat proudly on the edge of the midStaffordshire town, right next to Rugeley A. The earlier power station was the first joint venture between the Central Electricity Generating Board (CEGB) and the National Coal Board (NCB) and took coal directly from the neighbouring Lea Hall Colliery by conveyor belt. This applied to the deliveries to Rugeley B until Lea Hall closed in 1991 after delivering almost 7,000 GWh of electricity to the National Grid.

Following failed plans to convert the station to run on biomass, it was closed in the summer of 2016 with demolition following soon after. With the above ground demolition works almost completed, work to remove the huge concrete structures below the surface, remediate the site and make it ready for new residential and commercial properties could begin.

John F Hunt Regeneration Ltd (JFHR) is the main contractor leading the remediation works on the site and has been tasked with remediating almost 140 hectares of former power station land. With over 1.2 million m3 of material to be re-engineered and reused on the site, the project is aiming for completion later this year.

As part of the remediation works, the former cooling tower bases, turbine bases and inlet conveyors that brought coal into the power station are having to be removed to a depth of almost six metres in places. To do this quickly, safely and productively, JFHR has enlisted the services of one of the UK’s leading below ground demolition contractors, Skillings Crushing.

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throughout the industry for its ability to undertake hard and sometimes difficult concrete crushing projects. “We have a small but dedicated team who know what they need to do,” David explains. “The lads have the kit to allow them to do the work safely and productively and are well looked after.”

I caught up with some of the team as they worked their way through approximately 150,000 m3 of extremely hard and heavily reinforced concrete on the site.

Designed to carry the 200-tonne plus turbines suspended above the ground, the huge concrete substructures require some heavy duty equipment to break them out. At the time of our visit, Site Supervisor Ben Airlie was using five of Skillings’ fleet of excavators on the job, ranging in size from a 32-tonne Liebherr R930 with straight demolition boom to load one of the firm’s Kleemann jaw crushers, to the largest machine on the fleet, a 78 tonne Liebherr R 970 SME. “We have purchased Liebherr excavators for a number of years,” David says. “They are ideally suited to the demolition and excavation work we undertake, and we’ve found them on the whole to be a good machine. Yes, we have had our issues with them, as we have with other manufacturers, but what we do like is their attention to detail, their backup and their support.”

While Liebherr is the main source of excavators in the Skillings fleet, there are also several Caterpillar machines and some examples of Volvo excavators still working on various projects around the country.

Obviously, the excavators in the fleet play a pivotal role in the success of the company, but that success can only be achieved with the help of top-quality attachments used with them.

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that there is a significant cost associated with each unit, but when this is looked at over the whole life of, say, two excavators, the reduction in damage to hoses and attachments from ‘making do’, the cost of installing a hitch soon disappears.

This is demonstrated by one of Skillings’ new Liebherr R 945 excavators. The 46-tonne machine was tasked with processing a tight area of the foundations and was using a combination of bucket, breaker and concrete processor to remove large chunks of material, extract as much rebar from it as possible before stockpiling the material for eventual crushing. The ability to swap attachments within seconds enabled the job to progress smoothly with a steady supply of processed concrete and rebar building up. Using a new Rammer 4099E to break up the hard material before swapping to a Rotar RDP32S pulveriser to remove the rebar, the Liebherr finally swapped to a bucket to move the material away from the work area.

When it comes to primary demolition of the concrete structures, there are just two choices of hammer for the team: Epiroc and Rammer. This project was dominated by Rammer hammers with the R 945 using the 3.7-tonne 4099E, the Liebherr R 970 handling a 7.5-tonne 9033E and the latest addition to the Skillings fleet, a used Caterpillar 374F excavator carrying a huge G130. “We like the Rammer hammers,” Ben says.

“They’re a solid, reliable bit of kit and provide the power we need to break up the concrete effectively.

What we do have is good operators on them as any wrong move can break a point and be very expensive not only in terms of repairs but lost productivity too.”

The Caterpillar 374 has been added to the fleet to bolster their breaking capacity and is used solely with the Rammer hammer. A second, smaller CAT 352 is also on site assisting with the movement of material ready to be crushed.

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all sourced from Kleeman, with Skillings operating an MC110Z within the base of the former turbine hall and a brand new MR130i impact crusher on another part of the project. Both crushers are hybrid drive machines and offer exceptional productivity combined with low fuel consumption. Unlike many crushing companies, which use wheeled loaders to move material thrown from the crusher’s

outfeed conveyor, Skillings has a pair of Trackstack 8042 telescopic conveyors to place the material in a large stockpile away from the crusher. “We find that it’s a far more productive method of working,” Ben explains. “The amount of material we can produce without the need for rehandling is immense.”

The Skillings team will be on site for the next few months removing the final parts of the sub-

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The kit is the best you can buy and having that combination and a boss like Dave, it makes coming to work in the morning so much easier.”

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How did Clifford Devlin start and evolve in size and scope?

Started by Peter Clifford and Foncie Devlin in 1962, Clifford Devlin began life as Clifford Devlin Transport and focused on haulage, servicing London construction sites before diversifying into demolition works in 1965. Peter Clifford took the business forward in 1969 after his business partner sold his stake and returned to his native Ireland.

Clifford Devlin became a member of the National Federation of Demolition Contractors in 1970 and the steady growth of

the demolition business continued until further diversifying into the world of asbestos removal. In 1983 asbestos removal became a licensed activity in the UK and Clifford Devlin obtained a five-year license from the HSE in 1984 before becoming a member of the Asbestos Removal Contractors Association in 1986.

Peter then took the business to much larger premises in 1987 in Bow, London. This enabled Clifford Devlin to grow further, building works started as an addition to the demolition and asbestos removal demolitionhub.com

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offering, including minor permanent works installation on demolition projects and reinstatements on asbestos removal jobs. In 2006 Clifford Devlin’s building division became a standalone part of the business working for its own clients.

Collectively the business is positioned in the £15-20m per annum bracket with further growth planned over the coming years.

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Which regions have you focused on?

Clifford Devlin typically operates in London and the south-east but has ventured further afield for regular clients and suitable opportunities.

Although there is no immediate plan to spread the business geographically, we are always open to interesting schemes and we would travel again for the right client and project.

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Tell us about your team and working culture Our team is composed of very well trained staff in each of the categories. Our ethos is to invest in training above all. As we are a relatively small family company our teams work closely together and we understand the importance of a harmonious working atmosphere to maximise the collaborative output, thus ensuring our clients the highest standards possible.

We try to foster this as much as possible by encouraging staff to engage with one another both in work pursuits, charitable endeavours and social events.

We understand that more time is spent with our colleagues than with our families, so we try to create an extended family feel to our working environments. Our staff are passionate about their work and we are passionate about their development. We have a very high retention of staff with many people in the company having worked with us for over 10 years. A good proportion of our management have been developed through from a trade position. In

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2020 Clifford Devlin won the NFDC training excellence award for our development in our staff.

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Tell us about the move to employee ownership The EOT is still in its infancy. The initial stage has been a learning curve for all. We have encouraged everyone to ask as many questions as possible and have endeavoured to answer them. We have noticed that members of the team have taken greater interest in the financial performance of the company and have offered solutions for maximising opportunities and decreasing wasteful spending.

We encourage input from all staff and are open minded to applying good suggestions. We operate a ‘you said, we did’ approach to staff engagement. This is not a new development but maybe it has been highlighted in the context of the EOT. In the short time that we have been operating as an EOT it has, so far, proved to be a very positive move with us all holding the ring.

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What kind of projects do you work on most frequently?

The largest part of our business is still demolition. We cater for all types of demolition works and

specialise in complex inner city demolitions, including cut and carve works. Our building division has carried out non-domestic newbuilds including the construction of a multi-deck car park in recent years, civils and landscaping, as well as refurbishment and fit-out works.

Our asbestos division complements the demolition team to enable clients to think of us as a one stop shop as well as operating the term frameworks for Haringey and Dartford Borough Councils. While there is no immediate desire to diversify further, we have recently worked on a cliff restoration project and have another one pending, this work calls on our experience from both the demolition and building arms of the business. Our main focus in the coming years is to further develop our collaborative approach from all divisions.

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What are the standout projects from your history?

Our first £1m plus project was the demolition and refurb at Mayfair place for Mace in 1999. This was a big milestone in the company’s history and the first of some substantial schemes. We worked on the demolition to make way for the development of the London Olympic demolitionhub.com

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What are your USPs? Clifford Devlin’s biggest USP is the group offering of multiple disciplines that enables our clients to limit the programme risks associated with placing orders with several different companies.

Our ability to deliver much of the enabling package in house, limits the need for a client to manage interface and programme disruption through collaboration. Clifford Devlin takes and manages the interface within its tried and tested highly experienced teams. Our key selling points are our exemplary safety performance record, our excellent portfolio of work across our three divisions and our combined experience in completing complex schemes in London. We consider ourselves to be user friendly and commercially sensible, focusing on developing client relationships. Our levels of repeat business demonstrate this.

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How do you spread the word about your services?

Clifford Devlin has a very good name in the industry as ‘safe hands’ and this alone generates the majority of our work opportunities. We have also recognised the need to move with the times and spread the word of our good work through marketing channels. We have recently increased our marketing approach by investing in an internal marketing department. This has seen an increase in our social media presence and an improvement in our tendering output.

Tendering levels have increased hugely over the pandemic through to the recent months and our preconstruction team have become very efficient in turning them around in the relative short periods of time allowed. Our marketing team have helped structure the format of our responses and have developed an early review team. That enables us to ensure the right people are involved in preparing responses from as early as possible, enabling us to carry out a review of the combined product before the tender response.

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Tell us about labour, recruitment and training Given the changes to the labour market in the past couple of years, the availability of good quality short term labour to supplement our own team has decreased. Furthermore the historical family involvement in the industry is not there in the way it used to be. There were always sons, daughters, nephews and

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Park in 2007 and being chosen for this high profile, high pressure project was a proud achievement.

The importance of prompt delivery was impressed upon us.

The team who worked on the bid often recount the post tender interview, in which a countdown clock was used as a vivid aid in getting across the crucial nature of the programme above all projects.

The project went swimmingly for us and the rest is history.

More recently we were selected as one of the key delivery partners for the Costain Skanska joint venture on the HS2 project, which proved to be one of the largest projects undertaken by the company.

With the HS2 project there was a similar pressure due to the high-profile nature of the project.

The key challenges were ensuring compliance with the section 106 requirements and ensuring that the incredibly high standards required were met. This project was very successful for Clifford Devlin and featured some very impressive performances from our long serving managers, making it as much of a milestone in their careers as it was in the company’s history.

nieces following in family footsteps coming into construction. Combined with the eastern European exodus, this has really brought this shortage into light.

We have been listening intently to the NFDC in regards to their apprentice scheme proposals and we have been tackling alternative streams as well. Most recently we have been working with The New Futures Network to help suitable candidates get back into work as part of offender reintegration.

This has proved to be a successful partnership so far with a couple of excellent candidates already on our books.

We have been working closely with the London Borough of Waltham Forest on their Developers forum – they have recently put together job fairs to encourage the next generation of construction workers. This grassroots approach may take time to grow shoots, but it is essential in ensuring that the quality of resource available does not dwindle.

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Tell us about any engagement Clifford Devlin has in the community In recent months we have stepped up our endeavours to make tangible contributions to the economic, social, environmental and educational wellbeing of the communities in which we work, and wider society in general.

Following our campaign to tackle the issue of mental health in our

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workplace and beyond, we are supporting Mates in Mind, the registered charity that provides a framework to raise awareness and address the stigma of poor mental health and improve positive mental wellbeing in the UK construction industry. In November we used our sponsorship arrangement with local football club Hassenbrook FC to organise a charity tournament, which raised over £1,500 for the mental health charity.

We have also initiated a collection scheme to provide groceries to our local foodbank in Thurrock. Staff are encouraged to donate by depositing food items into special containers located at our head office. In recent months we have delivered two consignments to the Thurrock Foodbank in Stanford-le-Hope.

In September we took part in the world’s biggest coffee morning for MacMillan Cancer Support, raising £200 from cake sales in both our office and on site.

To alleviate the strain that charities have faced during the global pandemic we supported a number of organisations during the Christmas period, including Salvation Army, Save the Children and Shelter, with gift donations and money raised through various initiatives.

As well as continuing to support charities and community projects we are launching a campaign in 2022 to share our skills and knowledge to

educate and support those looking for a career in the construction sector. Clifford Devlin has partnered with New Futures Network, a specialist part of the prison service that brokers partnerships between prisons and employers to facilitate the employment of ex-offenders.

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How do you see the demolition industry developing post-COVID? Will you be doing things differently?

The most obvious impact that is likely to remain post-COVID is the use of Teams and Zoom for virtual meetings. It has the added benefit of reducing carbon footprint and maximising the availability of key members of any team. We are sure to return to face-to-face for meetings with new contacts and for key engagements, but they are great for brief catchups on live projects and post tender review meetings.

Working from home doesn’t have too much of a place in construction but there are a number of activities that are conducive to it, so this will remain a viable option and consideration following the successful trialling of it during the pandemic. The Construction Leadership Council was quick to establish key guidance in managing the new risks on site, mitigating the impact to the day-to-day running of sites. We are all hopeful that we are now at the end of the pandemic and the recent change to legislation suggests that we are into a ‘learning to live with it’ phase. That said, we

will continue to follow the guidance set to limit the impact to our staff of any new variants.

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Do you have any notable projects in progress or in planning?

We do have a number of exciting projects planned for mid-2022 and look forward to sharing these with you nearer the time. The immediate future of the industry looks to show an upward curve and given the bleak previous two years, long may it continue.

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How do you envisage Clifford Devlin in five to 10 years?

Having successfully survived sixty years in this industry we hope to do much of the same. Growth will be incremental and sustainable with a focus on quality over quantity. Our biggest challenge over the next 10 years will be around sustainability.

We have been talking to our clients about the need for change from the circular economy of the demolition of building and a move to cradle to cradle with new designs.

We presently recycle between 96% and 100% of non-hazardous building materials but hope to be able to reuse a larger percentage on the next building. We will see lots of changes with more sustainable fuel in our transport and machines and we have started the journey of halving our emissions on the way to becoming Net Zero. We hope to continue to work with our excellent client base and continue to offer a high-quality service. We will move with the times while maintaining our identity.

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Tell us how you engage with the wider team and what activities you do with the staff In recent years we have had eventbased team-building days such as go karting, shooting and golf days.

To celebrate our 60th anniversary, we have many more planned this year and through our new marketing team we intend to increase these over the coming years. Where possible we will try and link these to charity pursuits such as fun runs and other sponsored events.

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Winning a British Demolition Award 2021 BDA winners reveal what recognition meant to them

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Demolition Contractor of the Year The British Demolition Awards has been in our sights and we entered for the first time last year. The event recognises the foremost national and international players in the demolition industry and provides industry professionals like us with a forum to meet, socialise and talk business. It’s a celebration of all that is great about the demolition industry and we wanted to be a part of that.

Up until the last couple of years, we’ve always been fairly quiet about our successes and achievements.

However, since our Marketing and Comms Manager Emma joined us in 2020, she’s helped to propel Cawarden into the spotlight. And one of the ways she’s done this is by putting Cawarden forward to be considered for awards – one of these being a British Demolition Award in the ‘Demolition Contractor of the Year’ category.

We knew we would be up against some stiff competition, but during the preceding 12 months we had achieved so much – and all under very difficult, unfamiliar and unusual circumstances as a result of the pandemic. We therefore demolitionhub.com

told our story as part of the award submission.

During this unprecedented time, we believed our quality projects proudly delivered by the ‘Cawarden Family’ and our client-focused approach – all underpinned by our commitments to our people, the planet and community – would put Cawarden in the running for the 2020/21 title.

It was exciting for the Cawarden team to arrive in Brighton for the night of the awards – especially since it was one of the first face-toface events many of us had been to in such a long time. There was a real buzz and it was great to catch up with some familiar and new faces.

When the awards got underway and Cawarden’s name was called out as the winner, we were all extremely happy but shocked in equal measures. Being presented with the award on stage and taking the Demolition Contractor of the Year title was a company highlight of 2021. We’re so proud of it. It was a great night of celebrations and recognising the fantastic achievements from across the industry.

We’ve been inundated with messages of support from clients, suppliers and friends of the business. To be recognised with the Demolition Contractor of the Year title has helped to cement Cawarden’s place in the market as a leading specialist contractor – always moving the business forward with sustainability at our heart. We’ve certainly taken every opportunity to market the win, making use of the logo on our email footers, website and tender documents, for example.

If you’re considering entering any one of the awards categories, our advice is just to go for it. Shine a light on your expertise, your pride, passion and employees. It’s tremendous recognition for your workforce and something the whole team plays a part in, that leads to award-winning recognition.

Well done to Demolition Hub for putting on an industry showcase event. It’s a staple in our events calendar and we will be attending the next event, a little more local to us, in Leicester. We are looking forward to entering the 2022 awards and seeing if we can maintain the title for two years in a row.

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Dragon Equipment

Environmental Innovation of the Year We were so proud to take home the award for Environmental Innovation of the Year for our DS110 Dust Suppression unit. The win was the culmination of more than two years of dedicated hard work from the whole team.

We genuinely think our machine is brilliant, but we entered the machine into the awards to see how it faired against other great products. It was an honour to see our machine win alongside some other fantastic winners from across the UK. It has been incredible to receive national recognition for the DS110, a machine that we’ve worked so hard on to help keep the air clearer on construction sites. The environment is considered at all levels at Dragon Equipment, which is one of the reasons we keep manufacturing in the UK and use local suppliers wherever possible.

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acknowledged by an independent panel of judges who are all such experts in their fields.

Many demolition projects bring potential exposure to a wide range of respiratory or breathing hazards and because dust and fumes can cause long-term health problems such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), dust suppression is vital.

Built entirely in the UK, the DS110 uses the same track base and design principles as our popular CR300 Crusher and looks to address growing concern about dangerous dust and air pollution on demolition sites. The machine can be controlled entirely remotely, removing personnel from danger and enabling the job to be completed more efficiently.

Since winning the award six months ago, it’s been a whirlwind.

Our business has grown to the point where we have moved into

our first factory in Suffolk, which we are currently customising and we’ve taken on three more fulltime employees – a Production Manager, Production Technician and an Operations and Design Support Manager. These huge moves forward have helped us to build considerable momentum and machine production is at an all time high.

We’ve also taken our machines to some of the industry’s biggest trade shows – Saltex in November 2021 and Executive Hire Show in February 2022. At both shows we’ve proudly displayed our award, which has generated multiple conversations and definitely stopped a few people from just walking past.

We love that these awards are British, just like all our machines.

It was such an exciting moment to win the award and we can’t wait to be a part of the awards in 2022.

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Shirrin Travers of Tilley and Barrett Apprentice of the Year Shirrin Travers: Winning the Apprentice of the Year at last year’s British Demolition Awards was one of the work highlights of the year for me. Although I had been progressing in the industry for five years, I thought there was always time for self-improvement, so when the pandemic started affecting the industry, it was a good chance to go back to university and gain further qualifications. Working for Tilley and Barrett and the wider group, Toureen, allows you to show initiative as they are very supportive of their team and always encourage self-progression, in tandem with their training schemes and general support.

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discipline, you can sometimes feel slightly hesitant in such a male dominated environment. The award has really given me the confidence and confirmation of my work and efforts. It has given me the chance to progress my career further and shows that my hard work has been noticed, by both the industry and

by Tilley and Barrett. This has been reflected in trust I have been given to work on some very complex and interesting projects and the role I play in them.

David Jameson, Tilley and Barrett: We put Shirrin forward for this award because she has continually shown initiative, a willingness to learn and a strong work ethic. We are absolutely delighted that she won the award and believe it to be

fully deserved. Shirrin has been with us some time, is a great example of the training structures we have in place and showcases our ethos of promoting, encouraging and training our in-house teams.

We understand the importance of having good people that are with us long term and Shirrin now plays a vital role on our leading demolition projects. She is a highly respected team member within our demolition division and the wider group, as well as with our repeat clients, who actively ask for her to be part of their projects. The award is a great way to acknowledge her hard work both in and outside of the business, and we are sure there will be many more. She is integral to the type of complex and high-profile work Tilley and Barrett now works on and plays a big part in our growing reputation. demolitionhub.com

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Erith Group

Health and Safety award and Asbestos Contractor of the Year award The awards ceremony was a fantastic night and after missing out on the 2020 awards due to the pandemic, it was even more special to come together and celebrate all that is great about the industry.

The Health and Safety award was great recognition of our significant investment and initiatives into raising health, safety, and wellbeing standards across the group. The award is testament to the hard work of the SHEQ team in developing best practice strategies combined with the implementation and commitment of our project delivery teams and supply chain partners.

We look forward to building on this award as we develop our long-term objectives and targets in line with our 7 Steps to Safety programme and Safety 24:7 ethos.

We are delighted to have also demolitionhub.com

received the inaugural Asbestos Removal Contractor of the Year award, recognising the continued growth of our asbestos team and some significant tender wins of prestigious projects across the country. Since receiving the award, we have continued to strengthen our position as one of the leading licensed asbestos removal contractors in the UK, securing further measured term contracts and framework positions for leading blue-chip clients.

We have proven our ability to consistently deliver over and above extremely demanding client expectations, using our in-house national infrastructure of asbestos resource, positioning us at the front of the industry. We are superbly positioned for a positive 2022, are thrilled to see the asbestos

categories have been expanded for this year’s event and hope to maintain our position as Asbestos Removal Contractor of the Year.

The double award win is testament to our dedicated teams throughout the unprecedented disruption and uncertainty of the pandemic.

We are excited to submit our nominations for this year’s awards and are looking forward to celebrating the industry again in September.

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IDE – Spring Seminar and Graduation Ceremony

by Ben Chambers

On 25 February, the Institute of Demolition Engineers met at the Royal Armouries in Leeds. The event consisted of the IDE’s Spring Seminar and Graduation and Awards Ceremony for students of the Foundation Degree in Demolition Management, produced by the Institute and supported by the University of Wolverhampton.

Ben Cumberland attended for Demolition Hub with our professional photographer David Kennedy, both stepping in for me as I was at the American demolition industry’s NDA convention in San Diego. Both said the atmosphere was electric as old friends and industry acquaintances reunited.

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and networking. This was on point as, following the British Demolition Awards and the Demo Expo, this was one of the first UK demolition industry events to be held since pandemic regulations were fully lifted.

Ben found a few familiar faces in attendance, including Matthew Bastable (BPH), Michelle Redman (Campbell Associates), Richard Yarwood (ECY Haulmark) and Howard Button, Chief Executive of the NFDC, to name a few. He told me it was fascinating to see just how enthusiastic attendees were to see old friends, colleagues and industry figures, bearing in mind this was the first IDE event for at least two years.

At 9.30 visitors were called into the auditorium where, standing alongside Dr Terry Quarmby of Dorton Group, President of the IDE Richard Dolman introduced the day. Members who had successfully upgraded their membership over the last 12 months were recognised, while graduates of the Foundation Degree were congratulated and awarded their certificate by the President.

Each recipient was welcomed by a huge round of applause as Richard Dolman called them up to the stage, where Dr Quarmby shook their hands and presented them with their degree. Demolition Hub’s demolitionhub.com

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BPH Attachments, Liebherr, NFDC, Mabey Hire, ECY Haulmark and Campbell Associates all said how pleased they were with how the day had gone and how being a part of it as an ISP allowed them to be in the right place with the right people to gain potential new business.

The Demolition Hub team feel honoured to have been part of the day. We witnessed the next generation of demolition engineers; were present for the interesting and informative talks; and entrusted to report on, take official photographs and become that little bit closer to the IDE and this wonderful industry.

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photographer David then took the obligatory ceremonial photos. Once again, the audience showed what these awards mean to the industry with a further rapturous round of applause.

Richard briefly talked about the hours of study and commitment that go into achieving the foundation degree and honestly, hats off to each and every student.

As an aside for those wishing to study in 2023 and beyond, I am joining the class of 2022, so have all of this to come. From this edition onwards, I will be documenting my learning experiences in each issue of Demolition Hub magazine as well as through the IDE’s media channels.

Before breaking for lunch, Howard Button gave a talk about how the NFDC and IDE work together as a demolition alliance.

This was followed by Mark Mates, Managing Director of HiTec Demolition NW and Police Inspector Ben Hembry, Scene Evidence Recovery Manager (SERM) for Warwickshire Police speaking about the fatal industrial fire at Leeson’s Polyurethanes.

Lunch was served soon after and the catering team didn’t disappoint, with a traditional crowd pleaser of boeuf bourguignon and fruit crumble.

After the break, Jacqueline Western, HM Inspector of Health and Safety, delivered a speech entitled Health and Safety Executive; Decommissioning, Dismantling and Demolition alongside Ian Whitfield, HM Specialist Construction Inspector and Jan Andresen, HM Principal Specialist Inspector of Health and Safety.

They were followed by Roy Fishwick, Managing Director of Cleveland Steel and Tubes on the circular economy and steel reuse in construction. Finally, Roland Alford, Chief Executive Officer of Alford Technologies gave a talk on the use of charge tamping to enhance the explosive kick and other explosive techniques.

The whole day was well executed and a great success.

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Cawarden’s Demolition Director strives for industry excellence

Derby-based specialist contractor, Cawarden, has celebrated the achievement of its Demolition Director and Board Member, Malcolm Lowes, who has become an Associate Member of the Institute of Demolition Engineers (IDE) – the professional body that exists to promote and foster the science of demolition engineering.

Malcolm, who has over 40 years’ demolition engineering experience, attended the IDE Graduation and Awards Ceremony on 25 February at The Royal Armouries in Leeds to be presented with his Associate grade achievement.

To achieve the professional industry membership, Malcolm completed a rigorous assessment process involving a formal application, exam and face-to-face interview.

Malcolm said: “I am thrilled to have achieved my Associate level grade with the IDE and I’m now looking forward to continuing to further my professional development and industry knowledge to achieve my full IDE membership within the next two years. The IDE is an excellent organisation that provides a host of learning and networking opportunities as well as promoting the professionalism and credibility of the demolition industry that I am so proud to be a part of.”

William Crooks, Managing Director of Cawarden, said: “We are continually working to develop the skills and knowledge of our employees through investment in training and development.

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means our clients can be assured of our ability to deliver quality projects.

It also shows to those thinking about getting into the industry what can be achieved with hard work and that you can make a rewarding and prosperous career in the demolition industry.”

During his career, Malcolm has worked on hundreds of projects across the UK involving the demolition of all types of structures including bridges, highrise concrete towers, steelframed industrial units, redundant healthcare sites, dangerous buildings, complex power, quarry, chemical and manufacturing sites, and everything in between.

Whether Cawarden is working in a city centre with significant space constraints, residential areas, industrial or infrastructure sites, Malcolm oversees all of the key processes and procedures required to manage a project safely and efficiently within the constraints that each of these unique environments

presents. Working with the site teams, he ensures every project is meticulously planned, every detail is covered and costs are kept in check to deliver the best outcome.

Malcolm’s ability to build a rapport with clients and subcontractors, his professional approach, excellent levels of communication and interpersonal skills have garnered a wealth of repeat business.

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Taking CONEXPOCON/AGG to the next level in 2023 With the next CONEXPO-CON/ AGG and International Fluid Power Exposition (IFPE) just a year away, construction pros can expect a next-level experience at the Las Vegas Convention Center on 14-18 March 2023.

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now complete, so CONEXPO-CON/ AGG, and the co-located IFPE will be making full use of both.

Dana Wuesthoff, Show Director of CONEXPO-CON/AGG 2023 said: “AEM and our show committees of industry leaders are working to take advantage of everything that has changed in Las Vegas to deliver a top-notch event delivering the latest innovations and best practices to help construction pros take their businesses and careers to the next level.

“Between the West Hall and Diamond Lot bringing a lot of

displays closer to the rest of the show and serving as a connector to the Festival Lot; and the LVCC Loop making it effortless to get across the entire Las Vegas Convention Center, it’s never been easier for attendees to see everything they want.”

The new West Hall provides an additional 1.4 million square feet of indoor space, including 600,000 square feet of “technologically advanced” exhibit space. CONEXPOCON/AGG is making West Hall a hub for earthmoving and materials handling displays in 2023, the largest of which include CASE, K-Tec/ Ashland, Hitachi and Hyundai.

New York State excavating contractor Brian Dietz said: “When you attend CONEXPO-CON/AGG, you are able to see an item, touch it, sit in it, sometimes operate it and discuss it with the engineers and manufacturers. When you walk up to a machine and talk to someone, you get answers that you are not going to get anywhere else.”

The Diamond Lot will have a large variety of exhibits from Business Operations to Hauling, Portable Power and Underground Construction. The largest exhibitors in this area include Bauer Equipment, CZM Foundation Equipment, Trail King, and Hammer & Steel.

The LVCC Loop, which features new electric Tesla vehicles carrying attendees around the LVCC, is the other major addition to the show.

With stops in the South Hall, Central Hall and finishing at Diamond Lot, CONEXPO-CON/AGG and IFPE attendees can save themselves a lot of steps getting around. And with the shuttle service carrying construction pros from West Hall to the Festival Lot, where the largest exhibits are, seeing the whole show has never been easier.

Bruce Barnhart, an Iowa excavating contractor said: “In the construction business, everything we talk about is benchmarked by the last CONEXPO-CON/AGG we went to. Even our conversations with our employees years after the show connect back to what we saw and learned at the show.” demolitionhub.com

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Convention – San Diego You may have heard about our expansion plans with the launch of Demolition Hub International later this year. It was in part due to this impending publication that we were invited to the National Demolition Association’s (NDA) annual convention, Demolition San Diego in February. Since Demolition Hub International will have a strong focus on North America, getting in front of the NDA committee and its contractor and supplier members was of great benefit to us.

The location was idyllic, the imposing Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel a stone’s throw from the convention centre and the weather 15 degrees ahead of what we were getting at home at the end of February. All that was needed was a well presented and organised event with plentiful networking opportunities and live demonstrations. Demolition San Diego did not disappoint.

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The first day was reserved for NDA management to hold a directors’ meeting, allowing the rest of us to find our bearings, essential at an American convention extended across a handful of venues.

With more than 60 exhibitors spread over what could pass for an aircraft hangar, we were greeted by some eye-wateringly big attachments from Fortress, and a beast of an excavator from Volvo (an EC380 coupled with an MRX350).

The convention allowed us the opportunity to do some serious networking, see old friends, and meet and make new ones. It is always nice to meet industry professionals who are otherwise merely at the end of a phone or email string. You cannot beat face to face, and therefore meeting brands such as BossTek, FieldFlo, Epiroc and Oil Quick, on their own territory as well as North American divisions of

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EMR and Brokk was well worthwhile.

We built rapport with manufacturers and suppliers new to us such as Company Wrench, HKD and Cratos and had a thoroughly good chat with the team from KHL, producers of D&Ri magazine as well as PDI Magazine’s North America editor Jim Parsons. We will be now working to help promote their DEMCON event on 24 to 25 November in Stockholm, yet another example of the camaraderie between leading industry magazines.

The next element of the fourday convention was the DEMOlition live event, some 20 minutes’ drive towards the Mexican border. Having been given additional PPE and a health and safety briefing, we were treated to a display from the likes of Volvo, Mecalac and CAT, who at times were following the direction of the observers themselves.

The awards do brought an opportunity to dress up and see how the NDA honours its own. Three industry leaders were inducted into the National Demolition Association Hall of Fame – Bruce Bacon from Exodus Global, Randall L Homrich from Homrich and Andrew Youpel from Brandenburg Industrial Service Co. There were three further awards for a variety of safety categories, an Excellence in Demolition Award celebrating seven impressive projects, and seven scholarships announced for the next generation of demolition contractors. Finally, David P Sinclair was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

In summary the event far exceeded my expectations and the organisation was

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thorough and thankfully, idiot proof.

We will be working more closely with the NDA in the future on both magazines and I look forward to promoting their events and member stories. I would like to say a huge personal thank you to the NDA’s

Chief Executive Officer Jeff Lambert for inviting Demolition Hub and being a wonderful host.

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by Paul Argent

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Every day another general plant hire pops up offering ‘the best deals available’ and while many demolition contractors use these companies’ services for some equipment, the requirement for demolition specific machines remains high.

While offering a first-class service for the general hire market throughout the south-east, Norfolk and Suffolk Plant Hire has also added a large fleet of demolition specified equipment into its fleet, including dedicated high reach machines.

The Beccles-based NFDC member provides an extensive range of demolition specific machines ranging from eight to 36 tonnes with the machines coming in the main from LiuGong, one of the leading Chinese brands currently making waves in the UK demolitionhub.com

case study market. While standard excavators make up a large portion of the demolition fleet, the company has invested heavily in a new LiuGong 928EDM 18-metre high reach. The arrival of the high reach, which was converted by Ipswich based ISP Kocurek, heralds the ongoing commitment to supplying a dedicated service to the demolition industry.

Not wanting to just offer a customer’s a basic high reach option, Lee Spurgeon and Chris Amis from N&S wanted a machine that would impress customers and keep them returning to the company for future hires.

The Kocurek conversion of the standard LiuGong machine included a fabricated tilting frame to carry the cab to a 30-degree angle enabling the operator to see the work tool at height. The threedemolitionhub.com

piece equipment is fixed to reduce the weight of the machine and extends to an operating height of 18 metres. A full cab top and front guard protect the operator while the bucket ram is also protected with a substantial sliding guard.

Even though the machine is not the largest on the market, there is a need for smaller machines to tackle some demolition jobs.

The company looked at what was available on the market and the types of projects undertaken before deciding to purchase the machine. Operating height is either tackled by a standard machine sitting on a platform or a larger, heavier high reach, working well within its range.

One of the main benefits of the 18-metre machine is the relatively compact design and at 36 tonnes, it weighs little more

than most excavators found on a demolition site.

For many demolition contractors requiring a smaller high reach option, the N&S machine represents an ideal solution. I caught up with the machine working in Norfolk to dismantle part of a production plant in a food factory for Fincham Demolition.

Steve Fincham explained: “We hire in a number of machines as our projects dictate and the arrival of the high reach has enabled us to look at a different type of project than we would normally do.”

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LiuGong, the steel columns were cut and lowered to the ground for further processing.

Lee Spurgeon N&S Sales Manager said: “We have taken the LiuGong into the fleet after some very good feedback on the

smaller excavators we run. They have proved to be reliable and fuel efficient, just what our customers want. We’ve had no complaints about the quality or the work they can undertake. And the backup from the dealers has been very good indeed. We also get good backup from Brian at Worsley Plant, who supply the majority of our demolition attachments. We have a large range of demolition attachments available either with or without our excavators.”

The nature of demolition work dictates that as a building comes down, smaller machines can take care of the diminishing size of the building. It was smaller demolition outfits’ occasional requirement of the services of high reach machines that led N&S to purchase the LiuGong.

“We looked at the market for high reach equipment and realised there was a niche for this size of machine,” Lee said. “We don’t expect it to be out for months and months at a time with short duration hires being the key to its success. So far, the machine has been extremely popular. It also opens up other avenues for us with the standard machines and our large fleet of crushing and screening plant we also offer on self-drive hire.”

The decision to take the high reach was a big jump for N&S but one which looks like it has ultimately paid off.

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interview Blue Group Interviewee: Sean McGeary Role: Sales Director, Blue Machinery (Central) Ltd

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How did you start out in the industry, what attracted you to it and how has your career developed to where you are now?

I have grown up in the Blue Central business from a young age. It is my father’s company and he has worked a lifetime in the business and the industry as a whole, starting out on the shop floor for Powerscreen, which remains one of our OEM suppliers to this day. I have worked full-time in the business for more than 15 years now.

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Tell us about the history and development of Blue Group The Blue Group is a collection of similar businesses that are owned by my father and his longstanding business partners. They have all shared a vision and entrepreneurial drive to grow the business to what it is today. From modest beginnings as regional Powerscreen Dealers in their respective UK territory, the group has grown to have a handful of world leading OEM suppliers, grow a spares parts and project business and more recently acquire

DISTRIBUTION: Conor Hegarty, General Manager of MDS (left) meets Sean McGeary

and grow a standalone machinery attachments business.

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We now embrace the digital age as our businesses continue to evolve and our OEM suppliers overcome new challenges for alternatives to traditional combustion engines etc. The future is very bright and exciting.

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Tell us about Blue Group’s services. You’re not just a hire company, are you?

No. Far from it. Hire is only a small percentage of what we do. The businesses are generally focused on capital sales with an aftersales team and the necessary support functions to help our people remain customer facing.

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Is there a particularly interesting or exciting product that you deal with?

At Blue Central we have recently been appointed as the Doosan dealer for the north-west region of England. This brings with it much excitement and many challenges, but we feel that this complements our existing business very well. We are particularly excited about the combination of the world leading Doosan Crawler Excavator range of machines equipped with our Rammer breakers and Fortress shears for the UK demolition sector.

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Tell us about your team and working culture. Is there a fundamental company philosophy or ethic?

The business is very fast paced and as directors we work closely to the coalface on a daily basis so decisions can be made quickly.

The business is very much built on its entrepreneurial roots and tries

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to remain as customer focused as possible. It has a philosophy to work with sector leading OEMs and endeavour to deliver outstanding aftersales care. We don’t always get it right, but we are focused on continual improvement.

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What distinguishes Blue Group from the crowd?

We take tremendous pride in our people and suppliers. We genuinely feel that our people are the best in the industry and we focus hard on staff retention and development.

We also feel that our OEM suppliers stand us out from the crowd. We are very proud to be the exclusive dealer for so many world leading brands.

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How has the scope of Blue Group developed over time and how does this continue to develop?

We move with the times like any business that wants to survive. The business has evolved from one that primarily supplied screens to the UK coal industry in the 80s, which has now all but ceased, to the UK landfill tax legislation through the 90s and on. We have witnessed the birth of wood recycling, the growth of the compost industry, waste to energy and biomass industries as well as our more traditional construction related sectors in quarrying and demolition.

You’re a big name in the industry, but marketing is an ongoing task. How do you gain business and spread the word about your services?

It helps being an established business with an existing customer base but as we take on new challenges, we bring a new customer into the business that we can introduce to our wider portfolio.

Our marketing department works hard on a range of platforms including trade press, social media, website but also supporting the professional associations so we can inform the member of new developments in our business.

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You are an ISP member of the NFDC. How does your membership benefit you?

We are long standing members of the NFDC and we benefit from the networking that it provides. We also have the opportunity to understand what the members want from their suppliers.

For example, in 2021 we took part in a number of conversations around the use of HVO fuel in the demolition sector and how that can benefit our customer base to win more business. We now offer HVO compliant equipment across our range of machines.

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Tell us about any apprenticeships or training schemes you run In Blue Central we have grown our team from 29 people at the start of 2020 to 47 people today. We have apprentices in the business and we welcome people at all levels of their career path.

All our engineering and sales people receive extensive OEM training and we work hard on our compliance to keep everyone in the business up to date with their training records. demolitionhub.com

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Do you undertake any ongoing training or Continuous Professional Development?

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How do you see the plant industry and Blue Group developing post-COVID? Will the demands be different?

We can all agree that we are living in a different world today. The plant industry is booming with demand,

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but the supply chain challenges are unprecedented. It is difficult to see a decline in demand while the supply is restricted, and the workload of the end users remains high. We know this will change but we don’t know when.

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How do you see the outlook for your sector in 2022 and over the following years?

We hope that supply chain issues around component supply, freight, cost of production (including energy) will settle down but it is difficult to know when. What it will do is accelerate the development of the next generation of material handling/processing and earth moving equipment.

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What are the biggest technological developments you have seen in the plant industry and what do you envisage will be the future game changers?

For sure, the desire for people to have alternative energy powerpacks on their machines will increase whether it is electric or battery but ultimately it is felt that hydrogen offers the most sustainable long-term solution once some of the obvious obstacles can be overcome.

The other aspect of machine development is around automation and remote operating, which should ease the burden on the skill shortage within the industry.

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Do you have any notable business in progress or in planning?

We do. We have an exciting backorder list within the business that is sustained by multiple customers and suppliers. We are all enjoying the benefit of some of the major UK infrastructure projects that are currently ongoing as well as those planned.

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co-director of the business is Chairman of the north-west branch of the Lighthouse Charity and we host events to raise money for the charity. We also have a team of four from Central and four from Blue Spares who are taking part in a 4-Peaks-Challenge in May this year to raise money for the charity and mental health awareness. Go to www.justgiving.com/fundraising/ blue-4-peaks – any sponsorship will be greatly appreciated.

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How do you see the Blue Group in a few years?

We have plans to grow the business both now and in the future. One thing is clear, this industry will change, and we will need to change with it both strategically and quickly.

We want to be recognised in the UK industry and by OEMs as a leading supplier. We are excited for what the future may hold.

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JCB 220X XD Demolition Excavator

The JCB 220X crawler excavator is available in full demolition specification and following a programme of intensive component and product testing, it achieves increased levels of build quality and reliability for customers.

The machine features: • 15% larger global cab with integral ROPS structure, offering reduced noise levels • 200 mm wider upperstructure delivering improved packaging • Central main boom mounting for increased digging accuracy and durability • Intuitive, ergonomically-designed cab with simple user interface • Stronger side doors for greater strength and increased protection JCB XD specification The new X Series models are available in JCB’s XD demolition specification from launch.

An operator protection cage shields operators from falling material.

Certified to FOPS Level 2, it is designed to provide maximum protection with limited impact on visibility due to the design of the angled bars. The cage is platform mounted so can be easily replaced and does not immobilise the machine if damaged. Furthermore the complete front piece of the cage can open like a door allowing easy cleaning of the front glass.

Visibility and on-site safety can be further improved by standard rear view, and optional side view cameras, which provide uninterrupted rearward and sideward views large landscape seven-inch colour display.

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All JCB XD demolition excavators feature a Side Impact Protection System (SIPS) designed to protect the fuel and hydraulic tanks, cooling pack and the hydraulic pump bags.

SIPS are fitted down both sides of the machine’s upper structure and are bolted on in two sections on each side for easy repair or replacement.

Improved underbelly protection has also been added, with an increase of 400% in thickness from 2 mm to 10 mm to guard vital machine components on the upper and lower structure. JCB also now has an external steel plate covering the tanks which are set inboard for additional protection.

JCB XD models benefit from heavy duty dippers, with wear strips added to the underside of the dipper and a bolt of ram guard for the bucket ram with wear pads on the slide mechanism for extensive life and durability.

Twin track guides are fitted as standard on JCB XD models to protect the track chain of the machine when tracking in arduous conditions. Optional full-length track guides can be specified with the machine for even greater durability.

The 220X XD machine features a new Powercore air filter, which has twice the dust holding capacity of a standard filter, doubling the life to 2,000 hours. The filter design removes the requirement for an external rain cap and no scavenger system is needed to meet the filter life.

JCB also now fits a wide core radiator as standard and has options for a reversing fan and flyscreen that is pleated in design with no detriment to the 55°C ambient cooling performance.

The bold new counterweight on the X Series is shaped to protect the asset too, with dedicated strike points on the corners with the logo recessed behind to protect company branding. The counterweight also comes as red and white chevrons as standard on the XD model.

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handling, JCB offers the option of Advanced Tool Select. On the display 10 attachments can be set up with desired flow and relief pressure, with customisable control curves for the proportional sliders allowing operators to fine tune the response.

ATS monitors pressure changes and makes alterations to the system to maintain a constant and consistent flow to the attachment.

Operator environment There has been a total focus on the operator environment and the cab is a completely new structure, which will be used across the X series range. It is 100 mm longer and a full one metre wide, making it 15% larger overall than on previous machines. The cab incorporates the ROPS frame within the structure and has flat glazing all round. Most impressively, the 220X boasts an incredibly low 67dB(A) noise level inside the operator’s cab, down from 73dB(A) on the previous generation.

The wiper motor is mounted to the bottom left-hand side of the front windscreen, to maximise visibility. Three options of all-new seat developed with supplier Grammer provide maximum comfort, with heating and ventilation among the options. The servo levers are mounted from the seat frames and so move with the operator, while the cab now sits on four new cab mounts, for improved isolation.

The flat floor is easy to keep clean and even the rubber mat has been redesigned to assist with sweeping out. JCB has also provided an additional hour metre, which can be seen from ground level from outside the cab.

This attention to detail continues inside, as all of the controls have been ergonomically designed to be 100% operator-focused. To the right-hand side of the operator is an all-new command pod, bringing together all switches and controls into a single seat-mounted unit. A seven-inch tilt-adjustable monitor has been provided with intuitive menus and functionality. The monitor is accessed through an automotive-style rotary controller.

By combining the benefits

of the screen and the command pod, which has a button for every regularly used function, tests have shown that an operator can carry out regular operations faster. The pedals, footrests and tracking levers have also been redesigned to provide increased comfort, while the machines can be supplied factory-prepared for GPS excavation guidance, tiltrotator and autolube if required.

Research and development JCB has undertaken the design and engineering of the new 20-tonne machines with quality and durability at the heart of every operation. The company benchmarked all leading competitors and collected more than 1,000 requirements from customers around the world. The team spent four years honing the excavators, to make them both simple to operate and simple to service.

The excavators were designed using Computer Aided Engineering (CAE). However, the team at JCB also used CAE to virtually build the excavators. Before any parts were ordered from suppliers, the production line knew exactly how to assemble the components, thanks in part to contributions from the staff on the assembly line.

A vast amount of endurance testing has been carried out, with every door opened and slammed shut more than 10,000 times to assess durability. Electronic test rigs have been used to test every electrical component and for the first time, JCB has put the entire 20-tonne excavator on an automotive-style shaker rig.

Customers will notice higher quality paint finishes, as the designers have eliminated any sharp edges in the steelwork. The hot test that all machines undergo at the end of the assembly line has also been increased to fully test the machines.

Even the way that the excavators are built has been changed, with 42% of the machine now constructed as sub-assemblies off the main line, double the previous amount.

This allows for additional quality inspections and reliability checks, while simplifying the main line.

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Historically, Hyundai excavators are known for their performance in terms of power and durability, which they continue to be, but over the last generations, we have been focusing more and more on the operator, in terms of comfort, visibility and safety.

What feature of the excavator are you most excited about?

Our Stage V excavators have different hydraulic control systems in place EPIC (Electric Pump Independent Control) and EPFC (Electronic Pump Flow Control).

They provide the hydraulic flow and pressure where and when you need it. This offers both better hydraulic controllability and improve fuel efficiency.

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Where would you place it in the market?

In terms of machine performance and in terms of operator comfort and safety, we are best in class, and we see that more and more customers are acknowledging this.

How is the excavator specific to the needs of demolition contractors?

Demolition machines are hard working and this risks giving the operator a hard time so we have designed a spacious cabin with a heated air suspension seat available.

To avoid accidents, there is improved direct visibility around the machine, a standard rear-view camera and optionally an extra side camera and our AAVM system (All Around View Monitoring). AAVM is a 360° view camera around the machine that

will also indicate any moving object or people. Our machines have a high durability due to reinforcement plates on boom and arm, high-grade hydraulic hoses, and ROPS cabin. We also offer different types of guards additionally protect the cabin front and top.

What type of demolition tasks is the excavator best suited to?

Hyundai excavators are quite versatile and configurable, so we see them appear in all different types of demolition.

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Key features: Powerful and environmentally friendly, Simple and integrated aftertreatment, Increased reliability, Easy maintenance, Improved visibility from the cabin, Additional machine start safety functions, AAVM and IMOD, Comfortable, spacious cabin, Strategic partnerships on machine guidance and tiltrotators, Centralised control of parameters, Advanced hydraulic flow regulation (EPFC / EPIC), Customisable settings, Increased durability and reliability.

What innovations does the excavator have Stage V fuel-efficient engines, improved hydraulic control (EPIC and EPFC), advanced remote diagnostics.

Tell us about the safety systems Next to the improved direct visibility, we have our very popular AAVM system. It’s a 360° bird view, with different virtual position to see around the machine. It also includes our IMOD system (Intelligent Moving Object Detection) This will check for moving objects either side of the machine and will indicate this to the operator.

(the same technology used in the latest generation of smartphones).

All machine settings and info can be found in the cluster. Additionally, there is a jog shuttle to control and view all machine settings, air conditioner control, engine RPM etc.

Tell us about the power supply and transmission to the tools All our heavy excavators have a Cummins Stage V engine. It’s a very powerful and fuel-efficient engine that doesn’t require EGR. For all hydraulic components, we work together with top tier suppliers only.

Our Stage V excavators have different hydraulic control systems in place – EPIC and EPFC. They provide the hydraulic flow and pressure where and when you needed. This offers both better hydraulic controllability and improve fuel efficiency. demolitionhub.com

Tell us about the interface with attachments and range of attachments that are suitable In the cluster, we can save 20 different settings of attachment, for pressure and flow. This way you can easily switch, for instance, between and breaker and a crusher.

What would you expect a reasonable working life to be?

We don’t know yet, we’ve only been producing excavators for about 37 years. It really depends on the machine usage and application. We do see that we are often replacing Hyundai machines that are still working smoothly from four or five generations ago by a new Stage V machine.

Tell us about the lifetime cost of ownership Running cost is kept low through low fuel consumption cost, low maintenance cost and high

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durability. Fuel efficiency is done through fuel efficient Stage V engines, an efficient hydraulic system and consumption data shared with the operator to help them better track consumption.

Machines are designed to make maintenance as convenient as possible. All components have been optimised to ensure a long, troublefree life. Hyundai’s Hi Mate remote management system uses mobile data technology to provide the highest level of service and support.

How is it futureproofed?

Through the very nature of our machines and their versatility and configurability, we know that they can be used continuously if the machine application and the situation changes. We have strategic partnerships with specialists on different construction equipment trends.

What aftersales support do you provide?

We offer a standard warranty of two years or 3,000 hours, and different possibilities to extend this warranty up to five years or 10,000 hours.

Any further technical selling points?

We have a lot of different configurations and options to customise the machine to the exact needs of the customers.

These options include a.o. fourway proportional piping, fine swing control, swing lock, boom float, one-pedal straight travel, air compressor.

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George Ionescu (GI), Excavator product specialist Jonathan Davies (JD), Demolition sector expert All Caterpillar images courtesy of Armac Demolition

In one sentence, why buy this excavator over its competitors?

GI: This machine is simply the best machine in its class, combining reliability and durability while delivering the lowest owning and operating costs of any machine of its type.

JD: We’ve seen a fast uptake from our UK customers and already have over 3,500 combined operating hours, providing full servicing support for all.

What feature of the excavator are you most excited about?

GI: I would say the stability monitoring system is the most exciting feature of this machine.

It allows the operator to focus specifically on the task and gives absolute reassurance that the machine is up to the job, alerting the operator when the machine

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Where would you place it in the market?

JD: Machines in the demolition sector are a significant financial investment. Our customers want a machine with a high residual value that they can put to work in harsh environments year after year. The base of the 352 UHD is extremely robust and durable. It’s been designed to withstand even the harshest of environments and there are options to replace and refurbish the boom and stick and add a range of work tools so it can adapt to various tasks. For me, this machine is like the excavator equivalent of a Rolex, in some cases it will be worth as much in ten years as it was when it was bought.

GI: This machine is unquestionably the market leader in the demolition sector. This is in part because of its integral ease of use features but also because it has one of the strongest residual values in the market, providing financial peace of mind for owners.

How is the excavator specific to the needs of demolition contractors?

JD: It ticks all the boxes and does everything that it needs to do. Our customers frequently say it’s the best machine since the Cat 345B because it provides a total solution for the deconstruction industry and can handle all aspects of demolition and reclamation works.

GI: Another big advantage is that it is designed to handle the full range of Cat demolition attachments, including multi processors, grapples, shears, and hydraulic hammers, either with the UHD front end or the retrofit boom. The front of the machine can also be switched to a straight or bent (retrofit) boom position for lower-level demolition and earthmoving applications. This can be handled by two people in 15 minutes, without the use of special tools. demolitionhub.com

What type of demolition tasks is the excavator best suited to?

GI: Although this machine has a UHD spec, the base carrier is designed so it can be used for both primary and secondary demolition.

It’s incredibly versatile and can flip with relative ease between the booms, so it offers contractors a machine that’s both built to last and to perform to the highest of standards and is fit for a range of deconstruction and reclamation tasks.

JD: This machine will comfortably tackle any dismantling project up to nine storeys high. With a retrofitted short front end and fine operator control, it can also be used for material recovery during secondary works.

Tell us about the power supply and transmission to the tools GI: This is undoubtedly one of the most efficient engines in this machine size class. It has an electro-hydraulic system with two back-to-back pumps delivering 779 L/pm and 350 bar nominal pressure. Caterpillar has gone to extra lengths to ensure it covers all the bases. The system can work with variable displacement pumps and has electric fans installed as standard to reduce parasitic losses while running. The result is 15% less fuel burn compared with the previous generation, which is a major consideration for contractors, especially as the price of diesel is skyrocketing.

Tell us about the safety systems JD: The UHD machine stability system makes this one of the safest machines available. The integration of a falling objects guard structure around the cab, which includes front and roof laminated glass with a P5A impact rating, provides better operator safety. The machine also has a unique operator code that can be programmed to the requirements and skills of each operator. This can retain up to 10 different operator preferences, with different features enabled or disabled on a need to use basis.

There’s also a remote troubleshoot

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reaches its stability threshold.

Using the system, the operator can focus exclusively on the work tool movements and be reassured that the machine is completely stable.

facility that enables Finning to perform periodic diagnostic testing on any connected machine remotely. This means we’re able to pinpoint any potential issues while the machine is in operation and ensures our service technicians come equipped with the correct parts and tools to limit machine downtime.

GI: Cat machines are arguably the safest on the market and come with the full spectrum of in-built safety features including factory-fitted standard swing 2D E-Fence virtual boundaries, which prevents the excavator moving outside operator defined set-points with the retrofit boom. The stability monitoring system, which comes as standard, gives the operator a friendly interface with adjustable warning system. It also has a ground-level shutoff switch that stops all fuel to the engine when activated and shuts down the machine. The machine can also be fitted with 360-degree cameras (a Finning specification) as standard to ensure operators have optimum visibility, as well as serrated steps and an anti-skid punch plate on the service platform that prevents the operator from slipping when accessing the cab.

Tell us about the interface with attachments and range of attachments that are suitable JD: This machine is like a Swiss army knife and has compatibility with perhaps the widest range of work tools and attachments on the market. It has the Cat PL161 attachment locator built in as standard, which is the most advanced OEM integrated solution for attachment tracking. It mounts easily to all attachments and can be activated to the in-cab monitor via Bluetooth. It also tells the contractor where the attachment is, what it is fitted to and how many hours it has been used, helping them to better plan and cost future jobs by electronically recording the usage profile.

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the embedded function of using the high and medium pressure lines either one way or two way based on the tool requirements thus limiting the need to book a service engineer to set the flow and work pressures up.

What would you expect a reasonable working life to be?

JD: Typically, in the industry we see machines of this type operating for around ten years. This machine tends to have low usage in UHD with only 20 to 30% of its life spent in this configuration.

However, its versatility means it can do more than just UHD. Tell us about the lifetime cost of ownership GI: With the new electrohydraulic system there is no longer a need for the traditional pilot system and as such the filter is no longer needed. This alongside the extended All Caterpillar images courtesy of Armac Demolition

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service intervals, SOS sampling and a longer undercarriage lifetime, customers can expect a reduction in maintenance costs of up to 15% versus the previous version of the machine.

How is it futureproofed?

GI: All Cat Next Gen machines have the capability to receive software updates. This remote flash update function updates the software without one of our engineers needing to get to site – again this is a big advantage as it minimises machine downtime and can reduce update time by around 50%.

What aftersales support do you provide?

JD: We offer an unrivalled aftersales support package in the industry.

Our competitors just don’t have the same service footprint – we have 365 field-based engineers based across the UK and Ireland, which gives us complete nationwide coverage. We also pride ourselves on being able to offer the right solution for all our customers, from those that have their own engineering capability but require a robust parts service, to those focused exclusively on critical deconstruction works and who take advantage of the full suite of services we provide – condition monitoring, full servicing and maintenance programmes and remote access to machine performance and efficiency.

In short, we’re the experts in looking after the equipment whether that be through regular servicing, major component repairs, scheduled engineering support or reacting to a machine breakdown. And our customers are experts at bringing the buildings down efficiently, safely, and sustainably. Buying a Cat machine from Finning means customers tap into the best industry expertise, servicing, and engineering support and have access to the latest telematic and machine monitoring functionality. Before we send a machine out to a customer, we carry out all the pre-checks to ensure everything is prepped and the machine is ready to go to work. demolitionhub.com

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Kobelco SK550DLC-11

Peter Stuijt, KCME Product Marketing Manager

In one sentence, why buy this excavator over its competitors?

The next generation SK550DLC-11, which features Kobelco’s proven NEXT system for high elevation and foundation demolition work, provides a safe and quick solution for the assembly/disassembly of attachments and maintenance and enables easy transportation between projects, for significant cost savings.

What feature of the excavator are you most excited about?

Like our conventional excavators, the SK550DLC-11 follows Kobelco’s stunning Performance X Design concept for excellent operatorbased operability and wellbeing.

The new generation SK550DLC-11 also includes a new environmentally friendly engine, compliant with the European Stage V emission regulations. Engine output is 10% or more higher than the previous model, and performance excels in all aspects of work.

Where would you place it in the market?

The SK550DLC-11 is a common base machine, but the use of the Kobelco-developed NEXT system attachments means that it can be adapted

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for multiple applications on the job site. This includes high elevation demolition projects as well as breaking up foundations. The attachments can be easily changed on site, which makes it extremely versatile for demolition contractors.

What type of demolition tasks is the excavator best suited to?

The NEXT ultrahigh attachment is best suited to the demolition of multi-storey buildings from ground level. The SK550DLC-11 has four ultra-long attachment configurations and can work to a maximum height of

approximately 27.5m. The separate boom configuration is ideal for tackling the lower floors of tall buildings where the concrete is at its thickest. The maximum working depth of the SK550DLC-11 is 6,260 mm below ground level.

Tell us about the power supply and transmission to the tools The SK550DLC-11 also benefits from the use of an electronically controlled environmental engine, which promotes high power and low fuel consumption. Particulate matter and NOx emissions are suppressed through the engine’s high combustion efficiency, exhaust gas after-treatment equipment and urea SCR system. The AIS (Auto Idle Stop) function also enhances this efficiency by avoiding unnecessary fuel consumption while the machine is idling.

What innovations does the excavator have?

An important benefit of the Kobelco-developed NEXT system is the low storage height of the ultra-high attachment when collapsed.

This attachment is designed with the jib

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saving significant logistical costs. Other factors contributing to easy transportation include a hydraulic extension/ retraction mechanism, which can reduce the width of the crawlers to approximately 3m, in compliance with some strict European transport regulations, and the two-part counterweight, which can be separated more easily than an integrated counterweight.

Tell us about the safety systems Demolition jobsites provide challenging conditions for the operator, so Kobelco has worked hard to develop the

SK550DLC-11 with increased safety in mind.

The demolitionspecification cabin, which is compliant with level II FOPS and fitted with high strength security glass and radial grid guards across the front and top windows, can tilt up to 30-degrees so that the operator can maintain a comfortable posture during high elevation demolition work.

Other important safety features on the model include the cab interference prevention system, which sounds an alarm and prevents the machine from allowing the working tool to come into contact with the cab during operation. In addition, the working radius and stability of the machines are calculated from the position of the attachment and the operator is warned with an alarm when stability is compromised via the stability warning system. The SK550DLC-11 is also equipped with rear view and right side cameras for eagle-eyed view, a loudspeaker system, falling object deflector and bright, long-life LED lights for increased visibility on site.

What would you expect a reasonable working life to be?

All Kobelco machines are built to last. The SK550DLC-11 has a number of key features to increase durability. Each boom attachment is reinforced for increased durability and reduced structural fatigue and has a block structure that

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and arm cylinders crossed over the shorter inter arm, while the back of the arm remains flat. As a result, the height of the attachment in its stored position is approximately 2m, which means that it can be transported between projects on a standard trailer,

simplifies the assembly/ disassembly process in order to reduce downtime on site. Attachments are connected by hooking the upper (backside) pin to the opposite pins on the lower side – the pressure release to pin fixing can be completed quickly and safely. All attachment joints have the hydraulic piping mounted to the side and adopt a multi-coupler system for easy access and maintenance from ground level.

What aftersales support do you provide?

Our aftersales support, including extended warranty, KOMEXS monitoring and Genuine Parts programme, ensures Kobelco construction machinery remains as well-maintained and productive as it can be. Kobelco offers a wide range of genuine parts to fit all Kobelco excavators. By choosing Kobelco Genuine Parts, customers will ensure their construction machinery stays well-maintained and always performs to its original specifications.

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Doosan adds third model to demolition excavator range

Doosan Infracore Europe has launched the DX380DM-7, the third model in the company’s new High Reach Demolition Excavator range, joining the existing DX235DM and DX530DM. Impressive demolition specifications Operating from the high visibility, tiltable cab on the DX380DM-7, the operator has an excellent environment particularly suited to high reach demolition applications, with a 30-degree tilting angle.

The maximum pin height of the demolition boom on the DX380DM-7 is 23 m.

The DX380DM-7 also retains a hydraulically adjustable undercarriage, which extends to a maximum width of 4.37m to provide optimum stability when working on demolition sites. The width of the undercarriage can be retracted hydraulically to 2.97m in the narrow width position, for transporting the machine. The adjusting mechanism is based on a permanently lubricated, internal cylinder design that minimises resistance during the 72 | DemolitionHUB Magazine

movement and helps to prevent damage to the components.

Like all Doosan demolition excavators, standard safety features include a FOGS cab guard, safety valves for the boom, intermediate boom and arm cylinders and a stability warning system.

Multi-boom design for increased flexibility In common with the other models in the High Reach range, the DX380DM-7 provides increased flexibility with a modular boom design and hydraulic lock mechanism. This innovative design facilitates an easy change between a demolition boom and an earthmoving boom to accomplish different types of work on the same project, using the same machine.

The multi-boom design also allows the earthmoving boom to be mounted in two different ways, which with the demolition boom, provides further flexibility with a total of three different configurations for the same base machine.

A special stand is provided to facilitate the boom changing operation, which is based on quickchange hydraulic and mechanical coupler connections. A cylinderbased system is used to push the locking pins into place to help complete the procedure.

When equipped with the digging boom in the straight configuration, the DX380DM-7 can work to a maximum height of 10.43m.

Specifications: • Operating weight: 46.8 tonne • Maximum tool weight: 3 tonne • Maximum pin height: 23m • Overall width (extended): 4,370 mm • Overall width (retracted): 2,970 mm • Overall height in travel position: 3,360 mm • Overall length in travel position: 15,200 mm • Tail swing radius: 3,530 mm • Maximum digging reach (digging boom): 11,170 mm • Maximum digging depth (digging boom): 7,415 mm • Maximum digging height (digging boom): 10,435 mm • Digging force over bucket (ISO): 25.9 tonne • Digging force over arm (ISO): 18.9 tonne • Travel speed: low range – 3.0 km/h high range – 5.4 km/h • Engine (SAE J1995 net): 240 kW @ 1,800 RPM

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KOMATSU PC490HRD-11 K100 Simon Saunders, Working Gear Product Marketing Manager

In one sentence, why buy this excavator over its competitors?

Every Komatsu factory original high reach has enormous versatility built in, but the new K100 boom change system for PC490HRD-11 can dramatically increase a contractor’s efficiency by allowing the operator to easily change the configuration of the machine without getting out of the cab.

What feature of the excavator are you most excited about?

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K100 boom change system builds on our original easy-change boom system to make reconfiguring the machine almost as straightforward as changing attachments.

Where would you place it in the market?

The machines we offer today are large enough to give first class performance and stability while also being relatively easy to transport.

With up to six configurations and attachment weights ranging from 2,000 kg at 32m maximum height through to 5,000kg at 17m maximum height, the machines’ performance is well regarded by customers across Europe.

How is the excavator specific to the needs of demolition contractors?

The machine fully complies with European standards as well as the demands of the foremost industry experts. Two additional hydraulic circuits are fitted as standard to all front end equipment (one high power and one medium power), with a drain line piped from the end of the arm. Steel quick coupler piping is also fitted as standard on all of the work equipment.

The high reach machines are available with a heavy duty extension piece so the customer can increase the maximum height of the high reach equipment or the digging equipment. There are a host of other standard features like integrated attachment control, tilting cab, graphical working range indication as well as important safety systems such as Komatsu’s neutral detection system and surround view KomVision system.

The machines also feature robust protection to the upperstructure, with 15 mm wraparound side guards and 9 mm thick steel undercovers.

Hydraulically adjustable wide gauge undercarriages allow minimum width for transport with great stability and 360° operation when working.

What type of demolition tasks is the excavator best suited to?

All of our high reach machines are designed to be able to carry out almost any demolition job, with the six different configurations allowing the contractor to change the working capability of the machine depending on the task at hand. The K100 boom change system means this is easier than ever before.

Tell us about the cab and user interface The operator cab is a quiet environment with a sound pressure level of only 71 dB(A), helping the operator’s concentration and minimising jobsite risk.

The cab is tiltable between zero and 30 degrees. This and other important functions such as wash/ wipe for the roof and front windows demolitionhub.com

Tell us about the power supply and transmission to the tools All of the key hydraulic equipment is manufactured in-house by Komatsu, ensuring that all the systems work together smoothly and efficiently.

The machine features an integrated attachment control system which allows every attachment to have optimal pressure and flow settings installed, maximising their effectiveness.

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What innovations does the excavator have The K100 boom change system is only possible by combining expertise from around the Komatsu group of companies and by carrying out a huge amount of design work with extensive development testing. It is vital that the K100 system incorporates strong safety systems and the main controller is fully compliant with the necessary ISO regulations as a safety critical component.

A more subtle innovation helping the demolition operators to work effectively and safely is the complex shape of the protective grid on both of the FOPS (Falling Object Protection System) protective guards. The grid has been carefully shaped to present the minimum interference from the operator’s eyeline, which benefits safety and productivity.

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are controlled directly from the wrist controllers.

The K100 system is operated entirely from a graphical touch screen controller incorporating bespoke software developed specifically for the application. The relevant controls are only presented to the operator at the relevant points in the boom change process and are supported by animations prompting the operator to carry out the correct checks and actions. The touch screen controller operates as the working range indication system when the machine is working.

Object Protection System) guards as well as the heavy duty guards around the machine, which protect against damage. Guards for the attachment cylinders are fitted as standard to the digging arm as well as the high reach demolition arm.

Among many active safety systems fitted are the KomVision surround view camera system and the Neutral Detection System as well as the emergency cab lowering function (operational from both outside and inside the operator cab). There are hose burst safety valves fitted to the work equipment cylinders to allow controlled movement in the event of a hose becoming damaged.

The high reach specification also includes a bespoke working range indication system, positioned adjacent to the operator’s line of sight for easy viewing at a glance.

The working range indication system features a full colour

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graphical display, including the industry standard 2:1 working line. The system adjusts the available working range depending on the levelness of the ground, the stance of the machine, the weight of the attachment and the rotational position of the upper structure.

The system shows the operator a preview of the machine’s stability condition with the current work equipment posture should the rotational position change from front to side or vice versa. This helps the operator plan the machine movements carefully. The rotation sensor for the upper structure is located deep within the machine’s structure, minimising the risk of damage.

Tell us about the interface with attachments and range of attachments that are suitable The machine is fully equipped with quick coupler piping and can work with any of the popular demolition attachments such as sorting grabs, crushers and shears. The integrated attachment control system allows the operator to use the attachments to their best effect.

What would you expect a reasonable working life to be?

Like any machine, the working life can be affected by many factors.

To ensure maximum durability, the machines are designed to the same load bearing and stress levels, manufactured to Komatsu’s global standards and tested as extensively as a normal Komatsu excavator.

Many customers invest in high reach machines for the long term and we’ve received positive comments around the longevity of our high reach machines, with many machines still generating income long after 10,000 hours.

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by genuine Komatsu parts and consumables. This can be enhanced by additional repair and maintenance packages and extended warranty agreements to suit the customer’s requirements.

One of the highlights of the Komatsu CARE programme is the routine cleaning and replacement of the diesel particle filter after 4,500 hours and 9,000 hours. Because all key power, control and hydraulic components are manufactured in-house, the whole machine works as a single system with maximum fuel efficiency, which is a significant contributor to reducing cost of ownership.

How is it futureproofed?

The machines comply with the latest emissions and safety standards in force today and we are determined

to stay at the forefront of any developments in the industry, being actively involved in regulations and standards creation. Any evolution in the regulations is built into the machines as soon as possible and the machines’ specification is kept high to minimise any risk of obsolescence.

What aftersales support do you provide?

There is a global network of Komatsu distributors and dealers who are fully trained and capable of supporting any of the Komatsu products offered worldwide. We have comprehensive reporting systems and traceability throughout the manufacturing process to identify any repeated issues and carry out appropriate actions through customer support action.

PC490HRD-11 with K100 boom change system: • Max operating weight: 72,820 kg • Max attachment weight MRD*: 5,000 kg HRD*: 3,400 kg EHRD*: 2,500 kg • Max height / forward reach (with max attachment): MRD: 17.4 / 11.0m HRD: 27.8 / 16.7m EHRD: 31.8 / 17.2m • Hydraulic Quick connection: Integrated, hands free • Mechanical connection: Ultra quick change * MRD = Medium Reach Demolition configuration * HRD = High Reach Demolition configuration * EHRD = Extended High Reach Demolition configuration

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SANY SY305 32-tonne excavator

Leigh Harris, Business Development Director

10-inch touch screen monitor can be pre-programmed for up to eight different attachments so that the machine will remember the various flow and pressure rates required for each different function.

Tell us about the cab and user interface Sany has recently introduced a state of the art, 10-inch touch screen monitor that can be used to preprogramme various attachments.

Various different lighting setups can also be programmed. The touch screen is very user friendly and also incorporates features such as Bluetooth technology for a telephone or remote setting of the air conditioning. The seat in all demolition excavators from 20-tonne upwards are air suspension and heated with full independent adjustment possible to the seat and joysticks to fit any operator. There is even a cool box behind the seat for the operator to store their packed lunch.

In one sentence, why buy this excavator over its competitors?

It is high quality, very reliable and most importantly, available in stock in the UK now – most of our competitors have very long lead times due to component or machine shortages What feature of the excavator are you most excited about?

The SANY SY305 32-tonne demolition machines feature proven components like Cummins engines, Kawasaki pumps along with a very modern comfortable cab.

Where would you place it in the market?

The machine sits along other proven brands within the demolition sector.

As you’d expect from a new brand, SANY is entering the market with a strong extended factory backed warranty of five years, 5,000 hours and an attractive sale price.

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How is the excavator specific to the needs of demolition contractors?

The machine is robust and reliable. The SANY excavators feature less ECUs than many of the competitors making it easy to maintain in extreme applications such as demolition. Standard specification of all machines into the UK includes hammer and rotate lines with proportional controls so that all kinds of attachments can be operated from selector grabs to shears or tilt rotators to hammers.

Tell us about the power supply and transmission to the tools The 32-tonne SY305 features a Cummins QSL9 – C280 engine providing 209 kW of power at 2,100

What type of demolition tasks is the excavator best suited to?

Due to the high specification, the machines can be used in a variety of demolition or waste applications.

Our standard machines can be fitted with a shear to demolish a small building. The attachment can be easily changed to a selector grab to sort through the waste. The demolitionhub.com

Tell us about the safety systems The machines come with everything you would expect of a leading brand: rear and side view cameras as standard with option of 360-degree camera if required; travel alarms and reverse alarms (white noise and rear chevrons if required); amber and green safety belt beacons etc.

All standard demolition options are available such as cab guards, ram guards and under belly guards to protect both the operator and machine.

The machines can also be fitted with safety rails on the upper structure and side skirts for tougher demolition applications.

What would you expect a reasonable working life to be?

We have machines operating in the UK now with over 8,000 hours on the clock. We have machines around the world with up to 20,000 hours on

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the clock. The SANY machines are built to a high standard, with proven components so they are built to pass the test of time. Our factories are state of the art manufacturing plants. Most of our manufacturing processes are automated with limited human intervention. Robot welders are standard on the machines giving a long lifetime to the major structures.

Tell us about the lifetime cost of ownership With an attractive sale price and a class leading warranty, cost of ownership is absolutely minimised.

SANY will also agree to transfer the warranty to a second user if they are within the UK and operating within a standard application, meaning that residual values

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RPM so there is a vast amount of power available for this size of machine.

The Kawasaki pump is able to supply up to 500 litres/minute of flow for any attachments that are fitted and this can be set from the in-cab monitor.

are maximised and lifetime costs minimised.

Parts pricing is also an important factor so SANY is investing in a dedicated UK warehouse to support the market and it is very focused on ensuring that the price of parts is competitive and affordable for its customers.

What aftersales support do you provide?

We have an excellent network of dealers around the country and we also have a SANY dedicated team supporting them. There are also a number of expats here from the factory living in the UK ensuring that if extra support is needed, we have people on the ground available to provide it.

Key specifications: • Cummins 9-litre Stage V engine, • Kawasaki pumps (two variable piston pumps with electronic positive control), • Five year, 5,000 hour warranty (terms and conditions apply), • Hammer, rotate and low flow pipework as standard, • Proportional controls on joysticks available as standard, • High specification operators environment with heated air suspension seat and 10-inch touchscreen monitor, • Rear and side view camera as standard, • Remote setting of attachments can be programmed through the screen (flow and pressure), • Wide array of demolition guards available on request.

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Liebherr R 940, R 950 and R 960 Demolition Mark Lightfoot, Regional Sales Manager North

task at hand and provide their best performance for hours on end.

What innovations does the excavator have?

Liebherr Demolition Control. The LDC System monitors the positioning of the demolition equipment at all times, ensuring stability.

Tell us about the interface with attachments and range of attachments that are suitable Liebherr demolition excavators have a wide range of factory fitted attachments. This means that a wide variety of demolition jobs can be covered with the machine configuration. All of these combinations and components are developed and manufactured exclusively by Liebherr.

In one sentence, why buy this excavator over its competitors?

Liebherr provides customers with complete expertise in every demolition and deconstruction application.

What feature of the excavator are you most excited about?

Engine Technology. Fuel efficiency is fundamental in every Liebherr product, with one of the lowest fuel consumptions on the market.

Where would you place it in the market?

High end. Liebherr demolition machines are designed to maximise productivity at height. They always give attention to the height the tool attachment can go to work.

How is the excavator specific to the needs of demolition contractors?

It’s versatile, factory designed and built, a complete demolition concept.

It can work floor to ceiling and is able to pick and place, 360 degrees.

What type of demolition tasks is the excavator best suited to?

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precision placement of the tool is important without reducing speed and accuracy of operation.

Tell us about the cab and user interface Liebherr demolition excavators are designed to provide a comfortable, fatigue-free, and effective working environment.

The cab is specially designed in accordance with the very latest ergonomic technology and equipped with comfortable fixtures and fittings. This means the operator can concentrate on the

What would you expect a reasonable working life to be?

The upper carriage design features a swing ring with a continuous box beam providing a solid and strong structure able to withstand the extreme demands of demolition jobs. Liebherr demolition excavators are extremely reliable and offer a long service life.

The working life of any machine very much depends on the how many hours it has worked and how it has been maintained during that time. In the UK Liebherr has a number of customers who have high reach demolition machines still in operation after ten years.

Key features: • Removable counterweight for easy transportation (optional hydraulic version), • Hydraulically adjustable undercarriage for easy transportation and wider working footprint for stability, • 30-degree adjustable cab for operator comfort and increased visibility, • Dust suppression system reduces the amount of dust in the working area, • Additional four-inch steel protection around and under the uppercarriage and four inches of steel on the underbelly of the undercarriage for a long service life.

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SENNEBOGEN 870 R-HDD

Alexander Sturm, SENNEBOGEN Product Specialist

Alexander Sturm, product specialist for demolition machines at SENNEBOGEN

In one sentence, why buy this excavator over its competitors?

With its 36m of equipment, the SENNEBOGEN 870 R-HDD is one of the largest longfront demolition excavators you can get from the manufacturer ex works and definitely has a unique selling point on the market with its elevating and tilting cab.

What feature of the excavator are you most excited about?

Of course, the 870 R-HDD stands out first and foremost with its long equipment of 36m. However, thanks to the elevating and tilting cab, the operator has an enormous overview and is protected from material falling to the ground as he is approximately 4m above the ground.

Where would you place it in the market?

The machine is classified in the range of longfront demolition excavators in the range 36m. With its additionally available short equipment, the machine can also be used for sorting and loading work.

How is the excavator specific to the needs of demolition contractors?

An important point with demolition excavators is the transportability.

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transport in a few quick steps: The equipment mounted with quick couplings is deposited in the transport frame. Then the counterweight is deposited via a specially designed system. What remains is the basic machine, which has a relatively small transport width thanks to the telescopic undercarriage.

On the construction site, the machine is quickly set up and can operate large attachments as well as demolition hammers thanks to the two built-in hydraulic pumps.

What type of demolition tasks is the excavator best suited to?

Like all longfront demolition excavators, the 870 R-HDD is ideally suited for the selective demolition of large buildings. With a quickchange system mounted according to customer requirements, any attachment can be mounted in seconds. For sorting and loading activities, the demolition equipment can be exchanged for handling equipment and, thanks to the elevating cab, is the ideal machine for loading the accumulated construction waste or crushing it with the pulveriser.

Tell us about the cab and user interface The SENNEBOGEN MaxCab can be raised by 2.7m and tilted by 30°. These functions can be operated independently of each other. Climbing into the cab can be done comfortably via the attached balcony, which offers sufficient space thanks to the sliding door.

The cabin itself offers maximum protection for the driver due to bulletproof glass and protective grids. The multifunction seat, optionally with seat ventilation, guarantees maximum comfort for the driver. The SENCON control system monitors the machine and can easily make adjustments to the machine, such as selecting the

correct setting for the attachments.

Here, up to 10 different attachments can be controlled in SENNEBOGEN’s own system.

Other highlights and optional equipment such as a cool box behind the driver’s seat, a parking heater or various cameras on the machine turn the cab into the driver’s favourite living room.

Tell us about the power supply and transmission to the tools The 870 R-HDD is equipped with a 12-cylinder Cummins engine. This drives two hydraulic pumps, each with a flow rate of 475 l/min at an operating pressure of 350 bar.

Thanks to SENNEBOGEN’s control system, the pressure and flow rate to be applied to the attachment can be set individually for each attachment.

What innovations does the excavator have?

One highlight is certainly the tiltable Maxcab comfort cab, which gives the operator the best possible view of the entire working range.

The innovative quick-change mechanism lets you switch between equipment options quickly and easily. Moreover, the machine can be equipped with electric drive – a unique option in the market.

Tell us about the safety systems As already said, the machine is equipped with all safety devices that ensure safe working in demolition.

These include an armoured glass cab, grids on the cab front and roof windows, piston rod covers on the cylinders, pipe breakage protection on the lift and stick cylinders. The high stability of the machine is ensured by a fully hydraulic telescopic undercarriage.

Permanent monitoring of the working area with acoustic warning is also part of the machine’s safety scope.

Tell us about the interface with attachments and range of attachments that are suitable SENNEBOGEN is known for responding to individual customer requirements. Accordingly, any demolitionhub.com

What would you expect a reasonable working life to be?

As a German quality manufacturer with the highest demands on us, we also have the highest demands on our machines. Accordingly, our machines are manufactured with a minimum service life of about 25 years. Of course, the working life depends on the type of use, the operating hours and the care of the machine.

Tell us about the lifetime cost of ownership Of course, the operating costs of the machine depend largely on the type of use. The automatic central lubrication system ensures a steady film of lubricant on the relevant components, and the SENNEBOGEN Hydro-Clean fine filter increases the service life of the hydraulic components thanks to its fine granulation.

How is it futureproofed?

The way of working in demolition has changed a lot in recent years. Conventional demolition is increasingly giving way to selective dismantling, which has become indispensable not only for safetyrelated aspects but rather for environmental reasons. Accordingly, our machines are adapted to this way of working and constantly further developed. The value chain as well as the processing and recycling of the demolition material play a central role here.

Since we have several decades of experience in the field of material handling, we can draw on our knowhow in this area, which benefits us in the further development of our demolition machines. After direct demolition on the construction site, recycling plays the second demolitionhub.com

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interface to the attachments is possible, from fixed attachments to fully hydraulic quick couplers.

The number of attachments that can be used on the machine is almost unlimited. Depending on the delivery, attachments up to approximately three tonnes can be used, and the use of a hydraulic hammer is approved.

major role. This allows us to offer our customers not only the ideal machine for demolition but also for downstream recycling.

Rising diesel prices and exhaust gas regulations are increasingly restricting our customers. Therefore, the topic of electromobility will also play an increasingly important role here. We also offer all our demolition machines to our customers as electrically operated machines.

overnight express, the customer receives the spare parts in stock the very next day. In the inhouse academy, both the mechanics of our dealers and the operators of the customers themselves are trained for the corresponding machines.

SENNEBOGEN therefore not only manufactures and sells the machine but also offers full-line service for the product.

What aftersales support do you provide?

SENNEBOGEN shines through its well-developed dealer network worldwide. If needed, the fitter is on site within the shortest possible time for troubleshooting.

They are supported by our new SENNEBOGEN Customer Service Centre and spare parts warehouse, meaning that parts availability at short notice is also guaranteed. By

Any further technical selling points?

All the experience we have gained as a manufacturer of material handlers is incorporated into the development of our demolition machines. At the same time, we live the company philosophy of avoiding over-engineering. Our machines are easy to maintain in order to increase availability, from which our customers can only benefit.

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Brown field site

by Paul Argent As part of a fleet expansion and upgrade, one of the UK’s leading demolition contractors, Brown and Mason has added further LiuGong excavators to its huge fleet, including a 95-tonne 995F DM and a pair of 952E DMs. Brown and Mason is a family owned and run company currently employing more than 400 individuals directly and it has grown to be one of the largest decommissioning, dismantling, demolition and asbestos removal 84 | DemolitionHUB Magazine

companies in the world. The last 60 years has seen it undertake some of the largest and most complex demolition projects around the UK and further afield. During the course of the company’s history, the types of projects have been varied and have included the removal of asbestos and total demolition of over 55 power stations.

Demolition Hub visited the company’s huge project at Rugeley power station, where it was in the final throes of clearing the arisings

from the demolition of the former coal fired power station.

With the huge range of buildings demolished and the material on the ground, the company’s final task on the site is to process the concrete and brick into a usable material, which will be stored on site in readiness for the construction teams to use when they start work this year.

Brown and Mason’s remit is to remove all the above ground structures and clear everything down to slab level before leaving the site ready for a large programme of remediation works. To assist its drive to clear site in the allocated time, the company has returned to Liugong UK for two new 952EDM excavators, a revised version of the company’s 50-tonne class machine.

As you can imagine, the demolition of one of the UK’s largest coal fired power stations has generated vast quantities of material requiring recycling. Thankfully, Brown and Mason’s experience in undertaking projects of this complexity and magnitude means it understands the difficulties involved in dealing with the huge quantities facing them.

The company has invested in three new Liugong excavators for the final clear-up work at the power station, which includes primary processing of concrete before stockpiling and feeding the crushers. The material will then be stockpiled ready for the remediation operations, where it will be used to backfill areas of the huge site.

Powered by a new six-cylinder Cummins X12 that develops 400hp, the 952E DM carries over many of the mechanical items from the previous 950E. As with all machines in the Liugong range, the 952EDM meets Stage V emissions regulations thanks to a combination of SCR and DPF technology, something B&M say they have not had an issue with in any of their Liugong excavators.

Harry Mellor, Liugong’s European Product Manager for excavators explains: “We have added 1.8 tonnes into the counterweight to ensure the excavator stays planted to the ground at all times. This allows for demolitionhub.com

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not just a stable base, but also allows heavier attachments to be used at a greater radius.” The 952E is capable of handling buckets of up to 2.2m3 in capacity.

As part of the DM (Demolition Machine) specification, the factory fits a range of additional items to protect both the machine and operator from damage. Upper structure side skirts along both sides of the machine will stop potentially costly damage to the excavator’s main frame. The skirts are segmented so if the operator does collide with an object, the cost to replace each smaller item should be considerably less than some full, aftermarket versions. Uprated belly plates prevent rebar piercing vital components whilst the operator is protected with a full FOPS guard to both the cab top and front. Dipper ram protection is also added as are a full complement of auxiliary hydraulic services.

Moving such large quantities of material has led to the company adding the services of the new LiuGong 995F DM to the fleet. Like the smaller 952E DM machines, the demolition specification of the machine includes uprated underbody plating, dipper stick and cylinder protection along with a full Level II FOPS cab guard from the factory.

The 100-tonne class excavator has joined a pair of recently added 952E DM excavators currently operating on the site and is only the second of its type in the UK. Powered by a huge 18.1 litre, Stage V, 433 kW Perkins diesel, the excavator is said to be one of the most fuel efficient in its class while retaining breakout force and performance matching its rivals.

The huge, heavy-duty undercarriage carries the 95-tonne weight of the machine on 650 mm double grouser track pads and extends out mechanically to a working width of 4.16 m, reducing down to a more manageable 3.4 m for transport between jobs.

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ideal in a demolition situation to keep the Perkins breathing clean air. Access to the engine, hydraulic pumps and cooling packs is a straightforward affair thanks to the large doors on the side of the body along with the wide access walkway situated in front of the engine compartment.

The new F series cab takes

LiuGong excavators to the head of the pile in terms of operator friendliness. An easy-to-use dash sits below the operator’s right hand armrest and a sleek LCD monitor to the right-hand cab pillar provides instant machine health and performance figures married to an intuitive and easy to navigate menu system. Storage space isn’t

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placed a suitable excavator in between the two, to feed the material into the hoppers.

Demolition waste can be very hard on both crushers and excavators, with the rebar contained in some of the concrete pieces causing blockages and tears to the belts.

Pre-processing of the material takes the majority of the rebar out and

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an issue in the cab either with masses of room to store day-today gear behind the comfortable heated suspension seat. A 360° camera system is fitted as standard and integrated into the eight-inch LCD display with both 2D and 3D viewing, similar to modern cars.

With a pair of jaw crushers set up in a V pattern, the company

on for recycling, but some pieces get through and it’s down to the experienced eye of the excavator operator to sieve these offending lumps out.

At the moment, just a single boom and dipper combination is available, 7.25 m for the boom and 2.9 m for the dipper, allowing the machine a ground level reach of just over 12 m. Bucket capacity on the 995F is up to 6 m3 with the Brown and Mason machine having a heavy duty 5.6m3 reinforced version, ideal for handling heavy demolition waste. A bucket cylinder guard is fitted to the DM version along with protection strips to the bottom of the dipper stick itself. A full suite of auxiliary hydraulic services is also fitted to allow a variety of attachments to be used.

Brown and Mason was using the machine at Rugeley to move the demolition arisings from the huge pile towards the crushing operation instead of constantly having to relocate the crushers and excavator that feeds them. Steadily swinging material around the crusher, the 995F easily keeps a steady flow of material available for the smaller excavator to load.

Harry Mellor of Liugong says: “We have looked at what customers are demanding from their machinery, what they expect in the way of cab comforts and what they demand in the way of reliability when we designed the F series machines.

We have listened to operators and owners in a bid to design what they want in an excavator. Fuel economy is an area we have looked at in detail and I believe the state of the art full electronically controlled Kawasaki hydraulic system is possibly the best on the market to deliver both low fuel burn figures and still provide a performance that’s hard to beat.”

With the UK’s further drive towards delivering cleaner energy solutions, the closure of the remaining coal fired power stations in the country has the potential to keep B&M very busy over the next decade should they be successful in tendering for them.

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some contracts that are heavy with manual handling may have four or five specific manual handling toolbox talks in a particular month. Each will relate to a specific manual handling issue, however, and will be a way of drip-feeding training and information that is relevant. That way the training becomes more enjoyable and better received.

All change for health and safety train(ing) Demolition Hub has worked with Cawarden on a variety of projects, so when we learned that Cawarden uses the services of C&D Demolition Consultants, we married the two up and asked Cawarden’s Group Marketing Manager Emma Attwood to get long-term C&D demolition expert John Woodward to spill the beans on manual handling training EA: I understand The Health & Safety Executive is considering changes to the way that we deliver manual handling training.

JW: Yes. They have been concerned for a while that the traditional way of delivering manual handling training in the classroom has become too generic and doesn’t really address the issues on-site.

EA: So what are the proposed changes?

JW: They are encouraging us to be more specific with the training so it relates more closely to the actual work being done at the time. We will still use the “Make Lite Work of It” message where the acronym LITE relates to Load, Individual, Task, Environment, but the training will be delivered on-site, in the canteen, or out in the field in the form of a toolbox talk, delivered by someone such as the Site Manager or a visiting H&S Officer.

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that some site managers may not be comfortable delivering a talk like that.

JW: No, what will happen is the site manager will identify a specific area of concern for manual handling, like for example, removal of ceiling tiles by hand from a grid system.

That work involves working on podium steps, pushing the tiles up through the grid, removing the tiles from the grid and twisting the body to pass the tiles to a colleague who then bends to place them onto the ground or into a bin for removal.

The site manager will then identify the issues using the LITE acronym and talk the team through the elements of the operation, allowing the team to discuss ways to improve things. That way we get co-operation at all levels and the team understand specific risks better.”

EA: Will the training be done every few months or annually as it is now?

JW: No, the idea is that by making it a toolbox talk, the training is done as and when a task changes so

EA: Will the toolbox talks be only for the soft strip gangs?

JW: No, because they are designed to be specific for a particular task and easy to deliver via toolbox talks they can be used in any situation, for example in the office if the office team have to move files from shelves or with machine drivers who have to grease machines, fill them with diesel or remove and replace cab screens.

A simple format from your H&S lead will mean the key points are covered every time, attendance will be recorded and knowledge of the subject will grow.”

EA: Do you see this innovation as an improvement on the current system?

JW: Yes, very much so. In the Health & Safety Executive Report for the year to end of March 2021, there were 470,000 work-related musculoskeletal injuries, which is 28% of all workrelated ill health cases. That is far too many.

Generic classroom training does work to reduce those numbers as there has been a downward trend over the last three years, but specific targeted training will certainly improve it further.

EA: John thank you for your time today we really appreciate it JW: Emma, it is my pleasure.

Cawarden values its workers and wants to do all that it can to improve their methods of working and prevent injury of any type.

I believe that introducing this new form of training will help to keep the workforce engaged with the issue and allow them to go home safely at the end of the day. I enjoyed the chat and I hope that I can talk to you again for future issues. demolitionhub.com

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It’s an ill wind…

by Neil Edwards, CEO of the Builders’ Conference The COVID-19 pandemic and economic fears over Brexit failed to put a dent in the UK construction sector’s confidence. And now Storms Eunice and Franklin and the Ukraine crisis have suffered a similar fate.

Even as the UK was being battered by high winds, UK construction was weathering the storm and notching up a BCLive league table total of £6.1 billion for the month of February.

Breezing to the top of the table this month was Berkeley Group, which secured a pair of new contract awards valued at a combined £570 million. The largest of these is a £320 million newbuild of some 1,214 homes at Eight Gardens in Watford, a project that will also include 90 | DemolitionHUB Magazine

It’s the shortest month in the calendar year; it generally has the worst weather; and it often suffers from a New Year hangover.

But, as Builders’ Conference CEO Neil Edwards reports, February 2022 felt like the beginning of a premature spring for the UK construction sector

more than 2,000 m2 of commercial floorspace, a new energy centre, new school and extensive landscaping.

Second on the list with eight new contract awards valued at a combined £474 million was BAM. The most notable of these new contract awards is a new Dunfermline Learning Centre campus that also includes dwellings, a nursery, care home and assisted living facilities.

That project is valued at £220 million and the client is Hub East Central Scotland.

Maintaining the trend towards renewable energy, Acciona made it into the upper echelons of the BCLive league table, courtesy of a £300 million project to build an energy recovery facility at Giffords

Recycling site in Kelvin Way, West Bromwich. The client in this instance is Versus Energy.

In the seemingly eternal battle between Kier Group and Morgan Sindall for the highest number of new contract awards each month, both companies emerged with a victory. While Kier secured a highly impressive 24 new contract awards for a monthly total of £214 million, they were pipped to fourth place

by Morgan Sindall, which picked up 16 new contract awards worth a combined £296.9 million. The most significant of the Morgan Sindall projects is a £65 million refurbishment and repair contract for National Highways. The project is in Wymondham and is part of the National Highways Scheme Delivery Framework.

The most notable of the Kier Group projects is a £107 million new build mixed use development at The Forum in Gloucester. The project comprises a 131-bedroom four- star hotel, 43 city centre apartments, a gym, restaurants and a new car park.

Even though offices (£681 million) education (£542 million) and entertainment (£335 million) enjoyed an uptick during February 2022, housebuilding once again accounted for more than a third of all new contract awards (£2.36 billion). Factor in the housing element of the mixed-use/ miscellaneous sector and it is likely that housebuilding actually contributed around half of all new contract awards.

Similarly, the West Midlands (£548 million), the north-west (£538 million) and Scotland (£472 million) all reported a significant increase in demand, London retained the leadership of the regional table, delivering more than £1.55 billion in new contract awards split across 118 individual projects.

The combined forces of Brexit and COVID failed to halt the ceaseless march of the UK construction sector. And even though they huffed and puffed, Storm Eunice and Storm Franklin failed to blow the sector off course. demolitionhub.com

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Berkeley Group secured overall top spot with a single contract worth £570 million, Kier Group was the company with the most number of new construction orders in the month with 24no totalling £214.4. million.

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Quick review of BCLive table for February 2022 • 297 no companies were detailed as winning new contracts during February 2022, • 450 no new construction orders were researched by Builders’ Conference, all detailed on the live league table, BCLive,

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02.0 - Northern 03.0 - Yorkshire 03.0 - Yorkshire 04.0 - East Midlands 04.0 - East Midlands 05.0 - East Anglia 05.0 - East Anglia 06.0 - West Midlands 06.0 - West Midlands 07.0 - North West 07.0 - North West 08.0 - South West 08.0 - South West 09.1 - South & Mid Wales 09.1 - South & Mid Wales 09.2 - North Wales 09.2 - North Wales 10.0 - Bedfordshire 10.0 - Bedfordshire 10.1 - Essex 10.1 - Essex 10.2 - Hertfordshire 10.2 - Hertfordshire 10.3 - Kent 10.3 - Kent 10.4 - Surrey 10.4 - Surrey 10.5 - East and West Sussex 10.5 - East and West Sussex 10.6 - Berkshire 10.6 - Berkshire 10.7 - Buckinghamshire 10.7 - Buckinghamshire 10.8 - Hampshire 10.8 - Hampshire 10.9 - Oxfordshire 10.9 - Oxfordshire 11.0 - London 11.0 - London 13.0 - N. Ireland 13.0 - N. Ireland 14.0 - Eire 14.0 - Eire

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First reported date

Report date 14 Mar 2022 10:51 First reported date 08 Jul 2019

Last amended date

14 Mar 2022

Last amended date

Type of premises

Type of premises Mixed Use Development Job description New Build

Report date

Job description

Site address Gateshead Quays, South Bank of River Tyne, Gateshead, NE8 2EY Region 02.0

Region Sector

Gateshead Quays, South Bank of River Tyne, Gateshead, NE8 2EY

Site address

Job remarks

External notes

Private

Sector

14 Job Mar number 2022 10:51

284151

Job number

284151

08 Submission Jul 2019 date

02 Aug 2019

Submission date

02 Aug 2019

MI

DoE category

MI

£250,000,000

Estimated value

£250,000,000

Floor area

0m2

Floors

0

14 DoE Mar 2022 category Mixed Use Development Estimated value New Buildarea Floor

0m2 Gateshead 0 of River Floors Quays, South Bank Tyne, Gateshead, NE8 2EY 02.0 Private

Mixedmixed development to include a 12,500 capacity Jobtoremarks Mixed development include a 12,500 capacity use arena, a 6300sqm exhibition hall mixed with use arena, a 6300sqm exhibition hall with concert up tohotel 7,500 people, a luxurymaximum hotel and a budget hotel with a combined maximum concert space for up to 7,500 people, a luxury hotel space and a for budget with a combined of 330 bedrooms, to 1,750sqm of retail floorworks space, 32 car parks, landscaping, access works of 330 bedrooms, up to 1,750sqm of retail floor space, 32 car up parks, landscaping, access andwork general infrastructure Site will start before the end of the year with main and general infrastructure works Site enabling will start before theworks end of theenabling year withwork main construction expected to start in March.

The new complex is scheduled to open in 2023 construction expected to start in March. The new complex is scheduled to open in 2023 BAM nowMcAlpine appointedawarded contractor previously Sir Robert McAlpine awarded contract Externalcontractor notes previously BAM has now appointed Sirhas Robert contract

Successful tenderer

Successful tenderer

BAM Construction Ltd

BAM Construction Ltd

Telephone 0113-290 8800

Telephone 0113-290 8800

Email

Email

info@bam.co.uk

info@bam.co.uk

3125 Century Way, Thorpe Park, Leeds, LS15 3125 Century Way, Thorpe Park, Leeds, LS15 8ZB 8ZB

Client Borough Gateshead Metropolitan Council Civic Centre, Regent Street, Gateshead, NE8 1HH

Gateshead Metropolitan Borough 0191-433 3000 Telephone Council Civic Centre, Regent Street, Gateshead, NE8 1HH

Telephone 0191-433 3000

AHR Architects Architect Ltd 5-8 Hardwick Street, EC1R 4RG

AHR Architects020-7837 Ltd 9789 Telephone 5-8 Hardwick Street, EC1R 4RG london@ahr.co.uk Email

Telephone 020-7837 9789

Architect HOK International Ltd Qube, 90 Whitfield Street, W1T 4EZ

HOK International Ltd 2006 020-7636 Telephone Qube, 90 Whitfield Street, W1T 4EZ Not available Email

Telephone 020-7636 2006

M & E Engineer Arup Central Square, Forth Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PL

Arup Telephone 0191-261 6080 Central Square, Forth Street, Newcastle Email upon Tyne, NE1newcastle@arup.com 3PL

Telephone 0191-261 6080

Quantity Surveyor

Quantity Surveyor Gardiner & Theobald Merchant Exchange, 17-19 Whitworth Street West, Manchester, M1 5WG

Gardiner & Theobald Telephone 0161-817 4040 0161-817 4040 Telephone Merchant Exchange, 17-19 Whitworth g&tmanchester@gardiner.com Email g&tmanchester@gardiner.com Email Street West, Manchester, M1 5WG

Structural Engineer

Structural Engineer Arup Central Square, Forth Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3PL

Arup Telephone 0191-261 6080 Central Square, Forth Street, Newcastle Email upon Tyne, NE1newcastle@arup.com 3PL

Client

Architect

Architect

M & E Engineer

Main contractor tenderers

Email

Email

Email

london@ahr.co.uk

Not available

newcastle@arup.com

Telephone 0191-261 6080 Email

newcastle@arup.com

Main contractor tenderers

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Laing O'Rourke

Telephone 0191-238 1430 Email

info@laingorourke.com

Rushwood, Balliol Business Park, Benton Lane, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE12 8EW

Sir Robert McAlpine Ltd

Telephone 0191-261 1821 Email

newcastle@sir-robert-mcalpine.com

1st Floor Tyne House, 26 Side, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3JD

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Contracts Awarded - Internal Project Details Report

Report date

14 Mar 2022 11:28

Job number

306798

First reported date

10 Dec 2021

Submission date

17 Sep 2021

Last amended date

10 Dec 2021

DoE category

ED

Type of premises

Laboratories

Estimated value

£160,000,000

Job description

New Build

Start date

09 May 2022

Site address

Public Health England, Third Avenue, Harlow, CM19 5AW

Floor area

0m2

Floors

0

Region

11.0

Sector

Public

Job remarks

Offices, Research and Development Laboratories (Class B1), Ancillary Facilities, New Accesses, Landscaping, Parking and Ancillary Works to for a high containment bioscience laboratory at Public Health England’s science hub Provisional tender date Pre construction services awarded under project id 302010 - Kier

External notes

Wates awarded contract proposed start May 2022

Successful tenderer Wates Construction

Telephone 01372-861000 Email

info@wates.co.uk

Wates House, Station Approach, Leatherhead, KT22 7SW

Client

Architect

Quantity Surveyor

Public Health England Wellington House, 133-155 Waterloo Road, London, SE1 8UG

Telephone 020-7654 8000

Tetra Tech UK Ltd 1 Northfield Road, Reading, RG1 8AH

Telephone 0118 956 6066

Currie & Brown 40 Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1N 2PB

Telephone 020 7061 9000

Email

Email

Email

enquiries@phe.gov.uk

info@tetratech.com

simon.lee@curriebrown.com

Main contractor tenderers Kier National Sandy

Telephone 01767 355000 Email

info@kier.co.uk

Tempsford Hall, Station Road, Tempsford, Sandy, SG19 2BD

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Contracts Awarded - Internal Project Details Report

Report date

14 Mar 2022 10:30

Job number

306358

First reported date

19 Nov 2021

Submission date

30 Jul 2021

Last amended date

14 Mar 2022

DoE category

MI

Type of premises

Waste & Refuse

Estimated value

£300,000,000

Job description

New Build

Start date

15 Nov 2021

Site address

Kelvin Way, West Bromwich, B70 7JR

End date

15 Sep 2025

Region

11.0

Build time (weeks)

200

Sector

Private

Floor area

0m2

Floors

0

Job remarks

Proposed construction and operation of an energy recovery facility at Giffords Recycling site The 10,000sq m energy recovery facility will be built at Giffards Recycling, off Kelvin Way and convert 400,000 tonnes of waste into electricity to power 70,000 homes a year Provisional tender dare

External notes

Acciona awarded contract.

Successful tenderer Acciona Energy UK Ltd

Telephone 020-7960 6400 Email

contact@acciona.es

Audley House, 13 Palace Street, Westminster, SW1E 5HX

Client

Architect

Structural Engineer

Versus Energy Ltd 21 Gloucester Place, Marylebone, W1U 8HR

Telephone 020-7022 4943

GSDA - Garry Stewart Design Associates LTD Highlands House, 165 The Broadway, Wimbledon, SW19 1NE

Telephone 020 8544 8085

SLR Consulting Aspect House, Aspect Business Park, Bennerley Road, Nottingham, NG6 8WR

Telephone 0115-964 7280

Email

Email

Email

info@verusenergy.co.uk

info@gsda.co.uk

shigson@slrconsulting.co.uk

Kelvin Way, West Bromwich, B70 7JR

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Contracts awarded: Internal project details report

Contracts Awarded - Internal Project Details Report

Report date

14 Mar 2022 11:16

Job number

306990

First reported date Last amended date

21 Dec 2021

Submission date

14 Apr 2021

14 Mar 2022

DoE category

HO

Type of premises

Student Accommodation

Estimated value

£125,000,000

Job description

New Build

Start date

01 Sep 2021

Site address

Site at Palmerston Court, Palmerston Way, SW8 4AG

End date

31 Jul 2024

Build time (weeks)

152

Region

11.0

Floor area

0m2

Sector

Private

Floors

0

Job remarks

Construction of 4 buildings ranging from double basement and ground plus up to 12 storeys to ground plus up to 20 storeys, comprising student accommodation and associated amenity areas; office and enterprise business accommodation; retail / cafe unit; drinking establishment and other ancillary uses; public realm improvements; hard and soft landscaping works; plant equipment; servicing facilities including cycle parking and other associated works. Provisional submission date

External notes

Mace awarded contract

Successful tenderer Mace Ltd

Telephone 020 3522 3000 Email

info@macegroup.com

155 Moorgate, EC2M 6XB

Client

Architect

Quantity Surveyor

Structural Engineer

Urbanest UK Ltd 101 St Martin's Lane, Charing Cross, WC2N 4AZ

Telephone 020 7290 1170

Allford Hall Monaghan Morris LLP AHMM Morelands, 5-23 Old Street, EC1V 9HL

Telephone 020-7251-5261

Cast Consultancy Black Bull Yard, 24-28 Hatton Wall, London, EC1N 8JH

Telephone 020-3931 0200

Walsh Associates 32 Lafone Street, SE1 2LX

Telephone 020-7089 6800

Email

Email

Email

Email

enquiries@urbanest.co.uk

info@ahmm.co.uk

info@cast-consultancy.com

london@walsh.co.uk

Site at Palmerston Court, Palmerston Way, SW8 4AG

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Education, education, education Richard Dolman, President of the IDE, focuses on three topics related to education and learning

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Education and the sharing of knowledge remain a key focus as we move through the year.

I am delighted to report on the success of the CPD Talks. The IDE launched a programme of talks in January, and we have seen two sessions completed to date with more planned over the coming months. Registration for the CPD Talks close 24 hours (excluding weekends) before the session; please take a look at the IDE website for further details on the talks available covering topics such as plant, the demolition process, crisis management and temporary works.

Sharing knowledge, insights and lessons learned at the CPD Talks helps contractors to progress and become leaders in innovative solutions within the sector. Recently I presented for IOSH and shared information about the complexities involved in the deconstruction process, the challenges that can present themselves and some of the innovative solutions developed to overcome them.

Sharing details about the challenges faced throughout a project allows others to minimise potential health and safety risks. As an industry, we often avoid being open about projects we would rather forget; I encourage us all to take responsibility to have honest conversations with one another.

I will keep you updated about the relaunch of the Demolition Safety Forum as this will provide the platform for us all to voice and share information to protect the safety of our people and all other industry stakeholders.

Last month we celebrated a milestone for the industry. We saw the first two years of Demolition Management foundation degree students graduate; they are among the first in the UK to have gained a higher qualification in our industry.

Having been personally involved in the development of the degree, I was incredibly honoured to be part of the students’ celebrations on what was a momentous day for them, their support network and the industry as a whole. Congratulations to all the graduates. demolitionhub.com

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DEMOLEARNING

by Ben Chambers

It has been 20 years since I was last in a classroom – Northbrook College, Worthing, and in that setting my fellow apprentices and I learned the fundamentals of mechanical engineering.

So many years after retiring my Nintendo Entertainment System, to say I wasn’t somewhat daunted at a return to formal education would be an understatement.

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majority of the modules each month will be taught via Zoom.

From the off, I was volunteered to sort out the student WhatsApp group, which was rather helpful in learning names, jobs and companies involved.

A good smattering of ages, experience and personalities made the four-hour session extremely enjoyable and the relaxed Edinburgh tones of lead lecturer Stephen McCann, with his jovial, yet engaging manner, alongside co-teacher Dr Yazan Osaily put me at ease and rather pumped up to take on the 3,000 words of the first assignment.

Having said that, I obviously don’t work for a contractor and assignment number one is to do a SWOT analysis on one’s own demolition company. This would be a little troublesome as SWOT (Strength, Weakness, Opportunity, Threat) was a new acronym to me, and I’m not a contractor, I’m a publisher.

While trying to work out how to work with a contractor to analyse their company, one of my fellow students offered his own company for me to work on. That type of camaraderie was set and continued with the traditional smattering of jokes and beer offerings on the WhatsApp group.

The 40-odd slides came at reasonable pace, allowing us to make notes, ask questions, throw in the odd brain-clearing joke and reinforce our learning.

So far so good.

The four hours flew by and we were offered yet more time to go over anything, ask questions with the genuine statement that they were there all day if we needed them.

As an outsider, I feel that successfully completing this course is well achievable. All the learning fundamentals, processes and systems are in place, allowing me to concentrate on the task in hand. demolitionhub.com

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Communication is key as sector faces red diesel ban

by Terry Lloyd, Head of Construction at Paragon Bank

The impending ban on red diesel could not have come at a worse time for the demolition sector.

Fuel costs are soaring as the global markets react to the restrictions placed on Russia’s oil industry in the wake of its invasion of Ukraine.

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are around $116 a barrel, up by around a third since the middle of February. The construction sector is going to face the brunt of these cost increases post 1 April.

The Civil Engineering and Contractors Association (CECA) estimates that the banning of red

diesel could cost the industry an extra £500 million per year.

The move is part of the government’s drive to channel the sector towards cleaner fuels and more energy efficient equipment.

One of the issues is the cost of cleaner fuel options. One customer I spoke to this week laid out the challenge they are facing – they are paying 85p a litre for diesel fuel, £1.25 a litre for white diesel and have been quoted £1.60 for HVO (Biofuel).

At a time when businesses are already struggling with inflationary pressures – wages, machinery costs, energy – this will be a hammer blow for many.

Recent Paragon research showed that only 22% of SMEs are able to increase their own prices to customers on the back of inflationary pressures because they are in the middle of a fixed contract or it would make them uncompetitive, so businesses could start to experience some short-term cashflow concerns as they adapt.

My advice here would be to look at ways your bank could help your business. For example, could you extend the terms of your finance agreement on a particular asset, or could you refinance assets? Could you consider balloon payments or look at other alternative finance routes, such as invoice finance? Essentially, nothing should be off the table when considering options.

Along with the increased cost of the fuel, many companies will experience additional costs in terms of theft, as white diesel will be much more desirable for thieves, and then demolitionhub.com

big impact on industry professionals, who will need to plan accordingly for this rise in cost. Looking at alternative, non-diesel powered equipment solutions will be key to ensuring diesel charges are reduced in the future.

However, the take-up has been slow due to two main factors. The first is the ability to charge the machinery on site, where the only real option available is to use a diesel generator. The second is the amount of power these machines would draw from the batteries.

Despite the increased cost, we are seeing increased use of alternative fuels such as HVO, which reduces carbon emissions by 90%.

Laing O’Rourke, for example, has announced it would move to HVO on all plant before the end of March.

I believe that the future will be hydrogen powered.

JCB has been developing hydrogen powered machinery for several years and has a number of models (including a 22-tonne excavator) undergoing long term testing. They announced last autumn they were investing £100 million into a project to produce super-efficient hydrogen engines and we may see some come to market by the end of this year.

In the meantime, the demolition sector is in a state of transition and will experience some tough months as geopolitical factors impact the cost of fuel. In times like these, communication with your banking partner is key.

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additional technology and security to protect storage on sites.

In addition, while I expect this issue to mainly impact construction, agriculture will also be affected.

This brings another headache to plant hire companies that work with both sectors. Under new rules machinery can have no trace of red diesel in the tank and so they will require either separate identical machines for hire to each sector or be required to flush and clean fuel tanks if hiring between the two.

How are we seeing our customers respond? We are seeing manufacturers turn to electric equipment solutions in order to mitigate this, including electric or alternatively fuelled diggers and excavators.

This will without a doubt have a

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