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Crane Evacuation by Fire Service
BAM Construction have collaborated with the Greater Manchester Fire Brigade Technical Rescues Unit, by offering them the opportunity to practice a rescue drill on our tower crane at our 100 Embankment site. This opportunity gives the fire brigade a real-time practice run in a live, challenging environment. This also gives BAM additional skills and knowledge on emergency rescue procedures, which...
Environmentally Friendly Hoarding System
The Stobhill team have installed an environmentally friendly ‘Go Hoard’ hoarding system on site. The Go Hoard panels by Blok N Mesh UK are manufactured from 50% recycled PVC and have been made to be completely recyclable after use. The system is installed with ‘No dig’ Kentledge blocks to eliminate the requirement for excavation close to live services. Project Manager...
Wind Alert System
BAM Construction’s Atlantic Square site in Glasgow has put a Wind Alert System in place to monitor the wind speed on site. Following the first crane erection for the site, the team used an Eole Skywatch Windspeed Monitor to determine the wind levels each morning and indicates which flag should be raised. As per the above image, the wind alert...
Mental Health Awareness: State of Mind
Today at the LUHIC site in Lancaster, we had a ‘Mental Health Awareness: State of Mind’ presentation from Danny Sculthorpe (ex-Wigan Warriors and Great Britain rugby league player) and Phil Veivers (ex-St Helens rugby league player and Wigan Warriors/ Salford head coach). Since leaving rugby league, Danny Sculthorpe has become a mental health and stress speaker, and has spoken to...
Joint Open Doors Site Visits
Open Doors offers members of the public a unique chance to go behind the scenes of live construction sites, offices, factories and training centres across Great Britain. The event helps the public discover how the communities they live in are shaped and constructed by an industry with a diverse range of career paths to offer. Open Doors helps inspire the...
Mental Health Awareness: Planting Project
As World Mental Health Awareness Day was approaching, our site manager on the Atlantic Square project in Glasgow decided to think of new ways to engage the workforce while raising awareness. He saw an opportunity on site to reuse materials and researched the mental health benefits of flowers and planting and discovered the following: Flowers can improve anxiety Flowers can...
Visitors’ Suggestions
The project has adapted its visitors’ signing in records to request health, safety and environmental suggestions or ideas. This shows that the site appreciates its visitors’ opinions, showing consideration, courtesy and respect from all those visiting the project, which quite often are a ‘new pair of eyes’. This helps to engage the workforce and helps embed a culture of continuous...
Enhancing Lives
The company has a target to enhance a number of lives each year. One method of enhancing a life can include educating young people about the industry to ensure we have a future pipeline of skills. With the school year coming to a close, we have had a number of young people aged 14-17 participating in work experience and work...
Electronic Visitors Induction 
The Carntyne Primary school team have launched a digital visitors induction process via the onsite iPad’s. Making the induction process more interactive and easier for visitors and staff. The electronic induction includes a visitors sign in function, lists the site rules and key site information. The induction also showcases the site layout plan and fire and emergency procedures as well...
STEM Activity Day
The Blairdardie site team from BAM Construction recently supported Blairdardie Primary School’s STEM Week as part of our on-going Education Engagement with the school. At the event, we created four BAM stations which included the following construction related activities: VR Area: We used cardboard VR goggles and iPads to showcase 360 images of the pupils’ new school. The BAM Construct...
On Site Skills Zone
As part of BAM Construction’s Ready, Steady, Girls Construct! Employability programme, the Blairdardie Primary School site team created an onsite skills zone to host the group. The programme, which focuses on attracting female pupils into the construction industry by providing them with industry insight, training, work experience and employability skills, was delivered over a 10 week period to a group...
England and Scotland Apprentice Week Social Media Competition
To mark the start of England’s National Apprenticeship Week (#NAW2018) and Scotland’s Apprentice Week (#ScotAppWeek2018), the Early Careers Manager and Community Engagement assistant will use our social media to celebrate why apprenticeships are great for BAM. Using the social media campaign, we will hear directly from our trainees and apprentices about why apprenticeships work for them. To help BAM celebrate...
Hydrocarbon Detection Strips
The site team, as a precautionary measure, have used hydrocarbon detection strips to screen water for presence of residual hydrocarbons. The light paper turns dark blue on contact with hydrocarbons such as gasoline, heating oil, lubricating oil etc. To determine if oil is present in water, apply a drop to the test paper or move the paper back and forth...
Public Information Kiosk
The site team at Dawlish have employed a public information kiosk to augment other sources of information to inform and update neighbours and tourists alike on plans and progress of the project along the 2.5km beach management scheme. The bespoke portable modular polycarbonate kiosk was seen as an efficient way to quickly create a protected space for the secure display...
Female PPE Initiative
Women who work for BAM Nuttall are being supplied with workwear designed specifically for them. After a series of trials on a number of its sites in London, Leeds, Newcastle and Scotland, the company is rolling out a range of work clothing nationwide that is specifically designed for women. Working with workwear manufacturer Arco, BAM Nuttall has commissioned polo shirts,...
