Women make up around 14% of construction industry professionals and this number can only be set to rise with more and more women choosing construction jobs. Misconceptions about gender specific roles are gradually diminishing with the growing number of women choosing a career in construction. This project is promoting a toolbox talk about women in construction. The toolbox talk brings…

Signol is a software and proactive communication service that uses behavioural science to motivate and influence key decision-makers in transport operations to consistently implement sustainable best practices. Signol can generate measurable changes in behaviour by framing feedback with behaviourally informed nudges and incentives. This software uses the latest behavioural science to motivate and influence decision-makers in transport operations, not only…

This project is part of the Fuel Tournament that started in July 2021. This initiatives purpose is to reduce fuel consumption through reducing idling time. At this stage, the tournament includes drives of excavators above 8 Tonne. In the next stage machines below 8 Tonne and other machine types will be reviewed. To enable the tournament, a detailed fuel efficiency…

To aid in getting the project team back on site safety during the coronavirus restrictions where feasible and allowed, they bought twenty folding bikes for the team to use. This allowed for the team to travel some or all of their journey to and from work by bike and therefore avoiding public transport which was more congested and presented more…

On this project the emergency response site team carried out drill training on confined space rescue and rescue from height using a man basket. This practical drill response training was supervised by the contractors in house EHS training manager who gave feedback and advice on the drills. This was a good training exercise for the team to have practical experience…

There is some speculation that because plant is electric that it won’t perform as well, so awareness is currently an issue. This contractor couldn’t find clean tech readily in the UK and looked into the European market to find solutions and therefore went to Germany and met with BMS and have since partnered with them and had a number of…

This project is situated on a busy promenade, visited by families and children enjoying a day out at the beach. The contractor wanted to use this opportunity to promote the construction industry to children and came up with the creative approach of writing their very own project story. The story helps them to explain the works they are undertaking to…

This contractor is trying to create a more environmentally and carbon aware workforce through a number of different schemes. Seminars are a good way to do this however, they have found the best way is through incentives. By incentivising carbon offsetting through their employee of the month programme, they are creating a culture that is more aware of the carbon…