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One Crown Place Volunteering Week with Kids UK
KIDS Hackney Adventure Playground provide vital support services to disabled children, young people and their families throughout the UK. In total, KIDS provided support to over 11,000 disabled individuals and their families, alongside 80 Local Authorities. All staff at the center are fully trained to support children with a range of complex health needs, making The Adventure Playground one of...
Careers Fair and Site Visit for Disadvantaged People
The Graham Farrans Joint Venture (GFJV) attended a Careers Fair inside a local prison with over 168 inmates who are getting released over the next year. The team collected CVs and gave positive and inspiring advice on the skills required to obtain jobs in the construction sector. Recent statistics have shown that with employment, re-offending can be reduced by 30%....
Turning ‘Waste’ into Toys for Pre-School and Special Needs Children
One particularly successful, yet simple, initiative to turn waste into educational tools involved using old PPE, product samples from the site and things found around the site office to create Bespoke Busy Boards for toddlers. Busy Boards are designed with the ‘Montessori’ learning style in mind; kinaesthetic learning through using your hands and senses to figure out processes. Focusing on...
Aspiration Tree
On completion of the new extension to the Queens Hill Primary School, we made a tree out of an original beam from the demolition works which started as the trunk. We then got all the trades involved including scaffold as the branches, a wooden bird box, concrete foundations, brickwork, copper wire for smaller branches, ceiling fixing wire to hold the...
Nursery Hoarding and Viewing Platform
At our Tullibody South Campus project, a portion of the site hoarding shared a boundary with the existing nursery. The hoarding has been cut and painted to resemble a castle battlement. A viewing platform and viewing windows into the site have been incorporated to allow the children to monitor progress of the new facility, with the retaining wall painted in...
Wear it Pink Day!
In aid of October’s ‘Breast Cancer Awareness Month’, Wooldridge Demolition wanted to mark the cause the Wooldridge way. To involve all site staff and to help raise money for The Breast Care Charity, Wooldridge Demolition provided operatives with branded pink hard hats and hi-vis PPE to wear on 24th October 2018. Site operatives and managers were asked to make a...
Helping with emergency service resilience
The Emergency Services provide a life saving service to our communities and workforces across the UK. Emergency vehicles play pivotal roles in the performance of their respective systems. For example; if onward transport is required, an ambulance capable of conveying a patient should arrive at the scene within 19 minutes in 95% of cases (House of Commons, 2016). Evert second...
Sponge the manager
In September, the LSE CBR Project held a hog roast on our logistics zone for all our operatives on site. The purpose of this was to reward operatives working on the project and to give something back. This included shutting the site at 3pm and giving our hog roast dinners with some complimentary beers. As part of this event, the...
Circus Pieces held at Broadgate
During September, as part of London Design Festival and Open House, Sir Robert McAlpine organised a series of daring outdoor circus pieces were held at Broadgate. BUILD, performed by Hikapee, used aerial, acrobatic and physical performances to explore what it is to create a building. The aim of this was to produce something entertaining with a strong link to construction...
Budding Brunels
In collaboration with our client, the Construction Youth Trust and the adjacent construction site, BAM hosted a programme for young people to experience life in construction with some key activities carried out over three days. The programme encouraged the young people, aged 16-18 years old to develop some skills they would need to work in construction, such as team building, communications and...
The Constructors’ Gallery
The last place you might expect to see an art exhibition is alongside some building site hoardings; but this is exactly what you’ll see if you walk along Blackfriars Road towards the southern end of Blackfriars Bridge. Transport for London (TfL) has partnered with Southwark Council, City of London, Better Bankside, a local develop and McGee Group to create an...
Art workshops supporting the mental and physical wellbeing of construction workers
Farrans Construction have created a unique art galley on the construction hoarding at their Altnagelvin North Wing Redevelopment Project. The arts project is part of Farrans’ ongoing commitment to supporting the mental and physical wellbeing of their workforce through their work with the ‘Mates in Mind’ scheme and ‘Inspire’, a charity and social enterprise focused on promoting workplace wellbeing. Farrans...
Site scrap turned into musical instruments
The site team at Howdens, Warth Park were able to turn site scrap into musical instruments for the children at Kings Heath Primary Academy. The materials used were recycled and made safe to create instruments for a sound garden based in the school’s playground. The sound garden is available to all the children at Kings Heath Primary Academy during break...
Supporting the Historic Environment – Silent Cargo
During the works for the new Manchester Metrolink Trafford Park Line, the existing “Silent Cargo” art installation on the Manchester Ship Canal was scheduled to be removed. Silent Cargo is a collection of old-style trade cast into concrete to represent the busy banks of Manchester during the industrial revolution. With no definitive plan in place for this installation it was...
Kent County Council Day Services Site Visits
Since the beginning of our project, an ongoing feature has been our building manager, David Sweeney, hosting site visits from Kent County Council’s Day Services Department. Regular users and one-off visitors alike enjoy a tour of the site, in which David explains works that are being carried out and that are soon to happen. He also demonstrates all the machines...
Primary school partnership
The Broadgate Community Legacy looks to utilise the opportunity of a 10 year redevelopment framework (1FA sites within this) to have a long-lasting, positive social impact on local communities. Although introduced for construction, it has the ethos that ‘legacy starts at the beginning’ and sets out ways of ensuring that the community benefits it produces continue post-construction. Education is a...
Giving back to the community at East Midlands Gateway
New developments often cause divided opinions and some inconvenience. At Winvic, we always aim to reduce the impact of our work on the local community by following the codes of practice set out by the Considerate Constructors Scheme. As a result of our approach, the site team at East Midlands Gateway have been able to form good relations with the...
Enrichment Day
A One+ hosted an event at a high school local to the site project. The event was aimed at Year 8 pupils and the day was split into five workshops each an hour long. Each session started with a short introduction to the company and described what we do and who we are. We then introduced the kids to the...
Learning about Construction during the School Holidays
The site team from United Living at Rhodes Moorhouse Court invited the local kids around our site for a two hour construction and bricklaying session on the 30th August. This was a perfect day out for them during their school holidays. They spent some time in our meeting room going through a presentation on the construction industry, a quiz on...
Charity Footpath Renovation
This project provided brand new footpaths for Charnwood Borough Council in Loughborough, around a local favourite destination at Dishley Pond as a Corporate Social Responsibility Scheme completely free of charge to the community. An employee regularly delivers charitable works with organisations to clean local water at canals and ponds. A representative at Charnwood Borough Council then informed them of the...
Sighted Guides for the Vision Impaired
45 members of staff have been training by Guide Dogs (the organisation formerly known as Guide Dogs for the Blind) as Sighted Guides for Vision Impaired people. These staff have been trained how to approach a member of the public with sight support needs, how best to offer support and how to guide them through our works, which are in...
Changing the Image of Construction
As a modern thinking site team; we wanted to try and change the image of construction and show everybody that the construction industry is no longer the stereotypical environment that everyone is led to believe; and hopefully encourage more women into the industry by showing them that construction workers can have open discussions on any topic. Period Poverty is currently trending...
HMP Castle Huntly – Community Projects Team
In order to expand on the work that Perth and Kinross Council and Balfour Beatty have been doing to engage with those with a background of offending, the team at the Perth Transport Futures Project (PTFT) met with Mark Steadman, Offenders Outcome Officer at HMP Castle Huntly Open Prison, to discuss any opportunities to engage with the Scottish Prison Service...
Providing a new facility at the heart of the community
From the construction of mega sheds to community sheds, Winvic and Mountpark Logistics have joined forces again in Mansbridge, Southampton to support the local community. A recently formed charity known as the “Mansbridge Shed Project” has launched a scheme to teach members of the local community woodwork skills. The charity aims to bring people together through woodwork classes, not only...
Providing new courts and pitches to encourage outdoor play
Environmental factors are always considered during the build and construction of a new development, local habitats are preserved, protected and maintained. But what about the consideration of our own habitats and outdoor spaces especially for children in an age where technology keeps us close to screens. In Swaythling, Southampton where Winvic is constructing four distribution warehouses for client Mountpark Logistics,...
Coffee jar initiative
Having roughly 25 members of staff in the office daily, coffee is consumed regularly. The coffee jars began to pile up, ready to be disposed of, so we decided rather than doing so we would recycle them ourselves. Our HR Manager took it upon herself to decorate 14 coffee jars to re-sell in aid of raising money for a local...
Surplus health & safety equipment donated to assist developing nations
Balfour Beatty has recently donated around 60 working fire extinguishers to the International Fire and Rescue Association (IFRA). The donated extinguishers are to be sent abroad for reuse by IFRA who are a charity based in Fife who distribute redundant fire related equipment to third world overseas fire & rescue services, who can make good use of this essential equipment....
Going above and beyond for the community
On this project Lendlease has partnered with Ark Academies in Southwark to help develop students’ skills in two local schools. The schools; Ark Walworth and Ark Globe Academies, have been benefiting from the Professional Pathways programme – an study programme for students aged 16 to 18 delivered in the form of work related sessions by Lendlease volunteers. Working with the...
Overcoming Ovarian Cancer
On the Royal Albert Project we work alongside many contractors on encouraging women in to construction and assist them with developing new skills to progress within the construction industry. We have developed over the course of our project to get women into construction have meant the increase in female employees has reached over 70. On the project we have many...
Engineering assembly
2018 has been designated as the Year of Engineering by the Government. To celebrate this, Multiplex organised an assembly based on the theme of Engineering at Carlton Primary School. Attending the event were about 90 students, aged 8 to 10. The event was conducted in a Carousel style with ‘stands’ on various themes including plumbing, hazards, problem solving and structural...
