Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK has added 29 new machines to its 400-strong plant fleetand put them to paintings on Havant Thicket reservoir in Hampshire.
North Wales-based Jones Bros has joined forces with West Sussex-based Mackley to paintings in three way partnership as Long run Water MJJV Restricted to build the £167m water garage scheme.
Jones Bros has deployed a few of its fresh additions to paintings at the programme, with 10 Volvo A40G articulated unload vehicles, 8 Komatsu dozers – 5 D65PXi, two D71PXi, and one D61PXi, and 7 Bomag BW219HD rollers heading to Havant.
As well as, there also are 4 new Komatsu excavators – two PC490LCis, a PC210LCi and a PC360LCi – operating at the scheme.
Jones Bros plant supervisor Stuart Bates stated: “Making an investment in the newest equipment is necessary to us as an organization that prides itself on proudly owning its personal plant and the flexibility and agility it supplies when it comes to schemes.
“We wish to take on key tasks throughout the United Kingdom with the perfect personnel which will likely be working high quality plant.
“This newest procurement underlines the ones values, serving to us beef up the standard of our process and, in lots of circumstances, lets in us to cut back our carbon emissions.”
Along with the brand new plant there also are 9 excavators on-site in Hampshire, along side half-a-dozen PC210LCis, 5 additional D65PXis, two PC360LCis, two further BW219HDs, and a HB365LC.
Bates persisted: “The entire fashionable equipment that we’ve bought in recent times provides us the facility and productiveness ranges had to take care of a task as vital as Havant Thicket reservoir.”
With the reservoir no longer set to be finished till 2029, the present Jones Bros fleet in operation at the south coast might be additional boosted within the coming months.
“Updating the plant now we have is a continuing procedure and we’ve just lately sat down to plot what we want once we protected the following batch of machines,” Bates stated.
Established within the Fifties, Jones Bros reckons that it has one of the vital biggest plant fleets in the United Kingdom.
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