Image of Construction 2017 - 21st September - Aston University, Birmingham

Westleigh are keen to promote and implement ideas specifically designed to protect and enhance our workforce’s health and wellbeing. A healthy workforce is also less likely to need time off due to sickness and are happier in the workplace. On our Loughborough site we have introduced a sugar free site office and meeting room, as with a number of meetings…

The CIOB’s Think Construction campaign has been developed to encourage young people aged 14-19 to consider the construction industry as a rewarding career option. The Think Construction campaign resource pack will assist those from within the industry who deliver interactive careers sessions on the construction industry to young people in schools. The resource pack includes all of the following: Planning…

The office for The Dumont site team was inherited from three Network Rail viaduct archways. The arches were converted into site offices using a stand-alone metsec framing system, with extremely high energy efficiency measures in place. This made it one of the most sustainable offices in Berkeley Group. It included the following measures: Site office thermally insulated beyond recommended U-values…

As a considerate constructor Heron Bros is committed to improving the image of construction to demonstrate they care about appearance, respect the community, protect the environment, secure everyone’s safety and value their workforce. To promote the importance of the Scheme and recognise and reward individual sites’ best practice Heron Bros carry out a biannual internal Site Contribution Competition. Heron Bros…

After approaching local Chilton Primary School, the Stepnell Great Western Park site team at Didcot liaised with the Head Teacher to see where they could assist them. We established that the children were currently undertaking a project on the growth of Didcot. We then arranged for an aerial photograph to be taken of our site as well as the nearby…

On our site we have designed some placemats to be used in our site canteens. The placemats which are laminated and therefore re-usable feature some colorful cartoon characters designed to grab the attention of the workforce. A Galliford Try safety message is provided along with various health and safety topics like preventing slips, trips and falls, falls from height, avoiding…

We have made a garden at our Carnarvon Road, Essex development which includes a bee and bug hotel, ladybird hotel, bird bath and bird feeder. We are using harvested rainwater to water the plants and have also recycled pallets to become planters that have been attached to the crowd barriers which are placed by the pedestrian walkway. We have also…

To maintain a professional appearance, construction sites should require the workforce to remove their PPE when leaving site. However, this rule can be hard to enforce and sites should look for ways to incentive operatives to care about their appearance. See the examples below for how one site addressed this: Project-branded draw string shoulder bags are provided to all workers…

Construction sites should endeavour to keep residents updated with all relevant information to minimise the potential for disruption. This is particularly the case when a site is located in a busy area; these sites must look beyond the traditional newsletter approach to keeping residents informed. See the examples below for how one site near London Liverpool Street station approached this:…

The Disability Confident scheme aims to help employers make the most of the opportunities provided by employing disabled people. The Government is committed to halving the disability employment gap and construction industry employers have a crucial role to play. The Disability Confident scheme has 3 levels that are designed so that you must complete each level before moving on to…

As part of our STEM programme of Community work, and to celebrate Women in Engineering Day 2017, Sheffield Hallam University, A-one+ and the RAF hosted an activity day aimed at Year 9 and 10 girls from local schools. The focus of the day was on disaster relief in the UK and the engineering skills that are required immediately following a…

We wanted to say a thankyou to the tenants for their patience while we worked on their property so decided to arrange a training day for them on Infant first aid This was free to all residents and when suggested to them it was received with great interest and numerous people had indicated they would come to the day we…