We created a Community Winterfest at Woodberry to celebrate Christmas with the local community. This consisted of making Christmas wreaths, a carol service from the local school and face painting. We also donated a Santa’s Grotto to the Woodberry Down Community Primary School for their annual Winter Fair for the third year in a row.

On the Leicester North West Phase Two project, we have used magnets and laminated registers, attached to the site cabin, as a simple and effective way of identifying when operatives and staff are in or out of the site compound. There is only one entrance into the compound, and everyone entering or exiting has to pass the site cabin.

On our site, we have a workforce made up of people from different multi-cultural backgrounds, so we thought it would be a good idea to produce a calendar to raise awareness of the different festivals and events that different individuals may celebrate or observe throughout the year. This has encouraged the workforce to find out more about other faiths and…

On a previous projects, we wondered if we could make some money for charity by selling the recycled toner bottles from our Ricoh printer. We were aware that used printer cartridges can be sold online to raise money for charity, so we wondered if the same applied to toner bottles. We contacted a number of charities to see if they…

The Smart Worker System has been developed to utilise the latest technology to improve road worker safety, and change operational behaviour. The Smart Worker combines smartphone applications, cloud computing, video analytics and Bluetooth technology to contribute to a reduction of the risks associated with competency, people plant interface and traffic management incursions. The Smart Worker causes blue warning cones to…

Excelsior, Castlefield is an extremely tight plot with a tight programme, and to minimise disruption, scaffolding and intrusion beyond the site boundaries, GMI have decided to utilise a finished pre-cast facade. This, however, has brought its own problem in that as a result, the precast install is moved further into the programme, after the frame is complete. Traditionally it would…

Kidbrooke village have their operative newsletter that gets updated with new information each month at Kidbrooke. This is great as it allows the site teams to feel as if they are a community which means they should know what we are all doing to contribute to building of the village and what new programmes or tasks are coming up within…

The Horizon Project works with young people ages 13 – 19 (or up to 25 if they have learning disabilities) enabling them to gain vocational and personal skills, as well as accredited qualifications helping them back into school, further training or work. On the 7th March 2019, we were delighted to welcome 13 trainees on to site, to help them…