{"id":1040,"date":"2018-05-13T19:32:27","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T19:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/?p=1040"},"modified":"2018-05-15T07:55:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T07:55:13","slug":"adcw-scoops-national-construction-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/adcw-scoops-national-construction-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"ADCW scoops national construction awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>On 20<sup>th<\/sup> April representatives from our Tidworth, Larkhill, Bulford and Perham Down projects attended the prestigious 2018 Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) National Site Awards.<\/h2>\n<p>At the ceremony, held at the Plaisterers&#8217; Hall in Central London, Tidworth won a Gold Award while Larkhill, Bulford and Perham Down won Bronze Awards.\u00a0 The National Site Awards are for the very best performing construction sites in the country. The awards recognise sites with the highest levels of consideration towards the public, their workforce and the environment.<\/p>\n<p>All our Arming Basing Programme sites have achieved \u2018exceptional\u2019 CCS scores and this achievement has <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through\">also<\/span> been recognised by the sites also receiving \u2018Performance Beyond Compliance\u2019 certificates.\u00a0 The CCS team monitors our performance across five categories: Appearance, Community, Environment, Safety and the Workforce. Recent comments in their monitoring reports include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>There is a real feel good factor about this project and the contractor is evidently extremely committed to providing best performance standards regarding meeting the requirements of the 2018 Code of Considerate Practice.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The overall presentation of the site is exceptional and first impressions remain extremely positive. The site appears organised and professionally run and gives an extremely positive impression of the contractor and industry. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The degree of community interaction has been exceptionally good and the contractor continues to seek opportunities to engage with neighbours and those affected by the works wherever possible. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The degree of commitment to environmental issues remains commendable and it is evident contractor continues to seek to protect and enhance the environment wherever possible. <\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The reporting systems with regards to safety-related issues are exemplary and helps to maintain focus on associated safety-related issues on site.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The site welfare is exceptionally clean and hygienic and caters extremely well for the workforce. <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>ADCW is committed to supporting community projects which have helped us achieve excellent CCS scores for this category. To date, we have worked with local organisations including the Basingstoke Canal Authority, Wiltshire Wildlife Trust, Trussell Trust food banks, the Vine Centre and St. John\u2019s Care Trust.<\/p>\n<p>A new project at Larkhill, run in conjunction with Larkhill Primary School and Rydon, one of our contractors, will involve school children preparing decorative painted sections for a hoarding to be put up around a new site for a Medical and Dental Centre.\u00a0 This will be entered for a national CCS hoarding painting competition later this year.<\/p>\n<p>CCS is a non-profit organisation formed to improve the image of construction industry. It is a voluntary scheme launched in June 1997. In 2017, on its 20th birthday, 100,000 projects were registered with the scheme.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Article by Gee Shankar.<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo from Left to Right: Tanya Mackie \u2013 SHEQ Assistant, Gee Shankar \u2013 Senior Environmental Advisor, Andrew Patchett \u2013 Perham Down Construction Manager, Tom Barnes \u2013 Perham Down Project Manager, Iain Munro \u2013 Larkhill Project Manager, Steve McKerr \u2013 Bulford Construction Manager, Brad Young \u2013 Bulford Utilities Manager, Christian Wall \u2013 Tidworth Construction Supervisor<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 20th April representatives from our Tidworth, Larkhill, Bulford and Perham Down projects attended the prestigious 2018 Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) National Site Awards. At the ceremony, held at the Plaisterers&#8217; Hall in Central London, Tidworth won a Gold Award while Larkhill, Bulford and Perham Down won Bronze Awards.\u00a0 The National Site Awards are for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adcw-news","category-archive-news","category-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1040"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1074,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040\/revisions\/1074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aspiredefence.co.uk\/adcw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}