A-one+
Cleaning up a Community Area 
A local memorial garden had become overgrown encouraging anti-social behaviour, and preventing people using the public space as an area of reflection. Overgrown vegetation was hiding most of the paths and paved areas, benches had become overgrown preventing use, and there was significant volumes of litter and debris. Two of our maintenance operatives spent time clearing the area of empty...
Local Community Partnering
During a recent project to carry our junction improvements on the A64, we struck up a rewarding relationship with local businesses which provided inspiring benefits on Respecting the Community and Respecting the Environment. Lengths of hedgerow, some trees and an old stone culvert parapet had to be removed as part of the junction improvement work. Rather than disposing of these...
Tawny Owl Rescued from Drainage Ditch
During some recent works on the M18 and M180 project to renovate 40,000m of drainage ditches and 100 culverts as part of a motorway capital renewal scheme, our site team discovered an injured Tawny Owl in a culvert near one of the motorway drainage ditches. Although still clearly alive, the owl was motionless and had suffered damage to its eye...
The Solatainer
The Solatainer is a new innovative power source for site compounds. The unit combines solar, generator, battery and for the first time in the UK, wind to provide renewable energy for running the site. During its first month on site, we have observed a 27% reduction in the total cost and over a 87% reduction in carbon dioxide production when...
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...
