Morgan Sindall
Laptop Donations in Aid of Digital Poverty
The contractor donated five laptops to a local School to assist students with limited access to technology at home with their school work through the pandemic. For many children it has been difficult participating in school work from home and in some cases pupils are working from a mobile phone. To show their commitment to the local community the contractor...
Using Alternative Fuels to Improve Air Quality and Carbon Reduction
On the University of Salford SEE project they are using Green D+ fuel as part of its plans to improve local air quality and reduce the carbon footprint of the construction process. Green D+ HVO is an enhanced Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil manufactured from 100% renewable and sustainable waste derived raw materials, accepted by the Road Transport Fuel Obligation and certified...
Warm Up Safety Sessions
A warm up session takes place on the project at the start of every week. The purpose of the session is to get the operatives into thinking about safety. After a long weekend, people could be coming into work more relaxed this can be a factors that causes incidents. In the session, the operatives are given a scenario on a...
Mood Meter
The coronavirus pandemic and lockdown has had a marked effect on people’s mental health. The Lack of social life and continued work had some impact on construction workers. Being at work most of the times, the contractor identified the need for creating support from colleagues and managers. They decided to introduce mood meter. Arriving onsite, workers are encouraged to take...
Special Needs Local School Catering for the Site
The contractor were keen to make links to the local surrounding schools and charitable organisations and were pointed in the direction of a recently constructed Additional Needs School. Upon the first visit it was clear the contractor could do great things there and having seen the school canteen that was run by the pupils a plan was put together to...
SHE Brief Area
A Specially built SHE brief area that is used both for the morning and afternoon coordination briefings has been implemented. This is positioned within the welfare area, the SHE Brief Area is the first point of contact when an operative or a site visitor enters into the welfare area or is accessing site. Displayed within the SHE Brief Area is,...
Traumafix
As an industry it is always good to have the input from people from other backgrounds, and we have currently employed someone from a military background as a foreman. One question he asked was that as a high risk industry, do we have trauma bandages in case of a major bleed? Many sites don’t, they just have standard first aid...
Force 8 Respirators
We have recently introduced a ban on any of our employed staff from using the throw away dust masks. You only get one pair of lungs, so why risk it? We now only use Force 8 masks as a minimum. This will be rolled out to all subcontractors onsite shortly. It is easy to buy the cheap throw away dusk...
Battery Powered Cut Off Saw
We are currently using battery powered cut off saws, rather than petrol cut-off saws. The benefit to the site is that the saw can be used indoors as well as outdoors, due to the lack of emissions. There is no need to store petrol onsite, and the decibels rating is slightly lower than a petrol saw. It is also very...
Bricklaying with School Children 
We held a two day course on bricklaying at Attleborough Junior School, which is where we were building an extension and carrying out refurbishment works. The whole school took part, and participated in small groups. They were then presented with a Foundation in Brickwork certificate at the end of their hard work. This will hopefully encourage the next generation of...
Internal Carbon Charge
Morgan Sindall as a company and a leader in tackling environmental issues are going to introduce an internal carbon charge. The output of most projects can be calculated with the existing carbon calculator tool, which works out how much is generated throughout a projects lifecycle. Each division will pay a charge per tonne of carbon they generate which will paid...
Ecolite Lighting Tower
The contractor is trialling an Ecolite Lighting Tower, which is hydrogen fuel cell powered and eliminates exhaust, C02, N0x emissions, noise pollution, particulate pollution, servicing, combustion, and possibility for fuel or earth contamination. The light is low energy LED lighting and has a run time up to 240 hours. The light was delivered by cargo bike which the contractor is...
Environmental Response Trailer
Although all construction sites are different, there are some common risks which can be found on most, if not all. For example, where plant and machinery are working, there is always a risk of fuel leaks and hydraulic oil spills into the environment. It is therefore imperative that trained personnel alongside relevant equipment and supplies are on hand to tackle...
Aspiration Tree
On completion of the new extension to the Queens Hill Primary School, we made a tree out of an original beam from the demolition works which started as the trunk. We then got all the trades involved including scaffold as the branches, a wooden bird box, concrete foundations, brickwork, copper wire for smaller branches, ceiling fixing wire to hold the...
Portable Hot Works Fire Point Alarm
The project team came up with the idea of a portable fire alarm point. The alarm is linked in and numbered on the system. The portable call point is handed out when an electronic hot work permit is issued as there is an increased risk of fire where hot works are being carried out. Having an alarm in that area...
