Our Trainee of the Year, Robert Frost, met with Ivor Goodsite and Miss John (Headteacher) on Monday at Westmoor Primary School to invite the 290 children in assembly to partake in our poster competition.  During the assembly, both Ivor and Robert gave a presentation on site safety for children - highlighting the dangers of playing on a building site.  Watch this space for our poster competition winners!

 

 

On a recent visit to Westmoor House, Ivor Goodsite was the first person to use the new biometric turnstile.  This allows operatives to enter and exit the site by using a fingerprint !  The new biometric turnstile will allow Wates to record all who are on site, compile data on the hours worked and establish the site's carbon footprint.

 

 

Ivor Goodsite visited Westmoor House last week on his way to Westmoor Primary School.  Ivor was very impressed with the site, especially the Near Miss campaign.  This Wates campaign urges all operatives and visitors to identify any observations that qualify as a Near Miss, and the campaign is proven to reduce the amount of accidents which may occur on site.

 

 

The team at Woodland Court are ready to concrete the plant room floor.  This floor has to be power floated, so we are letting our neighbours know in advance that we may be working a little later than usual tonight (Friday 16th), dependant on how quick the concrete sets!

 

We have recently arranged to visit one of our local schools, Westmoor Primary School, to involve the children on our initiative for site safety.  The children will be involved in a site safety poster competition, with the winner receiving some book vouchers.

The competition ends by half term and Ivor Goodsite will be along to judge

the competition.

We're turning a corner!!!!

This week sees the completion of retaining wall one.  This is one of nine large retaining walls which will be constructed on the site here at Westmoor, many of which are of a cuved nature (such as the on shown in the picture).  It takes a lot of skill and preparation to make these walls curved, but we have the right men on the job, and once the stonework is built in front of the retaining wall, it will become a valued feature of Woodland Court.

The weather here has been on our side, which has allowed work to progress very well.

The Plant Room

No... its not what you think !  The plant room is the part of Woodland Court where all the boilers are situated to provide warm water to the building.  As you can see, there is a lot of work to be done to construct the walls - its not as easy as you might think.  The plant room is partly situated below ground, which means that extra thought, attention and design has to go into the walls that make up the plant room - hence why there is so much steel involved, so as to hold back the large amounts of earth at the back of the walls.  As ever, we have the right men on the job to make sure the walls are completed on time, and in a safe manner.

Favourable weather gives us further opportunity to press ahead to programme.  This week has seen us complete the permanent gas connection.  In an attempt to alleviate parking on Staincliffe Road, the main surface water storage cells have also been installed, keeping to our commitment to provide on site parking by the end of March.

 

We have relocated our welfare set up this week, and should be moving the cabins on Staincliffe Road by Friday 9th.