SHEQ Update SHEQ Standards Guide 02

Featured Projects Current projects 03

Regional News Updates & developments 06

Awards News Showcasing Excellence 07

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The England football team did very well in the World Cup, we’ve been inundated with awards for the great work our people are doing and we’ve got the best tender list I’ve ever known. What more could I ask for?

On the awards front, in recent weeks we’ve won two awards in the Suffolk Business Awards; we received an ICE Technical Excellence and Innovation Award for Bury St Edmunds Eastern Relief Road ; we’ve been nominated for the CECA Inspiring Change award, for our multi lingual Health & Safety Guide; our Doncaster apprentice Oliver Chamberlain was runner in the CECA Regional Apprentice of the Year awards and the business won Talent Champion category at the NCE100 national awards.

Many of these awards have been won in the face of stiff completion from national contractors, so I’d like to say a big thank you to all involved, you should be very proud of your achievements.

Some of you, who work in the head office, will have noticed that I haven’t been in the office so much recently. This is because I’ve taken the

decision to step back and leave the running of the business to my senior directorship team, who have been set the task of getting the business in shape for the next generation.

This doesn’t mean I won’t still be involved, as I’ll still be attending board meetings, visiting sites in my capacity as a member of the SLT, meeting clients and of course, keeping you informed via the “Chairman’s message”. I would however like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for their hard work over the years, I’ve enjoyed coming in to work and meeting you all, but I feel that the time is right to hand over the reins.

I’m sure the company is in capable hands and I look forward to hearing about your achievements and enjoying my semi- retirement.

John BrehenyChairman

summer/autumn 2018

After the wet winter that adversely affected production on our sites, we’re now enjoying Mediterranean-like weather that is providing a different set of challenges to our people working out in the sweltering conditions. I’m sure it can’t be easy working out on site in such extreme temperatures.

What a Summer it’s been so far!!

02 summer 2018

SHEQ Update

Following on from last year’s issue of the SHEQ Standards & Guidance documents, which were produced to support the safe delivery of the Company’s SHEQ Policies and Procedures, we have produced the Visual SHEQ Standards Guide booklet.

This booklet is intended to hightlight key safety responsibilities and make standards available to you in a format that is easy to refer to and understand. Please read it, to make sure you are familiar with its contents and crucially, to use it. Simple cartoons have been used within the booklet to convey the safety message, which can be understood by all, irrespective of language.

The booklet has been produced in English, Punjabi and Romanian so that we may foster an inclusive safety culture and to support our supply chain partners for whom English is a second language or are non-English speaking. We have also produced a new induction DVD, which again is available in English, Punjabi and Romanian. The business was shortlisted by CECA at the Inspiring Change Awards 2018 for Inspiring change in the workplace category for the production of our translated safety documents.

Our safety performance has been

recognised again with a 2018 RoSPA Occupational Health & Safety Gold Award and a 2018 British Safety Council International Safety Award, the 36th in succession.

We remain committed to achieving the highest possible standards of health, safety and environmental performance on all of our construction projects. We are committed to everyone going home safe every day; think safe, work safe, home safe and would thank you for your support in our journey to build an excellent safety culture.

Visual SHEQ Standards Guide booklet

The booklet has been produced in English, Punjabi and Romanian

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Featured Projects

The £12 million Stortford Fields project is being undertaken on behalf of a consortium of four major UK house builders. It consists of the provision of new road and sewer networks, major S278 installations and service diversions.

In order to deal with major service diversions, methods such as auger boring have been adopted to reduce the impact of traditional methods (trenching) which could impact local road networks.

As part of the site storm water strategy for the development, we facilitated the design and installation of a 9000m3 storm attenuation tank, one of the largest ever built in the UK

Included within the initial Phase 1 contract, the site team have utilised a variety of engineering disciplines, from installation of major temporary works for access shafts, pipe jacking 1200mm diameter PCC pipes beneath a 132KV oil filled UKPN pipe serving Stansted airport and tunnelling to facilitate the installation of smaller pipelines.

The site covers land including a SSSI and an RSPB area seaward side of the flood bank and Sandringham Estate farmland. Breheny are working closely with the client, Kings Lynn Drainage Board and the Environment Agency to reduce impact to the abundant wildlife and to preserve rich natural habitats on the site.

The three new structures each consist of permanent cofferdams constructed from steel sheet piles up to 17 metres long with reinforced concrete capping beams and walls. The new main drain inlet structure will house 3 new electric pumps capable of shifting 4800 litres/second out to sea via 3no. 900mm diameter pumping mains. A second inlet structure controls the River Ingol which flows through twin 1.5 metre diameter culverts under the sea bank and out to

sea. The third structure is a combined outfall which is designed to reduce the build-up of silt which currently hinders river flows.

The contract is programmed over 59 weeks and is due for completion in May 2019. The original pumping station was opended by King George VI and it is hoped the Queen will attend the opening ceremony of the new structure.

The Stortford Fields Project

Sandringham Estate Project

One of the UK largest crate type attenuation cells Circa 9000m3

Breheny Civil Engineering are working on a £3.5m project with Peter Brett Associates and the Kings Lynn Drainage Board to replace an existing pumping station and river outfall culverts that provide flood protection to the Sandringham Estate and north Norfolk.

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Project News

Works are nearing completion at Sundays Hill - SouthamptonWorking for a consortium of three national house builders, we have designed and built the £10.9 million by-pass at Burslesdon, near the M3-M27 intersection.

Sundays Hill has proven challenging for all involved, the scale of the work involved in taking the scheme through the necessary design approval and planning process, whilst simultaneously attempting to continue with its construction, has been considerable. Our site team led by Project Manager Craig Sims deserve great credit for their perseverance, skill and hard work in delivering this project.

The new bypass is 1.1 km long with a 20m single-span concrete bridge on green field land which will open up a much-needed housing development in the area.

The site is ecologically sensitive and a great

deal of work has been done to preserve the local flora and fauna. The bridge, which sits on piled 8m high concrete abutments, also allows bats to traverse the valley containing their natural habitat whilst avoiding vehicular traffic.

The works are due to be completed in September 2018. This has been an interesting project managed by staff from the new Breheny Office in Petersfield. Regional Contracts Manager Nick Stapleton said that:

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Project News

Kent County Council awards Breheny A2500 Improvement scheme

Decommissioning Bells and Mocketts Pumping Stations Our Addington Office commenced construction of the new £1.5 million Bells Pumping Station in July 2017 for the Lower Medway Inland Drainage Board (LMIDB) to enable the old pumping station to be decomissioned.

Works included the installation of a permanent cofferdam, constructed to very high tolerances. Concrete pours included a 650mm thick base slab within the 30m x 10m cofferdam. A concrete spillway was constructed to allow the excess fresh water from the surrounding farmland to discharge into the sea.

The mechanical and electrical phase comprised of the installation of two fully enclosed Archimedes screw pumps, capable of pumping up to 3m³ of water per second. These pumps were employed because of their high efficiency due to lack of water loss and allowance of safe passage for eels, from fresh to salt water. A large control kiosk was also installed at the top of the concrete structure to house instrumentation for the pumps and mechanised weed rake.

A final Civils phase made sure the project was completed to programme in May 2018 to a high standard ensuring complete client satisfaction.

Breheny have begun work on the £3.95 million scheme to improve the A2500 Lower Road on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent. Works include a new roundabout replacing the existing traffic light-controlled junction between Lower Road and Barton Hill Drive and is due to be completed by January 2019.

Phase 2 of the scheme is currently going through the final design process and involves the widening of 1km of the A2500 Lower Road between the newly constructed roundabout and Cowstead Corner Roundabout.

The completion of Phase 2 is currently programmed for December 2019. This is a key project for Breheny working for Kent County Council out of our Addington Office.

The roundabout is being funded by £1.26 million from the Department of Transport (DfT) through funding known as Local Growth Fund (LGF) allocated to the South East Local Enterprise Partnership and contributions from local developments.

Gordon Henderson MP, Breheny Project Manager Alan McKibbin and KCC Cabinet Member for Highways and Transport Mike Whiting.

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Bridge Deck replacement in progress, Walton Peterborough

HuntingdonNew / On-going works:-■ Large Development Infrastructure works

at Alconbury, Rugby & Corby for Urban & Civic.

■ Roadworks and drainage infrastructure for large developments at:-

Stanstead Mountfitchet, Essex for Martin Grant/Bloor Homes.

Stotfold for Lochailort Fairfield Ltd (LFL)

High Leigh Garden Village, Broxbourne, Herts for Lands Improvement Holdings (LIH)

RAF Brampton for Campbell Buchanan

■ Alteration works to junction of Shelford Road & Addenbrookes Road, Cambridge for Cambridge Medipark Ltd (CML).

■ Construction of new £7.5 million Access Road, Junction Improvements, Major Earthworks and New Bridge over a canal at Airfield Farm, Market Harborough for William Davies/Hallam Land.

Recently Completed:-■ Bridge Deck replacement works on Corfe

Avenue Culvert, Walton, Peterborough for Skanska (Peterborough Highway Services). Work consisted of the removal of the top section of a concrete box culvert unit and replacement with precast concrete beams of a structure in a busy residential street for Peterborough City Council.

■ High-spec hard and soft landscaping works to new Circus & Piazza area (Phase 2) adjacent to Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge for Cambridge Medipark Ltd (CML).

BicesterOn-going works:-■ Construction of new roundabout on the

A40, major earthworks, realignment of existing roads and formation of site accesses for new housing development at West Witney, Oxfordshire for Persimmon/Bloor/Bovis consortium.

■ Earthworks & formation of ponds, play areas, landscaped public open space, drainage and retaining walls for new housing development at “The Stray”, Tadpole Garden Village, Swindon for Crest Nicholson.

Recently Completed:-■ Construction of new roads and drainage

infrastructure for housing development at the Kingsmere Development, SW Bicester for Countryside Properties.

A40 West Witney, Oxfordshire

Circus & Piazza area (Phase 2) adjacent to Addenbrookes

Recent projects from around the group

Regional News

DoncasterOn-going works:-■ Various projects on the Environment

Agency framework.

■ Completion works on housing development at Epworth for Redbourne Homes.

■ Minor Works Package 8 –

Barugh Bridge Floodwall – Replacement of an 95m long concrete defence with a masonry wall in Great Barugh Near Malton.

Tadcaster – Phase 2 – Raising of existing earth defence on the right bank of the river Wharfe. Phase 2 complete and final phase to tie

into listed structures and an historic monument scheduled for September.

Bragg Farm – A 50m length of bank and berm had eroded putting the flood embankment at risk. A timber revetment has been installed at the toe using 2 rows of 7m long timber piles and boards. The bank was reinstated using as dug material and is due for completion next week. Works were delayed due to the discovery of sand martins within the banks close to the works area.

Recently Completed:-■ Construction of 6km of canal towpath

in three locations at Thorne and Crowle, Nr Doncaster for North Lincolnshire Council.

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Company Awards

Showcasing Breheny's latest award-winning successesWe have received serveral important industry awards in recent months. These recongnise the excellent work being done by our people and provide positive publicity for the business, to help us to win future work. Below is a list of awards;

■ An ICE Merit Award for Bury St Edmunds Eastern Relief Road for Technical Excellence and Innovation

■ We were nominated for CECA Inspiring Change award, for our multi lingual Health & Safety Guide produced by our SHEQ Team

■ New Civil Engineer NCE100 Best Civil Engineering Companies 2018, for the 2nd consecutive year.

■ We were successful in winning the Talent Champion category at the NCE100. This was up against businesses that were much larger than ourselves and the judges commented that, what we offer in terms of training and retaining staff was excellent.

■ Breheny Civil Engineering has achieved a Gold in the internationally-renowned RoSPA Health and Safety Awards, for the 8th consecutive year.

Business of the Year - Breheny Civil Engineering

Oliver Chamberlain was runner up in CECA Yorkshire & Humber Region’s Apprentice of the Year 2018

© Picture: DAVID GARRAD

■ Breheny Civil Engineering have won the East Anglian Daily Times ‘Suffolk Business of the Year 2018’, at the awards ceremony we also were first in the ‘Showcasing Excellence’ category.

We were shortlisted for three categories in the Suffolk Business Awards; Best Employer, Showcasing Excellence and Family Business.

John Breheny said after the award:

I am thrilled that BCE have won two awards at the EADT Business Awards – for Showcasing Excellence and Best Overall Business. It is a fantastic tribute to the hard work and dedication of all employees. Well done to all.

Staff News

For all the latest news from Breheny Civil Engineering visit www.breheny.co.uk

What’s your role in Breheny and how long have you been with the Company?I am the Group Engineering Manager & have been with the company 34 years.

How did you first discover Breheny?I was hired for two weeks by Richard Cottee to set out some drainage at a site in Sudbury after which I started a contract in Huntingdon, for the Huntingdon office, under the late Malcolm Milson.

Where have you worked in the past?I started my career with a small Civil Engineering company in Peterborough called Holland Construction. After redundancy I moved to Alan Reason Builders & then to May Gurney on the Towcester Bypass. My next contract was with Breheny.

What would you be doing for a living if you weren’t in engineering?Plucking me Banjo!

What do you talk about outside of work?About all those people inside work!

Tell us something not many people know about you?In my musician days, when visiting Nashville I had my own bedroom in Tammy Wynette’s house.

Seconds with Ray Duffy

Apprenticeships Update

In the last year or two, you will have noticed young apprentices in and around our sites, with the company offering apprenticeships training to site operatives and machine drivers. We have also added Engineering Technicians to this list, taking suitable candidates up to a Level Three BTEC award over two years.

We are now pleased to announce, in conjunction with the Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) the

development of a 4year Apprenticeship BSc (Hons) Degree in Civil Engineering. There is also the option for a fifth year potentially leading to a prestigious Incorporated Engineer award within the Institution of Civil Engineers.

If you are interested in any of these routes to qualification within our industry please speak to your site/line manager or Dave Ling on 07785266760.

As a result of the “Skills Gap” that we hear so much about, the government is pushing ahead with plans for “on the Job training”. We at Breheny Civil Engineering are please to help drive this forward.

Long Service Awards!Many thanks from Breheny to the staff mentioned right for their long service to the Company:

Ian Cullingford 20 years 05-Jan

Dean Evans 20 years 05-Jan

Kevin Bibby 20 years 02-Feb

James Whitlock 20 years 16-Feb

Simon Baxter 20 years 23-Feb

Mark Charlick 20 years 21-Mar

Peter Starbuck 20 years 23-Mar

James McEwan 20 years 05-Jun

Site Engineer Steve Barnard recently climbed to the summit of Mont Blanc, in doing so he has raised over £850 for the RNLI. If you would like to add to this total please visit his Just Giving page: www.justgiving.com/fundraising/steve-barnard4

Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in the Alps and Western Europe at 4810m high.

Who do you recognise from this sporting team of 2007?