Major cities make push on electric construction equipment

With the cities of Oslo, Copenhagen and Helsinki attempting to pilot the world’s first zero-emissions construction sites, Lucy Barnard finds out how pressure is mounting on contractors across Europe to switch to electric.  

When construction work started at Olav V Street in the centre of Norwegian capital Oslo, the noise and fumes created by excavators digging up the road to convert a taxi rank into a pedestrianised zone was so low that café owners even left their doors open.

So says Guro Wensaas,…

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