Effective Workforce Development through Mentoring using Cloud Technology
This contractor in partnership with Australian based company Mentorloop, have rolled out an approach to improve mentoring support across the project. The cloud-based system uses specialised algorithms to provide the best possible matches across the team, creating matches which otherwise may not have been obvious. It can be accessed from anywhere and provides updates and alerts to both mentors and...
Reducing Emissions with a Diesel Alternative
This project is reducing their carbon emissions by using an alternative fuel to diesel. They have started trialling the use of Green Diesel and Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO). HVO is a fossil free fuel made from 100% renewable raw materials and will be supplied to the project for use in both their generators and other plant machinery. Throughout the trial...
Capturing Social Value
At the Barking Riverside Extension, we’re committed to being a responsible and ethical project. This means behaving with integrity towards all our stakeholders and being aware of the impact we have on the local community. The Social Value Bank is an online tool that has been designed to enable project teams to measure their social value in monetary terms. It...
Sustainable Site Sewage and Drainage System
The Morgan Sindall Volker Fitzpatrick JV has installed a sustainable drainage system (SuDS) to capture and treat both domestic and trade effluent from the main project offices and car park at their Barking Riverside Extension Project. The system is installed south of the office complex and is comprised of a Kingspan BioFicient Klargester for the treatment of the domestic effluent...
Emergency Trauma Packs
The Morgan Sindall Volker Fitzpatrick JV have introduced Emergency Trauma Packs (ETP’s) on the Barking Riverside Rail Extension project (BRE). We undertook a gap analysis of the post-incident care capability on site, which identified a need for a better package of knowledge and trauma treatment to be made available across the project. The project has in place Trained First Aiders,...
Conquip Water Reuse System
Managing water usage on site is a key aspect of overall sustainability performance. To help with this at Barking Riverside Extension we introduced the Conquip System which provides an effective solution for water re-use. The system enables the reuse of concrete water from the washing out of concrete trucks, concrete pumps and concrete skips. On a project where we estimate...
