Innovation Case Studies

The Brextor: Kier Highways, Poulton-le-Fylde

Flannery Plant Hire have partnered with Swiss manufacturer BRC to bring the Brextor Pile Head Milling technology to the UK. As sole license holder for the UK and Ireland, Flannery launched the Brextor in Summer 2022. Current methods of pile cropping include using items of plant for breaking, fracturing or crushing the concrete. These methods […]

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New CAT 320 HEX with Trimble Earthworks: A421 Expressway

This case study focuses on the A421 Expressway widening, a Morgan Sindall project that will create a dual carriage way from the Eagle Farm roundabout to Junction 13 of the M1. A stretch of road that is used by almost 30,000 vehicles a day. Flannery Plant Hire have supplied the latest 320 HEX tracked excavator […]

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Safety Shield: Lower Thames Crossing enabling works

More information about Flannery Plant Hire trialling the Safety Shield Intelligent Detection System in partnership with Balfour Beatty on the Lower Thames Crossing enabling works.

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Conx from Leica: Technology Focus

Conx from Leica is a system which allows the dozers and excavators to be part of a computer network where data can be shared, this technology focus looks at its use and its integration with Leica's GPS instrumentation and machine control system.

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Trimble Earthworks: Moray East offshore wind farm

A case study focused on the benefits of utilising Trimble's earthworks control platform with Volker Fitzpatrick on the 950MW Moray East Cable Contract.

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Hybrid Excavators: A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon

Read what happened when we took the Komatsu 20T Hybrid and put it against a conventional 20T excavator to baseline real-world fuel savings with the A14 Cambridge to Huntingdon Integrated Delivery Team.

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Use of Compaction Monitoring: A9 Luncarty to Pass of Birnham project

Flannery Plant hire trial of compaction monitoring undertaken on the A9 Luncarty to Pass of Birnham project.

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Earthworks on the Norwich Bypass: Northern Distributor Road (NDR)

This case study focuses on the Norwich Northern Distributor Road, which is a 12.4 mile (20.0 km) dual-carriageway linking the south-east of the city to the north-west of the city. The road is designated the A1270, and will open in the Spring of 2018, when it will be named the Broadland Northway. Its construction was managed […]

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