15/01/2015 – SafeStand® Ltd are pleased to announce that they successfully passed an annual audit to maintain their Bronze level FORS certificate.

The Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) is an accreditation scheme that aims to improve fleet activity in London and throughout the UK and beyond.

The Fleet Operator Recognition Scheme (FORS) is making London’s roads safer, cleaner and less congested. For vehicle operators, it offers peace of mind that they are meeting their legislative requirements, as well helping to increase efficiency, reduce costs and win work.

The FORS scheme raises the bar above minimum legal requirements and gives operators the confidence that they are meeting all the legislative requirements and doing everything they should do, properly.

19/11/2014  Her Majesty’s Naval Base, Clyde (HMNB Clyde; also known as Faslane) is one of three operating bases in the United Kingdom for the Royal Navy (the others being HMNB Devonport and HMNB Portsmouth). It is the service’s headquarters in Scotland and is best known as the home of Britain’s nuclear weapons, in the form of nuclear submarines armed with Trident missiles.

HMNB Clyde lies on the eastern shore of Gare Loch in Argyll and Bute, to the north of the Firth of Clyde and 25 miles (40 km) west of Glasgow.

Carillion have  awarded The JB Brickwork Group a range of works during the construction of the £125million upgrade of accommodation facilities at Faslane naval base on the River Clyde. The accommodation, which will provide 1800 single hotel-style apartments, will be the best of its kind available in the UK for service personnel and the project also includes a private shopping mall, bar, gym, a 10-pin bowling alley and 300-seater cinema. JB Brickwork Ltd and Carillion have decided to use SafeStand® Access Systems for the build of internal blockwork walls on the contract. 

31/10/2014 –  This £32m Network Rail operation and training facility will control the Anglian rail network when in full operation. UMC Architects worked as lead designer with Volker Fitzpatrick, co-ordinating the design using Building Information Modelling (BIM).  The fully integrated Revit model was used for clash detection and integration of building services, along with the Network Rail fit-out. The ROC is one of 12 new facilities that will replace existing operating sites and control the entire UK rail network. Volker Fitzpatrick chose to utilise SafeStand® Access Systems to provide working platforms to carry out the blockwork package on site.

10/09/2014 – A joint venture of Balfour Beatty and Kier Construction has won a £121m contract for the first two-year stage of work on the new Defence College of Technical Training at the former RAF Lyneham airbase in Wiltshire.

The 50:50 joint venture, called Hercules, was awarded the contract by the Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), which manages and maintains land and property for the Ministry of Defence

Hercules will deliver new single-living accommodation for military trainees and purpose-built enhanced training facilities including a large outdoor training area. It will also build a museum for Corps of Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers (REME), whose headquarters will be at the base from 2015.

The refurbished college will provide training facilities in one location for all three Armed Forces for the first time in the UK. It will bring together more than 1,100 trainees and 800 staff from the Army, Royal Navy and Royal Air Force.

Much of the redevelopment will consist of the upgrade and refurbishment of existing buildings. The JV will refurbish approximately 73,000 square metres of existing building stock and construct 56,000 square metres of new-build. This will comprise detailed design and construction including demolition, the construction of new buildings, refurbishment of existing buildings and landscaping.