Ben Houchen with Robert Hall Director of Hall Construction in front of the new 95t Volvo Excavator LESS than 24 hours after being re-elected for a second term with a landslide victory, Tees Valley Ben Houchen was back to work this morning. Mr Houchen was joined by representatives from Volvo and local firm Hall Construction to welcome a new £1million, 95-tonne excavator – one of only three in the country and the first in the North – bought by Hall from Volvo to speed up land preparation works at Teesworks, the former Redcar Steelworks site. The monster digger will be used alongside 75, 48, 25, and 5-tonne diggers to help develop land at South Bank, where GE Renewable Energy’s wind turbine blade factory will be built.