We recently sponsored the ACE led workshop: DRIVING ENHANCED INTERCONNECTIVITY ACROSS THE MIDLANDS. The event focused was to engage private and public stakeholders interested in delivering enhanced interconnectivity across the Midlands. It built on the work that we have been doing in the region from our Birmingham office in Fort Dunlop. To read more following on from this workshop, I [...]
In Construction News recently, discussing the need for changing roles in the industry, Alex Gilbert, MD at Amey Consulting, made a worthy contribution in the 'Expert Opinion' section: As an industry, we have critical missing data around what industry jobs will look like in future, who will we be employing and what skills we want people to have. Given the growth [...]
Many thanks to Keynetix for a thought-provoking and inspiring Keynetix User Conference. We are blown away by the possibilities with the Keynetix Cloud and the software and apps that it can and could integrate with. It is a game-changing piece of software for the geotechnical industry. Keynetix.cloud is the next generation geotechnical data management platform providing unparalleled security and streamlined project collaboration [...]
We are in the process of trialling a new Leica GPS on some of our sites. Previously we were reliant on the client having to provide us with site levels, but we can now work independently of that. We can then create a 3D map of the site using AutoCAD 3D and onto this we can export the borehole logs [...]
Geo-Environmental Services Limited, working with EBP South (Education, Business Partnership South, are keen to support young people in developing their skills in order to help them when they do start looking for a job. This year we had Niamh Roberts doing work experience with us. Niamh was doing market research that was used in our 2018-2023 business plan, as well as [...]
As a past winner, we were being considered for the award of Best in Geotechnical Consultancy Services. They have now reviewed all the new submissions and we’ve been told the judges picked us as the 2019 winner. During the awards process they invited both contributors and readers of the Corporate LiveWire & LTG magazines to nominate companies, products, services & individuals [...]
We recently sponsored a seminar with private and public stakeholders interested in delivering enhanced interconnectivity across the Midlands: Driving Enhanced Interconnectivity Across The Midlands - an ACE Midlands Event, held earlier this month in Coventry. It was very interesting to hear Maria Machancoses the Director of Midland Connect laying out her vision for infrastructure across the Midlands region. The area that [...]
In 2018 the Construction Industry has focussed hard on improving how it handles mental health issues in the workplace – for example, MATES IN MIND "Mates in Mind aims to raise awareness, address the stigma of poor mental health and improve positive mental wellbeing in the UK construction industry. Mates in Mind has an [...]
Regarding the importance of good infrastructure planning ... this is a great quote: The worst aspect of what Manzoni did to the heart of England, Moore thinks, is that his roads carved up poorer neighbourhoods and made them more deprived as a result. “If you look at the map of multiple deprivation in the West Midlands,” she explains, “you’ll [...]
Congratulations to Dudley Advance II. A project in the Midlands leading the way on collaboration and delivering value. Dudley College's Advance II block is the UK's first to use integrated project insurance. "The multi-party Alliance Board under the IPI Model, Advance II shows a saving of 6.5% against the [...]
