26 July 2016 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal Incentive FM has been awarded a £2 million, three-year contract to provide security and cleaning at Angel Central Shopping Centre in Islington, London. Under the conditions of the agreement, which was awarded by property company CBRE, Incentive FM will be responsible for
Skilled engineering graduates are essential to Bsria and the industry workforce of tomorrow. The construction sector’s demand for suitable skilled workers is paramount. However, it’s clear A Levels, TechBacc programmes and apprenticeships are all vital. Julia Evans, chief executive, Bsria, said: “Bsria is encouraged that there has
London-based landlord, Duran Akbulut, was given an eight week suspended sentence for gas safety failings. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how Duran Akbulut had failed to have a gas boiler checked for safety by a suitably qualified engineer and obtain the necessary safety certificate from the Gas Safe Register. The boiler
The Midas Group has announced a significant new appointment to its senior management team to continue the company’s expansion in the South East of England. Peter Whitmore has joined Midas, one of the largest independent construction companies in the UK, in the role of Divisional Director for the Southern region.
Britcon has been awarded a contract worth £280,000 in order to carry out work on the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield. The Building and civil engineering company has been given the contract on behalf of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust. A team from the civils department at Britcon have been
Typical British summertime weather dictates that we, as a nation, plan summer event all the while setting up contingencies in case the weather turns rainy. Wimbledon is one of the Great British summer sporting events that can be affected by such turns in the weather. However with the finals being
BAM Western has announced that they have selected Biosite to carry out standardised access control and workforce management. Bioforce has been awarded the contract following a comprehensive and competitive tender process. Biosite will be working to offer standardised access control solutions for BAM Western across their construction sites in the
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Thursday 1 September) announced the shortlist for the 2016 Stephen Lawrence Prize. The prize, set up in memory of the teenager who was setting out on the road to becoming an architect when he was murdered in 1993, and supported by
Book Course HSL is to run a 2 day course on Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS). 12-13 April 2016 Introduction Research commissioned by HSE suggests over 1 million people continue to be exposed to high levels of vibration in the workplace. The Control of Vibration at Work Regulations came into
Premier League properties see game changing price rise The latest analysis from Purplebricks has shown that homeowners living near Stoke’s showcase football stadium are cheering a 22% boom in the value of their property. Despite the Midlands-based Premier League team suffering a stuttering start to the season, houses in the
26 July 2016 | Herpreet Kaur Grewal Incentive FM has been awarded a £2 million, three-year contract to provide security and cleaning at Angel Central Shopping Centre in Islington, London. Under the conditions of the agreement, which was awarded by property company CBRE, Incentive FM will be responsible for all cleaning and security at the 150,000 square foot open-air shopping centre, which also has a late-night music venue and a number of restaurants. A team of six cleaners will operate seven days a week from 5am-11pm to deliver cleaning services and the 12-strong security team will operate 24/7 providing manned guarding and management of the security control room. Key security challenges include the fact that this is an open scheme centre with three different entrances on Liverpool Road, Upper Street and Park Street and the O2 Academy attracts a late-night crowd. Source link
Skilled engineering graduates are essential to Bsria and the industry workforce of tomorrow. The construction sector’s demand for suitable skilled workers is paramount. However, it’s clear A Levels, TechBacc programmes and apprenticeships are all vital. Julia Evans, chief executive, Bsria, said: “Bsria is encouraged that there has been an increase in students taking maths over arts subjects. Learning the STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects forms the building blocks of a career in engineering and construction. Lose this and you lose the very foundation of this discipline. Our economy relies on students progressing to engineering. Bsria acknowledges the hard work and achievement of those receiving their A Level and AS Level results and congratulates all students for their grades. All of which is good news for the science subjects and the future of engineering. It was especially encouraging to see applications to study chemical engineering at university have increased this year – applications to study this at the University of Bath shot up by 50% this year – with computer science courses also high in demand. A record number of students have got into university overall too which is excellent news.” Source link
London-based landlord, Duran Akbulut, was given an eight week suspended sentence for gas safety failings. Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard how Duran Akbulut had failed to have a gas boiler checked for safety by a suitably qualified engineer and obtain the necessary safety certificate from the Gas Safe Register. The boiler was in a property that was being let out to a tenant who raised concerns about a carbon monoxide leak and the National Grid switched off the gas supply. The tenant made a complaint to the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Duran Akbulut of Kingshill Avenue, Kenton, London, pleaded guilty to breaching Regulation 36(3) of the Gas Safety (Installation and Use) Regulations 1998 and was given an eight week prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, was ordered to pay £80 victim surcharge and contribute £300 in costs to HSE. HSE inspector, Neil Fry said: “It is the duty of landlords to ensure gas safety checks are carried out to protect tenants from the fatal risk of carbon monoxide poisoning.” For further information on Gas safety visit: http://www.hse.gov.uk/gas/landlords/index.htm Notes to Editors: The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is Britain’s national regulator for workplace health and safety. It aims to reduce work-related death, injury and ill health. It does so through research, information and advice, promoting training; new or revised regulations and codes of practice, and working with local authority partners by inspection, investigation and enforcement. www.hse.gov.uk More about the legislation referred to in this case can be found at: www.legislation.gov.uk/ and guidance at HSE news releases are available at http://press.hse.gov.uk Journalists should approach HSE press office with any queries on regional press releases. Source link
The Midas Group has announced a significant new appointment to its senior management team to continue the company’s expansion in the South East of England. Peter Whitmore has joined Midas, one of the largest independent construction companies in the UK, in the role of Divisional Director for the Southern region. He will be based at the company’s regional head office, near Southampton, and will continue to drive the company’s highly successful Southern division, where Midas first opened a regional office in 2008. Peter has more than 25 years’ experience within the construction industry. He joins the company having previously held the role of Business Unit Director for Wates in the South and South West. He has also held a number of senior leadership roles with Morgan Sindall. Peter takes over the reins from Paul Strachan, who has become Divisional Director for Midas in the South East, with a focus on extending Midas’s activities further across the South East region – including establishing a new regional headquarters. Midas has experienced strong growth over recent years across the South East and the company is already delivering on several major developments in the region, including large schemes in New Malden and Seaford, near Brighton Alan Hope, Chief Executive of The Midas Group, said: “This appointment is a significant move for Midas. Peter will play a crucial role in the continued growth of Midas in the South, with the target of reaching a £100m turnover per annum in the region. With improving market conditions and a reputation built on delivering industry leading customer service and performance, this is an exciting time for Midas.” Peter Whitmore said: “I’m delighted to be joining Midas, one of the UK’s largest and most successful independent construction companies. There are significant opportunities for the group in the South and South East and I look forward to working with Alan and Paul to build on the success that Midas has already achieved in the region over recent years.”
Britcon has been awarded a contract worth £280,000 in order to carry out work on the Northern General Hospital in Sheffield. The Building and civil engineering company has been given the contract on behalf of the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust. A team from the civils department at Britcon have been contracted to carry out work to widen Barnsley Road in order to make it three laned. The work included in the contract also covers the improvement of a number of different pedestrian facilities. These pedestrian facilities that are in need of improvement is the lighting in the area and the bus stops along Barnsley Road. The work that will be carried out on Barnsley road by the building and civil engineering company will be the second contract that Britcon has carried out for Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust. Last year Britcon managed to secure a place on their Contractors’ Framework, and since then has already completed a £700,000 contract for the Trust that involved extending the parking facilities at the Northern General and The Jessop Wing. This second contract will have a number of challenges to overcome in order to be delivers successfully, one of these is the hospital operating 24 hours a day. Britcon has said that in order to overcome this they are working with the hospital in order to look for the most efficient way to accommodate both public and critical ambulance access to the hospital and other routes in the area. Britcon are hoping that the project will be completed in just 18 weeks, an ambitious schedule but one that should be able to accommodate the environment while carrying out the work. The Contractors’ Framework that has been set up by Sheffield Teaching Hospitals Trust will be investing millions of pounds in order to improve a range of hospital facilities over the course of the next five years.
Typical British summertime weather dictates that we, as a nation, plan summer event all the while setting up contingencies in case the weather turns rainy. Wimbledon is one of the Great British summer sporting events that can be affected by such turns in the weather. However with the finals being played last weekend and looking back on the two week tournament, the weather seemed to behave this time round. However when the bad weather does strike at the tournament, players on Centre Court have the protection of Barnshaws Section Benders Ltd’s retracting roof. The roof on Centre Court has been in place since 2009, after Barnshaws were involved with the design and installation of the 1,000 tonne roof. The roof was delivered by Barnshaws in large curved sections before being installed to become the 77 meter long fixture that it is today. Due to its size, additional strengthening work was needed. Each of the trusses that were required in order to form the roof weighed 70 tonnes and were bent to very strict requirements because of the restrictive installation margins. The roof needed to be balanced, as with the addition of lights and electrics such as motors and locking arms each truss reached 100 tonnes. There were 66 individual curved sections fabricated and then assembled at Watson Steel Structures before being delivered to the construction site. Following the success of the Centre Court Project, when the decision was made to add a roof on to Court No.1, Barnshaws must have been the obvious choice to carry out the work. This new roof will be created from similar steel sections and is expected to be completed by 2019. Hen this is completed it means that there will be two courts able to continue play when the bad weather strikes, as it no doubt will, at future Wimbledon tournaments.
BAM Western has announced that they have selected Biosite to carry out standardised access control and workforce management. Bioforce has been awarded the contract following a comprehensive and competitive tender process. Biosite will be working to offer standardised access control solutions for BAM Western across their construction sites in the region. There was a rigorous selection process put in place by BAM in order to choose their partner. Bam Plant has already developed a stable partnership with Biosite and although a number of other companies were invited by BAM to demonstrate their access management systems, Biosite was chosen as the best to suit BAM’s needs. All of the companies that demonstrated their systems were scored by the decision makers at BAM Western for their service support, Software, hardware, reports, future development, ease of use, support, security and cost. Biosite will be delivering to BAM’s construction sites biometric site access, security and workforce management solutions for sites in the Western region of the country. Biosites already established relationship with BAM Plant was another supporting factor for choosing Biosite. BAM Western and Biosite are committed to improving the training of apprentices and those that were previously unemployed. With this shared ideal and the use of the access management systems that will be installed by Biosite, capture and analysis information will be available for operatives and site performances. This is a vital part of helping apprentices and trainees improve as well as monitoring who has access to the site and the record of how long is spent on site. By having easy access to this information, BAM Western will be able to set more and more ambitious targets for themselves in order to get more individuals trained. Hopefully this expansion of the partnership between BAM and Biosite will lead to more partnership work taking place in the future.
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today (Thursday 1 September) announced the shortlist for the 2016 Stephen Lawrence Prize. The prize, set up in memory of the teenager who was setting out on the road to becoming an architect when he was murdered in 1993, and supported by the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, is intended to encourage fresh architecture talent and reward the best examples of projects that have a construction budget of less than £1 million. A mobile artist’s studio, a prototype for innovative affordable housing and a house that blends Japanese and British design are just some of the projects on this year’s shortlist. The full shortlist is: Exhibition Mews, Hampshire by Ash Sakula Architects House of Trace, London by Tsuruta Architects Mellor Primary School, Stockport by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects Modern Side Extension, London by Coffey Architects The Observatory, Hampshire by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Tin House, London by Henning Stummel Architects The winner of the 2016 Stephen Lawrence Prize will be announced at the RIBA Stirling Prize party on 6 October at the RIBA in central London. The Stephen Lawrence Prize judges are: Marco Goldschmied, RIBA Past President and Founder of the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, which established the RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize in 1998; Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, Doreen Lawrence CBE, mother of Stephen Lawrence; and Niall McLaughlin, founder of Niall McLaughlin Architects, winner of the 2015 Stephen Lawrence Prize. The Architects’ Journal is media partner for the RIBA awards, including the Stephen Lawrence Prize, and professional media partner for the RIBA Stirling Prize. The RIBA Stirling Prize is sponsored by Almacantar. ENDS Notes to editors: 1. For further press information and images please contact Callum Reilly in the RIBA Press Office callum.reilly@riba.org or 020 7307 3757 2. Previous winners of the Stephen Lawrence Prize include The Fishing Hut by Niall McLaughlin Architects (2015); House No 7 by Denizen Works (2014); Montpelier Community Nursery by AY Architects (2013); Kings Grove by Duggan Morris Architects (2012); and St Patrick’s Primary School Library and Music Room by Coffey Architects (2011). 3. The Royal Institute of British Architects (@RIBA) is a global professional membership body that serves its members and society in order to deliver better buildings and places, stronger communities and a sustainable environment. www.architecture.com 4. Almacantar is a property investment and development company specialising in large-scale, complex investments in Central London, with the potential to create long-term value through development, repositioning or active asset management. Since launching in 2010, Almacantar has acquired a number of prime assets with untapped potential in the heart of London, including: Centre Point, Marble Arch Tower, CAA House, 125 Shaftesbury Avenue and One and Two South Bank Place. www.almacantar.com For further information please contact: Finsbury +44 (0)20 7251 3801 Faeth Birch 5. For more information on The Architects’ Journal visit www.architectsjournal.co.uk Posted on Thursday 1st September 2016 Source link
Book Course HSL is to run a 2 day course on Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS). 12-13 April 2016 Introduction Research commissioned by HSE suggests over 1 million people continue to be exposed to high levels of vibration in the workplace. The Control of Vibration at Work Regulations came into force in the UK in 2005. HSE’s Guidance on the Regulations requires all occupational health professionals to undergo training in the recognition and management of workers with hand-arm vibration syndrome. The syllabus for the training and the quality of training is overseen by the Faculty of Occupational Medicine. The HAVS assessment unit opened in Sheffield in 1998 before moving to Buxton and has performed assessments on over 9000 workers. Two day training courses have been running at Buxton for 11 years and demand for them is now so great that there are four courses per year. So as to provide more individual teaching and small group sizes for the parallel sessions delegate numbers are limited to 26 per course. One day refresher courses are also available for accredited specialists in occupational medicine or for those who have been on a two day course. Scientists at HSL have conducted several HSE-funded research projects into HAVS as well as studies on disability caused by hand-transmitted vibration. In 2004, HSL published a systematic review and guidance on the use of objective testing for HAVS which was commissioned by the Faculty of Occupational Medicine. Recent research includes the relationship between clinical and standardised tests and the use of magnetic resonance angiography in vascular HAVS. This comprehensive and highly rated course is designed for occupational health nurses, occupational physicians, GPs with an interest in occupational health and hand surgeons. It will set out the key areas of HAVS assessment and provide guidance on how to examine and manage cases of HAVS. Time has been set aside for question and answer sessions. Please note when booking this course you will be required to quote your NMCor GMC number. At the end of the course there will be an assessment and those who are successful will receive a certificate from the Faculty of Occupational Medicine (FOM). The course will cover: Legal requirements; Calculation of cumulative vibration exposure Risk assessment; Pathophysiology; Control of vibration exposure; Clinical examination; Standardised clinical and laboratory tests; Tier 1 to 5 health surveillance; Diagnosis; Case management. Health record and medical report writing Presenters include: • Mr Paul Pitts is HSL’s noise & vibration technical lead. • Ms Sue Hewitt is a senior scientist in the Noise & Vibration Unit at HSL. • Dr Howard Mason, Principal Scientist at HSL and co-author of the FOM HAVS review • Dr Jon Poole MD FRCP FFOM is an accredited consultant occupational physician with a joint appointment at HSL and the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Venue The course will be run at the HSL laboratory in the spa town of Buxton. Buxton is in the heart of the Peak District and has good links to mainline train stations and Manchester International Airport. Details of hotels in the Buxton area can be found at www.visitbuxton.co.uk Cost The cost of this two-day course is £735 per person (to include course notes, lunches and dinner at a restaurant in Buxton on the first night ). Please note that this fee now includes the FOM certificate. Book Course Please note the invoice option is not available within 4 weeks of the course date, or for overseas customers. For further dates and additional information email: training@hsl.gsi.gov.uk or contact the Training & Conferences Unit at HSL directly on +44 (0)1298 218806. Back to Health & Safety Training Courses Source link
Premier League properties see game changing price rise The latest analysis from Purplebricks has shown that homeowners living near Stoke’s showcase football stadium are cheering a 22% boom in the value of their property. Despite the Midlands-based Premier League team suffering a stuttering start to the season, houses in the same postcode area as the Britannia arena are top of the table when it comes to their value rising in the past 12 months. Overall, the price of property located near major football stadiums jumped 8.7% – from £284,970 to £309,870 – compared to this time last year, the equivalent of a £480 per week increase. The UK national average property price is £216,750. The study from the UK’s third largest estate agent shows of the London clubs, Tottenham came top, with prices up 12.1%, followed by Chelsea at 10.9%, then Arsenal 10.1%, and West Ham, 9.4%. In Manchester the honours go to those near Old Trafford, where property values were up 4.8%, beating neighbours at Manchester City’s ground, who saw a smaller 2.4% increase. Owners in the shadow of surprise Premier League champions Leicester’s King Power Stadium saw an increase of 7.5%. Southampton was up by 7.7%. The one area where property prices buck the soaring trend was Liverpool, down 6.41% on the year as the area awaits a massive redevelopment around the famous Anfield ground. A comparison over the last 15 years using Land Registry figures showed the price of property near the major sporting venues has gone up two and a half fold and risen by 10 per cent more than the national average over the same period. The impact glamorous new stadia can have on surrounding homes is shown dramatically following the building of Manchester City’s 55,000 seater Etihad stadium, which was constructed for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. Before it was finished a home could be bought for an average of just £20,378, now it would cost £156,092, a staggering rise of 665%. While the Anfield area in Liverpool may be awaiting the bulldozers, over the past 15 years, house prices there have risen by 277%. Stoke is up 215% while West Ham in the East End of London has seen the biggest overall rise in the capital of 181%, as people move away from the centre. Michael Bruce, CEO, Purplebricks said: “Football stadiums generally used to be in run-down areas of a city, often cramped between back streets, whereas most are now sited in areas which have undergone major redevelopment and boast new transport links, attractive new amenities, shops and bars. This has been reflected in house prices, which are consistently higher than those in neighbouring locations. Our data proves that living near to your favourite club makes good financial sense – and it’s also handy for home games, too.” Join our mailing list: Source link