The Lighthouse Q2 2021

Events | Benevolence | Industry News Q2 2021

VIRTUAL

HEALTH & SAFETY CONFERENCE 2021

Lighthouse Club International Australia | Cambodia | China | Hong Kong | Macau | Malaysia | Myanmar | Philippines | Singapore | Thailand | UK / Ireland | Vietnam

Aliis Cum Humanitate

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The Lighthouse

Chairman’s Message

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or every cloud there is a silver lining but I am not going to repeat myself about an “end in sight” which seems to have become the norm lately!

Instead, I am delighted to report the success of Lighthouse Club Kuala Lumpur’s Student Loan Fund launch in March and I urge all of you to watch the video which was produced.

I believe you all will be thoroughly encouraged by their efforts. The new Committee in KL have further initiatives planned for the rest of this year in providing support within the embattled construction industry in Malaysia.

Families are suffering but the Club is putting its collective head together and coming up with ways to assist. More in subsequent issues of “The Lighthouse”!

I also am very pleased that Hong Kong have restarted their monthly Get-togethers and these are now planned, with sponsors already in place, for the next few months and into 2022. The current venue in Central has proven very popular and seems to appeal to all age groups and genders, far more (dare I say!) than the traditional haunts of Wan Chai.

Hats off to Gammon Construction for holding a successful Health and Safety Conference in Hong Kong, also in March. The Club is missing its key events, like the Safety Leadership Awards, Contractors Dinner and Annual Ball, but the LapDog Challenge will take place again in November and the teams already are in training. Some team members seem to be taking a bit too seriously the advice to “bulk up on carbohydrates before the event”, but there is time to reverse that.

About The Lighthouse Club “The Lighthouse” is the magazine of Lighthouse Club International, originally established in 1998 as Lighthouse Club Asia Pacific Region and superseded in November 2017

by Lighthouse Club International. With its roots in England in 1956, the Hong Kong Branch was formed in 1986.

The aims of the Lighthouse Club are to promote good fellowship amongst its members who work in or are associated with the construction industry and to provide charitable assistance to those in need within the construction industry and to their dependents in qualifying cases.

In addition to the charitable works of the individual branches of the Lighthouse Club, Lighthouse Club International supports two related Hong Kong based charities which provide charitable assistance internationally. The James Battersby Lighthouse Club Educational Trust which provides assistance for education and training to qualifying young persons in the Asia Pacific Region; The Lighthouse Club International Benevolent Trust which provides assistance to relieving poverty and financial support to persons currently or previously employed in the building and civil engineering and allied trades worldwid

The Lighthouse Q2 2021 Lighthouse Club International Suite 1901-2, Hopewell Centre 183 Queen’s Road East, Wan Chai, Hong Kong info@lighthouseclubintl.com Administrator: Elaine Man E: info@lighthouseclubhk.com, T: +852 2736 9885 Editorial Committee: Elaine Man / Janey Rogers / John Battersby / Michael Hoare (Consulting Editor) /Mike Staley / Steve Tennant / Alfred Ng (Liaison)

Cambodia hosted a successful Golf Day and fundraiser. They may not be holding other events at the moment but the Golf Day has always been and continues to be a very popular event with a growing number of entries every year.

Publisher: Mike Staley E: publisher@rofmedia.com , T: +852 3150 8988

Other branches are faring in different ways, so I say to you, “onwards and upwards”, stay safe and well and I am looking forward to seeing you all.

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Glenn Haley, Chairman, Lighthouse Club International

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Official website : www.lighthouseclubintl.com The Lighthouse is online at www.issuu.com/rofmedia

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Contents

In This Issue

Honorary President and Honorary Life Chairman John Battersby Honorary Life Members Willie Kay – Singapore Les Leslie – Hong Kong & UK Nick Longley – Hong Kong & Australia Steve Tennant – Hong Kong Phil Thoburn - Manila

Cover Story

Executive Committee: Chairman Glenn Haley, Glenn.haley@bclplaw.com Immediate Past Chairman Rod Noble, Roderick.noble@39essex.com

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Chairman Elect Robert Gordon. Robert.gordon@burohappold.com Deputy Chairman Keith Buckley, keith.buckley@lighthouseclubmacau.com Secretary Steve Tennant, stevetennanthongkong@gmail.com Treasurer Phil Clarke, phillip.clarke@lighthouseclubmacau.com Membership Secretary Jim Chessell, jchessell@bkasiapacific.com

Elected Branch Representative: Australia

Paul Roberts proberts@secretariat-intl.com Nick Longley Nick.longley@hfw.com

Cambodia

Kerr Thomson kerr.thomson@covathinking.com

Hong Kong

Steve Tennant stevetennanthongkong@gmail.com Robert Gordon robert.gordon@burohappold.com Neil Roberts neil_roberts@hiphing.com.hk

Macau

Keith Buckley keith.buckley@lighthouseclubmacau.com Phil Clarke phillip.clarke@lighthouseclubmacau.com

Malaysia

Pui Mun Teoh teoh@speedbrick.com

Myanmar

John Anderson johna@meinhardt.net

Philippines

Sam Powell samuel.powell@hmrphils.com

Singapore

Jim Chessell jchessell@bkasiapacific.com

Thailand

Gareth Hughes Gareth.hughes@rsmthailand.com

Vietnam

Colin Johnston cjohnston@bkasiapacific.com

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The TARC-Lighthouse Club Student Loan Fund LHC Macau: providing much needed support

International

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Lighthouse Club International updates Medical Benefits Programme

Features

10 A review of the role of Si Fu in Safety Management 14 Gammon sponsors Virtual Health & Safety Conference 2021 20 Book review: Former TWI Engineers share their stories

Branch Reports

30 Malaysia 36 Cambodia 40 Australia 42 Thailand 43 Macau 44 Hong Kong 48 Singapore 50 United Kingdom Members Lighthouse Club International Corporate Members

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Benevolence

The TARC-Lighthouse Club Student Loan Fund During February 2021, the Lighthouse Club Kuala Lumpur (LHCKL) and TAR University College (TARUC) signed an agreement to establish the TARC Lighthouse Club Student Loan Fund. With this Student Loan Fund, LHCKL was able to realise a plan that started almost ten years ago. LHCKL is taking this opportunity to look back how it all started and what this Student Loan Fund means for the future.

A long time ago ….

For over ten years LHCKL has been supporting young, underprivileged Malaysians with bursaries for constructionrelated studies through the Master Builders Education Program. This has been a successful program and the LHCKL remains committed to be able to continue to support new students with a bursary on an annual basis. However, for a long time, LHCKL has been considering the idea to try looking into other options to help underprivileged students with their education, something perpetual and on a recurring basis, which could be established concurrently with the existing MBAM bursary program. Such a new perpetual program would be based on a revolving loan programme, where monies loaned to a student are repaid over a certain period. Once these loans have been paid back, the fund can be offered as a new loan to another underprivileged student.

Our Student Loan Fund TARUC is a university college with over 28,000 students in Malaysia, with TARC-Lighthouse an exceptionally good Club Student reputation and affordable Loan Fund fees and charges. TARUC has already established over forty-five different student loan funds over the last forty years. Most of these funds are established by family estates and with a variety of different objectives. For companies and organisations, like LHCKL, the minimum requirement to set up a Student Loan Fund is a one-off donation of RM 500,000.00 (approx. USD 125,000).

Once the Student Loan Fund has been set up, it is possible to increase the sum of the student loan fund at any time.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA

1. For Diploma and Bachelor Degree students for TAR UC’s Construction Related Programmes: • architecture, quantity surveying or construction management

• electrical engineering or mechanical engineering

(a) Be from a household who earns a gross income with a maximum of RM3,000 per month OR

TARC-Lighthouse Club Student Loan Fund is an interest-free revolving loan fund established with the objective of providing financial assistance to needy and deserving students to successfully complete their studies in TAR UC.

CONTACT US fncaid@tarc.edu.my

https://www.tarc.edu.my/dsa/financial-aid/study-loans/

(b) Coming from a poverty-stricken background as a result of the death or injury or illness of a parent or guardian;

2. For Diploma and Bachelor Degree students for Non-Construction Programmes offered by TAR UC: (a) Coming from a poverty-stricken background as a result of the death or injury or illness of a parent or guardian who was employed in the construction industry.

VALUE OF LOAN AWARD

1. Diploma: Up to RM8,000 per annum

2. Bachelor’s Degree: Up to RM12,000 per annum 3. Continuation of loan award is subject to annual review of loan holder’s academic performance and conduct.

APPLICATION

Online application opens in the beginning of January and June semester.

TARC – Lighthouse Club Student Loan Fund provides an interest free loan to underprivileged students to pursue their tertiary education. The students start paying back the loan approximately six months after their graduation. Based on TARUC’s track record of other TARC’s student loan programs, more than 99% The committee for LHCKL was aware that such loan programs of the loans are fully paid back by the students within 9 years. existed in Malaysia and decided to explore the available Furthermore, TARUC undertake to carry out all administration options in the Klang Valley region (i.e. Kuala Lumpur and free of charge and provide annual reports. Any funds not being Selangor). This was easier said than done. Time passed and used for the Student Loan Fund will be placed into a fixed deposit various meetings were held with people with close relations bank account and the interest earned flows back into the Student to various universities in Malaysia over the past seven years, Loan Fund.After several rounds of discussion with TARUC, our however without any success. That was until 2019 when we were own due diligence and investigation into the financing options for introduced to TARUC. such a loan programme, LHCKL decided to establish a student loan fund with TARUC. It was a unanimous decision made by all LHCKL members at our AGM on 30 September 2020 - many members knowing that it has been a long time wish for us.

Support from the Lighthouse Club Trusts Due to the minimum fund amount requirements in setting up a student loan fund with TARUC, LHCKL reached out to LHC International who then suggested that LHCKL seek the joint contributions from the James Battersby Lighthouse Club Educational Trust and the Lighthouse Club Asia Pacific Region Benevolent Trust. Both Trusts were delighted to jointly contribute towards the establishment of TARC-Lighthouse Club Student Loan Fund and pledged to support 50% of this initiative.

Benevolence

The Agreement was signed

LHC Macau: providing much needed support

With the COVID-19 outbreak in year 2020, we faced various lockdowns and difficulties in organising meetings with TARUC and Azman Davidson & Co, who provided us with legal support to draft the necessary agreements. Despite the unprecedented pandemic and challenges, the legal documents for setting up the TARC-Lighthouse Club Student Loan Fund were signed and stamped in February 2021.

Following the signing of the Agreement, LHCKL has already been able to help three students who started or were continuing their studies from January 2021 onwards.

The virtual launch of the Student Loan Fund Since March 2020, we have not been able to organise any social gatherings in Kuala Lumpur. While there was hope that we could organise a small celebration, it became apparent that a social gathering and/or large group gathering was impossible due to the pandemic and the restrictions implemented by the Malaysian Government. The LHCKL Committee came up with the idea to organise a virtual event celebrating the establishment of the TARC-Lighthouse Club Student Loan Fund. We then decided to celebrate this momentous event with the LHC branches worldwide to allow everyone to get to know what has been achieved by our LHC branches in the region.

In what we believe was a Lighthouse Club first, and with contributions from branches in the UK, Asia and Australia, this virtual event showed the success and strength of the Lighthouse Club charitable assistance, fraternity and fellowship across the globe. Many members cherish some of their longtime friendships in the Lighthouse Club community across all branches. Hopefully, this virtual event will prove to be a basis for further collaboration of branches to tell their stories and share how we can help and support the Construction Industry.

Education is the future While it has taken a long way to set up the TARC-Lighthouse Club Student Loan Fund in Malaysia, LHCKL remains excited to explore the opportunity to set up student membership and hopes to connect students and young professionals with our construction community for internships or even future career opportunities. After all, the students of today and tomorrow are the future leaders and experts in our own Construction Industry.

On 19 May 2021, Macau registered its first construction related fatal accident of the year. A 65 year old worker fell from a one meter high temporary platform and died as a result.

This accident once again highlights the tragedies which befall families.

The worker retired some years ago and took up part time repair work in the building in which he lived as he wanted to contribute to the management committee of the property.

He charged minimal fees for the service.

Since the worker was self-employed, this accident was not covered by Employee Compensation Insurance. Neither did he have his own health or accident insurance.

The Lighthouse Club Macao Benevolent Fund donated MOP70,000 to the worker’s wife.

The family really appreciated the Lighthouse Club’s help.

The son of the deceased said he could feel the warmth and support while he managed to accept the sudden loss of his father and said he will try to help others when there is a chance in the future.

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International

Lighthouse Club International (LHCI) An Update It’s hard to believe that we are half way through 2021 already. A lot of us, who are used to fairly frequent travel, have been static for the past year but the rise of the “virtual” meeting has kept us busy, if not busier, than before.

The Lighthouse Club International Committee has held virtual meetings since March 2020, when some of us were looking forward to meeting up in Melbourne. And quite a few things have been happening behind the scenes and on your, the Members’, behalf.

Here are a few:

• The current Chairman, Glenn Haley, who was due to step

down in May this year, remains in place, as do other officers such as Chairman Elect (Robert Gordon), Deputy Chairman (Keith Buckley) and the Secretary (Steve Tennant). The Previous Chairman (Rod Noble) also remains.

• A new Treasurer (Neil Roberts, formerly Treasurer of Hong

Kong Branch) replaces Phil Clarke who will be leaving Macau this year to “retire” to Australia.

• Jim Chessell has recently been reinstated

as Membership Secretary but only because the LHCI Committee was in danger of becoming too “Hong Kong top heavy”.

More volunteers required from branches, please!

• A new Medical Insurance scheme is available to all Members, details are on the opposite page and the website.

• After a few years of to-ing and fro-ing,

the Committee in May 2021 agreed on a proposal that annual corporate membership

fees can be shared between the LHCI and whichever branch introduced the corporate member. This should help to boost branch coffers and alleviate the fears of those who assumed their branch would “lose” members to LHCI. For more information on how LHCI membership works, please contact Jim Chessell, Membership Secretary, info@lighthouseclubintl.com.

• In order to provide more benefits for LHCI Corporate

members a series of monthly executive lunches have started to take place in Hong Kong, the first being on 21 June 2021. Of course, this is not restricted to Hong Kong and those LHCI Corporate members in other locations are welcome to have their own lunches too. Ostensibly, these lunches are about membership and it is hoped that the members who attend will invite non-members as their guests who will, in turn, become members.

The above are just an indication of things that have been or are happening. Most branches are now beginning to host face-to-face events again and it has been fun catching up with old acquaintances at the recent Hong Kong events we have been allowed to hold.

Of course, the pandemic is never far from our minds and we hope that with the further roll-out of vaccinations around the globe that we will soon be able to visit other branches and continue with the planned growth of the Club.

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Medical Benefits Programme As an additional membership benefit for its individual and corporate members, Lighthouse Club International has appointed Mr. Kevin Ch’ng, an Insurance Broker, to administer the Lighthouse Club International Medical Benefits Programme.

This programme, which is open to all individual and corporate members of all Lighthouse Clubs who are a member of Lighthouse Club International will, we hope, be of assistance and hopefully enable members to access competitive medical insurance quotations. Kevin introduces himself below and provides some further information about the programme:

My name is Kevin Ch’ng, and I am a licensed insurance intermediary registered with the Insurance Authority of Hong Kong and an insurance Broker, and Associate Partner of St. James’s Place (Hong Kong) Limited. I’ve been designated to be the sole medical insurance adviser for the benefit of Lighthouse Club International (LHCI) members. My role is to strictly provide medical insurance advice where I will recommend the most suitable medical plan based on your needs.

The benefits for LHCI members are that I have a wide range of providers to choose from for competitive quotations, plans specific for expats and access to group discounts and I've organised a discount of 10% on all plans from the medical insurer April, who are underwritten by Liberty International.

A benefit for the LHCI supported charities is that an agreement is in place so that part of the medical premium paid will be donated to the James Battersby Lighthouse Educational Trust and Lighthouse Club International Benevolent Trust or other LHCI designated charities.

Some of the reasons why you may want to receive a medical insurance quote for you and your family, or your company are: • To explore cost savings from another provider because premiums are always changing year to year. A review is recommended at least once every 2 years if not every year as premium increases can be very drastic.

• The current provider may not be suitable for yourself or your company anymore.

• You’re not happy with the service or benefits provided or want additional coverage that isn’t covered currently, such as maternity cover.

• You’re approaching retirement and you may lose cover when you leave your current employer.

• You’re employed on a contract basis where the medical

insurance is only for the contract period and want to have your own medical cover.

• You need extra coverage as the current plan is very basic.

For example, you only have out-patient coverage or have low limits on hospitalization.

• You simply don’t like your current medical provider due to their service quality.

If you would like a review of your current medical plan or looking for a new medical plan, then click on the link below to fill in some details and I’ll contact you with some recommendations.

All information provided will be strictly confidential and will not be shared with any other person or company for marketing of other services. All premiums paid by an insured are paid directly to the medical insurer for the policy. Again, my sole and only purpose is to provide medical insurance for the benefit of Lighthouse Club members.

You can also reach me on kevin.chng@sjpp.asia or +852 9854 7765.

Kevin CH’NG Kim Seng Hong Kong Insurance Authority License Number IA2801

Members who are interested in the above are encouraged to contact Kevin as soon as possible.

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Construction site safety: workers’ perspective on the Hong Kong system

A critical review of the role of Si Fu in safety management

By Ada Tsang Wing Chi and Steve Rowlinson

Who can be called a “Si Fu” in the construction industry?

There is no clear definition of a Si Fu as it is a local, cultural term used colloquially in many different circumstances and situations. Also, it is a very generic term: • Si Fu are workers with more years of experience and expertise, ie, older workers.

• The term “Si Fu” has value, with a sense of respect and privilege.

• No qualifications are required for describing a person as a Si Fu. Workers enter into the industry only with a green card and worker registration. Being a Si Fu depends on your number of years of experience.

• Workers can be called a Si Fu if they have worked through three summers.

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So, how do Si Fu influence safety performance? There are divergent views on this issue.

Some negative views on Si Fu: • Si Fu are impatient and quick. They are subjective and have their own way of working.

• Much effort needs to be deployed for them following instructions. Si Fu usually listen to people who are at higher positions but then change back to own way of working which may be due to their age and experience.

• Si Fu have established how to do the works “most efficiently” and “in the most comfortable way”. It may be embarrassing to follow younger ones’ instructions due to “loss of face”.

• Si Fu are more experienced and spot the dangers on site but are more likely to ignore them as they think they have the ability to prevent injuries.

Other viewpoints:

• Younger workers do not necessarily perform better as they

work in the construction industry just because of relatively high salaries being offered.

• Younger workers are less experienced in identifying the dangers on site but they have better safety awareness as they have more training such as from the Construction Industry Council.

• Si Fu and young workers are not very different. It mainly depends on the individuals’ personalities, whether they value safety or are willing to take risks.

For the role of a Si Fu in training younger workers, the interaction between them is important.

Depends on the trade and period of influence: • For example, electricians work under the same Si Fu for extended periods of time.

• Façade workers, on the other hand, are taught the details of their work in 10 days.

• Carpenters are assigned to work under different Si Fu by their supervisor (day by day).

• Some trades have less interaction with younger workers as most of them are experienced workers, such as a tile ganger or “Cau Ga” who focuses on productivity.

Here are some quotes from Si Fu and their attitude to training:

• We show young workers how to complete the works on the more technical side.

• Young workers learn safety through safety lessons and

supervisors. (Electricians - We show them how to do the work safely. We may cut corners to take some risks but we would not allow young workers to do so.)

• We remind young workers of the dangers at site and warn them during work if we see those dangers. If the works are urgent, we would sometimes not remind them.

• We worry the young workers do not listen so we do not teach them if they are not willing to listen. (Reinforcement fixer: We would teach them if they have a good attitude.

Most youngsters, though, cannot bear the hard work.)

• We are not responsible to teach them because our boss does not require us to do so.

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Quotes from supervisors: • No prerequisite qualifications for them. They become supervisors based on their years of experience (ie lift company training).

• Si Fu do not have any incentive to teach young workers due to the low salary system.

• Si Fu shows me how to paint the wall and asks me to

complete it by the end of day. He then carries out his own tasks and does not monitor the whole process.

• Young workers believe that Si Fu are the better people to teach them safety as supervisors are mainly responsible for arranging the work and production schedule.

• Si Fu’s practical experience cannot be learnt from lessons.

As can be seen from these quotes, the standard of safety and For a carpenter, for example, a Si Fu knows which care varies enormously. The incentive to train properly does not formwork can be installed at which location. exist. This is an institutional problem that can only be dealt with • Si Fu are the ones who know the dangers at site. by industry reform. The Construction Industry Council (CIC) and Development Bureau have a responsibility here to address The reality of the situation on our sites is: these issues from the government standpoint. Developers • The Si Fu are not responsible for safety. They only focus and service providers also have a responsibility through their on how to complete the job on time and not to do corporate social responsibility and sustainability practices. “unnecessary” things.

• Young workers do not have any expectations to learn from Furthermore, other arguments were put forward by the Si Fu as it depends on whether Si Fu are willing to teach, workforce that must be addressed: unless young workers are introduced by someone who is • There are no qualifications required for entering into the familiar to them (such as an “uncle” who looks after them). industry (eg I do not know all of the names of the tools I • Young workers may or may not listen to Si Fu’s instruction am using.). (whether to ignore the rules).

• Workers learn from work except concrete truck drivers • Young carpenters directly communicate with the and other heavy vehicle/machinery operators who Contractor’s supervisors who set up the safety standards require a license. (not through Si Fu. Their boss will be contacted if they still do not follow safety rules).

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So, where does the situation, described in the workers From this brief review of a much larger data-set it is obvious that own words, leave us? the industry has major problems to resolve. The debate must start now with open and frank discussion with the workforce, We appear to have a communication and policy problem: the contractors and consultants and the public and private • Workers have a low safety engagement. Their focus is clients. This is an issue that encompasses moral, corporate mainly safety compliance (in appearance at most). responsibility and sustainability issues. What is needed is a • Communication and policy issues to be addressed: balanced view of the importance of: –– Passive rules - safety compliance (to comply with sets of safety rules wherever they work only).

• Work progress –– Few workers have comments on safety rules (e.g., • Self-awareness working platform can be lighter).

• Working environment –– Limited communication among workers (level of • Societies norms and expectations communication varies from trades).

• Company safety culture –– Reflect on the problems to supervisors and/or • Quality of safety rules and procedures foreman and to be resolved by them.

• The tendering and project awarding system –– There are few channels for reflecting the views. Only a hotline is provided but workers seldom use it.

It is hoped that this article will stimulate discussion, debate –– Safety issues are discussed through monthly safety and, ultimately, change for the good of those strong and brave meetings. (Not all people attend seminars. Workers workers that keep our society thriving and developing through do not have time for training as boss’s emphasis is on the provision of infrastructure. productivity and it would affect our daily salary.).

–– Workers are told to carry out the safety measures, but nobody will see if you do not do them as site inspection is not always able to discover that.

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Gammon Virtual Health and Safety Conference 2021

The Lighthouse Club Hong Kong was pleased to be a supporting organisation with Gammon Construction Limited for their Annual 2021 Health and Safety Conference on Construction Safety Innovation and Technology.

With COVID preventing in person attendance for the second year in a row the conference was organised on a hybrid basis and over 1,536 persons participated online and a small audience of 48, including our own John Battersby, attended in person and had the added benefit of seeing first hand the Smart Immersive Lab and the digital technologies helping to drive innovation and safety at Gammon.

Most importantly 141 Lighthouse Club members were able to join online and whilst some of us may prefer in person events

the conference had no geographic boundaries and our members were able to join from around the region.

The line up of presenters was very impressive and we heard from speakers from Government in both Hong Kong and Singapore on their perspectives, and Kevin Poole of the Airport Authority Hong Kong provided an excellent presentation on the progress of the Third Runway Project. Many of us have not flown for so long we have not seen the airport so the visual images of the progress so far were astonishing.

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Thomas Ho , Chief Executive of Gammon

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Thomas Ho, Chief Executive of Gammon, started the proceedings with a passionate presentation on the role of Leaders in Driving Safety and articulated not one but 11 Silver Bullets which are the lessons from his career.

Thomas is a former winner of the Golden Safety Helmet Award and his passion for safety and “don’t blame the frontline” resonated loudly with the audience.

The conference was not tied to Hong Kong and Prof Helen Lingard shared the Australian Construction industry experience on the importance of Clients leading the way, including how commercial frameworks shape H&S outcomes. I’m sure many of our QS members learnt a fair deal or felt slightly uncomfortable with the challenges set out by Helen. The Australian Contractors Association had partnered with governments to create a taskforce on Culture Standards that will, when finalised, form part of government procurement requirements.

The conference then proceeded to the other side of the world and we were able to hear from Prof Billy Hare from Glasgow Caledonian University on the historical role of Construction, Design and Management in the UK and how key milestones with the CDM legislation have helped reduce risk and construction fatal accidents.

Comparison was shown on major amendments to the legislation and how in 2015 increased sentencing guidelines whilst imposing higher fines had not

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demonstrated any reduction in accidents. With various institutions in Hong Kong calling for increased penalties this was a good example on how we should actually mandate Construction, Design and Management in law rather than a guide.

Chairman and Life Member of the Lighthouse Club Hong Kong, Robert Gordon, shared with the audience the Club’s role in Safety, Charity and Fellowship. Robert was able to share and promote the Club from social and fundraising activities to how the benevolent fund and education trusts provide financial help for education and financial support for those from our industry in hardship.

It was a very informative afternoon and we would like to thank Gammon and all the presenters and supporting organisations for such a professional event: the British Chamber of Commerce Construction Industry Group, IOSH Hong Kong Branch, Lighthouse Club Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Federation of Occupational Safety and Health Associations, Hong Kong Occupational Safety and Health Association, Hilti and Makita.

Tony Small Chair, Lighthouse Club HK Safety Sub Committee

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From across the ages and around the globe Former Taylor Woodrow International Engineers share their stories

Steve Tennant, who is known personally if not only by name to most Lighthouse Club members, spent a good part of his early career with Taylor Woodrow International (TWI) in Oman, Nigeria and London and is very proud to inform members of the publication of two limited edition books which have been produced by a few of his ex-TWI colleagues.

The first, entitled “The Golden Years of Taylor Woodrow International” sold out and is now available only as a pdf file, together with the soon to be released second book “Teamwork Overseas”. Both books feature many interesting and often amusing TWI stories from around the globe during the years 1957 to 1996.

The following are extracts from the book, “Teamwork Overseas” by John Addiscott, David Knowles, Rod Northway, Derek Piper, Mike Watkinson and Karen Randall, reproduced in “The Lighthouse” with their kind permission.

Enquiries concerning the book should be directed to John Addiscott at john@addiscott.net

Taylor Woodrow was established in 1921 by Frank Taylor who started off by building two houses in Blackpool, England. Following the end of World War II, the company expanded into the Middle East, East and West Africa as a major civil engineering and infrastructure firm, with particular emphasis across rail, highways and energy sectors.

Taylor Woodrow International was eventually subsumed into Taylor Woodrow Construction Limited which, after several mergers, was bought by VINCI Construction UK Limited and most of the overseas activities now operate under the VINCI name.

Below are a couple of extracts from “Teamwork Overseas” featuring experiences from Russia and Oman. Other Lighthouse Club members, either ex-employees or associated with TWI through other firms, may recognise some of the names.

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The Saratov Cigarette Factory, British American Tobacco and the Big Red Fire Engine Chris Irwin-Childs The British American Tobacco (BAT) factory project was designed to create a modern cigarette factory producing State 555 brand cigarettes by converting a rundown cigarette factory in Saratov. The cigarettes that they had been producing would lose their tobacco if they weren’t kept horizontal - the tobacco would simply fall out!

The project was set up and managed from BAT’s Office in Woking, which eased liaison, but tended to seriously underestimate the difficulties encountered on site. Even by TWI’s entrepreneurial standards this was an unusual project – our job was to take over a worn-out building and make it fit to support a modern production facility – I would have preferred to demolish it! The exterior of the building was to be retained so as not to attract attention.

announcements at the airport were only in Russian. Boarding was like getting onto a train – it was packed. There was luggage in the aisle and it took me a while to find somewhere to sit, by which time the aircraft was taxiing.

The aircraft appeared to be in need of maintenance. As if to test the aircraft, the pilot was abrupt with the controls – very sensible – I thought he was testing the worn tyres so that if they were going to fail it would be whilst we were on the ground. But no – the rally driving style continued after we were airborne.

Apparently, Aeroflot pilots were ex-military.

BAT were a special client. We went to site in February 1995 but didn’t sign the contract until that August – by which time the machinery was in and the scope of work defined – BAT were pleased and asked us to bid for their next plant, in Samarkand.

Saratov is a city on the north bank of the Volga 800km southeast of Moscow. The Volga narrows to a mere 3km wide at Saratov where there is a bridge crossing - the longest bridge in the Soviet Union at the time. We were told that in most winters it was possible to drive across the river on the ice. The city dates back to the14th century.

The Aeroflot flight to Saratov from Moscow Sheremetyevo domestic airport was interesting – unsurprisingly all the signs and

It had a strong industrial base but appeared to be dormant and the area generally was very run down. BAT had found the site

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here in order to establish production away from the Moscow mafia. BAT were well aware that they were creating “currency” so the process had to be secure, as well as the factory itself had to be secure.

Converting the factory itself to be ready to install modern Italian machines was a real challenge – we had negligible information about the building or its services, but we knew to be cautious.

One particular feature of the building was a semi basement with an elegant brick arch roof carried on a single central column – which we found had no foundation at all! Foundations were weak generally and the building shook as the trams passed. It didn’t help that the tram rails were loose which added to the vibrations.

Apart from the project, there was little else to interest the team in Saratov. They were all losing weight because they couldn’t get food in the evenings after work. To overcome this, we arranged for the site canteen to provide an early evening meal for the team, which also helped to curtail unnecessarily long working days.

Expat accommodation was in apartments. The apartment I stayed in was one of the better ones. It was three floors up and some of the stair treads were completely missing from the stone staircase - and the stairwell light went off after 60 seconds! – Saratov roulette?

On my return trip I had arranged to have a quick look around Moscow. Unfortunately, my driver seemed to have completely lost the ability to change gear. So, we limped to McDonalds for breakfast – it was the most welcome meal of my life – I was ravenous.

Feeling much better we limped out to Moscow International Airport, Domodedovo, in second gear. I spent a pleasant working day in the airport where the signs were in English, refreshments were available, there were decent toilets and hard currency was accepted without question.

The evening Aeroflot flight back to Heathrow had some undertones of their domestic operation.

The pilot was not gentle, cabin service was erratic, the movie was turned off long before it had finished. The passengers all applauded when we had all the wheels on Heathrow tarmac – thinking back to my domestic flight experiences the applause was a vote of thanks to a higher authority than Aeroflot!

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Dennis MacDaid In the earlier book of TWI adventures, Keith Gibbons wrote ‘Into the USSR (1987-2000)’ which included a little piece about the contract to refurbish the existing Saratov Cigarette Factory and add new facilities to increase production. It brought back my own particular memories of the Project.

The job was well underway when I took over as the Director responsible for our Russian activities. I knew the Project Manager Jack Headland, also known to many as John, from our days together in Oman and in the USA, where Jack ran projects in Florida.

Keith, as the London Manager, was an old hand in the Russian operations and I was the novice. Keith was a good teacher. He taught what to take on visits in a hard shell, well locked, suitcase to facilitate free movement through the appropriate dissemination of gifts; how to ensure when travelling by train that your case, documents and money were not nicked by locals putting you to sleep with gas in your carriage; how to carry sufficient funds in US dollars in a very safe space about your person in order that you could get to Saratov by other means on those occasions when the local Russian airline dumped you off 250km from Saratov at a decrepit air terminal with 6 feet of snow where no-one spoke English.

My first visit to Saratov was by train from Moscow Leningradsky Railway Station. Keith had arranged in advance to get me a compartment on my own which was hard to do and I was very grateful. Saratov is about 850 km south east of Moscow. I settled in and started looking out of the window; nothing to see but silver birch trees along the track.

The reasons for these were two-fold :1. The trees assist in raising wind-blown snow up over the tracks keeping them clear - clever.

2.Stalin had ordered the planting of silver birches at each side of the track so no one could see anything when travelling. He did send a lot of people down this line to Kazakhstan!

I started wandering up and down the train to explore a bit. It was reasonably well appointed but tired. The train only went at around 50km an hour because the tracks and undercarriage were equally knackered. There was a lady in every carriage running a big Samovar for tea. It was available 24/7 - a smile was not included with the service. I noticed the train timetable on the wall and tried to see how many stations we would stop at on route. There were at least 15 stops on the timetable and it was a while before I found that

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Saratov was the third stop en route to Al Maty, Kazakhstan, some 4000 km from Moscow. My journey was 17 hours; to Kazakhstan it would be another 3 days!!

This was, I think, mid-summer 1995 and things were bad in Russia.

I remember the train stopping at the first station where the tracks and platform were lined with Russians of all ages, both men and women, holding up personal possessions and items of food for sale. It was very disturbing. They had nothing and were selling everything to raise a rouble or two.

I eventually arrived in Saratov station and was met by Jack Headland. He looked after me and the next morning we went to the site. The existing factory had been in operation for about 100 years and had not had a lot of maintenance. It was being systematically refurbished while the new factory extension was being built. The job was behind schedule for a number of differing reasons. Jack was confident he could get it back on track but there was a serious issue with labour.

Our work force was nearly all Russian, good time served tradesmen and they were being very well paid by local standards but they would just not do any overtime. It was hard to understand.

Jack was explaining the issue to me in the works canteen and with an interpreter one of the Russians was asked why no overtime. This Russian carpenter said :“It is summer now. Winter is coming and if I do not spend the time at my dacha [allotment] growing my beets, potatoes and pickling my cucumbers, cabbages and other things I will have no food for winter. The shops will have nothing to sell in winter and the extra roubles for overtime will be of no use then.”

It was a revelation.

After a lot of brainstorming, Jack decided to employ more men and work shifts to get more resources on to the site. It was difficult because once it got cold on site there was a real space constraint on just how many men could work efficiently inside. However, he got the job came back on programme.

Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Saratov was designated a “closed city”, off-limits to all foreigners due to its military importance as the site of a vital facility manufacturing military aircraft. Our supervisors were a welcome novelty. They were foreigners, westerners, with plenty of cash on the hip, wore blue

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jeans, played western music and enjoyed a beer. There was a street in Saratov called Nemetskaya Ulitsa, or ‘German Street’, a favoured venue for all the parents and daughters, watched by their brothers, to promenade of an evening. I have never in my life seen so many beautiful young women in one area.

Needless to say, our ex-pat Supervisors picked a bar with the best views of the action as their watering hole. A number of romances developed and some of our guys never came back!

However, Saratov was not ready for our next import. Jack had asked for and we provided, a full M&E crew flown in from Taylor Woodrow Towell, Oman. Plumbers, Electricians, AC Mechanics etc. These were Indians, Sri Lankans with a few Pakistanis mixed in.

Being a closed-city the locals had never seen such people in the flesh before. They became very popular with the local ladies and some did become Russians and made their lives there.

I visited a few times and always enjoyed the experience. At the time of my last visit a problem had developed with final handover to the client. In Russia, like the USA, the fire certificate for a completed contract is complicated. The inspections are very comprehensive

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and the local bureaucracies, civil authorities, fire services, local militias, Police, civil defence and the like all have a say.

All was under control by our guys on the project and the Client, except for the OK from the local Fire Chief. He would not budge.

He had endless issues. After a lot of digging and delving and enquiring it emerged that the Fire Chief had attended some Fire Chiefs’ seminars in the UK, a fact he was very proud of. It then emerged that he had a great admiration for the Dennis Fire Engine he loved the big brass bell!

We realised the key to getting a fire certificate was in our own hands. With the Client assisting and the particular sourcing and selection skills of a very seasoned TWI plant man, John Charman, a fine, polished and shining fire engine was delivered to the Fire Station in Saratov.

The Fire Certificate was issued and the project was handed over.

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The Road to Saiq Colin Brady It started one sunny morning in Bukha, on Oman’s Musandam Peninsula with urgent instructions to fly down to Ruwi – Terry Tobin, the Production Manager wanted to see me. Only the instruction to pack light and bring my boots were a clue that I wasn’t in trouble again, but you couldn’t be too sure with Terry. That afternoon, admitted by the wonderful Mrs. “Marg” Tobin to the big man’s lair, I learnt that he and I were leaving that evening to stay at Birkat al Mauz, 150 km into the interior of Oman. The following morning, we were going to hike up the Jebel Akhdar (the Green Mountain) to mark out a road for a detailed survey. I knew Birkat well, it was where Taylor Woodrow Towell (TWT) were building a school, but other than it was very hot, I knew little about the Jebel Akhdar. In the 1950’s, the inland of Oman paid little attention to Sultan Taimur, father of the late Sultan Qaboos, in Muscat, and elected Imam Ghalib as their own leader based in Nizwa on the edge of the Empty Quarter. Aided by British forces, the power of the Imam was steadily eroded by the Sultan’s army until his remaining followers retreated to Saiq, 2000 metres above sea level in the inaccessible highlands of the Jebel Akhdar. In 1959, a daring SAS raid scaled the cliffs to Saiq and captured the area, ending the rebellion and securing Northern Oman as part of the Sultanate.

Saiq was thereafter a military base, accessed only by steep pathways and supplied by helicopter or Skyvan STOL aircraft.

In July 1977, government interest in developing the area, partly to ensure it remained supportive of Sultan Qaboos, led to Rod Northway, Chief Engineer, securing a contract for TWT to carry out an initial reconnaissance of a potential road link to Saiq. This would be followed up by an aerial survey and then detailed land survey. The hope was that this might lead to a project for TWT, but the initial work had to be completed within a few days before an inspection flight by the government minister concerned – hence the tearing hurry to get moving.

TWT’s substantial first attempt had run into problems due to the heat in the mountains at that time of year. Terry therefore decided that a small group, travelling very light, would be a better approach.

Unfortunately for him (but fortunately for me) we couldn’t achieve much by a night attack, scaling the cliffs – we had to work in daylight and needed donkeys to carry paint to mark out the aerial control points, together with water and our meagre rations, so our hike was planned for two days to climb up, and one day back.

We drove to Birkat al Mauz and met our donkey drivers. They

agreed to load up and meet us at dawn at the entrance to the main wadi going up to Saiq. Daybreak came all too quickly and we were soon ambling along with the donkeys and guides up the wadi between cliffs rising 300 metres to left and right. Then the sun rose and we started to cook as the heat reflected off the red sandstone walls.

I had been equipped by Rod with a small altimeter and was instructed to create numbered markers which would be visible in a subsequent air survey, such that the control points could be examined by a photogrammetrist, collated with the measured altitude and used to produce a reasonably accurate initial map. As we started to climb up out of the wadi, I put these markers down at the required 200 metre vertical intervals, clearing an area with the help of the team, assembling white painted stones in a circle about 4 metres across.

After some very hard going, we got above the steepest climb and had the benefit of a breeze to cool us down a bit. We rewarded ourselves for having got out of the cliffs by stopping for lunch.

The peace of the afternoon was interrupted by a whup, whup noise, and a Police helicopter suddenly swooped overhead – what came next was straight out of a Biggles book. The chopper threw down a tin with a ribbon attached – in it was a “Private and Confidential” letter for me from Western House. Marg Tobin must have thought it might be important so arranged for it to be delivered by a slightly diverted Police flight – such was the power of the Tobins. Sadly, this document, delivered at such effort and cost, was a Staff Recovery bill for flowers bought on my behalf for my girlfriend, and now wife, Anna, - it’s the thought that counts.

After a very long afternoon, we both ran out of steam and were taken to a well-used waypoint on the track, clearly well known to our guides and their animals. We all camped for the night,

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crammed in a shallow cave in a cliff. Our bedding, selected by Terry, was a black bin-bag each – which had the disadvantage of being extremely hot and excruciatingly uncomfortable on the hard ground, but at least it didn’t burden the poor donkeys too much.

Morning arrived and off we went. According to our Omani colleagues, and given the limits of our translation ability, our route took us close to a spot known as Wadi Venom, where an RAF Venom fighter bomber had crashed in 1958 whilst conducting ground attacks on the Imam’s forces. We contemplated a diversion to pay our respects, but decided to press on.

At about 10:00 a.m., a pre-arranged Omani Airforce chopper arrived overhead with a resupply of paint and water. The ground was too broken for it to land, so it was necessary for one of us to be winched up and fly forward a couple of kilometres until a suitable landing point, was located. Terry magnanimously let me have the honour of taking the chopper ride. What he didn’t know was the crewman had a jug of iced water – I drank about half a gallon in the 2-minute flight. Back on the ground with the chopper departed, I confidently led off towards my chosen landing point, distinguished (from the air) by a steep conical rock.

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Needless to say, it turned out to be amongst a jumble of identical steep conical rocks and took ages to find – more-or-less by accident, we stumbled on the cache, having spent 2 hours to travel what took no time in the helo.

Replenished with paint, my circles took on a new richness. As we approached Saiq, we said goodbye to the donkey men and their excellent animals, asking them to keep the paint as a remembrance of our trip.

The last couple of kilometres were easy going and we marched up to the Omani Air Force mess at Saiq. The pilots, who were mostly Brits keeping their flying hours up, were extremely hospitable and the beer flowed unstintingly. They were mightily impressed that we had walked up (although the locals do it every day) and entertained us very well.

Our hosts very kindly flew us down to Birkat in the morning and the adventure over. Unfortunately, government policy changed and no construction contract was forthcoming, although the road was built a few years later.

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Q & A Kuala Lumpur Committee Lighthouse Club Kuala Lumpur recently launched their TARCLighthouse Club Kuala Lumpur Student Fund Loan via webinar.

“The Lighthouse” caught up with their new President, Pui Mun Teoh and Secretary, Cindy Wong, who were both involved:

Q. A lot of planning went into this event which has been in the making for some time – how did you manage to keep the various Committees over the years as enthusiastic about the initiative now as they were at the outset?

Teoh Pui Mun: Previous committee had spent 7 years to set up the Student Loan Fund, allowing us to help many underprivileged students. I thought it was a good idea to recognise the achievement of previous committees. It was their effort that led us to where we are today.

The first step I took was to pitch my idea to past presidents. Initially, they wanted a small zoom launch. But I managed to get their buy-in.

Everyone was very supportive, even though some thought I was a little too ambitious to get LHC International and other branches involved. I was lucky to have Cindy and L2 i-CON to help out with the entire planning of the virtual event. My job is to make sure I gather everyone involved worldwide to be part of this celebration.

The virtual launch of the student loan fund was impactful as we managed to gather over 3500 views worldwide. Our members now see what we are capable of achieving. They have more trust in the leadership of the committee.

We recently set up a LHC KL Mentors group, inviting all previous presidents to participate in the group. The aim is to get them as involved as possible. They are not really on the outset, even though they have left the main committee but they are still part of LHC KL and together we can achieve more. We have also invited 2 past presidents to be the wardens of the student loan fund, ensuring the fund is properly utilised.

Cindy Wong: We have very strong supports from the committee throughout the years. TARC-Lighthouse Club Student Loan Fund is a great initiative to begin with. My involvement in the virtual launch from planning, coordination with hosts and various guests from LHC International and branches worldwide as well as leading the production team is a celebration to the continuous efforts from our LHC KL’s members and past committees to put up the TARCLighthouse Club Student Loan Fund.

Q. What made you select TARC (Tunku Abdul Rahman University College) and its students in particular?

Teoh Pui Mun: Previous committee had selected TAR UC because of its esteem reputation in Malaysia. TARC is one of the largest and oldest institutions of higher learning in Malaysia with over 210,000 students having passed through its door. TAR UC further provides a variety of financial aid to students.

They have the facilities and resources to filter and select applicants according to our requirements, to help those pursuing construction-related courses and students with families from the construction background.

Teoh Pui Mun, President

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Q. How many students are you planning to assist and over how long?

Teoh Pui Mun: As many as possible. The Student Loan Fund is an interest-free loan. Students will return the loan when they start their careers.

Repaid loans will allow us to support more students. We may also consider topping up more funds in the future.

Q. This was a first of its kind event, how many viewers did you have for the live event and how many since?

Christian Swift, Vice President

Cindy Wong: The Virtual Launch of the TARC-Lighthouse Club Student Loan Fund has gathered more than 3500 views since its live premiering. online, in which laptops have become an essential item for primary and secondary school students. The futures of our younger Q. How many new members/potential members do generation should not be affected by the lack of the learning tools. you think you have gained from this webinar?

We wish to help to support our younger generation’s education need during a challenging time such as this.

Teoh Pui Mun: Since the launched we have many enquiries, we potentially will The branch also has a new Committee and the be able to convert 20 new members from the event. magazine was keen to find out more:

Q. What will be the next benevolence initiative for the Kuala Lumpur branch?

Teoh Pui Mun: We will be launching Sharing Is Caring 2.0 to raise funds.

Fundraised will be used to buy laptops for primary and secondary school students whose parents from the construction industry cannot afford to do so. This aid allows kids to proceed with online classes despite the pandemic.

Cindy Wong: We are launching Caring is Sharing 2.0, a laptop sponsorship charitable drive for underprivileged primary and secondary school students within the construction community. The Caring is Sharing 2.0 is a continuity of the Caring is Sharing 1.0 initiative, to help those from the construction industry affected by the Covid-19 pandemic and the various Movement Control Orders (MCO) implemented in Malaysia – So far, this programme has successfully fed many families in the construction community and is still ongoing. Today, the Covid-19 pandemic has also resulted in many schools being closed and classes have to be conducted

Cindy Wong: President Teoh Pui Mun, teoh@speedbrick.com Vice President Christian Swift, christian.swift@plus3.international Secretary Cindy Wong, cindy@wongxienyee.com Asst. Secretary Sandra Lee, sandra@plus3.international Treasurer Rachel Ng, rachel@entrusty.com Committee Members Daniel Alcon, alconsworld@gmail.com, Leong Hong Kit, hongkit@mac-consultant.asia Kody Kato, kody@officede.co

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Christian Swift Over 21 years of international experience, having supported clients on projects globally in new and advanced construction industries.

Cindy Wong Virtual event hosting, project planning and coordination.

Sandra Lee I think I can bring my experience in the social media management as well as marketing – to help to grow LHC KL Social presence by building more brand awareness. In addition to that, to assist on the virtual events hosted by LHCKL committee.

Cindy Wong, Secretary

Q. What are some of the President’s main aims during his/her current tenure?

Teoh Pui Mun: We only have 2 major focus for the next 12 months. Firstly, increase individual and corporate members of the club. Secondly, focus on charity work. We will also modernise the club, make it easier for people to participate. As we will not be able to carry out physical events, we will focus on virtual networking. We also aim to have more cross branches activities allowing our members to network across different branches.

Q. In what way will the new VP support the executive during their tenure Christian Swift: Offer new ideas and experience gained from working within a variety of construction industries globally. Support the President and the committee increase its members and sponsors by promoting the club’s foundation and aspirations for future growth.

Q. What unique experience do you bring to the LHCKL committee?

Teoh Pui Mun I run a construction software company, my team is good with technology, my experience will allow me to influence the committee in using digital tool, in hope to modernise the way the committee operates.

Rachel Ng Younger generation that could operate the society inline with the current new technology, including bring new ideas for adopting e-banking system for fund collections, e-membership registration system etc.

Daniel Alcon Almost 30 years of committee experience starting in 1992 when I was a founder member of the RICS Riyadh Branch Committee.

I was also co-founder in 2003 (and Chairman for 5 years) of the RICS UAE Branch which, incidentally, was formed in the same venue that the LHC Abu Dhabi regularly meets, i.e., the Club in Abu Dhabi.

Kody Kato I am an architect focused on performance oriented design. I have about 10 years of international experience working/studying in Japan, Korea and the US. Leong Hong Kit I think I can bring my experience in hosting virtual event to the LHCKL committee.

Q. During your tenure what is one thing you would like to do to advance the LHC KL? Teoh Pui Mun Digitalise membership registration and renewal.

Christian Swift Improve social interaction and the variety of social activities.

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Cindy Wong Simplify internal processes on membership registration and renewal, communication with members and LHC events.

Sandra Lee Due to the ongoing pandemic, the Malaysian construction industry are facing many challenges and uncertainties such as delays in project timeline, cash flow to health and safety issues.

Sandra Lee I would like to help LHC KL to advance by creating more engaging contents or campaigns across all social medias – This will help to increase our followers, i.e. bringing in new members to LHC KL.

Rachel Ng Disruption of cash flow due to uncertainty and irregularity created by the Government. No clear guidelines/enforcement on both time and cost impact.

Rachel Ng To propose to the committee for e-banking system for fund collections etc.

Daniel Alcon My primary task is going to be the updating of our constitution.

Kody Kato Membership

Daniel Alcon Coming out of Covid19 lockdowns and getting back to work, particularly with respect to material supply chain which is an essential ingredient of getting construction back on track but may be looked on by the government as a different industry.

Kody Kato Corruption Leong Hong Kit Due to the ongoing pandemic, the Malaysian construction industry are facing many challenges and uncertainties from a wide range of problems from cash flow to health and safety issue.

Leong Hong Kit I would like to help LHC KL to advance by creating more activities so that LHC KL can reach more people within the construction industry.

Q. What is the most critical support that LHC KL

Q. What are some of the greatest challenges facing the construction industry in Malaysia currently?

Teoh Pui Mun Help construction companies get access to vaccines. LHC KL joined forces with 35 other associations in Malaysia and wrote

can offer the local construction market?

Teoh Pui Mun Malaysia entered into full lockdown since 1 June 2021.

Construction industry is not allowed to operate. We are foreseeing many disputes and cashflow challenges.

Christian Swift Disrupted supply chains and operational restrictions caused by the pandemic and the governments intervention to control the spread of the COVID-19 disease. Rising cost of materials and shortage in skilled labor due to increasing global demand and the repatriation of experienced expatriate resource.

Cindy Wong Health and safety, cash flow, time management in project, fluctuation of raw material costs, etc.

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a letter to the Prime Minister Office, some of the ask is to help construction companies gained access to vaccines. This will help the industry to reopen safely.

Christian Swift Continuing to support students from underprivileged backgrounds through the TARC-Lighthouse Club Student Loan Fund, key speeches and knowledge sharing.

Cindy Wong Connecting people within the construction industry and support each other. Together, we are stronger. Together, we can contribute more to the construction community and together, we can make a difference.

Sandra Lee I think LHC KL can serve as a platform, nothing but for goodwill to reach out to those who are in dire need (in the construction circle) of a trusted organisation’s help and support to them and also, maintaining members/people within the construction industry to stay connected.

Rachel Ng Continue in supporting the workers in need and take proactive action in raising campaign and promoting LHC KL by sponsoring construction related events.

Daniel Alcon Continuing to support construction industry students, the leaders of tomorrow, during these particularly difficult times, both monetarily and academically by sharing the wealth of knowledge that our group possesses with them.

Kody Kato Education Leong Hong Kit I think LHC KL can serve as a platform to keep people within the construction industry connected.

Sandra Lee, Asst. Secretary

From left to right: Committee Members- Daniel Alcon, Kody Kato, Leong Hong Kit

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Lighthouse Club out to build on successful assistance drives

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he Lighthouse Club has helped dozens of young Cambodians go on to enjoy rewarding careers in construction – and it is looking to transform even more lives. In its 11th year of providing charitable assistance in the construction sector, the Lighthouse Club Cambodia enjoyed a record fund-raising event at Royal Cambodia Phnom Penh Golf Club on 13 February 2021.

More than 60 players took part in the 6th Annual Charity Golf Day, making this year the largest event so far, with the money raised set to support ten students through a year of construction-related education, covering tuition and living costs.

“Since its inception, the principal aims of the club have been to support less well-off young Cambodians through education, help injured construction workers and promote good fellowship and co-operation among its members”, said Lighthouse co-Chairman, Kerr Thomson.

Student assistance has come mainly from one of the international charitable Trusts set up in Hong Kong in the 1990s and funded by the various branches through the events each branch holds throughout a year.

“The Lighthouse Club Cambodia has now financially supported more than 50 students who have either completed or are currently studying for their university degrees in construction-related subjects. All have gone on to gain employment within the construction industry.

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We have also provided financial assistance to the families of a number of construction workers who have been badly injured on building sites. The Lighthouse Club Cambodia’s funds come from events such as the Annual Golf Day and networking evenings. These also provide a great opportunity for members of the construction and related industries in Cambodia to further their business connections and contacts.

The club would like to thank the many sponsors of this event, including Evermore – the main event sponsor – Chip Mong/Khmer Beverages, Hongkong Land, Knight Frank,

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COVA, Soksiphana and Associations, Coldwell Banker, CBRE and many more,” Thomson said.

Chhom Chhy, from Preah Vihear province – who studied Electrical Engineering at the National Technical Training Institute (NTTI) – is one such young Cambodian now enjoying a rewarding career in construction thanks to Lighthouse Club Cambodia. “I highly appreciate the support I received from the Lighthouse Club that helped me for the duration of my university studies, assisting me with the payment of my tuition fees and providing a monthly living allowance. Now I work at COVA Thinking as an electrical engineer. I hope that the Lighthouse Club will be able to continue supporting under-privileged students so they, like me, will have the opportunity to continue their university studies,” the 26 year-old said.

The Lighthouse Club Cambodia Annual Golf Day attracted players from many major entities in the Cambodian construction sector, such as Michael Freeman, Vice-President Contracting at innovating engineering solutions provider Comin Khmere, which sponsored the first hole.

“Comin Khmere has been in Cambodia for some 30 years, and we have sponsored the Lighthouse Club Golf Day every year since the first back in 2014. We have sponsored a variety of Lighthouse events, and we are happy to associate our brand with the type of work Lighthouse carries out in the sector – trying to improve industry standards, improve education and giving more young Cambodian people access to entering the construction industry as engineers and architects, for example.

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golfer! We take on engineering sponsored by Lighthouse as it is part of the Comin ethos to bring more and more Cambodians into our organisation as the Kingdom develops,” Freeman said. And Lighthouse events secretary, Brenden McNally, said Lighthouse was eager to transform the lives of even more less well-off young Cambodians.

“All of our supported students have successfully completed their construction-related degrees, and all have gone on to gain employment within the construction industry. We currently have a number of former students working at international constructions firms based in Cambodia. We have two who are presently working for COVA, the leading multidisciplinary design engineering, quantity surveying and project management consultancy, for example. We are looking at also providing assistance for students who wish to study vocational courses as well as university degrees. And while we are pleased with what we have achieved in such a short time, we really want more people to take advantage of the educational support we provide. Contacting Lighthouse Club Cambodia will be the first step towards a rewarding career in construction,” McNally said.

The bulk of this article originally appeared in the Phnom Penh Post on 23 February 2021.

Students interested in joining the Lighthouse Club Cambodia’s scholarship programme, or individuals or companies who would like to join Lighthouse and help develop the future of the Cambodian construction sector should contact admin@lighthouseclubcambodia.org.

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A Busy Quarter for Australia Apr il Brisbane's April event was a networking event hosted by Subsea. We heard from Ed Korber, Managing Director of Subsea, who told us about some of the critical missions Subsea have been involved in such as recovery of shipping containers and vessels across the globe. The event was well attended with several new members which was pleasing to see. We also welcomed some members that have recently relocated to Brisbane so it was a great way for them to meet new people and start to build a network in Brisbane.

In April, Sydney completed our very first sponsored walk which was sponsored by Contract & Commercial Resources, Plus 3 and Four Point Five. The team walked from Cronulla to the Wanda Surf Club and finished off with a well-deserved drin k and nibbles. Great work all! A video summar y of the event can be viewed here: Relive 'Lighthouse Club Wal k' May In May, The Lighthouse Club Australia joined forces with The Nationa l Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) for a Panel Discussion entitled "Power to overcome" with an impressive panel including Meg Redwin, General Counsel, Executive Director of Multiple, Jane Sandilands, Chief Legal Office of Veolia Australia & New Zea land and Catrina Cresswell, General Counsel of Sydney Metro. They discussed including topics such as leadership, diversity within the construction industry and sustainabilit y.

It was a great turnout and was streamed online. Attendees also had time for some networking and refreshments after wards.

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Our Perth branch enjoyed a networking event on Thursday, 27 May in a new location at Elizabeth Quay in Perth. The sponsor for the event was Clifford Chance. The next event for our Perth branch on 8 July is a CPD event where Phil Adams from IC&R Adv isor y has kind ly offered to prov ide training on Cost Control and Reporting.

In the first session, Phil will spea k about the budget and budget management.

The second session will cover prog ress payments, cash flow, and claims.

June Brisbane held their latest CPD event on 24 June which was a first "Panel Discussion" style event for the branch.

The topic was "Time Bars - A panoramic view" and we were luck y enough to have some great panelists including Mei Ying Barnes (Barrister at Level Twenty Seven Chambers), Kirsty Smith ( Special Counsel at Holding Red lich), Craig Hor ton (Senior Contracts Administrator at Hindmarsh) and our Australian Club President, Pau l Roberts (Managing Director at Secretariat).

The panel discussion was facil itated

by Julian Hemmes (Director at Aston Consult) who were the sponsor of this event. A special than ks also to Holding Red lich for hosting the event. A recording of the event is avai lable by request.

Due to Cov id-19 the June Sydney event was postponed and took place on 27 July instead. The event was a presentation 'Case for an Australian Playbook" delivered by Jon Dav ies of Australian Constructors Association followed by networking.

The Bal l is Back!

Brisbane Chapter is pleased to advise our ann ual ball is back! We are currently busy planning this year’s ball which will be held at Southbank Emporium on 13 November. There are plenty of sponsorship opportunities at a variety of ratesplease contact us for more information on info@lighthouseclubaus.org

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Members hit the links for Bangkok fundraiser

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angkok Lighthouse Club has continued to hold its regular golfing fund raising events. We really appreciate the continued support of our sponsor Tellus Storage System. We also managed one Late Lunch and evening get together. Our members have been extremely supportive with their continued attendances to our events as well as our sponsors for the last quarter, namely Radcon Thailand and Ideal Fine Food & Wine Importers.

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Macau talks safety at well-attended get-togethers

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n April, Decora Art & Colour Macau hosted the monthly Lighthouse Club gathering at St. Regis Hotel’s Level 8 Pool Deck and Decora also used the opportunity to help promote a number of local SMEs: Moo Ice Cream, Mu Art & Beauty, Sugar Town & Blissful Carrot, which was a great endeavour to connect the construction community with other businesses and allow the latter the opportunity to understand the endeavour of the Lighthouse Club and the continued message of site safety.

May’s event was hosted by China Construction Engineering (Macau) Company Limited at the Sheraton Hotel Jaya Pool Deck. The Annual Dinner was also held at the end of May at the usual Feast venue in the Sheraton Hotel, which was a well attended event and the attendees celebrated late into the night. Thanks must go to various companies that made the event possible.

Gold Sponsors – BCI Worldwide Asia (Macau); Circle Engineering Co., Ltd; Genyield Construction Co., Ltd; Junpam Engineering Co. Ltd; Min Da Construction & Engineering Co., Ltd; San Fong Seng Construction & Engineering Co., Ltd; Sundart Holdings Ltd; Tong Lei Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd; Top Builder Group Ltd. Silver Sponsors – BCA (Macau) Ltd; BSC Group Ltd; Guarforce Engineering Consultant Ltd; MdME Lawyers; Pat Davie (Macau) Ltd. Bronze Sponsors – ALTITECH Macau Ltd; ATMAssociated Technologies Macau Ltd; Securitas Security Services (Macau) Ltd; Skyway Building Materials Co., Ltd. The above companies continued support of the Lighthouse Club, as well as the other companies that host and also attend the monthly gatherings, is what has made our monthly events so enjoyable as well as being meaningful in raising both monies and awareness of site safety.

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Cocktailinmaking Women Construction event Shake It Up!

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he Lighthouse Club Hong Kong Women in Construction group organised a cocktail making workshop on 30 June 2021, prior to the 1 July Public Holiday. This was our first face-to-face event since the Covid pandemic took hold and we were delighted to receive so many enquiries about the event.

However, due to the current situation, we had to limit the number of participants.

The night started with a brief introduction of “Regal & Fallon” from its founder, the lovely Sue Ann, who provided us all with a delicious little taster. Established in 2020 with an aim to provide affordable and accessible cocktails with mostly fresh and natural ingredients, Regal and Fallon offer a unique cocktail service including catering to parties, junk trips etc and creating cocktails for special events such as weddings etc.

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A short presentation on the origins of the word “cocktail” and some fun-filled factoids followed – who knew there was a cocktail called a “Tom and Jerry”? – and then it was on to mixing our own. Each participant was gifted with a cocktail shaker and shown a thing or two about how to shake properly! Fortunately, we weren’t expected to do any shaking during this workshop which was just as well given that one of the ingredients was prosecco..

We mixed our cocktail using fruit jelly, Earl Grey tea, infused vodka, prosecco, lemon zest and dried strawberries. By the time everybody had used up all of their prosecco there was definitely a holiday atmosphere. A lucky draw sponsored by “Regal and Fallon” also delighted a few of the participants. Overall, it was great to reconnect face-to-face with both existing and new members. We hope everyone had a lovely evening and are looking forward to our next event.

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Hong Kong Get Togethers are back to the future!!

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he Lighthouse Club Hong Kong enjoyed a bumper turn-out at Rula Live in the heart of Lang Kwai Fong on Thursday 10 June. It was the third social event since restrictions were eased and boy, was it good to be out! 80+ fun lovers joined in, all following current social distancing rules of course. We had our very own DJ, Bryce Templeton, in the house, winning the crowd with more than just stonking music!

It was great to see so many familiar faces, some from months gone by, when fun was temporarily banished, and some from even years gone by; a big thank you for continuing to support the club!

An even bigger thank you to our sponsor for the evening, Hill Dickinson, an international commercial law firm www.hilldickinson.com. Thank you speeches were delivered with military precision - well we can’t have them drifting on can we?!

Drinks tokens were a plenty, yummy snacks were a plenty, the last of the party goers easing out of the door just ahead of curfew!

Thank you to the patient and attentive staff at Rula. Richard Lyons and the rest of the Hill Dickinson team were super pleased with the event, appreciating its potential for business brand awareness as well as a fantastic way to support the local construction industry.

Would-be sponsors for future monthly get togethers are strongly encouraged to get in touch with Richard on richard@ maximrecruitment.com but please don’t dally as the slots are filling fast!!

AND…..talking of would be sponsors….we enjoyed yet another fantastic evening at Rula Live on Friday 16 July courtesy of our latest sponsor Pi Construction. Thank you so much to Sandra Lu and Tony Miller for stepping

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up, sponsoring the drinks and snacks and doing a mighty fine job of representing the blooming specialist sub-contractor.

A similar format for the evening was adopted (grab a drink and have a chat with some of your industry friends and colleagues you haven’t seen for months!). Bryce on the “vinyl” did a sterling job until the resident band conducted a lengthy and loud sound check! A similar number of people attended; however, this crowd seemed to bring with them a greater thirst as the sponsor agreed mid-way through the evening to provide further drinks coupons…..Bravo Pi!!

Another super evening for the Lighthouse Club and another important donation to the Benevolent Fund, tasked with supporting those less fortunate working within the construction industry.

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Singapore AGM 2021 a great success!

New Committee Singapore

Road Show for Migrant Workers

On 11 March 2021 the Lighthouse Club Singapore held its hugely successful 2021 AGM generously sponsored by Corkjoint, www.corkjoint.com. It was almost back to the old days when the outgoing Treasurer announced that we had collected donations of about S$2,000 from the event. And it was truly heartwarming to see a good number of members wanting to join the Council or as volunteers. The AGM also saw MOVEX Pte Ltd presenting a cheque for S$14,500 to the Club for funds raised for the migrant workers during Covid-19. Thank you all for your support in years gone by and years to come! New Council details below.

We started to organise a Migrant Workers Initiative alongside HealthServe on Labour Day (1 May 2021) which would have catered to 2000 MW. We recruited 50 volunteers to man the photo booth, food booth, health booth or be part of the general event management. Some amazing door gifts were prepared such as powerbanks, Health Booklets, thanks to our kind sponsors.

However, due to a rise in Covid cases in Singapore this event was postponed indefinitely and we ended up giving away the gifts to the targetted migrant workers in separate ceremonies.

President- Jim Chessell Vice President- Nuala McGlynn Treasurer- Chris Rudland Secretary- Khanh Nguyen Membership Secretary- Woo Sek Han Auditors- George Wall/Trudie Moeller Subcommittees: 1st Officer (Publicity)- Punitha Govindasamy 2nd Officer (Welfare)- Vineet Shrivastava 3rd Officer (Events)- Karthini Mahendranathan 4th Officer (Education)- Brian Lim Ordinary Council Members: Sean Hardy, Aditya Karkera, Reuben Reeves, Neil Omeara, Anand Anthony Volunteers: Rory Cavner, Sam Asher, Ivan Ivanovas, Srinivasan Sivaraman, Martin Lane, Thomas Goh, Owen Lim.

On 23 June 330 units were sent to Healthserve to be packaged together with a Mental Wellness message and a goodie bag, which has been deployed to the Migrant Worker’s Onboarding Centre for new Migrant Workers to Singapore.

Benevolence Thanks to your kindness and generosity, we were able to help a Bangladeshi construction worker, the sole breadwinner for his young family, who was tragically diagnosed with a disabling brain tumour while working in Singapore.

A fundraiser by another organisation contributed to the cost of surgery to remove most of the tumour. However, there were insufficient funds to cover important treatment post-surgery in Singapore, including radiotherapy, the cost of which also exceeded our resources. As a result, and unable to work, he was sadly repatriated to Bangladesh without completing the treatment he needed, and with severe symptoms remaining.

Thankfully, however, despite having to overcome many obstacles, the recommended treatment was eventually secured in Bangladesh

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at a lower cost than in Singapore, and we were able to cover these costs and also help with the arrangements. The treatment should significantly improve his quality of life. Thank you, again, to our members and friends whose kind donations made this possible.

Events We had a unique get together on Thursday 8 April where a group of 29 were split into 4 bars around a few venues within a 10 minute radius of Boat Quay. Those who registered were randomly allocated to the venues whilst ensuring the guests followed the social distancing protocol.

ASRJC Career Talk

On 17 June the Lighthouse Club Singapore and the Society of Construction Law (Singapore) came together to co-organise our ever popular virtual Quiz Night with the amazing Sid Bhalla as Quiz Master! There were 21 who participated in groups.

Anderson-Serangoon JC invited LHC to give a career talk on the Built Environment industry. LHC was represented by Brian Lim (an alumnus of ASRJC) and Joy Fu (who went through the JC NUS Civil Engineering route).

Winning team was Monopoly Cheaters with Paul Deasy, Geeta Sauba, Jacco Poland and John Murphy followed in a close second place by our co-host SCL(S) Chau Ee Lee, Darren Benger, Trevor Lam and Adi Karkera. Teams Tristan from MBS (Tristan, Mark, Greg and Hern), Maybe Next Time if we’re Lucky (Jim, Katy, Neil and Jessica) and Liverpools (Punitha, Ben, Serena and Neil) were all in close succession and everyone had a very enjoyable night!

The talk was given via Zoom and it was shared with the students of the school.

Registration was $10 per person, with all proceeds going towards our beneficiaries. The swimming team won $200 worth of vouchers from TAP!, one of our favourite bars.

The online career talk was given by Brian Lim and Joy Fu to help the roughly 700 graduating students of Anderson - Serangoon Junior College to better understand their career options in the Built Environment industry. It was initially supposed to be held in-person, but due to the Covid19 situation, it became an online presentation. Brian and Joy covered a brief overview of the industry and explained how a career in BE can be rewarding, as well as how LHCSG can help the students.

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Mental Health First Aid Instructors Programme delivers £5.5million of Social Value to Society Building Mental Health, the CITB and the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity have published a report detailing the social value of their Mental Health First Aid Instructors Programme; an initiative to train 288 construction industry dedicated Mental Health First Aid Instructors.

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he Social Value Report shows that for every £1 invested there has been £5.50 of Social Value to society. This amazing result is despite the challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic, which meant that the programme had to be extended by a year. The programme achieved 99% of its target for training instructors and 166% of its target for training Mental Health First Aiders (MHFA) to operate in the industry on a daily basis.

‘Building Mental Health’ was launched by a working group of construction industry leaders and experts in 2018 in response to findings published the previous year in the ‘Thriving at Work’, Stevenson/Farmer review of mental health and employers.

Commissioned by the Government, the report looked into how employers could provide better support to employees, including those with poor mental health or wellbeing, to remain in and thrive at work.

The Thriving at Work review identified not only the immediate human cost of poor mental health at work, but also the knock on impacts for society and the economy. It cited that employers are losing billions of pounds because employees are less productive, less effective, or off sick. In construction alone, stress, anxiety and depression accounts for a fifth of all work related illness.

One of the key objectives of the Building Mental Health Programme was to address the findings of the Thriving at Work report and provide companies of all sizes a portal of free and easily

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accessible information so that they could develop a positive mental health culture in their organisations. Contributions from across the industry ensured that an array of comprehensive support and expert guidance was easily accessible by all. The programme also includes a 5-step framework to better mental health, which focussed on the importance of pro-active training to support the industry.

To help support the aims of the Building Mental Health framework, a specific training project was created and managed by the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity and funded with £1m from the CITB in May 2018 to deliver a programme of bespoke construction-based instructor courses to achieve the following key objectives:

• Train 288 Mental Health First Aid Instructors • Trained instructors to subsequently train 3,000 Mental Health First Aiders (MHFAs) in the industry

• To encourage the industry to engage and embrace the mental

health agenda and raise awareness of mental health issues in the industry in general • To make best practice and information readily and wherever possible freely available • To ensure that the industry takes a huge leap forward to reduce the stigma surrounding mental health by getting the conversation started while educating as many as possible about where and when to seek help.

The MHFA Instructors course lasts seven days but is delivered over a six week period to allow for reflection on the complex issues raised. Attendees said that hearing first hand from guest speakers who were prepared to share their personal mental wellbeing experiences provided invaluable insight into real life journeys and helped to get behind the raw figures. Many reported that being on the course was both emotionally challenging and life changing.

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MHFA Course Information The MHFA Instructors course duration is seven days but is delivered over a six week period. The programme begins with the full two day MHFA course and day three provides a variety of speakers who share their experiences of poor mental health.

Days four and five involve delivering a session on a relevant topic and gaining peer to peer feedback,The final two days include each delegate delivering a section of the MHFA course with mentors assessing delivery and providing further feedback.

Following completion of the instructors course, delegates are then required co-deliver two MHFA First Aider courses, which are assessed by Mental Health First Aid England prior to instructors being approved to deliver courses individually.

Deborah Madden, CITB Engagement Director, said: “This project has outstripped expectations by helping to train over 5,000 mental health first aiders. Their impact will be enormous, providing vital support to people when they need it most. Mental health and wellbeing in construction is a large and complex issue that won’t be tackled overnight, but this project is an important step in the right direction.”

Bill Hill CEO of the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity added, “As one of the founder members of Building Mental Health we are delighted by the social value this training programme has delivered and we now have another 5000 front line mental health first aiders. The report cites that the instructors trained are under no illusion that the industry still remains much closer to the start of the journey towards de-stigmatizing poor mental health than the end, Key Achievements of the MHFA Instructors Programme but there are extremely positive outcomes so far. Together, we have been able to offer a fresh, industry-wide approach to ensure mental health support is available for all and to drive a more inclusive and • 284 Mental Health First Aid Instructors trained resulted in caring cultural change in our industry for this generation and £1,215,141 of social value the next.”

• Instructors delivered training to 5,318 Mental Health First Aiders, outperforming target by 66% and resulting in Simon Blake, CEO of MHFA England commented “As well as £3,638,842 of social value • 3349 Mental Health Awareness courses delivered £654,730 of demonstrating incredible social value, the ‘Mental Health First Aiders Programme’ is helping to tackle the stigma of mental health social value in the construction industry. We want everyone to be able to talk • Total social value of the Mental Health First Aid Instructors freely about mental health and seek support when needed. The Programme £5,508,713 construction industry now has the highest number of Mental The report clearly shows that expectations have been surpassed, but Health First Aid Instructors of any other vertical industry channel which is a huge achievement. We look forward to continuing this there is no room for complacency. ground breaking partnership in the years ahead.”

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