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Expanding its outreach programme to connect to new audiences, this contractor created a new podcast series as well as a Youtube channel. The company was particularly interested in connecting to the local community to share newly-discovered heritage finds and generating a sense of local pride, whilst mitigating the impact of site work. The podcast titled ‘The Shindig’ created in conjunction…
Including community members at all ages is important for the industry and the nation’s workforce. In order to educate and raise interest of construction to younger people, creative and interactive methods should be applied. The example below shows how one site performed this: The A1 Leeming to Barton scheme has made an innovative partnership. They teamed up with BBC’s ‘CBeebies’ to…
In 2014, A-one+ picked 8,895 bags of litter from the Area 12 (Yorkshire & Humber) project, and in 2015 A-one+ picked 13,780 bags of litter. This 2015 figure represents a 55% increase since 2014. Putting this in context, in 2015 A-one+ picked on average 53 bags of litter every weekday of the year – laid side by side enough to…
On this project, the site team host quarterly community open mornings via the Teams Webinar function. The event is split into sub-sections and includes an overview of project, a progress update, a Social Value Update, an environmental update and a question-and-answer session. All attendees are required to sign-up via the online form and there is an opportunity to submit questions…
One of the main focuses for the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust, is to get Wentworth Woodhouse on the map. During our school visits and career talks around the surrounding areas, it is overwhelming the number of people who have never heard of the iconic building. We wanted to help change that and get people visiting Wentworth. We wanted to create…
As part of our commitment to promoting the company values and a positive industry image, Mace created a social media campaign on Twitter to target each element of the Considerate Constructors Scheme Code of Practice in the form of a daily tweet. It not only communicates how important the areas of Appearance, Community, Safety, Workforce and Environment are to us…
We have been working on a Wall of Fame, located on our prominent West elevation facing the Leeds Merrion Shopping Centre. Yorkshire legends have been put up on the wall, to select a name we have generated voting polls via LinkedIn and show the results on that social media platform and Instagram. Some of our posts have received over 9,000…
To secure everyone’s safety we challenged the team to use dust-free methods of work and highlight their initiatives old and new. This has resulted in contractors purchasing drills with vacuum extracts and investing in new hoovers that bag dust, making it easier to put in the skip without blowing away. The #DustBuster campaign has been shared via LinkedIn and Instagram…
The B1M is a popular YouTube channel dedicated to promoting the construction industry. The channel originated as a format for its founder, a former employee of a main contractor, to encourage wider uptake of Building Information Modelling (BIM). The channel has since evolved to include a variety of video content about the construction industry, including in-depth examinations of current projects,…
To mark the start of England’s National Apprenticeship Week (#NAW2018) and Scotland’s Apprentice Week (#ScotAppWeek2018), the Early Careers Manager and Community Engagement assistant will use our social media to celebrate why apprenticeships are great for BAM. Using the social media campaign, we will hear directly from our trainees and apprentices about why apprenticeships work for them. To help BAM celebrate…
We have recently trail-blazed a new way of communicating with customers when we’ve finished a scheme. Our Customer Hub draws together Highways England, A-one+ and Transport Focus to provide a customer focus across the services we deliver. One opportunity we identified was to better share with our customers when we’ve completed a scheme. With 81% of our highway maintenance work…