Hoarding Food Collection Points
Mace’s 21 Moorfields team has launched the 21 MoorFood campaign in March to collect donations to help the homeless in the City of London. The campaign is part of the team’s ongoing effort to encourage the construction team and site neighbours to help those in need. 8,000 people sleep rough on the streets of London every year and a great...
XCarb Renewably Produced and Recycled Steel
The contractor is using the lowest embodied carbon structural steel product available and is the first project in UK to use this. The steel comes with a cost uplift over other rolled steel sections. Wider uptake of this will help to significantly reduce the embodied carbon impacts of the built environment. To find out more, click the link below.
Beehives and Community Design
This contractor engaged the local youth club through a science club they delivered to design labels for the honey produced by the beehives located on the roof of the project office. The 40 thousand bees on site produced over 70 jars of honey. The children were given jars of the honey with the winning design on them. This is part...
Modern Slavery App and Awareness 
To help raise awareness of Modern Slavery at Mace’s Hanover Square project, all Mace staff and sub-contractor supervisors have downloaded Unseen UK’s new mobile phone app which was launched on the ‘World Day Against Trafficking’. The app aims to raise awareness of Modern Slavery and make reporting to the Helpline even easier. It provides a simple guide to recognising the...
Safety through Observation, Discussion and Action 
The project has implemented a new approach to support reviewing health and safety on site in real-time. Safety through Observation, Discussion and Action (SODA) consists of SODA champions, usually construction or H&S managers, observing behaviours of trade contractor teams and using the prompt questions in the SODA app as a conversation starter to engage with the workforce. These questions are...
Doorminator for Heavy Door Installs
A mechanical piece of equipment called the Doorminator 40100 from Paragon Pro, is being used by one of the trade contractors to assist with the install of the heavy, fire-rated doors. The door is into place on the Doorminator instead of being lifted. The item has a load capacity of 181.4kg, can install doors of up to 3m high by...
Lotus Pro Ionised Cleaning
Lotus Pro uses only water to provide a simple, safe and sustainable way to clean. Using an electric current it ionises the water to produce stabilised aqueous ozone (SAO) which acts as a cleaning agent killing 99.9% of germs. This is a no VOC cleaning option avoiding issues of allergies and COSHH for cleaners use and for easier storage. It...
Aquafuel Generator
This contractor is using a generator which uses glycerin as its power source. This is a waste product from bio diesel production and when consumed in the generator it provides mobile power with zero particulate emissions, it is also non-flammable, non-toxic and biodegradable and therefore has a very low carbon footprint. This is an example of beneficial reuse of a...
Modern Slavery Awareness Cards
To help raise awareness of Modern Slavery issues on site, we have produced a pocket sized card to distribute to operatives and supervisors. This can be printed on water resistant card or laminated to help people spot potential victims of modern slavery. The reverse side provides details on what to do to report anything suspicious and links to further help...
Recycled Tyres as Cold Melt Waterproofing
Mace’s Hanover Square project have used a new method for waterproofing concrete from a supplier called Proteus – this is the first time this system has been used on a Mace project and has been extremely effective. Benefits of the system include: Entirely removes the need for hot works, as there is no longer the need for a gas pot...
Lions Barber Collective
Together with their client, this contractor engaged with The Lions Barber Collective to visit the site and offer free haircuts to site operatives, with the goal of fostering positive mental health conversations. The charities barbers are trained in conversations around mental health and offer their “clients” a relaxed environment to broach what are often considered difficult conversations The initiative was...
Combined Noise and Dust Control
At their project for University College London Hospital, Mace have implemented the use of combined acoustically rated and dust control enclosures. The project consists of providing a new build facility to allow the client to relocate a number of related medical treatment streams into a single new building. The site is located adjacent to the existing hospital and due to...
Visual System for the Safe Management of Risers
Work at height is one of construction industry’s greatest hazards. At their project for University College London Hospital, Mace have implemented a robust Riser Management Strategy to control access into and works within risers. Initially the risers are designed to minimise risk such as with the use of prefabricated riser modules and floors installed during the superstructure construction and then...
Crane Management App
Through the use of the 1Guava application the project team have generated a digital version of the project to coordinate and monitor the usage of the cranes throughout the day. The project can fully manage site cranes with allocated timeslots and booked deliveries through the application. The cranes are then monitored throughout the day, with this data inputted into graphical...
Route to Zero Plastics
At Greenwich, we are planning how we can get to zero plastics on site. Plastic waste is an epidemic issue across the world and we want to ensure our site is having as minimal impact as possible. Immediate implementation; Reusable bottles issued to all staff (these are also tetherable so not a safety risk) Integrating closed loop recycling scheme into...
