BAM
Loop Pallets Launched 
This contractor has become an early adopter of a sustainable supply chain initiative to make their use of pallets become circular and cut waste. ‘The Pallet LOOP’ is a reusable model which transforms how building materials move throughout the supply chain. The Loop pallets are distinctive, green, 100% FSC pallets, stronger than existing designs. They are distributed to manufacturers, who...
Personal Safety Conversation Cards
After the tragic murder of Sarah Everard, recent campaigns, vigils, media spotlights, and focus on harassment and violence; this contractor have created a number of new safety conversation starter cards. These have been used as an aid to help open up conversations with the teams regarding personal safety, women’s safety and diversity. By having the conversations, it has made operatives...
Interactive Football Hoarding
With the project being located alongside Newcastle United’s stadium at St James Park, the contractor have attempted to interact with passing football fans in a different way. By displaying the site organisational chart and team as football players they thought it would bring better interaction and engagement with the public. They also left a blank space for members of the...
Workforce App for Site Entry and Exit
The site have adapted the site entrance and exit to a biometric contactless entry to and from site, via use of the M Site Workforce App. The App is downloaded onto individuals mobile phones and is a live method of finding out who is on and off site. The method reduces the need to touch shared surfaces (ie fingerscan) which...
Gateway Personal Protection Tunnel
This project is the first construction site to install the Gateway Personal Protection Tunnel in association with PPAC 19 which is a preventive measure to minimise the spread of coronavirus. The product uses Hypochlorous acid, which consists of 99% water, salt and is electrostatically charged. Hypochlorous acid is a natural chemical made by our white blood cells as the body’s...
Supporting Local Social Enterprises
Across the Greenock Health Centre project, the team have engaged local social enterprise – In Works. Working with subcontractor Advance Construction, they provided Hard Landscaping work experience opportunities for two candidates supported by In Works. The candidate’s previous experience was in Soft Landscaping and so this provided an excellent opportunity for them to gain new skills and experience a live...
Improving the Safety of Tower Crane Lifting Operations
As the Tower Cranes (TC) became increasingly busy and the concrete frame was growing, it was becoming more apparent the traditional sounder methods used by the slingers, were not meeting the safety needs and an alternative was needed to make the operatives aware a lifting operation was occurring. The squistle was not loud enough and encouraged repetitive hand motions for...
Anti Microbiological Surface Coating
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...
Safe Heating System Implemented which Reduce Energy Usage
The site team has worked diligently to reduce its carbon footprint and as an example of this an innovative safe heating system was introduced to maintain the ambient temperature within work areas. The system incorporates 6 low energy heaters designed to cover an area of 175m3 and to maintain ambient temperatures between -13C and 18C. Each of the low-energy heaters...
Hand Wash Basins
The BAM team constructing the new Intensive Care Unit at Southampton General Hospital have installed hand wash basins at the entrance to the site compound. The hot and cold water supply is accessed by lever taps that can be turned on using elbows. Staff can wash their hands before entering the shared site accommodation helping to limit the chances of...
Sepsis Campaign
In 2018, BAM Plant Wagon Driver Paul Wilkinson lost his leg to sepsis following a DIY accident at home in which he cut his foot whilst changing a light fitting. On hearing about Paul’s accident, BAM Senior Site Manager Ian Teasdale, who has also experienced Sepsis, set about producing a campaign to raise his colleagues’ awareness of the dangers of...
IPAF Identity Stickers
The site team on the Stobhill Mental Health Units project developed a range of hard hat stickers to clearly and easily identify different levels of IPAF training. Through engaging with the supply chain during one of their regular safety conversations, the site team came up with the idea of adapting the current helmet stickers to incorporate the different categories of...
Site Wide Dust Suppression
The aim was to install a dust suppression system to reduce risk of occupational health and control respiratory related hazards while also reducing manual handling and plant required in managing dust on site. Environmental aspects surrounding the build such as the nearby river, horticulture, trees and fields were also a contributing factor. The aim was to introduce something easily adaptable...
Capital Square Live Permit Board
The Capital Square Office Development has taken a digitalised spin on the way the permit system is used. We have taken all of our old paper permits and integrated them with the construction management software BIM360. The system is set up by integrating QR codes with BIM360, and then attaching these to arm bands that are issued to operatives. Each...
Providing Materials and Site Cabins to a Community Association
The team working on Stobhill Mental Health Units were approached for old pallets and material off cuts by The Men’s Shed Association at Springburn Park, a charity that provides a place for men of all ages to go that suffer with depression and loneliness. The charity use woodworking, arts and crafts as a way for men to socialise with others...
