Buckingham Group Contracting Limited
Employing Quality People Locally
The project team are working collaboratively with Swansea City Council to employ local labour wherever possible. The CSR Manager has teamed up with an employee of Acorn Recruitment to run their new ‘Prepare to Work’ course. The CSR Manager of the contractor and the recruitment company run monthly sessions with local people who attend employment groups in the area in...
Social Hub for Operatives
At this current time, the project management team felt that it was crucial for people to feel that a construction site is both a safe and welcoming space. To help achieve this the project erected a marquee. This structure, complete with artificial grass floor and chill out area, with comfortable furniture and plants, provides a social hub for the site....
Japanese Knot Weed Incineration
Part of the Greenfield platform two extension required the removal of a stand of Japanese knot weed (JKW). To save the knot weed plant material and contaminated soil going to landfill, BGCL engaged the services of Henderson and Taylor (H&T) to incinerate the knot weed and screen the soil to remove the JKW rhizomes. The cost of JKW plant material...
Creation of an Outdoor Forestry School
Creation of an outdoor forestry school was undertaken at Smithy Bridge Primary school. The school is located next to Smithy Bridge train station, which had its platforms extended as part of the Northern Platform Extensions Phase 1 project by Buckingham Group. Through liaison with the Head Teacher, we agreed to build a forestry area that would enable the children to...
Virtual Reality Safety Training
The BGCL team wanted to produce a Behavioural Safety Film to tackle the issue of service strikes. We created a short 360 virtual reality film, working with the team on site to reconstruct a cable strike. The film demonstrates a range of errors which led to the accident and then shows the aftermath of the incident as well as the...
