Kier Construction
Utilities Signage 
Cable strikes form a significant safety challenge for the construction industry utility sector, and such incidents can result in death or injury for the workforce as well as costing companies millions of pounds in associated damages and compensation costs. Damage to underground services can cause fatal or severe injuries (HSE 2005) as well as the potential for fire and explosions,...
Talking Roadside Safety Sign
‘The Talking Sign’ is a brand-new initiative designed by Kier in conjunction with Chevron, which is based on their intercom system normally used for residents awaiting escort through work areas. The Talking Sign was showcased recently at Gatwick Airport and was well received by stakeholders, Highways England and customers as it is the only ‘live’, up to the minute, works...
Safety on the Move
Safety Point is a pop-up unit which can be deployed in 60 seconds and moved from site to site when needed. It has bays where safety apparatus can be easily reached for all operatives to use. The pod contents per the unit are 2kg powder extinguisher, standalone 100dB alarm, first aid kit and eyewash bottle, together with the Health and...
Fire Door Gap Measuring Tool
This project have identified the need to accurately measure the gap around fire doors. It is common practice to use a 3mm packer, however a packer is not calibrated and will not measure the door gap behind the front face of the door or frame. Often door frames are installed with packers to ‘twist’ the legs of the frame that...
Use of a Flywheel to Reduce Power Needed to Start a Crane
It is recognised that when a tower crane is first started up it requires a ‘surge’ in electricity, and that the surge falls away once the crane is operational. To start the tower crane on this project would require the reinforcement or upgrading of the local electricity network, and a 300kVA generator is currently being used although this is an...
Contact Tracing Sensor
This site has around 1000 operatives onsite with the majority of them involved in fit out work. Whilst ‘large bubble’ working has been introduced for the separate buildings the site is vulnerable to a positive test causing a substantial proportion of the workforce to have to self-isolate on what is a government deemed key project. Therefore the site has purchased...
Self Sanitising Door Handle Covers
The project team sourced self-sanitising door handle covers from ‘Purehold’. These were developed for health and care settings and are coated with an anti-bacterial coating that kills germs and reduces risk of infections spreading. The silver ion coating combats against pathogens deposited onto the surface of the handles. This cost effective solution contributes to infection control. An indicator on the...
Hands Free Water Bottle Refill Stations
Traditionally we have used cold water dispensers or drinking fountains to provide drinking water across our projects but both of these options require levers to be operated to control water flow and drinking fountains require the user to drink water directly from a water flow. With coronavirus neither of these are suitable solutions for providing drinking water. We have obtained...
Worker Learning Corner
As a site team we know the importance of supporting our workforce with their learning and personal development. To encourage this on site, we have implemented a learning corner within the canteen for operatives to relax, read and learn about how to progress in their career. The learning corner was made by our own graduate site manager and work placement...
Main Contractor and Subcontractor Best Practice and Shared Learning Meetings
After Kier (Main contractor) had a virtual CCS site monitors visit and Gworks (Subcontractor) had their first virtual company visit it was discussed as a team that we had the opportunity to learn a lot of best practice for each side. Both scored highly in their respective reports and each party felt that they had something that they could offer,...
Using Drone Surveys for Materials Management Plan
The Project Team are using Drone Surveys to keep track of material movements on the 7 acre demolition and enabling works scheme. The scheme involves large scale demolition, cut and fill exercises in areas of contaminated and non-hazardous ground on a site which shares it’s boundaries with the tidal River Avon and Bristol’s floating harbour. The sensitivity of how material...
Green and Red Safety Lighting
As a project team we have developed a Red and Green LED remote control light. The project has two main stair cases with a third temporary staircase. The idea is to install the lights above each staircase and illuminate Green to identify stairs that are Open and Red to signal that stairs are closed and out of use.
Battery Operated Concrete Poker
During the construction of the floor slabs within the concrete core, working space was very limited. A battery powered concrete poker allowed the concrete works to proceed without the need for trailing leads or an external power pack to power the concrete poker. The machine worked very well and was equivalent to an electric or petrol powered concrete poker. The...
Supply Chain Community Commitment
Kier Regional Building North West is committed to creating stronger, more collaborative supply chain partnerships and resilient teams, and ensuring we leave a positive legacy in communities where we operate with the help of our supply chain. Kier has surveyed its local supply chain in the North West to determine their social impact contributions and to support them to further...
Sharing Passivhaus Knowledge
Kier’s St Sidwells Point project has been designed to the Passivhaus standard. This means that once finished, the leisure complex will use significantly less energy for heating and cooling than an average building of similar size and facilities. In order to share industry knowledge, the development team and principal contractor has integrated the design and construction processes within a training...
