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Virtual Site Visits

Published 1 September 2020 | Written by Greg King
CategoriesColleges and universities Promoting construction as a career choice

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…


CV Advice for High School Pupils

Published 11 August 2020 | Written by Alex Cartwright
CategoriesPromoting construction as a career choice Schools and nurseries

The project team answered the call for volunteers to record an online video giving high school pupils across Greater Manchester ideas on how to put a CV together. In the the video the Public Liaison Officer for the project talks about how to set out the CV, what order to write things and ideas on how to make your CV…


Webinar Support for Barnardo’s Training Groups

Published 29 July 2020 | Written by John Cairns
CategoriesSupport for local charities

During lockdown, Balfour Beatty have delivered webinars for young people involved in the Barnardo’s training groups based in Scotland. Balfour Beatty’s community team are supporting online careers advice and industry insights to participants that are involved in the Barnardo’s Works employability programmes. Participants involved in sessions are 16-24 years old and are being supported to find opportunities in further learning…


Support for Career Ready Mentoring and Work Placement Programme

Published 29 July 2020 | Written by John Cairns
CategoriesCommunity engagement Promoting construction as a career choice Schools and nurseries

Balfour Beatty are supporting the UK Career Ready programme and are in the third year of supporting the programme which runs in Moray, Scotland. The Career Ready programme is a commitment to providing young people with mentoring over a two year period and also involves supporting a four week summer work placement for participants. In Moray, Balfour Beatty staff members…


Open Doors Virtual Visit

Published 15 July 2020 | Written by Anna Koukoullis
CategoriesCommunity engagement Promoting construction as a career choice Schools and nurseries

Each year we take part in Open Doors, a national event which offers young people and people across the country the chance to visit our sites and learn more about careers in construction. As part of open doors we work with schools to offer students the chance to take part in a routes into construction workshop, followed by a Q&A…


Inspired Choices Programme

Published 8 April 2020 | Written by Anne Edwards
CategoriesColleges and universities Community engagement Disadvantaged and minority groups support Plan to positively promote construction Promoting construction as a career choice Schools and nurseries Support for careers advice

Inspired Choices is a collaborative programme from the Police, Fire and probation services, local authorities, health providers, private organisations, charities and community leaders who are working together to support vulnerable young people. A £10,000 sponsorship programme for 2019/2020 was provided, which includes mentoring and volunteering time from Willmott Dixon employees including colleagues at the Christ Church School Academy project. Site…


Girl Dreamer Academy

Published 8 April 2020 | Written by Anne Edwards
CategoriesColleges and universities Community engagement Promoting construction as a career choice Schools and nurseries Support for careers advice

The Girl Dreamer Academy programme is an empowerment platform for women and girls of colour. Through leadership development programmes, adventure sport and digital content they aim to build confidence and unleash the potential of girls everywhere. Girl Dreamer likes to push the boundaries, test the waters and go full throttle at everything they do. From setting up the UK’s first…


The 5 W Construction Challenge

Published 9 March 2020 | Written by CCS Best Practice Hub Administrator
CategoriesPromoting construction as a career choice Schools and nurseries Support for careers advice

To encourage Secondary School Students to become more actively involved during their Educational Site Tours, Robertson introduced an activity called the 5 W Construction Challenge. It was apparent from previous site tours that some of the students were much more confident that others in asking questions. To resolve this, Robertson wanted to provide an experience that engaged all students and…


Mad Science Sustainability Lab

Published 9 March 2020 | Written by Nalise Hahn
CategoriesCommunity engagement Reduced use of single use plastics Schools and nurseries

As part of delivering our corporate responsibility targets relating to community engagement on this project, we have partnered with a company called Mad Science to deliver an informative series of sustainability workshops to a local school. Mad Science’s Sustainability Lab workshop programme is much easier to teach, more engaging and is much less stressful than a mass field trip to…


Chicken Coop Design Project

Published 9 March 2020 | Written by Laura Deadman
CategoriesCommunity engagement Schools and nurseries

Our local school had vandals attack their chicken coop, which led to the majority of their chickens being exposed to natural predators leading to only two little hens surviving. As we were trying to take a creative approach on how we could avoid any timber waste on our project, we decided to build a small prototype chicken coop for our…


Wonder Learning Boxes

Published 2 March 2020 | Written by Rebecca Bernklow
CategoriesColleges and universities Community engagement Workforce development plans

As part of our engagement with the community surrounding our project at the University of Strathclyde, we reached out to the Civil Engineering Department to conduct a ‘hands on lecture’ that would support the students learning and awareness. We created ‘Wonder Learning Boxes’, which were each filled with a different textile for the students to feel and discuss with their…


ICF Construction with a Local School

Published 24 February 2020 | Written by Niall Smith
CategoriesCommunity engagement Schools and nurseries

We are constructing 80 houses in Dunleer, Co. Louth, Ireland using a insulated concrete form (ICF). The ICF blocks are a lightweight polystyrene block, that is filled with concrete once installed. Constructing the ICF walls involves slotting one block into another and can easily be completed by anyone. We engaged with the local school and arranged an activity on site,…


Apprentices Talk at a Careers Fair

Published 17 February 2020 | Written by James Morfitt
CategoriesColleges and universities Community engagement Plan to positively promote construction Promoting construction as a career choice Schools and nurseries Support for careers advice

Members of the Leeds Public Transport Improvement Programme (LPTIP) attended Leeds apprenticeship recruitment fair on Monday 3 February. The annual fair attracts young people from ages 14 onwards and is a great place to find out more about what options are available for those who don’t want to go to university. This year, the event was attended by 6,123 delegates…


Local Students Prepare for their Careers

Published 3 February 2020 | Written by James Morfitt
CategoriesCommunity engagement Promoting construction as a career choice Schools and nurseries

Staff from the LPTIP (Leeds Public Transport Investment Programme) project recently took part in a series of workshops at the Co-operative Academy, run in conjunction with with local social enterprise Ahead Partnership. The workshops, designed to the help pupils plan for their GCSE subjects and future career goals, were facilitated by senior project manager Peter Dawson (pictured) ​and senior planner…


Site Educational Tours

Published 13 January 2020 | Written by Sinead Gorman
CategoriesColleges and universities Community engagement

Due to the historical interest in the Ewart House building on the Bedford Square property, we extended the invitation to various parties for a site tour. We had students from the University of Ulster Architecture course and Aecom Engineering Apprentices on site to view various elements of the works, such as restoration of the old building and how this will…


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