John Sisk and Son Ltd
Landscaping Legacy
As part of the PDM Plant Upgrade Project, the site team used an integrated approach with the Client areas of the site, which included additional landscaping in order to provide a meaningful legacy of the site activity. These areas included: A landscaped berm at the waste water treatment works A landscaped area including sections of wild flower seeding over an...
Lewisham Gateway Public Arts Strategy 
Lewisham Gateway Public Arts Strategy has been conceived to support this major regeneration development with a core objective to contribute to the renaissance of the area, working in collaboration with the design team. The removal of the roundabout on the A20 re-established vital links from the town to the railway stations and it is enhancing experience, linkage, legibility that will...
Grow It Yourself
GROWCircle is run by Grow it Yourself (GIY), an Irish social enterprise that supports people around the world to live healthier, happier and more sustainable lives by growing some of their own food. Their mission is to educate and enable a global movement of food growers whose collective actions will help to rebuild a sustainable food system. This contractor has...
Recycling of Plastic Waste Barriers
On this project there is a large amount of plastic water barriers (approximately 1.5km in length). Over time sections of this barrier became worn or damaged from vehicle strikes, handling etc. and becomes unfit for use – usually when it can no longer hold water. They gathered up quite a quantity of these end-of-life barriers and were looking at a...
Environmental Infographic
In order to publicise the benefits of carbon reduction on site the contractor prepared for members of the public an environment infographic to outline the carbon savings experienced by using: Recycled concrete in the permanent works in lieu of crushed rock Stabilising the wet dredge on site and reusing it in the permanent works Using a blended cement binder (GGBS)...
Wet Mix Stabilisation of Dredged Material
The contractor developed a methodology to stabilise 6500m3 of wet dredged material (from the sea-bed) on site by utilising a modification of the existing ALLU system, using a site batched cementitious grout to mix with the dredged material to form a homogeneous mix that later cured into a weak concrete. The methodology ensured that this material could stay on site...
Filtra Cycle
Cigarette butts are one of the most commonly discarded pieces of waste worldwide with 4 trillion butts ending up as waste annually. Usually all of this waste ends up in landfill with some also finding its way into our waterways/reservoirs and eventually into the ocean where each one can release enough nicotine & microplastic to pollute up to 1000L of...
Certified Water Stewardship Training
Certified Water Stewardship training through Irish Water and the Lean & Green Skillnet was undertaken by the environmental champion for this project. This training and education allows the champion to: Identify the high water use across the site and develop an action plan to reduce the overall water use and make the use of water on site more efficient. Help...
Temporary Lift Shaft Doors
Temporary lift shaft doors are installed after completion of the RC shaft to ensure that lift engineers and contractors on the landing are safe at all times. The doors on the upper floors can only be opened from the inside. The lift installer can complete the lift installation and temporary doors are removed once the lift door is installed. These...
Avoiding Disruption to Public Transport
The Leeds Public Transport Investment Programme (LPTIP) on the Headrow project saw the start of the eastbound buses diverted off of the Headrow in Leeds city centre. Weeks of planning public awareness events, meetings with Leeds BID, bus operators, delivery partners and the client resulted in a smooth transition from original bus stops to the temporary ones. A rota was...
RSA Shuttle and Roll Over Simulator
The RSA (Road Safety Authority) shuttle is an interactive educational unit, which was brought to site to demonstrate to the workforce fatal driving behaviours such as driver distraction, use of mobile phones, passenger behaviour, fatigue and speed. Its main objective is to provide targeted audiences with the chance to interact with various road safety campaigns and to spread the message...
Stop the Drop
Stop the Drop is a targeted safety campaign focusing on specific hazards on site. Buckets had been handed out to all of the subcontractors on site for small parts and tools. The exercise was conducted to remove all loose material and waste from all of the elevated working platforms. Specialist crews were assigned to this task of clearing areas of any...
Off Site Prefabricated Reinforcement
On this project they have designed and fabricated off site reinforcement sections for the super flat specialised concrete ground floor slabs of a warehouse. This system consists of a prefabricated roll out bottom matt of reinforcement along with prefabricated top matt sections complete with u-bars around the edges and highchairs attached ready to be installed onto the roll out bottom...
Precast Rings to Reduce Shuttering when Constructing Process Manholes
On Project Rome (Glanbia) Portlaoise a Lean Construction Method was adopted in the formation of process manholes. Precast rings are first placed around the manhole which eliminates the need for timber shuttering as the ring acts a permanent shutter. This method saves on materials and time and prevents the generation of waste. It is also safer because operatives do not...
Temporary Fabrication Weather Proof Workshops
On site, several of our subcontractors have set up their own workshop areas in the compound. These workshops are set up for prefabrication of work before bringing materials and product into the construction zone. This benefits not only timing and labour costs, but also safety as workers do not have to work in trenches or excavations (fabricating pipework for example)....
