Beard starts work restoring UK’s oldest lido
Contractor Beard has started work to restore the Grade II-listed Cleveland Pools, the oldest surviving public swimming pool in the UK, built in Bath in 1815. Machinery, building materials and equipment will have to be carried upriver on a pontoon pushed by a barge because the site is only accessible by river.
Tees Valley mayor visits freeport construction site
Tees Valley mayor Ben Houchen celebrated his re-election with a visit to GE’s wind turbine blade factory site at the recently announced Teesside freeport. Houchen (right) met up with Robert Hall, director at local firm Hall Construction, which has just bought a £1m 90-tonne Volvo to support the project.
454 hard hats laid out to represent construction suicides
A total of 454 hard hats were laid out at a building site to represent the number of construction workers who die from suicide each year. The exhibition, organised by IronmongeryDirect, marked Mental Health Awareness Week (10-16 May). Male construction workers are three times more likely to die from suicide than the average UK man.
Perfect Circle helps build recyclable wildlife centre
Perfect Circle – a company jointly owned by Pick Everard, Gleeds and Aecom – has designed and engineered a £700,000 wildlife discovery centre using recyclable materials. The new centre in Essex’s River Lee Country Park offers bird watchers 360-degree views of the surrounding area from the 5m viewing tower.
Hard hat stickers to signal inclusion and mental health training
Ranbir Atwal, health and safety advisor at Fortel Group, displays hard hat stickers used in a new scheme that allows construction workers to display that they have undertaken training courses on issues such as inclusion and mental health. The Supply Chain Sustainability School and staff supplier Fortel Group have joined forces for the scheme.
Concrete and ice critical to South East Asia’s tallest building
A Eurotec concrete batching plant plus a flake ice plant have worked in tandem to produce up to 200 cu m of high-quality concrete per hour for the foundations of the 644m Merdeka 118 tower in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur. The flake ice maintains the temperature of the poured concrete within design limits required during the curing process.
700-tonne Tideway TBM removed by 1,800-tonne marine crane
A 700-tonne tunnelling boring machine (TBM) used to dig the Tideway London super sewer has been removed by an 1,800-tonne Matador 3 marine crane. The crane sailed up the Thames from Rotterdam for the lifting operation. The TBM was lowered onto a barge at Chambers Wharf before being taken away.
