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