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Odour Monitoring Units ‘Electronic Noses’

Published 18 November 2020 | No comments
Written by Henry Latham

CategoriesInvestigation for environmental events Involvement

During pre-construction, the project team were looking for a method to objectively understand odours being released from remediation activities required on the former gasworks site. Existing methods currently rely on subjective sniff testing. The project team challenged their consultants to come up with an alternative method. Following discussions with remediation consultants, AECOM, the project team at Poplar procured three odour...

Cement Free Concrete Piling

Published 18 November 2020 | No comments
Written by Henry Latham

CategoriesInvestigation for environmental events

Portland cement accounts for approximately 5% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions. As the leading developer they have a responsibility to look for ways to reduce the impact our works have on both the local and global environment. Early discussions with the piling contractor, Keltbray, made the project team aware of Keltbray’s involvement in cement free concrete. As a result,...

B-Eames Disc Cutter

Published 5 October 2020 | No comments
Written by Gary Gill

CategoriesDust Health risk assessments and monitoring

The B-Eames disc cutter has been implemented on this site. Using this product means there is no eye contact with the blade, better poster for occupational health, protection from debris. Following the laser line it is possible to cut 50 metres or more without marking the floor. There is also a battery powered water bottle that plugs in so no...

LeakNet Water Management System

Published 30 September 2020 | No comments
Written by Jessica Dowdy

CategoriesWater saving measures

This project team are using the LeakNet system to reduce welfare facility and construction water usage. LeakNet measures pipe flow on a real time basis and learns the patterns of water usage on site. It can then identify abnormal water use patterns. For example, a constant steady flow throughout the night would be highlighted as unusual as water usually mostly...

Road Safety Week with CEMEX

Published 25 November 2019 | No comments
Written by Charlotte Ross

CategoriesRisk assessments Schools and nurseries

Ahead of National Road Safety Week, over 1,000 local school children enjoyed a day of interactive workshops and classes to teach them about staying safe as cyclists and pedestrians. The team from Southall Waterside, including representatives from Berkeley and building materials supplier CEMEX, visited three primary schools in Southall in their third annual road safety campaign. The events also marked...

Learning a language with Duolingo

Published 18 November 2019 | No comments
Written by Mariyana Stoyanova

CategoriesDisadvantaged and minority groups support English not as first language support Workforce recognition programmes

At South Quay Plaza (SQP), we value the diversity of our workforce and inclusivity is important to us, therefore a number of Berkeley Managers have embarked on a mission to learn the basics of a language which is common on site using Duolingo. Even simple phrases such as ‘hello’, ‘good morning’ and ‘how are you’ have made a positive impact...

Solar Pod Generator

Published 23 September 2019 | No comments
Written by Charlotte Ross

CategoriesCarbon reduction Conserve of energy Noise

At Berkeley West Thames in Southall, we are committed to lowering emissions from our activities on site. As such, we encourage all our trade partners to strive towards our carbon objectives and targets. To this effect, FM Conway have brought to site a solar generator, the Autosmart Solar Pod, to power their welfare cabins. The Solar Pod charges batteries all...

Women into Construction

Published 23 September 2019 | No comments
Written by Charlotte Ross

CategoriesPromoting construction as a career choice Support for careers advice

Berkeley West Thames, West London College (WLC) and Women Into Construction (WIC) teamed up this summer to offer women an opportunity to kick start a career in construction by hosting a four week training programme at the West London Construction Academy (WLCA), located on Berkeley’s Southall Waterside development. The programme provided an insight into the vast career options available within...

Re-usable Fabric Door Handle Covers

Published 24 June 2019 | No comments
Written by Mariyana Stoyanova

CategoriesReduced use of single use plastics

At South Quay Plaza we are committed to minimise our use of disposable plastics, following the CCS ‘Spotlight on… plastics and packaging’ learning toolkit. As part of this we have developed a plastics and packaging minimising strategy. Our latest initiative challenged us to review the different types of disposable plastic protection we use on site and find an alternative. A...

Fatigue Monitoring System

Published 24 June 2019 | No comments
Written by Kevin Roodt

CategoriesMental health

Considering the importance that the HSE places on fatigue and working excessive, along with our focus on Mental health, we decided to have Datascope create a way in which to record and clearly indicate the number of hours worked per operative per week. A report is then automatically created and sent to the Goodmans Fields management team to review on...

Bespoke Plasterboard Clamp Trolley

Published 24 June 2019 | No comments
Written by Kevin Roodt

CategoriesNear miss

These custom made bespoke trolleys were designed in a collaboration between Goodman’s Fields management, our dry lining contractor, BDL, and their parent company, Carey. They are standard trolleys that are modified to incorporate adjustable clamping arms to keep various sized boards in place whilst being transported around sight. We decided to carry out this modification as we found that, using...

Hybrid Cherry Picker

Published 19 June 2019 | No comments
Written by Mariyana Stoyanova

CategoriesEnergy efficient plant and equipment

As part of working towards reducing our carbon emissions and becoming carbon positive, we have replaced our standard cherry picker with a NIFTY HR21 HYBRID 4×4 MK2. Niftylift has combined an efficient Tier 4/EU Stage IIIB Diesel engine with a clean and quiet electric power pack to produce the world’s first parallel hybrid power system on a MEWP. The system...

Policy Review to Minimise the Use of Plastic Products

Published 13 June 2019 | No comments
Written by Barnaby Blackman

CategoriesReduced use of single use plastics

At Berkeley Homes we have a protection policy which covers all stages of the build process. Unfortunately our protection policy consists of mainly plastic products. Since the photos of plastic gathering in the Pacific Ocean became publicised, we have taken it upon ourselves to review the protection policy along with our suppliers to minimise the use of plastic products. On...

Hoist Anemometers

Published 10 June 2019 | No comments
Written by Mariyana Stoyanova

CategoriesSafety signage

Constructing a 68-storey tower in Canary Wharf is challenging for numerous reasons. A key challenge we face is unpredictable and high wind-speeds. We have installed hoist anemometers to all of our external hoists. These provide constant measuring of wind speed at the hoist cage and take away the responsibility of measuring and monitoring at particular intervals from the hoist drivers....

Safety Dashboard

Published 10 May 2019 | No comments
Written by Catherine Clarke

CategoriesHazard boards Reporting actual vs target performance Safety signage

Hollyfields have implemented a running dashboard to measure our health, safety and environmental targets. This consists of compiling data from health and safety audits, carried out by Directors and Group Health and Safety staff, creating tables and measuring this against our benchmark. We are also analysing weekly interventions logged by our site team, which involves reporting health and safety issues...

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