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Good ideas and initiatives that support the restrictions introduced to help combat coronavirus are being shared across site through the project’s dedicated Knowledge Hub newsletter. The project leadership team is also keen to identify initiatives that could benefit any aspect of the project’s work by encouraging creative thinking across the entire team. The new ideas are to be submitted as…

At this current time, the project management team felt that it was crucial for people to feel that a construction site is both a safe and welcoming space. To help achieve this the project erected a marquee. This structure, complete with artificial grass floor and chill out area, with comfortable furniture and plants, provides a social hub for the site….

In light of the current coronavirus pandemic, Roadbridge have manufactured hand washing stations to ensure that hygiene is kept at a extremely high level throughout each project. These stations are generally set up where there is an increased foot fall such as between office blocks or outside welfare facilities. This is to ensure that each individuals are sanitising before entering…

Traditionally we have used cold water dispensers or drinking fountains to provide drinking water across our projects but both of these options require levers to be operated to control water flow and drinking fountains require the user to drink water directly from a water flow. With coronavirus neither of these are suitable solutions for providing drinking water. We have obtained…

Due to the current coronavirus pandemic and the restriction to only essential visitors to site, the project team had to think of other ways of engaging with the local college. This lead to the use of ‘Virtual Site Visits’ through the use of a video conferencing app allowing the team to walk the students through the site while answering questions…

While using the hand sanitisers which in most of the cases came in a bottle with a pump, we recognised that touching the pump might potentially spread the virus and we were exploring ideas that would limit human contact. We have come across a foot pedal hand sanitiser that is freestanding and touch-free and can hold up to 2 litres…

With the recent problems we have faced with coronavirus, including access to resources and products, including certain food types, members of our North Bristol project, led by a green fingered supervisor, set up an allotment next to site. The site had to fully prepare the ground from scratch and planted a wide variety of vegetables including runner beans, lettuce, carrots,…

The team has had to become adaptable and flexible to accommodate the additional health risk of coronavirus. The team investigated options to reduce the risk, and amongst other more basic controls, they have implemented an additional measure; the application of an anti-microbiological surface coating. The coating is applied every weekend to all high traffic areas, such as entrance barriers and…

During the coronavirus project shut-down, consideration was giving as to how best to communicate to furloughed workers, and those working from home, on how the site would operate when it reopened. A sequence of aerial 360 degree panoramic spheres were generated using drone captured images. These were then processed using a cloud-based presentation suite, providing a virtual tour of the…

During the coronavirus pandemic, ‘in-person’ work experience opportunities have been difficult to facilitate due to social distancing measures and an increased number of staff working from home. Working closely with local school, Clapton Girls Academy, the project team was able to move the upcoming work experience session online. This involved the students participating in calls with various team members over…

Over the course of 2020 the approach towards community investment and activities has had to change and adapt due to coronavirus pandemic. This has involved embracing technology and engaging schools in a more virtual way. As part of this approach, SRM hosted two interactive webinars for local school students as part of the City of London Careers Fair – one…

The Site Management Team has developed a range of partition screens to enable social distancing in the project. The most used welfare areas on site are the canteen and the locker room. The partitioning screens allow us to follow official government guidance on social distancing, offering protection for workers who would otherwise be working within two metres of each other….

One of our larger projects in Chester is the erection of a large timber frame commercial joinery workshop. To help with the construction, four of our employees needed to carry out BOOM and MEWP training on site. To comply with the government’s coronavirus guidelines we converted our newly established canteen area into a fully ventilated, socially distanced training area with…

With the ongoing risks surrounding coronavirus, all efforts have been made to ensure that hygiene levels are maintained as the lockdown has started to ease. Although we have introduced new hand washing and welfare facilities on site for staff to use, we are also now encouraging the staff to sanitise PPE such as gloves and helmets. While hand washing is…

Due to coronavirus we have reduced our worker safety meetings. We have now developed worker engagement feedback forms, to ensure their safety and wellbeing and to action any issues confidentially on their behalf. Our site managers reach out to individuals and ask if they have everything they need for their tasks, if they feel supported by their line manager, that…