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Safety Socket
The Challenge: The Façade design at roof level is extremely challenging and requires a complex network of secondary steelwork to be installed at the building’s edge on both Level 52 and Level 53 which is one of the most high-risk elements of the project. This is mainly due to each Steel post requiring four loose nuts to secure it in...
Highways England Blue Star for the SMP M23
The SHE team working on the M23 SMART Motorways Programme have recently implemented Overhead Safe. Developed by Carnell’s Innovation Team as a Personal Hazard Alert System, Overhead Safe is worn by members of the site team where it provides a clear and visible warning of overhead hazards by illuminating the vest when it is within a designated warning zone. It...
Traffic Marshal Gloves
The site are running a trial on a new set of gloves designed specifically for traffic marshals. There is a lot of vehicle movement on the project and besides competency and all the other control measures in place, the site wanted something extra that could make a difference. The chosen glove is rated at cut level 5. This provides the protection...
Working at Height Manager
The first dedicated ‘’working at height’’ manager supervised the assembly of a large piece of hanging scaffold which was lifted above a wash tower and lowered into position. This eliminated 70% of the working at height involved with the project. Mace also encouraged its supply-chain to reduce risks which led to its scaffolding contractor producing a hop-up platform that has...
Stop the Drop
As part of our continual development on sites, PM Group in conjunction with the on-site mechanical sub-contractor MSL, implemented a “Stop the Drop” campaign. The campaign highlighted the importance of housekeeping, the line of fire and hazard awareness. The campaign also included a demonstration of the impact a dropped object can have. Using watermelons to reflect the vulnerability of a...
Improving Customer Experience and Reducing Delay
Taylor Woodrow are currently constructing a new motorway interchange on the M20 near Ashford, Kent for our client, Highways England. Taylor Woodrow and Highways England are continually striving to deliver a better service to their customers, and one of our initiatives is to reduce delays through Highways England roadworks. Following extensive monitoring and data collection by Taylor Woodrow around J10...
Using Datascope to Assign RAMS to Operatives
Datascope assigning RAMs to operatives – once inducted operatives review their RAMs with a supervisor using a tablet. They then sign using their finger print which attributes the RAMs to them and permits access to site up to the RAMs expiry date. If these expire before being reviewed, the operative is barred access to the work area until a review...
Efficient Alternative to Individual Lighting Towers
Sites that are not on a mains electricity supply often use individual lighting towers, each powered by a single generator, to provide lighting to site compounds etc. This can result in relatively high fuel use and associated carbon emissions. Volker Fitzpatrick chose instead to install a number of second hand street lighting columns, fitted with LED lights, linked to the...
Construction Site Security Guidance
Guidance developed by the National Business Crime Centre and the Metropolitan Police in partnership with the Considerate Constructors Scheme has recently been created with the aim to give advice on how best to secure the construction site in order to offer the benefits of a low crime development from the moment the hoarding goes up until the development is handed...
Hollco Auto Green
The use of the new auto green function on the brand new Hollco has helped to alleviate traffic queues in some cases. The use of these lights, on a scheme that we have running with Kier in Marlpit Road in Norwich, has helped to maintain the constant flow of public commuter traffic at peak times. The technology that Hollco has...
Safe Prop System
Constructing suspended slab floors creates several safety risks which need to be managed. Safe Prop is a unique product that makes back propping more efficient and most importantly safer. The new method of propping concrete slabs was introduced at Cornbrook due to three main advantages it can provide to the workforce: Falling Objects: The spring-loaded attachment prevents the back props...
Atlantic Square Loading Bay
To help the flow of traffic and the unloading of deliveries at BAM Construction’s Atlantic Square site in Glasgow, the team have created a one-way running lane on York Street. The system has been set up to help with the following: Vehicle Deliveries Being a busy city centre site, delivery and logistics management need to be well controlled. By extending...
Remote Controlled Barriers
An operative stood on the gate daily, and the only task he was expected to carry out was to operate the barriers. Doing such a job bred boredom and isolation, which led to an increase in mobile phone usage on site. Mobile phone use is one of the biggest causes of incidents across the industry due to the operative’s concentration...
Barrier Ballast Blocks
The Berkeley Homes site at Hollyfields is the first site to use Actavo’s Barrier Ballast Blocks, which clip onto site barriers providing a very clean, tidy and effective solution to stabilising hooped barrier gates at pedestrian cross-over points to stop them blowing over in the wind. To find out more, please click on the links below.
Reducing the Impact of Ground Breaking
The site team were concerned about the need to break road and pavement surfaces in such close proximity to the public on Leith Street, due to the potential impact of noise and debris. As a result, the team arranged for a purpose made rubber sleeve to be cut and fitted to the breaker to resolve the problem very effectively in...
Cycle Safety Day for University Students
Education of cyclists about their interaction with delivery lorries was taken to the next level at the cycle safety day which this site ran for the benefit of University students. Using the technology that Google use to capture information to create street view, a recording was made of a delivery vehicle’s journey from the M40 through Oxford city centre to...
Text Message Alert System 
During the winter months, access to the construction site could become treacherous with ice and snow, due to the remote location of the site. As part of the winter working plan for the site, a text message alert system was introduced that warned all employees, subcontractors, clients and other contractors on the site that the roads to site were impassable...
Double Height No Drill and Fix Edge Protection
We have implemented an alternative edge protection solution. Rapid EPS is a fall-protection system, simply comprising of posts and panels clipping together to create a barrier. We utilise two panels on top of each other to create full-height edge protection around the entire perimeter of the slab. Prior to arriving to site, all products are fully tested by Lloyd’s British...
Beam, Tube and Pipe Trolley
A contractor on KGX1 is using a trolley to transport beams, pipes and other associated MEP materials. It is designed to ensure the load does not move during transportation and is equipped with a ratchet strap to hold the materials down. This will make the transportation of materials safer and easier with the added benefit of anti-slip grip on the...
MEWP Secondary Guarding System
Two companies have studied the number and type of entrapment injuries and concluded that the majority of injuries do not result from upward/ overhead impact, but from shear type impacts, caused when the operator was looking at the ground (rather than straight ahead) whilst driving. These type of injuries tend to result in a far more serious injuries. As a...
Local ‘Crash Map’
In order to raise awareness of vulnerable road users and manage large-scale, just-in-time deliveries of larger steel frame elements and in-situ concrete deliveries to site in a safe manner, the site team have developed an innovative ‘crash map’. This map draws on information captured from Transport Scotland’s database, to alert and highlight the numerous major traffic accident black-spots leading into...
Ejector Dumpers
The Ejector Dump Truck is being used on the M20 Junction 10a Project. The positives of the CAT 730 C2 EJ that is in use on the project include: New operator controls: advanced traction control system and a new stability-assist system. A fuel-saving ECO operating mode and modification that reduce empty weight by 22%. These features combine for an up...
Pipe Basket for Tight Lifting Operations
FLO were faced with the challenge of lifting out temporary pipework from below ground through a tight opening (which had been built up since the pipework was originally installed). The pipework sections were too long to be lifted out horizontally and lifting them at an angle presented too great a risk of slippage. Rather than cut the section up, the...
Colour Coded Barriers
The segregation of pedestrians from moving plant is always paramount in our traffic management plans. As such, we already maintain pedestrian barriers to all walkways. Whilst carrying out daily briefings, it was identified that the colour coding of areas identified on the briefing board could be transferred to the barriers on the walkways. Using coloured netting over pedestrian barriers would...
Moat Exclusion Zones
On IQL S4, we will be implementing a moat exclusion zone system, which consists of 5×5 metre Heras fence ‘zones’ with lockable gates, which will be installed around the perimeter of the building. To access a zone, the contractor has to fill out a permit, detailing the works being carried out, which is then signed off by Lendlease allowing the...
Segregation of Plant and Pedestrians
Access to our site is restricted as the new building footprint takes up the whole of the road elevation. As such, we have devised a system whereby vehicles entering site are totally segregated from operatives. We have an online delivery booking-in system which must be used by our subcontractors. Once the delivery has been approved, it is allowed onto site....
The Cycle Plate: A TfL, Cadent Gas and Oxford Plastics Collaboration
The Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy, published in 2018, sets out a vision for a healthier, greener and more prosperous city. The strategy makes clear that a new type of thinking is required to increase active, efficient and sustainable travel to help achieve this vision for London. Cycling is a fundamental element of towards attaining a healthier lifestyle and benefits...
Driver Induction Booklets
Toureen Group are providing extensive and informative, site specific driver booklets during site driver inductions. Please see below lists of what this booklet provides to new drivers on all Toureen sites. Communicates the Toureen vulnerable road users’ and drivers policy to new drivers to site. Lists who are considered vulnerable users, so drivers know who to look out for whilst...
Self-Climbing Facade
Ardmore are working on site at Commercial Road, Aldgate East to erect a 21 storey apart-hotel to include a two floor basement in within close proximity of London’s vibrant Shoreditch. Ardmore have worked closely with ISHBECK TITAN to create a new self-climbing façade to protect their workforce, environment and the general public. It has taken the company 18 months alongside...
A Constructor’s Collaboration: Freight Delivery by Cargo Bike
The Mayor of London’s Transport Strategy, published in 2018, sets out a vision for a healthier, greener and more prosperous city. The strategy makes clear that a new type of thinking is required to increase active, efficient and sustainable travel to help achieve this vision for London. The Mayor, through TfL, will work with the boroughs, businesses and the freight...
