- Gold winner: Kevin English MCIOB
- Lendlease
- Project: 2 Redman Place, Stratford E20
- Scope: Construction of nine-storey office block, completed in 119 weeks
- Client: Stratford City Business District
- Contract: D&B
- Value: £108m
Operational safety manager for the entire IQL development in Stratford, health and safety was a key consideration for Kevin English on this nine-storey, 280,000 sq ft office block construction.
He eliminated work at the leading edge wherever possible through innovation in design, fabrication and installation. With the project close to a mainline railway, he had the entire superstructure screened from the ground floor up. As falling materials had been an issue during services installation on previous projects in the business park, he had service holes preformed into the risers, and used magnetic paper to further minimise the falling-object hazard.
Having concluded that the roof handrail design created an unsafe environment for installing the copings, the external cladding and the handrails themselves, English had permanent rails factory-installed as part of the cladding fabrication. The external copings were also factory-fitted.
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