Team Of The Year For Social Value
Our Scheme Delivery Framework team (SDF) alongside the wider Yorkshire North East Highways Community have won a Highways UK Excellence Award in the Team Of The Year Category. The award recognises the remarkable collaborative efforts of all 35 supply chain partners to support the local community and leave a lasting legacy whilst working to renew…
Giving back to the community up North
Members of our Scheme Delivery Framework working in the North West to renew and enhance major roads came together with our supply chain partners, members of the public from the local community and local charities to help transform an empty outdoor space at Eskdale house into a thriving green vegetable patch. In just a few days…
Revitalising the 182-year old Ouse Valley Viaduct
Our team have been spotted on the news Click the image to watch stunning drone footage Great progress has been made by our Rail Services team working to renew and restore the stunning Ouse Valley Viaduct; which carries the London-Brighton Railway Line over the River Ouse in Sussex back to its former glory. The 450-metre-long…
Glenferness Avenue footbridge installed over two hours early to delight our customer
Public footbridge lifted and installed successfully over a weekend. In just 27 hours over one weekend possession our R&W team completed the removal of the original 55 tonne Glenferness Avenue footbridge in Bournemouth; which crosses the Brighton Mainline 2 railway line and the fabrication and installation of two new footbridges for our client BCP Council….
Your health and wellbeing is important to us – Rail Wellbeing Live is only one week away
Rail Wellbeing Live, the industry’s largest FREE health and wellbeing event will be taking place over three days on 7-9 November; with the sole purpose of improving the mental and physical health of the people who work across our industry. Inspirational speakers including Sir Steve Redgrave, Dr Alex George and Davina McCall will be sharing…
Assured and safe delivery of multi-disciplinary works on Kingsmead Viaduct
A huge congratulations to our Hertfordshire Framework team who successfully completed seven weeks of extensive maintenance, inspection and repair works to the Kingsmead Viaduct, in Hertfordshire. All works were completed on time and to scope for our customer, Hertfordshire County Council. The raised 750 metre long dual-carriageway viaduct carries the A10 over the River Lea,…
Fight fatigue this winter
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Greener car parking for Wellcome Genome Campus
We’re thrilled to unveil our latest state of the art modular car park that we’ve been working on since March at the Wellcome Genome Campus, in collaboration with SiderPark. The existing car park has been transformed into a singular deck car park without requiring foundations. Every part of the design and installation has been meticulously…
Cancer awareness
October’s Health and Wellbeing focus is Cancer. Cancer is caused by damage to our DNA, the chemical instructions that tell our cells what to do. Our DNA can be damaged by the things we come into contact with such as UV rays, or through our lifestyle choices, such as the cancer-causing chemicals in tobacco. Damage…
Disposing of vapes safely
Disposable vapes are powered by batteries which are made from lithium. Over 10 tonnes of lithium were thrown out with disposable vapes in the UK last year (Greenpeace), enough to power 1200 electric car batteries. There has been an increase in disposable vapes being discarded across the railway infrastructure which prevents the following hazards: Fire…
Highways Award Winners
We’re delighted to share that our Gade Valley Project in partnership with Connect Plus has won a National Highways Award in the “Major Project of the Year” category. The award recognises the excellent collaboration over 6 years to repair and strengthen Gade Valley Viaduct, which is by junction 20 of the M25. A huge well…
Prevent over processing using Lean
Our Lean Waste Identification dashboard has been updated on the Lean Launch Pad. This month over processing was leading ahead due to people just not storing things in the right place in the first place causing double handling and the potential to cause defects to the materials. Over processing in Lean manufacturing refers to the…