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Anyone might be forgiven for asking why a man who runs a llama farm in Cumbria should also be Secretary of the International Powered Access Federation. The reason is not as strange as you might think. Paul Adorian has a lifetime's experience in the powered access industry, and describes his…

Of the various systems of powered access available in today's market - mast climbers, which we prefer to call work platforms - have proved themselves invaluable for construction and refurbishment work and are showing marked penetration of this fast growing sector of the construction (and new build) industry. Scissors lifts…

Another area with many pitfalls is parking. Here the combined knowledge of the committee can tell an operator how he goes about siting his machine beside a building without breaking laws and causing an obstruction.The accumulated experience is extensive. Delegates at a recent committee meeting represented 85 per cent of…

The service history or specification of an item can be stored on the tag and since this will need periodic updating the system has to be able to write new information. This is done be pre-programming a new string of characters into the main computer. The next time the tag…

Boart UK has expanded its management team:David Battrum has been appointed commercial manager. He will be responsible for the sales office, product pricing, quotations and contractual matters.David Clancy has been appointed salesman with special responsibility for British Coal orders in the south.Service engineers recently appointed include David Turton and Stephen…

Caterpillar dealer Finning has launched a range of warranty packages to cover used equipment.Claimed to be the only packages of their type in operation in the earth moving/construction equipment industry, Finning's Admiral warranties are said to give the end-user the best possible deal.Mike Penn, Finning's used equipment manager, sees this…

The Ammann stand was one of the largest at the show. As well as producing the Ammann Duomat range of compaction equipment the company is the Swiss distributor for Caterpillar, Yanmar, Vogele and Kramer machinery. To make sure everyone saw the company's name a Cat 992C loading shovel was placed…

Stuart Siddall has been appointed director of Balfour Beatty and is to succeed Ron Henderson as finance director of the company in April. Mr Siddall is a chartered accountant who joined BICC in 1979 from Price Waterhouse. His present position is BICC Group Treasurer.John Dean, the main board director with…

Joint winners of the Project Manager of the Year award, John McFadzean, of Tarmac Construction, and Peter Brooke, of Ake Larson, received inscribed salvers from Construction News Editor-in-Chief John D Allen at a special presentation at the CBI headquarters in London on Thursday.John McFadzean won his award for his work…

How are your company's training policies responding to the shifting political situation in Europe?It was a question that Andrew Marr was sure his company's senior managers and directors would be asking him sooner or later. So he thought he'd better have some answers ready.Now, Mr Marr's company - he is…