Nuisance Management and Neighbourhood Liaison
Bordering a number of residential properties and with one elevation of the planned structure within 5m of occupied homes, this project has required proactive nuisance management to manage reputational risk and promote positive relationships with the local community. This nuisance management encourages community-led solutions to local issues, building broader support for the project. Since the outset of the project, the...
CSCS Smartcheck App
CSCS have recently launched a smart check app to help easily identify whether a CSCS card is valid. Cards can be checked using NFC to read the information embedded on the chip, via QR codes or by manual entry. This contractor is now using this on site to improve compliance and check the validity of documentation on the project. To...
Smile Plastics
This contractor has worked with Smile Plastics on their site in London. The start-up company uses recycled plastics only to create new items of furniture for the final completed project, with an agreement in place for Smile Plastics to create vanity units for the superloos on site. They have been successful in using a start-up company to provide 100% recycled...
Plastics Film Screening
This contractor booked a meeting room to hold a screening of the docu-film ‘A Plastic Ocean’. They had 15 attendees from the team who joined for a plastic free lunch and film, and received a reusable water bottle, mug and bag for attending and to help kick-off their actions and as a reminder of their commitment. This initiative can be...
Heat Induction Paint Removal
This project used heat induction as an alternative to traditional grit blasting to remove existing intumescent paint from the structural steel frame. This method uses heat induction technology, similar to a heat induction hob, to break the chemical bonds between the intumescent paint and the steelwork, allowing it to be manually scraped off with minimal effort. The benefits of this...
Tufcoat Weatherproof Wrapping 
The Mace team at Project 696 have introduced weatherproof scaffold wrapping to better protect the building from adverse weather and provide improved environmental containment against dust and debris generated on site. Mace engaged manufacturer and installer Tufcoat to work up a strategy to ‘wrap’ the building with sheeting to create a protective ‘cocoon’. This has allowed a significant proportion of...
Elevated Desks for Staff Wellbeing
In the site office, elevation desks were procured to ensure that it is possible for employees to work standing up for periods of the day. The benefits of this include increased wellbeing, flexibility for employees to adjust desk height individually and to work standing up. This will improve health in terms of reduced muscle pain from working in uncomfortable positions...
Wellbeing Questionnaire
The Mace team at Grosvenor Crescent attempted to quantify wellbeing statistically. A wellbeing questionnaire was created. This questionnaire is used by the NHS to test Wellbeing in the UK and was created by the University of Warwick Medical School (Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS)). The questionnaire involves 14 Questions with five response options available per question. Each response option generates...
Reuse of Borehole Water
The Mace team at University College London implemented a measure to reduce water consumption whilst drilling a second borehole. When WJ groundwater drilled the first of two boreholes for the geothermal loop, they used 213m3 of water. The majority of this was lost during the drilling process in the chalk fissures. To prevent this high water usage during the drilling...
Use of Broadband Reverse Alarms
The project team at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Development have implemented the use of broadband reverse alarms. These have been retrofitted to all MEWP’s. This stemmed from a complaint to site relating to noise at night. The project team undertook a fact finding exercise on how to more proactively mitigate environmental nuisance and noise specifically. Broadband or white noise reverse...
Environmental Alert Action Process
The Mace team at the Tottenham Hotspurs Stadium Development have created an Environmental Alert Action Process to ensure compliance with their Section 61 agreement and to reduce environmental nuisance to the surrounding population. This process utilises the environmental boundary monitors which record noise and dust levels over an hourly and 15 minute period respectively. Trigger levels are set up (well...
NRMM Emissions Testing
Mace have continued their work with Kings College London (KCL), attempting to tackle emissions and air quality issues within the UK. Having previously worked with KCL at the Television Centre site, Mace have progressed their work at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium Development. Mace arranged for KCL to attend site and test Non Road Mobile Machinery (NRMM) emissions to see whether...
Water Recycling Wheel Wash
Mace at new stadium development procured a water recycling road sweep (from JM Clark) specifically to reduce water use as well as work related road risk and CO2 emissions from site. This system filters the water it uses and feeds a percentage of this back in to the system for re-use. Estimated water reduction is between 30-50%, although more likely...
Increasing the Standards of the Working Environment
The Greenwich Peninsula Upper Riverside welfare facilities have been designed to improve the standards and working environment on construction sites. Mace directors analysed a number of studies which show a correlation between the influence of working environment and staff productivity. This included examples from Google and Microsoft offices. This allowed the Mace team to identify measures that could be implemented...
Bottles with a Difference
As part of our Responsible Business Strategy, one of our commitments is to reduce the 3,000 tonnes of plastic waste that Mace generates each year. Plastic cups and bottles are just some of the products that we throw away every day and many of these are only used once. So the Mace team at Greenwich Square decided to source project...
