SHEQWs Newsletter November

3. CDM Training
Last month 28 HSE inspectors visited
Mogden STW as part of an in-house
training course on CDM. The inspectors,
either new to HSE or Construction
Division, attended a day long workshop
that looked at the practical application
of the regulations from the viewpoint
of the Client, Principle Designer and
Principle Contractor. The day also
included presentations on CBS and
various forms of contract.
4. Success at the NJUG Utility Awards at the Houses of
Parliament- Sustainable Methods & Materials Award!
Last month saw eight2O (Utilities and Civils Thames Water Contract) walk away with a top
prize from the Houses of Parliament – the NJUG Award for Sustainable Methods and Materials.
Going up against Morrison Utility Services and the Kelly Group, the eight2O team scooped the
accolade for achieving sustainable construction.
The award was won due to eight2O’s street works team’s dedication to using several sustainable
methods during design and construction – including hydraulic modelling and BIM, nonintrusive
surveying techniques, trench sharing with other utility works, vacuum excavation and
paperless works management systems. This covered works including Pressure Management,
Mains Replacement, AMP4 Rollover, Motcomb Street and Blythe Road.
Two other eight2o projects were also runners up; Swiss Cottage Trunk Main Replacement for
their work at minimising disruption and Hatton Garden for their work at keeping the public fully
informed.
Congratulations to
all those involved in
winning this prestigious
NJUG Award!
Community Engagement Project
Ashton Keynes Primary School
Overview
Whilst installing a new plant
in the Cotswolds, an eight2o
site team wanted to give
something back to the local
area. Ashton Keynes Primary
School was local and so Barry
Airey (General Foreman) and
Jonathan New (Graduate
Civil Engineer) visited and
discovered they needed
support.
1.Enhancing a Memory
Garden
The school had a dedicated
area to a pupil who had
passed away. It had become
a bit of a reflective area for
the children, but was in a
sorry state.
The unwanted pampas grass
was swiftly removed, but to
truly redevelop the area a bit
more love and attention was
required. A solar powered
water feature was selected,
along with plants and
pebbles to smarten up the
area. The school now hope
to use this area to highlight
sustainable energy and so we
purchased a blackboard and
recycled plastic benches for
them.
The site team are also
engaging with the pupils
via educational assembly’s
to talk about sustainable
energy and to help the pupils
find out about recycling and
material reuse.
2.Bug Hotel & Bird Houses
The school take part in
‘forest schools sessions’ and
are working to complete
an Eco-award. This involves
running weekly outdoor
activities as part of their
curriculum, as a method
of learning about the
environment. As part the of
this they asked if eight2O
would be able to a deliver
an environmental related
activity.
From this, Ali Thomas
(Environmental Advisor) led
an activity to build a bug hotel
with a group of pupils. With
the help of the site teams and
her van driver Dave Wass, a
range of site materials were
collected, including pallets,
bricks, pipes, old wellies,
redundant lifting straps and
cardboard. Even breathalysing
tubes from eight2O inductions
were sterilised and reused.
Additionally pupils bought in
recycled materials from home
including twigs, fir cones, milk
bottles and plant pots. Even old
wellies were transformed into
luxury recycled bird houses that
were hung on trees located near
to the bug hotel.
Adding to this, a short talk on
garden wildlife owing to the
presence of pipistrelle bats
and great crested newts on the
school grounds was given and
the pupils asked on who they
thought would live in a house
like this…
Want to do something similar? … contact your Environmental Advisor
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