I didn’t/don’t agree with HS2 but I do agree that they should keep hold of the land they’ve acquired for at least 10-15 years to allow proper decisions to be made as to its potential use.
And because nimbys won't let them dig it back up again either, there is an aggregates quarry near me that was back filled with fly ash, a company wants to reopen the quarry to extract the flyash for this reason, but the nimbys are up in arms about it.this is a real WTF .... importing by-products we used to produce FFS
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Paving contractor turns to academics for help with fly ash issues
Contractors exploiting fly ash in their mix used to be able to rely on good old British coal-fired power station waste, but not anymore – we’re cleaning up our power generation so fly ash has to be imported.www.theconstructionindex.co.uk
" Contractors exploiting fly ash in their mix used to be able to rely on good old British coal-fired power station waste, but not anymore – we’re cleaning up our power generation so fly ash has to be imported. "
The Co-op arena fiasco .... saw a news item about it on the tv a week ago and said to Pam "there is no way that is going to be finished in a month let alone a week"
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I saw the Co-op Live site with my own eyes three months ago. These delays do not come as a surprise
The UK's largest arena was still far from being finished when Building went to see it in early February, writes Tom Lowewww.building.co.uk
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800 still working on Co-op Live as embattled project runs 24 hours a day in race against time to open
Bosses behind delayed venue flood job with more staff in attempt to hit revised openingwww.building.co.uk
what bunch of disorganised muppets
sounds like a recurring question in a lot of threads lately"It’s an awful shop window for the building industry when it’s on national TV daily.”
Sums it up in one
And yet I bet they still employing a diversity team and other mindless ratshit.
Sickening tbh...what has become of this country.
sWTF!! usual suspects thenWould you accept a ram that's rust pitted slightly for the dealer to sand it down and say it's ok
This is the complete replacement of both rams as a unit previously under original machine warranty and this part still has warranty on it as it took them ages to sort the original ones out when brought up when machine was still in warranty
All ready started to sweat on the lower ram
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love the airborne, bouncing wheel at -50 sec.s
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Chrome doesn't bond well to steel, but it does bond well to nickelWould you accept a ram that's rust pitted slightly for the dealer to sand it down and say it's ok
thought the paint looked too good for 'the usual suspects'New Holland
Oh it had a shot blast and respray under warranty alsothought the paint looked too good for 'the usual suspects'
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who remembers where they were 44 years ago today..
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who remembers where they were 44 years ago today..
yeh I have quite a few SAS friends from that period and since ... some still 'disappear' for a few weeks occasionallyi know one of the chaps involved