Construct July 2012

construct July 2012

working well together

Two quality projects added to the Casey portfolio P Casey (Land Reclamation) Ltd has recently completed two flagship projects in the North West. The Highways and Public Realm works works for co--operation with client, business owners, road users, Cheshire East Council in Poynton are an excellent example of quality work and co users, and shoppers. The works at Stamford Park, AshtonAshton-UnderUnder-Lyne are another example of the fine Heritage Lottery funded works carried out by

by Casey, and is a superb demonstration of the various Casey disciplines working together. tion. We provided street lighting, furniture and signage in modern designs complementing the high quality granite paving. This prestige Town Centre project is an important addition to our expanding highways and public realm portfolio enabling us to be considered as a serious contender for future such works in a market place hitherto beyond our reach.

Poynton Town Centre Poynton Town Centre in Cheshire was the setting for the recently completed Highway Improvement and Public Realm scheme which was specially designed to relieve a well known traffic ‘bottleneck’.

This ‘flagship’ project provided two new roundabouts, pedestrian walkways and car parking bays in an integrated traffic management system replacing a main traffic light controlled road junction on the busy A6 south of Stockport.

Works were delivered in difficult circumstances with complex drainage and infrastructure works being followed by high quality granite sett paving, all carried out whilst the road remained open to local and through traffic. This meant that detailed job

Stamford Park, AshtonAshton-UnderUnder-Lyne

specific Traffic Management Plans had to be devised and tightly implemented to keep traffic moving whilst keeping the general public and our workforce safe throughout.

It seems to be the season for flagship projects with the recent handover of the prestigious Stamford Park in Ashton under Lyne.

Funded by the Heritage Lottery this £4.5m project was a multi faceted scheme which Continued on page 3

The road layout design is one of only a small number of traffic management schemes in the country where continuously slow moving traffic integrates safely with pedestrians. Despite initial reservations by the local resident and commercial communities the system works well and has proved to be a popular solution to the traffic flow problems caused by the original traffic light systems.

Quality of finish was the clients’ main focus given the close mixture of resident, retail and commercial properties located around the junc-

4 year scheme awarded to Building division Casey is delighted to have been awarded a £10.0 million programme of works to refurbish over 10,000 properties across the North of England over the next fours years.

The contract has been awarded by Accent Foundation and is predominantly improvement works, which includes installation of

windows, doors and roofline to occupied properties. The selection process was rigorous and Casey were awarded this project as sole provider on a 60% Quality/40% Tender price basis.

This is an exciting and challenging scheme as the property portfolio is spread from as

far as Middlesbrough and South Tyneside in the North to Bradford, Rochdale and Tameside in the South.

Accent’s vision is “Making a difference ….. improving homes, communities, and lives” and we can certainly help them make that happen.

To submit articles or information for this newsletter, contact Debbie Hubbard on 07834 867580 or debbie.hubbard@casey.co.uk.

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HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE Working Well Together for Risk Prevention Healthy Workplaces Campaign on ‘Working Working together for risk prevention’ prevention’. This is a two year campaign which encourages employers and employees to work together to improve workplace health and safety. We will be participating in this campaign over the period and invite you to take part and contribute to ‘working well together’.

Whilst this is a two-year campaign, the actual Safety Weeks will be in October of both 2012 and 2013, and details of how you can be involved will be circulated nearer the time.

The European Agency for Safety and Health at Work (EU-OSHA) has launched its new

In the meantime, and as a start to our

Make the diabetes connection There are an estimated 850,000 people in the UK who have diabetes but don’t know it. There are a further 7 million people who are at a high risk of developing it.

Diabetes is a common life-long health condition. There are 2.9 million people diagnosed with this illness and an estimated 850,000 people who have the condition but don’t know it. There are a further 7 million who are at a high risk of developing Type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes is a condition where the amount of glucose in your blood is too high because the body cannot use it properly. This is because your pancreas does not produce any insulin, or not enough, to help glucose enter your body’s cells, or the insulin that you do produce does not work properly (insulin resistance).

Insulin is the hormone produced by the pancreas that allows glucose to enter the body’s cells, where it is used as fuel for energy. It is vital for life.

Glucose comes from digesting carbohydrate and is also produced by the liver. Carbohydrate comes from starchy foods, such as bread, potatoes, rice; fruit; some dairy products; sugar and other sweet foods.

If you have diabetes, your body cannot make proper use of this glucose so it builds up in the blood and isn't able to be used as food.

Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes It is estimated that 10% of all the people with diabetes in the UK have Type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is when no insulin is produced at all because the insulinproducing cells have been destroyed. There

is nothing you can do to prevent Type 1 diabetes and it is always treated with insulin injections.

Type 2 diabetes is when the body either does not produce enough insulin, or the insulin it does produce doesn’t work as well as it should. This type of diabetes is treated with lifestyle changes, increasing physical activity and losing weight if you need to.

Some people may need medications or insulin injections to achieve normal blood glucose levels.

90% of the people who have diabetes in the UK have Type 2 diabetes.

Every 3.5 minutes, someone dies in the EU as a result of a workplace accident or workworkrelated illness.

The campaign ‘Working together for risk prevention’ forms part of Europe’s ongoing Healthy Workplaces Campaign, which has helped drive significant improvements in workplace safety and health across the EU. campaign, if you have any ideas for improving health and safety, please share them with your Director, Line Manager, Health and Safety Contacts or a member of the Health and Safety Team.

• You’re a woman with polycystic ovary syndrome and you are overweight.

• You’ve been told that you have impaired glucose tolerance or impaired fasting glycaemia.

• You’re a woman who has had gestational diabetes.

The more risk factors that apply to you, the greater your risk of developing diabetes.

Could I have it?

Because, with diabetes, some or all of the glucose stays in the blood rather than being used as fuel for energy, the body tries to reduce the blood glucose levels by flushing the excess glucose out of the body in the urine. This gives rise to the most obvious symptoms:

What are the risk factors for Type 2 diabetes?

• Passing urine more often than usual,

You are at risk of developing Type 2 diabetes if—

• Increased thirst.

• Extreme tiredness.

You are white and over 40 years old You are black, Asian or from a minority ethnic group and are over 25 years old You have one or more of the following risk factors:

• You are overweight or if your waist is 31.5 inches or over for women; 35 inches or over for Asian men and 37 inches or over for white or black men.

• A close member of your family has Type 2 diabetes (parent or sibling).

• You have high blood pressure or you’ve had a stroke.

especially at night.

Other symptoms can include

• Unexplained weight loss • Slow healing of cuts and wounds • Blurred vision Early diagnosis and good control of diabetes is vital to reduce the chance of developing serious complications with your eyes, heart, kidneys, nerves and feet.

With Type 2 diabetes the symptoms may not be so obvious as the condition can develop slowly over a number of years. Think about whether any of the symptoms apply to you.

If you are concerned, you should see your GP. A simple thumb-prick blood test or a urine test will provide the answer, and your doctor or local diabetes clinic can provide all the advice and treatment you need.

For more information: www.diabetes.org.uk

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which was also demolished to make way for the new structure.

Extensive soft landscaping was another key feature of the works with new lawns, flower beds and borders being created particularly around the footpaths, paved areas, terraces and the newly constructed buildings.

Stamford Park was completed with an excellent safety record with no reportable accidents or incidents throughout the programme despite the fact that the facilities remained open to the public throughout. required the provision of all our trade disciplines including high quality hard and soft landscaping, public realm paving works and new build construction The specification for all the work elements was very high, requiring quality of the utmost order in every element of the works, which included the new construction of the parks main pavilion. Construction works followed the demolition of the old building which was well past its ‘sell by’ date. However the old wrought iron façade on the Bowling Green side was retained as an architectural feature.

Included in the new build construction works was the provision of a new bird and animal sanctuary to replace the old original building

From top left: James Billing, Glyn Cousin, Dave Stoddart, Chris Williams, Phil Coughlin, Paul Turner, Sebastian Bednarski, Mark Ives and Desley Sandiford

The quality of finish and latent infrastructure was of the highest order in line with Tameside Council’s aspirations and the requirements of the fully operating park facilities going forward.

As a company based over many sites, we often don’t appreciate what everyone else in our organisation does. Over coming editions we thought we would introduce you to some people and departments you may not know, so you can understand how we are all working well together. together Many of our readers may not know the people who work hard behind the scenes to secure us the work we carry out. The people pictured above are our Business Development and Estimating teams.

Giving Back to Camberwell Park Specialist Support School In April, one of our clients, Great Places, put us in touch with Camberwell Park Specialist Support School who needed some help providing facilities for their children to practice life skills.

Dave Dunn visited the school to understand their needs and realised we could help remodel the kitchen area where the children learn cooking skills, as part of their Seed to Feed Community Project. He worked with two sub-contractors, Smart Electrical and

Mike Hyde and Dave Dunn with staff and children of Camberwell Park School

Now especially, when opportunities are scarce, competition is fierce and deadlines are tight, these people have to work harder than ever to produce quality submissions and price tenders to stand out above the rest and prove to the client that we are right company for the job.

Each client’s priorities and aspirations are different and so every submission and tender has to be tailored to suit. It makes a lot of work and we would like to say , “Thank you all for the long hours and hard work that you put in. We really do appreciate it!”

Heatcraft, to provide labour and materials to remodel the kitchen area. We carried out some internal remodelling, plastering and tiling, and provided kitchen units and other items to create a fully functioning kitchen that can accommodate able bodied users and wheelchair access. Dave put in a lot of his own time and the children were delighted with the result — they call it their “Creation Station”.

The kitchen was opened to much excitement by the Lord Mayor of Manchester [at the time], Cllr Harry Lyons, who is a long standing friend of the school.

We cannot forget the people who attend the interview stage once we have made the shortlist. They talk passionately about the work we do, and demonstrate how we care about doing a great job and looking after all the stakeholders involved. We will introduce some of those people in future editions.

But of course, it’s the excellent work we have carried out, and continue to carry out, that give us the first rate evidence to include in our bids. And it’s those fine examples that secure us new clients and repeat business. The volume of repeat business awarded to us is a testament to that.

A big thank you to you all!

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Jubilee Celebrations Last month we got involved in quite a few Jubilee celebrations, both in the communities we work and amongst ourselves. Here are some of our images.

Planting Jubilee flowers with Netherley Youth Services, along with Riverside Housing.

Staff Moves and Grooves A huge WELL DONE and THANK YOU goes out to both Franny Sinclair and David Hayes who started at Casey in July 1987 and have achieved 25 years service.

David Hayes receiving his long service award from Director, Tony Barry

Congratulations and well done also to Kevin Griffin, Daniel Benson and Craig Matthews Griffin who have just completed and passed their Quantity Surveying degrees.

Lesley Hyde is doing the Race for Life on 22nd July. She says the fact that she is running should encourage you to sponsor her, but we think that the fact she is doing it dressed as a Smurf should make you dig just a bit deeper.

Releasing Jubilee balloons at St Gregory’s Primary School Jubilee Party

Congratulations to Andy McCann, wife Claire and daughter, Scarlett, on the birth of Noah.

Happy Belated Birthday to Glyn Cousin who hit the big 50 in May. Martyn Southern and Jamie Bannon are heroes! They came to the rescue when a resident’s cooker caught fire at Gorton. They heard the smoke alarm and with quick thinking and a calm approach, they put the fire out before the fire brigade arrived.

Face painting for Belle Vale and Naylorsfield Association Jubilee Party

Some Royal visitors at our Eastlands Homes, Gorton site, with Casey employees, Eastlands Homes staff and local residents. Cheers Ma’am!

In May, Paul Prescott from our Land Reclamation division underwent some major heart surgery. He is expected to be away from work for 4 months, and to help him through this difficult time, his colleagues raised an amazing £315.

Paul is recovering well and would like to say a big thank you to everyone who contributed, and for all the support he has received from his colleagues.

We wish you well with your recovery Paul, and we hope to see you back soon.

TAX CREDITS

And finally, tiaras and tantrums for the Casey staff

Don’t forget — deadline to renew tax credits is 31 July. www.hmrc.gov.uk/taxcredits/keep-up-todate/renew-claim/ for more information

There is always a lot of input required to produce this newsletter, and it’s a team effort. We would like to say a big Thank You! to all contributors to this issue: Chris Williams, James Billing, Paul Turner, Sue Gilbertson, Sarah Harwood, Mike Hyde, Kevin Griffin

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