Graham and Mabey drill down carbon costs at Port of Tilbury
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Contractor Graham and temporary works specialist Mabey Hire have reduced the carbon impact of the groundwork at the £200M expansion of the Port of Tilbury by reusing up to 200t of construction materials for other works within the project.
Graham installed three new attenuation tanks at the dock as part of the port’s drainage strategy to collect surface water prior to its discharge. To enable the installation of the attenuation tanks, three 70m long, 10m wide and 7m deep excavations were required. Mabey Hire was contracted to design and supply the groundworks equipment for the project.
Construction supply cartel fined £15m for price fixing
PA
17 December 2020, 7:51 am
Two suppliers to some of Britain’s biggest building firms have been fined £15 million by the UK competition watchdog for price fixing.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said it had fined Vp more than £11.2 million and MGF (Trench Construction Systems) £3.8 million after an investigation found they colluded over prices for nearly two years.
The UK firms supply excavation groundworks products to some of the nation’s largest construction companies for projects such as housing developments, roadworks, railway line works and water pipe upgrades.
A third groundworks company, Mabey Hire, took part in the collusion for five months but has not been fined as the firm brought the illegal activity to the CMA’s attention and has co-operated with the investigation.
Two groundworks-product firms have been fined a combined £14.9m for illegal price collusion.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said VP and MGF (Trench Construction Systems) shared confidential information on upcoming pricing and commercial strategy. A statement from the watchdog added that the firms coordinated their commercial activities, monitoring each other’s prices and challenging quotes they thought were too low.
The CMA said its investigation found that the collusion lasted almost two years. They were alerted by a third company, Mabey Hire, which acted as part of the cartel for five months. Mabey has not been fined because it reported the activity to the CMA and cooperated fully with the investigation, the statement added.
Construction suppliers fined £15m for breaking competition law
The CMA has fined 2 major suppliers to the construction industry more than £15m for illegally colluding to reduce competition and keep prices up.
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17 December 2020
Following an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), 2 UK-based companies who supply groundworks products to some of the nation’s largest construction firms, Vp plc and M.G.F. (Trench Construction Systems) Ltd, have been fined more than £11.2m and £3.7m, respectively.
The CMA found that the companies colluded illegally to reduce competition and maintain or increase prices. This involved sharing confidential information on future pricing and commercial strategy. They also coordinated their commercial activities to reduce uncertainty, including monitoring each other’s prices and challenging quotes they deemed too low.
- Fining pre-cast concrete pipe firms £36 million with 2 directors disqualified and disqualification proceedings against 2 other directors ongoing, and 4. The CMA s findings concern breaches of the Chapter I prohibition of the Competition Act 1998 (CA98) and Article 101 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). As explained in the CMA s guidance, UK Exit from the EU: Guidance on the functions of the CMA under the Withdrawal Agreement, Article 101 TFEU continues to apply in the UK, where applicable, until the end of the Transition Period. 5. The decision is addressed to the following parties, which the CMA has found were directly involved in the infringements or are liable as parent companies of the undertakings directly involved: M.G.F. (Trench Construction Systems) Limited and its parent company MGF Limited, Vp plc, and Mabey Hire Limited and its parent companies Mabey Engineering (Holdings) Limited an