Seddon Construction Ltd recently lost one of our valued young painters Jordan Bibby to suicide and have launched an initiative for employees to be open and honest and speak out about mental health problems that they are currently facing or have faced in the past; all videos can be found on Seddon’s Twitter @yourseddon. At site level on Park Road…

At their project for University College London Hospital, Mace have implemented the use of combined acoustically rated and dust control enclosures. The project consists of providing a new build facility to allow the client to relocate a number of related medical treatment streams into a single new building. The site is located adjacent to the existing hospital and due to…

I am part of the site team at Park Road, Wigan. As a female Site Manager in the construction industry I am passionate about encouraging women into the industry. I thought long and hard about what I could do to show/let women know that the construction industry is changing and that construction workers are not the stereotypes that they hear…

Hobson & Porter is committed to positively influencing employment, skills and career opportunities within the Construction Industry as part of our CSR and sustainability strategy. Enhancing employment and skills through the pro-active engagement of industry partners is absolutely fundamental to achieving this. The Hobson & Porter’s Foundations programme, which is in its third year, is an annual initiative aligned to…

Mace’s Greenwich Peninsula Upper Riverside Team worked alongside Sablono to train our supply chain to use an online scheduling system that has replaced the traditional paper based programming on site. Sablono offers a state of the art web-platform and mobile application to manage, document and oversee complex construction and delivery management processes. It offers project managers real-time information about their…

Work at height is one of construction industry’s greatest hazards. At their project for University College London Hospital, Mace have implemented a robust Riser Management Strategy to control access into and works within risers. Initially the risers are designed to minimise risk such as with the use of prefabricated riser modules and floors installed during the superstructure construction and then…

Volatile organic compounds are common chemical contaminants found in offices and workplaces and are one reason for odours. A number of these compounds can be a health hazard for workers. Reducing exposure to these chemicals can lead to better health for workers. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention VOCs found in the workplaces can include: Paints, varnishes…

Greater London Demolition (GLD) are undertaking an 11-week site enabling works project located at the Royal Mail Car Park, Mount Pleasant in Central London. Due to the location of the site in London the client had undertaken a large archaeological dig to ascertain if the site had anything of historical significance. The site had a large quantity of surplus soil…