With the first Urban Design & Landscaping Expo launching in November, Ahmed Bukhash calls for sustainable urban design across the city’s growing outdoor spaces. Dubai is transforming. Open-air recreational districts like La Mer, Al Seef and City Walk are sprouting across the city, pulling residents out of air-conditioned shopping malls. …
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With an unprecedented 546 exhibitors and almost 20,000 trade visitors in attendance, Hillhead 2018 was the biggest and most successful show to date For three gloriously sunny days at the end of June, as Britain sweltered in simmering summer temperatures, Tarmac’s Hillhead Quarry, near Buxton, Derbyshire, once again became the …
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Excavators are great. They are the superheroes of modern construction, but even the most super excavators can run into trouble in the wrong hands… Source: Volvo Press
Read More »Construction Equipment Association – Promoting the Land-based Engineering Apprenticeship Standards
Apprenticeships continue to rise in the consciousness of the nation and are widely regarded as crucial to redressing the engineering skills gap. For many young people they are a great way into work and offer a fantastic career without the worry of a student loan and debt. More and more …
Read More »3 Ways to Improve Jobsite Productivity and Safety
Technology is helping contractors gather data at the jobsite to make more informed decisions, improving productivity, safety and the bottom line. So which technologies are deemed some of the hottest on the jobsite now? Industry insiders point to drones, lasers and wearables, to name a few. The Association of Equipment …
Read More »Volvo CE celebrates 60 years of live machinery demonstrations
Industry veteran Volvo Construction Equipment first held live demonstrations for customers in 1958. Today the company takes great pride in its ability to showcase practically the entire range of Volvo machines at the state-of-the-art Customer Center in Eskilstuna, Sweden. Located in the town where Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) began …
Read More »Thinking of Doing Business in the UAE?
THE BIG 5 AND DUBAI SOUTH BUSINESS PARK LAUNCH FREE SEMINAR FOR CONSTRUCTION FIRMS Dubai South, the 145 sq km urban city development emerging in the emirate of Dubai, in partnership with The Big 5, Middle East’s leading construction event, announces the launch of the “How to Do Business in …
Read More »bauma CONEXPO INDIA – Registrations exceed all expectations
Well-known exhibitors ramp up their trade fair presence Kaeser Kompressoren SE and Tata Hitachi make their debut India’s construction machinery market continues to grow The construction machinery market in India is booming. Infrastructure and construction projects are benefiting from long-term support thanks to reforms passed by the Indian government. These …
Read More »The sun shone on Hatz at Hillhead 2018
The Hatz GB sales and engineering teams have returned back to their Hinckley headquarters from a sunny and very busy Hillhead 2018. They displayed a variety of their advanced diesel engines including their new 3-cylinder 3H50TIC and 4-cylinder 4H50TIC engines. The 3H50TIC is a new liquid-cooled three-cylinder diesel engine available …
Read More »Caterpillar with its latest products to Aggregates China 2018
Caterpillar, the worldwide leading mining machinery brand, has confirmed to be the exhibitor of the 4th China International Aggregates, Quarrying Tailings & Construction Waste Disposal Exhibition (Aggregate China 2018) on August 18-20, 2018 at China Import and Export Fair Complex. Welcome to their BOOTH No. T5 to negotiate. Caterpillar is …
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