The site team are making all possible efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of the project through careful management of resources.  Carbon footprint from site operations is monitored on a monthly basis with actual readings set against target figures for electricity, fuel & gas use.  So far we are doing better than our targets.

PV installation onsite is now complete.  There are enough PVs to generate more power than the building needs to run, making it 'Zero Carbon'.

Masonry works progress onsite

Sign reads, 'Wood Chippings, available free to a good home'  the chippings were produced from site vegetation which was cleared and shredded to facilitate the construction of the new depot.

 

Photographs of the steel frame being lifted into place.

The building is now starting to take shape quickly, with steel frame being erected an composite roof panels being installed.

Foundation formation works continue with the first concrete pour.

An Unexpected Find - Whilst carrying out excavations on site we uncovered this old well.  After consultation with the structural engineer the team resolved a method to safely stabilise it so that it does not pose any risk to the structural integrity of the new building.

Protection of Biodiversity is very important to us as a responsible contractor.  At the end of the site there is an area of hedgerow that had to be removed to facilitate the construction of the new Western Power Building.  However, as we are currently in the middle of the bird nesting season we needed to check whether there were any birds using the hedge as breeding habitat.  We employed a specialist ecologist to come and check the hedgerow prior to any works to remove it - he identifed that birds were using the end section of the hedgerow pictured.  We have therefore left it in place for the time being and will remove it come the end of the bird nesting season at the end of August.

Although we have to remove this hedgerow to allow construction, the final landscaping scheme will mean the planting of many more native trees and shrubs than were on the site to begin with; providing future habitat for flora and fauna.

 

The first works started onsite in July with heavy machinery bought in to reduce ground levels ready for foundation works.