Trevor Baylis says there's an invention in everyone and John Turner's is the Cross-Bone. It's a plastic cross designed to replace timber profiles and travellers used in road building.

Turner claims his innovation will enable jobs to be completed faster and more cost-effectively: "I wanted to redesign the tool to make it quicker to assemble and easier to get hold of instead of searching a building site for pieces of wood," explained Turner. "It comes in one kit bag, it pays for itself after four uses and it's so much quicker to use, so if you're building a road or a pipeline, your machinery is deployed sooner and the road is built earlier."

The Cross-Bone requires no nails or hammering, instead using a simple slide-and-clamp system and a spike to fix it in the ground.

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Construction Manager