Sir Robert McAlpine
3 Point Plan for Women’s Welfare
This contractor implemented a 3 Point Plan to support women’s wellbeing at work. This plan focused on domestic violence, period dignity and self-defence to create a safer environment both in and out of the workplace. This is especially poignant as domestic abuse reports significantly rose during lockdown & in 2020 it was reported that 55% of women were sexually harassed...
Sustainability Podcast
This contractor has created a Sustainability Podcast available on social media and the contractor’s website, promoting a positive sustainable image of the construction industry. The podcast has been a vehicle to discuss challenges and opportunities sustainability presents to the construction industry, as well as the promotion of World Environment Day and sustainability graduate career opportunities. The benefits of this initiative...
Gender Equality Workshop
To promote sustainable employment, a Women’s Network was established to enable locally recruited women to discuss key issues such as health, gender equality and celebrate International Women’s Day. The local women’s network provides the environment to enable women to not feel alone in a male dominated industry A recent outcome has been the creation of an interactive gender equality workshop...
Virtual Work Experience for Neurodiverse Students
Working with The Courtyard, a school specialising in working with children with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder and/or communication needs, the contractor developed a six-week work experience specifically for neurodiverse students. This programme involved designing a welfare facility with coronavirus restrictions, using Matterport, DALUC and Google Sketch Up – this was based on a real-world problem for the project....
Fall Protection Management System
Every element of edge protection on the site is assessed by the contractor when it is put in position. Once they have assessed and signed off that element of edge protection, this is logged on the Fall Protection Management System on Fieldview and provided a QR code. This system allows the area of edge protection to be allocated to a...
Lateral Transport Unit
Due to the complex nature of manoeuvring heavy, pre-cast soffit slabs in a site with many logistical constraints and challenges, the project engineers researched into what they could use to facilitate the movement of the slabs, whilst also reducing the associated health and safety risks. The slabs are required to be moved between different levels and different columns which, is...
Walk and Talk Mental Health Initiative
The recent Mental Health Awareness Week prompted this project to develop a ‘walk and talk’ scheme in an attempt to look outside of the box and further eliminate the stigma of mental health concerns – particularly stigmas within the construction industry. The concept of the ‘walk and talk’ scheme either as a group or an individual involves taking operatives out...
Electromagnetic Flow Meter
To tackle a reoccurring issue of obstructions getting caught in the projects water flow meters and subsequently not recording accurately, the project has procured an electromagnetic flow meter. The measuring principle of this electromagnetic flow meter is based on Faraday’s Law. An electrode voltage is created when a conductive liquid pass through the flowmeter’s magnetic field. This eliminates any blockages...
Trade Contractor Health and Safety Bulletin
From this contractors safety leadership team meeting it was raised that communication was an area to be improved by those on site, especially in relation to sharing best practice initiatives and the responsibilities of each of the trade contractors. It was also suggested that they promote best practice amongst trade contractors by sharing toolbox talk resources and training information. Their...
Rebate Funded Complimentary Training
HSS Training has worked with the contractor and have implemented complementary training across several of this contractors projects in the UK and as such a bespoke commercial agreement was established to support this proposition. Additionally, they had the support from the client, to reserve the rebate funds to enhance onsite training for their operatives improving general training on subjects that...
Minimising Impact on Infrastructure
To minimise the projects impact on the local infrastructure network several initiatives have been developed. The team have engaged Transport for London to understand the impact that the development is having on the number of people travelling via public transport to the project. The collaboration in the sharing of data is being used to help inform project policy regarding alternate...
Large Scale Food Bank Initiative
Working in collaboration across the project, the contractor has worked with their client and trade contractors to launch a large scale foodbank initiative. The intention of this drive is to accumulate a substantial donation for their local foodbank to ease food insecurity for local families. To ensure the initiative is widely applied, the project has launched two donation mechanisms. The...
Synchro – Logistics and Supply Chain Excellence
Due to the multiphase nature and multiple access points of this project, logistics is a key challenge. The team examined different perspectives on logistics challenges and looked to learn from other industries, engaging with automotive software provider – Inform. Working with them and supply chain partners they developed a piece of software that addressed constraints associated with traditional delivery management...
Collaboration and Innovation Working Group
The project team work across their project to hold regular meetings with the contractor, the client and the Project Directors of their most engaged trade contractors to discuss specifically the Considerate Constructors Scheme. Not only do they consider how they can implement innovations and best practice shared on the hub, but they also research and raise ideas for potential new...
Inclusive Workforce Board Game
This contractor has implemented an inclusion workshop featuring the interactive board game ‘Equally Yours’ on their projects. The game required participation from 24 volunteers which were split into two groups of 12 with the session held on Microsoft Teams. Participants included staff from various disciplines to ensure that the participants accurately represented the team. Launching in conjunction with International Women’s...
