The two-year old Kubota KX019-4 has been converted to battery power West-Midlands’ plant and tool specialist WHC Hire Services is the first company in the UK to offer customers an electric Kubota mini excavator, using the company’s Requip Electric Retrofit conversion technology. The machine, built with local dealer Lister Wilder, will be offered to customers from the start of 2026, as the business looks to gauge interest from end-users on site. WHC, based in Tewkesbury with depots in Worcest...

National Pile Croppers has an array of hydraulic pile croppers at work Some 17,000 piles are being sunk into the ground for the foundations of the new Agratas £4bn electric vehicle battery factory in Bridgwater, Somerset.  The development of Building One – the first of three – is being undertaken by Balfour Beatty and two of its subcontractors, Synergy Plant and Toureen Plant, on behalf of principal contractor Sir Robert McAlpine. National Pile Croppers has been commissioned to supply and...

Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK undertaking work at the Thorpe Marsh battery energy storage system in Doncaster Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK will undertake civil works at Fidra Energy’s multi-million-pound Thorpe Marsh site in Doncaster. Thorpe Marsh is three times the size of any other battery energy storage system (BESS) project currently in operation or under construction in the UK. It will be capable of exporting more than two million MWh a year, enough to supply around 785,000 homes. A...

Bullivant’s Junttan PMx2e Roger Bullivant has deployed a Junttan PMx2e, powered by a 392 kWh battery system, on Morgan Sindall’s Ardrossan Community Campus site, a £115m education development in North Ayrshire. According to Bullivant, it is the first time that a fully battery-powered pile driving rig has been used in the UK. The PMx2e has a replaceable battery pack that provides up to eight hours of piling per charge. By optimising the use of the two batteries, the PMx2e showed itself t...

Site preparation work has started for Afon Wysg 1 Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK is the principal contractor on the multi-million-pound development of Uskmouth Sustainable Energy Park. Afon Wysg 1, known as AW1, is a 240MWh battery storage project led by Ampeak Energy, south of Newport. With the ability to increase to 480MWh, AW1 has a grid connection date of October 2026 and an anticipated commercial operations timeframe of Q1 2027. As part of its £19m civils and electrical package, Jones Bro...

the Revolution Battery will make HG’s tower cranes much cheaper to run After convincing trials, HG Construction has gone ahead and bought a Revolution Battery from Dumarey Green Power to reduce its cranes’ diesel consumption. HG worked with Dumarey Green Power to run trials on its Moritsch crane fleet at two London sites earlier this year. In one trial, a single British-made Revolution Battery powered two Moritsch RTL 195 luffing cranes using a 32A 3-phase mains supply, replacing two 200...