UltraCrete enables underground utility specialist to expand their business operations

Supported by UltraCrete’s customer care team and its market-leading highway maintenance materials, a leading underground utility specialist has been able to expand their business operations by competing with larger-scale enterprises. On using UltraCrete Instant Road Repair cold lay asphalt, Post Fix rapid hardening concrete and QC6 surface reinstatement concrete, a director at the company shared […]

Gas distribution company fined over £133,000 for unsafe street works

Cadent Gas Limited were successfully prosecuted by Kensington and Chelsea Council for carrying out unsafe works in the borough. Following a hearing on Wednesday 4 December at Westminster Magistrates Court, District Judge Pilling said, Cadent had fallen short of their expectations to ensure the area in Ladbroke Grove was safe for the public. They were […]

Esh Construction secures place on Northumbrian Water ‘Ecosystem’ Framework

Esh Construction has been appointed across all lots tendered which includes infrastructure, treatment and environmental schemes.  Northumbrian Water has named Esh Construction as an ‘ecosystem partner’ for a new framework that will support the delivery of the AMP8 capital investment programme. Esh Construction has been appointed to deliver across three lots within the ecosystem framework […]

Severn Trent Water fined £56,000 for misuse of road closure powers in Shropshire

Severn Trent Water has been ordered to pay more than £56,000 for unnecessary disruption to the public on Shropshire Council’s highways network. It’s due to misuse of the statutory powers that enable utilities companies to close a road for work classified as “emergency/urgent work” without prior planning or notification. At Telford Magistrates Court on Monday […]

Collaborative working with cabling companies avoids further disruption 

Cheshire East Council and companies installing fibre-optic cabling are working together to minimise disruption so that homes and businesses can get connected to superfast broadband. The council’s highways service is ensuring that planned works to roads and pavements dovetail with the current roll-out of fibre-optic cabling in parts of the borough. This avoids the need […]

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