Sacyr Wills Bros Somague JV
Litter Heroes
Litter Heroes have been identified to promote a clean working environment and report observations relating to waste management to the Environmental Team. The initiatives aim is to promote an awareness to their impact on the local environment and ensure they maintain their wider site area. Staff representatives from every department make up the Litter Heroes network. The objective is to...
Promoting Women’s Contribution to Construction
This contractor saw an opportunity to promote women in construction through their different projects throughout Ireland and UK. The trend started on their Dungiven to Drumahoe Dualling programme when female staff were offered a ‘Wills Sisters’ jacket to help promote women in construction. This was so successful that the company have now implemented this in their other sites across the...
Working with a School to Construct Models with Recycled Polystyrene
St Canice’s Primary School in Dungiven took part in a project using recycled polystyrene that the contractor donated to them. The school held class discussions and all the pupils decided to use this recycled polystyrene to construct models of the ongoing A6 construction work taking place around their town. The project really got the children’s attention, and they were all...
On Site Asphalt Production
This contractor have commissioned an asphalt plant on site thereby reducing vehicle movements on road networks, reducing transportation distance as well as reducing CO2 emissions. It is estimated that by producing asphalt on site and reducing transportation, the contractor has saved approx. 270,000kg carbon dioxide based on 3814 return journeys to the nearest asphalt plant. The asphalt plant has many...
Journey Time Monitoring
This project utilises journey time monitoring by displaying journey times in three areas of the project to inform road users of any delays. Data is collected via crowd sourced data by analysing GPS determined locations communicated through mobile phones and satellite navigation users. The software displays the actual journey time information in real time to variable messaging signs on the...
Recycling Tyres in Northern Ireland
To deal with a small number of waste tyres responsibly, the contractor investigated options for reuse of tyres that alternatively would have gone to waste disposal. They identified R4 Limited, which is Northern Ireland’s 1st registered waste disposal site for the recycling and recovery of waste tyres. They have achieved accreditation to ISO14001 the Internationally recognised Environmental Management System. Tyres...
