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…
Collaborating with our partners to create a clucking great new home
We’re always looking for ways to support the communities we work in. Our Highways team came together with our partner Jackson Civil Engineering; who we work with to help maintain the M25 network to support the chickens at Sunnyside Rural trust, a charity in Hertfordshire that trains people with learning disabilities how to produce and…
Learn, Grow and Thrive – University of Portsmouth Award
We’re delighted to have presented the Octavius Prize to Elena Potts who is currently studying at University of Portsmouth for a Degree in Civil Engineering. Elena achieved this award as she is known to be a great student and achieved excellent marks in one of her degree modules in the first year of university. Outside…
Shortlisted for Rail Wellbeing Hero Award
Congratulations to Amy Marlow, Project Co-ordinator who has been shortlisted for the Wellbeing Hero Award which is part of Network Rail’s Rail Wellbeing Live event that is taking place in November. Amy has been recognised for going that extra mile to promote and deliver health and wellbeing support across the business as she single-handedly administers…
Safer working with National Highways – October updates
The latest edition of the Highways Safety Hub newsletter is now available. To access the document click the image on the right or the link below. Highways safety newsletter – October 2023 This edition features many useful links, alerts and updates across the industry. This months there are interesting articles reducing noise exposure, a new…
Improvement Opportunities (IO) – October 2023
September statistics During the month of September it’s great to see the level of engagement with the IO system continue. Our suppliers contributed to over 6% of the overall IO’s raised during the month. There were many good IOs raised which were likely to have prevented accidents or incidents occurring. However, there was a decrease…
SHEA statistics – September 2023
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High winds warning
The Met Office continue to issue several red and amber warnings for high winds and heavy rain across several parts of England, warning of widespread impact on people’s lives. With more high winds forecast over the Winter months ensure that you maintain on-going checks on your sites to make sure that these winds do not…
Thrive Reports – September 2023
Trowbridge installation milestone keeps everyone safe
Looking after our lineside neighbours to safely complete significant milestone Preserving through several challenges our colleagues working at Trowbridge, a single span overbridge in the town of Bradford-on-Avon, have reached a significant milestone following safely installing delivering programme critical works over a weekend possession. They finished on time and ensured minimal disruption to our lineside…
October
Cables now hazardous waste Fitting JCB 2CX or 3CX Breaker Locking Pin Enerpac Stressing Equipment Incident Auger Lifting High Potenital incident