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We are refurbishing the former Royal Mail Building in Liverpool city centre for Liverpool John Moores University. The building has been vacant for 5 years, and during this time has had seagulls nesting on the roof. Our scope of works includes roof works, and we therefore needed to prevent any nesting during the nesting season due to seagulls becoming very…
Taking measures to help maintain a positive approach to the environment provides benefits in itself as well as promoting a good image. The work carried out on a construction site can cause a multitude of environmental effects to the local area. It is important that contractors manage the impact they may cause during the project and ensure that they consider the post…
Feral pigeons can nest all the year round and it can be a struggle, particularly on city centre sites, to prevent them from roosting and building nests in partly constructed buildings. A nesting pigeon can delay work and pigeons can represent a health hazard, with diseases associated with pigeons include psittacosis which is a respiratory disease that humans can catch…
On this project they have found several areas where invasive plants particularly Japanese Knotweed and Himalayan Balsam is developing. As it is an offence under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended), to allow these species to spread in the wild, they want to do everything they can to prevent any spread at all. In their efforts to prevent…
This contractor has installed mesh netting to the underside of their cabin units. This netting is used to protect the live cables that power the cabins, and acts as a preventive measure for rodents and other animals to access underneath. Mesh netting can be used in a various scenarios on a construction site other than pest protection including debris netting.
The construction site is challenged with pigeons – issues with nesting in the new build and biological hazard (droppings). To mitigate against these issues in a human and sustainable way the team selected to use a bird of prey pest control. This is environmentally friendly and a humane pest control method that dose not involve chemical, culling or plastic bird…
This contractor designed and deployed a sound attenuation system to reduce noise travel in the marine environment. This is achieved by creating a bubble ‘curtain’, which creates a wall of small air bubbles from the river bed to the waters surface, vastly restricting noise travel protecting sensitive marine animals such as migrating salmon. This is a new approach to an…
Japanese Knotweed was known to be an issue in the field where the south car park is being constructed for a number of years prior to the commencement of the project. Chemical treatment of the knotweed was intermittently undertaken over several years with a treatment bund created in the north east corner of the site and knotweed contaminated material moved…
Protecting wildlife is a key component of the ‘Care for the Environment’ section of the Code of Considerate Practice as local wildlife and eco-systems are often impacted by construction work. During Spring and Winter months in particular is when much of the United Kingdom and Ireland’s wildlife population are raising their young. Read on for resources and best practice examples…
Following pre-construction meetings with Inland Fisheries Ireland and National Parks & Wildlife Service, Roadbridge decided to produce a site Biosecurity Plan to help prevent the unintentional introduction of aggressive aquatic and terrestrial invasive species to the site. Roadbridge sought advice from INVAS Biosecurity, a specialist consultancy with an expertise in the control & eradication of non-native invasives. INVAS advised that…
Birds have been an issue throughout the whole build process. Pigeons have often nested or just visited the building, littering surfaces with droppings, creating health and safety issues as well as potentially ruining finished surfaces. Given the nature of the end use of the project, we wanted to scare the birds away in the friendliest way possible. As there is…
Part of the Greenfield platform two extension required the removal of a stand of Japanese knot weed (JKW). To save the knot weed plant material and contaminated soil going to landfill, BGCL engaged the services of Henderson and Taylor (H&T) to incinerate the knot weed and screen the soil to remove the JKW rhizomes. The cost of JKW plant material…