During periods of national lockdown and throughout the coronavirus pandemic, the Considerate Constructors Scheme has seen a significant increase in the number of public concerns received about behaviours in and around construction activity in relation to coronavirus safety in particular. To help keep neighbours and all members of the public that are affected by works informed about the guidelines and…

In accordance with Government guidelines and the Construction Leadership Council’s Site Operating Procedures many projects are choosing to carry out remote or virtual meetings instead of physical face to face meetings to reduce the risk of spreading coronavirus. There are several platforms available for construction projects carrying out these meetings with the most popular platforms being Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Skype,…

Kilnbridge have developed Jobflow, a bespoke end-to-end digital information system incorporating the entire project process featuring real-time information and back-office support for all operational, managerial and reporting features. Operatives are allocated jobs days in advance with daily prestart paperwork completing ahead of schedule. Supported by photographic evidence and electronically tagged floorplans with timestamps and GPS coordinates every single application is…

This contractor is committed to supporting the communities within the boroughs they are working from working with the homeless to supporting residents with training and job opportunities. Towards the end of 2020, they set up a Just Giving page to support 200 young people some of whom are homeless, aged between 16-24. This support was also contributed to by their…

The project team at Langley Grammar School have sponsored the ‘Outside your school’ Road Safety Campaign in the Slough area. The funding pays for: Campaign posters, materials and communications. Pages on multiple campaign websites. Multiple Twitter campaign announcements. Multiple Facebook campaign announcements. The campaign aims to combat the prevalence of dangerous and inappropriate driver behaviour in the vicinity of schools,…

The project team led an internal communications campaign on the topic of Road Safety. This topic was chosen based on the results of their wellbeing health needs assessment survey, where over 50% of participants said that they wanted more information about driving safely. Road safety is a topic that can be repeated again and again on projects, with the same…

Due to the current pandemic it is not viable or safe to have any students on-site at this time, therefore the contractors contacted a local secondary school, taking the opportunity to signpost and encourage senior students to consider a career in construction. Drone footage and photos of a live site that is currently working within the local community have been…

To maintain the highest levels of cleanliness with face masks it is important to keep it clean or regularly change the mask. To encourage the use of reusable face masks on this site they have purchased a small desk top washing machine that can wash and spin the face mask. They offer a service at the end of shift where…