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06 December 2025

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November 2025 Features

The Business End

The choice of excavator attachment can prove decisive when it comes to speed, efficiency and safety on site. This year has seen a bountiful crop of new developments in this specialised corner of the equipment sector and many made their UK debut at this September’s Plantworx show. Here’s a few of the innovations that were on display.

Brum bridge bonanza

With a crucial railway blockade due to start a few days before Christmas, contractors on HS2’s Delta Junction are focused on meeting the upcoming deadline. Helena Russell finds out what this entails on such a complex scheme.

Housing target down the drain

Lack of wastewater infrastructure has become a major obstacle to the government’s target to build new homes. Mark Smulian reports

Leap of faith for Swedish church

Subsidence caused by extensive mining has meant that several old buildings in the Swedish city of Kiruna have had to be demolished. But the most famous, and most popular, building has been carried 5km to a new location in one piece

Branching Out

MKM, one of the UK’s leading independent builders’ merchants, is celebrating 30 years of trading and predicting annual turnover in excess of £1bn. But what is now a successful business began with the founder’s mid-life crisis. David Taylor reports


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