Looking after the community in Hinxton

Ahead of completing completing final elements and demobilising at our latest modular car park in Hinxton colleagues joined our customer, Urban & Civic’s community day to carry out a variety of community improvement works around the local church that is close to our site at Wellcome Genome Centre. Together with colleagues from Urban and Civic,…

Helping everyone go home safely and feel included

To further enhance our safetyperformance and inclusive culture we have launched two new STOPThink! modules to ensure Octavius is a safe and great place for everyone to work, where everyone feels included and cared for. The introduction of STOPThink! My Safety Leadership and STOPThink! Equality, Diversity & Inclusion modules marks a significant step forward in…

Watch how we create modular car parks!

We’re delighted to share our first ever film about our modular  Car Parks, please do check it out and let us know what you think! Did you know that we design and build innovative foundation less carpark solution in collaboration with Siderpark? The Italian modular steel framed design provides a quick, efficient and cost-effective solution…

Clophill football

Our Framework Manager Jon Millar and Managing Quantity Surveyor Jamie Rafferty of our Highways team arranged and organised a charity football match between a team of Octavius’ finest and one of our suppliers, Environ who are are working with us on Clophill Roundabout. The event was held at Conroys Ringcraft Boxing Gym close to the…

Safe and assured delivery at London Bridge Station

Congestion relief works designed and delivered within four months Congratulations to our Rail Services team for safely and successfully delivering several emergency activities at London Bridge Station to help ease congestion at the busy station, all works were designed and installed within just four months. Over several possessions the team installed keep clear yellow hatchings…

We’ve won a Green Apple Award!

We’re delighted to share that the One Team Wessex working on Gomshall Rock Cutting Renewals for Network Rail have been awarded a Gold Green Apple Award, recognising their excellent Environmental Best Practice in creating a linear artificial badger sett during the works. Through close collaboration with ecologists, landscaping teams and our designers a proposal to…

September’s campaign – Inclusion

September ’s Health and Wellbeing focus is inclusion. At Octavius, we want to be an inclusive and great place for everyone to work, so this earlier this year we launched our approach to Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (ED&I) including how we support diverse talent acquisition and retention. We willingly and enthusiastically embrace and celebrate our differences – in experiences, backgrounds,…

Supporting your health and wellbeing 24/7

Our partner The Lighthouse Construction Charity have released out their latest “Hard Hat Heads update” providing some excellent guidance and support available to everyone across the construction industry. This edition focuses on World Suicide Prevention Month, World Mental Health Day, helping to manage your finances especially in the run up to Christmas and free training…