REL was established more than 60 years ago and is a family-owned business who works to provide mechanical and electrical packages for clients who are a part of the industrial, commercial, leisure, educational and residential sectors. The company has completed a major electrical contract for a new college at the
GD Harries, the haulage, civil engineering and aggregates contractor located in West Wales has announced that they have completed an unusual and demanding project. The company was contracted to supply and deliver around 15,060 tonnes of granite to the Hinkley Point C nuclear reactor which is located in Somerset. The
Cubis Systems, the manufacturer of bespoke access cover has announced that they have introduced the new Upstand steel access cover to their Citadel range. This new product offering has been developed in order for the company to meet the requirements of the Loss Prevention Certification Board, or LPCB security Level
The Chief Executive of Hesco has identified the challenges that are faced by planners that seek to adopt an integrated approach to tackle the threat that terrorist attacks could pose. Michael Hughes, was speaking on the topic at the UK Security Expo 2017 which took place at Olympia where civil
BSP Consulting, the civil and structural engineering company based in the East Midlands have been celebrating their ten-year anniversary. It has been a decade since the company opened their Leicester office on De Montfort Street. This Leicester office was the third to be opened by the group. Since moving to
Hampshire-based R Collard Ltd has taken delivery of the first demolition specified Volvo EC750E to be sold in Great Britain. Managing director Robert Collard said that the choice of Volvo was mainly down to its availability for the start of the contract, but it has worked out well. “We were
Nottingham Trent University has unveiled their completed multi-million-pound science facility. The Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Center, or ISTeC, is facility that is located at the University’s Clifton campus and will offer state-of-the-art facilities for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as other research scientists. The new two-storey building has been
The development of new and sustainable energy types which are increasingly being focused on as the availability of fossil fuels diminishes rapidly. Beele Engineering wants to make sure that they continue to play a vital role as a part of these markets. In the wind energy market, the company’s products
The groundworks and civil engineering company, M. Lambe Construction have announced that they will be strengthening their apprenticeship scheme. This improvement will be made with an investment by the company in Premier Training Centre. This training centre has been created in collaboration with Thoughts of Others, who is a respected
The groundworks and civil engineering company, M. Lambe Construction have announced that they will be strengthening their apprenticeship scheme. This improvement will be made with an investment by the company in Premier Training Centre. This training centre has been created in collaboration with Thoughts of Others, who is a respected
REL was established more than 60 years ago and is a family-owned business who works to provide mechanical and electrical packages for clients who are a part of the industrial, commercial, leisure, educational and residential sectors. The company has completed a major electrical contract for a new college at the Ebury Centre which is located in London. The contract has been competed by REL on behalf of Bouygues UK. The M&E contractor have delivered the £1.5 million contract which forms a part of the £35 million mixed use scheme which is being constructed in London. The project has been designed by Sheppard Robson and is being built by Bouygues UK for the development company Linkcity. The Ebury Centre will merge educational facilities with the provision of a 10 storey residential development. The construction is taking place on a site next to the Ebury Bridge in London. REL’s involvement on this project consisted of the installation of the electrical services at the new 5,200 sq. m. University Technical College. The new facility will deliver the space for 550 pupils and also includes workshops that can be used for engineering as well as a gym and sports facilities and a large outdoor terrace. Kershaw Mechanical Services awarded the electrical services contract to REL, and the two companies worked together in the past to install lighting, security systems and access control as well as 120 solar panels on the roof of the development. The work that was specified as part of this Ebury contract was offered on a tight schedule, however, REL managed to successfully deliver the project within 10 months. The company had to make sure that the electrical elements that were installed met the high environmental targets that had been laid out by the UTC and have also been designed in order to meet the BREEAM Excellent Standard.
GD Harries, the haulage, civil engineering and aggregates contractor located in West Wales has announced that they have completed an unusual and demanding project. The company was contracted to supply and deliver around 15,060 tonnes of granite to the Hinkley Point C nuclear reactor which is located in Somerset. The company has selected to complete this contract following a range of chemical analysis which showed that the rock that has been sourced from one of their six West Wales quarries had the strength and durability that was required by the contractors for the Nuclear project to protect the plant’s seawall. The granite is being used at Hinkley Point C as rock armour and will form the first line of defence from the sea for the reactor. GD Harries was also ideally located to supply and deliver the products needed at the developing nuclear plant. This is because the haulage, civil engineering and aggregates company is located close to Pembroke Port, from which they are able to transport the rock by barge to any coastal location in the UK and beyond. This particular order was unusual for GD Harries because of the size and amount of granite that was required for the sea defence. The company saw this contract as an opportunity to supply and deliver a larger scale rock armour that they ever have before. Speaking about this particular contract, the production manager at GD Harries, Gareth Phillips has said the delivery of up to 15 tonne pieces of granite allowed the company to be able to prove to contractors that they are able to meet larger orders, putting them in a stronger position for other similar sized projects in the future. In order to complete the contract, the company needed to use a range of innovative solutions in terms of what equipment was used and the cutting techniques used.
Cubis Systems, the manufacturer of bespoke access cover has announced that they have introduced the new Upstand steel access cover to their Citadel range. This new product offering has been developed in order for the company to meet the requirements of the Loss Prevention Certification Board, or LPCB security Level 4. The product will offer support for utility providers that are looking to meet the regulatory standards in order to help to protect national infrastructure. The LPCB has certified that the solutions that have been manufactured by the bespoke access cover company as meeting the LPS 1175: Issue 7 for Level 4 security. This certification means that the covers that are offered by Cubis Systems have been extensively tested and proven in order to withstand an attack from a wide range of tools. The new Upstand steel access covers have been created from a minimum of 4mm thick structural steel plate which have then been hot dip galvanised in order to meet the requirements for the BS EN ISO 1461. This process also offers a superior galvanising finish which can be added to give a 100 to 140-micron zinc coating in order to offer additional longevity in a range of aggressive environments. The protection of the national infrastructure from contamination and vandalism is a core priority for governments and utility companies. In order to achieve this, every site needs to be assessed before an access cover can be selected. The upstand covers are mainly used over potable water, and therefore found on reservoirs and in rural areas. The upstand covers feature the capability in order to incorporate a magnetic proxy alarm that will be able to work alongside any system in order to suit the customer’s alarm specifications. ON top of this the bespoke covers are able to easily accommodate the LPCB approved padlocks, including the Abloy PL324 and the Abloy PL350/25.
The Chief Executive of Hesco has identified the challenges that are faced by planners that seek to adopt an integrated approach to tackle the threat that terrorist attacks could pose. Michael Hughes, was speaking on the topic at the UK Security Expo 2017 which took place at Olympia where civil and military planners will be able to share the best practice and the latest technologies. The integrated approach to tackle these threats are being explored with the aim of making city and town centres safe while still being open. Mr. Hughes has said that there is a dual threat to civic protection as terrorist groups are looking to encourage their activists to cause mayhem, using low-tech equipment such as driving a heavy vehicle at crowds, while also requiring vigilance at leisure and commercial venues in order to prevent attacks from suicide bombers. The civic planners face a range of threats, all in different guises. While working to identify the threats they are also under commercial pressure to ensure that civic centres still remain open and vibrant in order to deliver a successful enterprise. This is added on to the economic pressures that they have to deal with and the provision of effective protection can be extremely difficult. It is vital that planners must maintain a high level of security in the areas which are most likely to be targets, where large numbers of people gather for work, leisure and education. Conducting regular searches of people will be a vital step towards improving safety however it would be impossible to check every van or lorry in order to anticipate when it will change gear and turn from a mundane transportation device into a deadly weapon. In these instances, the installation of a perimeter of security around venues will offer peace of mind and confidence to planners and people that they will be protecting.
BSP Consulting, the civil and structural engineering company based in the East Midlands have been celebrating their ten-year anniversary. It has been a decade since the company opened their Leicester office on De Montfort Street. This Leicester office was the third to be opened by the group. Since moving to Leicester, BSP Consulting has moved to larger premises in order to cater for the increasing demand for their services in the area. The larger location is twice the size of their original De Montfort premises, which were opened in December 2007. When the office first opened, three staff worked there, and has since developed and grown, allowing the Leicester arm of BSP Consulting to establish themselves as a key civil and structural engineering company in the city. Over the decade that the company has been in operation in Leicester they have managed to increase the range of services that they offer to include pre-planning support as well as traffic and transport engineering. Because of the expansion of services offered at the site, there has been an expansion in the team. This growth of services has also helped to improve the company’s reputation, helping to attract more and more customers and leading to the employment of more and more engineers and technicians from their Leicester base. Over the past ten years, the company has grown their team from three to fifteen, who now work across the city, country and beyond. In Leicester BSP has offered their civil and structural engineering services to a range of key projects in Leicester and Leicestershire. These projects include Makers’ Yard in Leicester’s Creative Quarter as well as buildings for Brooksby Melton College and refurbishment work that has taken place at Loughborough University. The company has also worked to support the development of the Get Busy Living Centre located near to Melton Mowbray, a rehabilitation centre for those who have life-changing sporting injuries. This centre is spearheaded by the Matt Hampson Foundation, a charity set up by the former England Under 21 and Leicester Tigers player Matt Hampson who was paralysed in a Rugby accident.
Hampshire-based R Collard Ltd has taken delivery of the first demolition specified Volvo EC750E to be sold in Great Britain. Managing director Robert Collard said that the choice of Volvo was mainly down to its availability for the start of the contract, but it has worked out well. “We were impressed with the specification and build quality of the EC750E when we went to Rotterdam to inspect the machine at Volvo’s European machine receiving centre,” he said. “And watching it go to work on its first day on site, I’m equally impressed with the machine’s performance and very satisfied with our purchasing decision.” Collard’s new machine is the prime demolition tool on a project in west London, dismantling four-storey buildings and multi-storey car parks on a 20-acre site. The machine has been specified with 7.7-metre boom, a 3.55-metre dipper arm and a Hills hydraulic hitch for fitting of a 4m³ heavy duty bucket and a range of demolition tools including a 7.5-tonne Verachtert shear. In order to operate a range of hydraulically powered attachments, the EC750E has been equipped with both hammer/shear lines and an X3 rotation circuit. The machine can be programmed with pre-set flows and pressures for the different attachments being used. The 7.5-tonne shear operates at 800 litres per minute and a working pressure of 350bar.
Nottingham Trent University has unveiled their completed multi-million-pound science facility. The Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Center, or ISTeC, is facility that is located at the University’s Clifton campus and will offer state-of-the-art facilities for undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as other research scientists. The new two-storey building has been designed to feature laboratories to be used for bioscience as well as computer science, mathematics, physics, chemistry, robotics, sport science and engineering. The newly built facility also has a specialist robot arena that can be used for the research of humanoid and other robots as well as testing suites for exercise, food and nutrition. The M&E consultancy company, Couch Perry Wilkes has been acting as the lead designer of this project while also working as the mechanical and electrical engineering design consultants. Maber architects was appointed to design the building. The Science and Technology Centre constructed at Nottingham Trent University has been constructed in order to help students improve their practical skills while also helping to improve their knowledge of the workplace while working to bring together STEM subjects, that can lead to collaboration and learning in these different disciplines encouraged. Nottingham Trent University have received £5 million in funding towards the costs of this building project from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. This funding has been granted in recognition of the importance of teaching and learning with in STEM subjects. These new facilities are an important development for the University’s school of Science and Technology as it will supply state of the art facilities to help with project based learning in order to help to excite and challenge students in order to better prepare them for jobs in science and technology. The newly constructed building has been officially opened by Dame Judith Hackitt DBE, the former chair of the UK Health and Safety Executive. Dame Judith is also the current chair of the Engineering Employers Federation.
The development of new and sustainable energy types which are increasingly being focused on as the availability of fossil fuels diminishes rapidly. Beele Engineering wants to make sure that they continue to play a vital role as a part of these markets. In the wind energy market, the company’s products have a variety of applications such as in offshore wind farms. The nuclear industry has also expressed an interest in the products and services on offer by Beele Engineering. A delegation of engineers from the TVO and Fortum nuclear power plants located in Finland and Tractebel in Belgium recently visited the Dutch engineering company in order to explore this avenue. The development of a successful nuclear workshop is a precursor to the creation of workshops and core sessions that are expected to be held in Sealing Valley, a location that is currently under construction. The Centre of Excellence being created will include space for knowledge transfer, research, development, testing, education and training all in one location in a campus style environment. One of the most recent workshops focused on applying the systems that have been developed by Beele Engineering to be used specifically in the nuclear industry. All of the tests that have been specified for these new services have been successfully carried out. Beele Engineering is already involved in the nuclear industry, and has been for a number of years. In 2009, the company managed to provide the Finnish-based nuclear power operator, Teollisuuden Voima Oyj with fire-resistant and watertight transit systems. The Aalten-based engineering business delivered products that were not only fire-resistant, but also resistant to gas and smoke and watertight. The safety features of the solution offered by Beele Engineering will help to prevent accidents such as the Fukushima plant in 2011. Beele Engineering also works for the improved safety of power plants around the world. The company delivers training and certifying for installers as well as refresher courses. The training takes place with the support of an independent institute like KIWA Nederland.
The groundworks and civil engineering company, M. Lambe Construction have announced that they will be strengthening their apprenticeship scheme. This improvement will be made with an investment by the company in Premier Training Centre. This training centre has been created in collaboration with Thoughts of Others, who is a respected provider of care and education services located in Birmingham. The training centre will allow for the specialist to develop their own bespoke training and apprenticeship programmes in order to offer young job seekers the practical experience that would be necessary and the skills required to pursue a full-time career in the construction industry. The Director of M. Lambe Construction, Michael Lambe said last year, The Department for Education estimated that around 9,000 people who are aged between 16-24 living in the West Midlands were not considered to be in any form of education, employment or training. Therefore it is vital for a wide range of successful businesses like M. Lambe Construction to provide opportunities to the younger generation with the opportunities to pursue a full-time career. The Birmingham-based business currently employs 32 apprentices and trainees that are working across the company, in various stages of education and development. 15 of these apprentices have joined the company in the last 12 months. The Apprentices at M. Lambe Construction offers ‘on the job training’ with an experienced mentor complimented by the practical theory in the classroom. Through this additional investment, the company has the opportunity to really develop a high quality programme that will be able to add value to their education while also being fully prepared to work on one of the groundworks and civil engineering center’s construction sites. Premier Training College is a vocational college and a Birmingham Adult Education Service subcontractor which has been set up in order to offer learners full time education and apprenticeship courses. It is seen as vital that more work is put into encouraging younger people to take a career in construction.
The groundworks and civil engineering company, M. Lambe Construction have announced that they will be strengthening their apprenticeship scheme. This improvement will be made with an investment by the company in Premier Training Centre. This training centre has been created in collaboration with Thoughts of Others, who is a respected provider of care and education services located in Birmingham. The training centre will allow for the specialist to develop their own bespoke training and apprenticeship programmes in order to offer young job seekers the practical experience that would be necessary and the skills required to pursue a full-time career in the construction industry. The Director of M. Lambe Construction, Michael Lambe said last year, The Department for Education estimated that around 9,000 people who are aged between 16-24 living in the West Midlands were not considered to be in any form of education, employment or training. Therefore it is vital for a wide range of successful businesses like M. Lambe Construction to provide opportunities to the younger generation with the opportunities to pursue a full-time career. The Birmingham-based business currently employs 32 apprentices and trainees that are working across the company, in various stages of education and development. 15 of these apprentices have joined the company in the last 12 months. The Apprentices at M. Lambe Construction offers ‘on the job training’ with an experienced mentor complimented by the practical theory in the classroom. Through this additional investment, the company has the opportunity to really develop a high quality programme that will be able to add value to their education while also being fully prepared to work on one of the groundworks and civil engineering center’s construction sites. Premier Training College is a vocational college and a Birmingham Adult Education Service subcontractor which has been set up in order to offer learners full time education and apprenticeship courses. It is seen as vital that more work is put into encouraging younger people to take a career in construction.
