European Plant Services are pleased to announce the appointment of Rob Reynolds as Sales Director.

Rob brings almost 20 years sale experience to the company.

In addition to this European are pleased to announce additional sales territories which now include

• North Yorkshire
• East Yorkshire
• Midlands
• Leicestershire
• Staffordshire
• Worcestershire

Please go to www.europeanplantservices.com for further details

Rob can be contacted direct on 07714091973

Working in partnership with Lend Lease, Achilles has developed BuildingConfidence – a supplier pre-qualification and accreditation service for the UK construction industry.

BuildingConfidence provides benefits to buyers and suppliers by using:

Web-based technologies to increase operational efficiencies and reduce the costs associated with pre-qualification for clients, major contractors and their suppliers

On-site audits with industry leading auditors to help suppliers measure their own performance and share this data with their clients and major contractors.

BuildingConfidence is quickly becoming recognised as the standard for supplier excellence within the industry. Major contractors are using the service to evaluate their supply chains, drive up performance and forge longer lasting relationships with key suppliers.

K Rouse has been appointed UK distributor of the Greenacre Burial System, a cost effective, pre-installed, innovative burial system.

Please click on this link for more information

CHAS are dedicated to completing health and safety pre-qualification assessments to a nationally recognised and accepted threshold standard.

CHAS is a founder member and current Chair of Safety Schemes in Procurement – Competence Forum or SSIP. Please go to http://www.ssip.org.uk or http://www.chas.gov.uk/ for full details

Thursday 29th January saw a group of Leeds College of Building students visit the Carillion Swarcliffe PFI scheme.

The trip was organized by Anthony Mills, K. Rouse SEQ Manager and a part time student currently at LCB, Vaughan Minshull, the college’s faculty manager and lecturer, Lenny Hanlon, K. Rouse Project Manager and also Chris Phillips, Carillion Project Manager.

The students are currently studying Civil Engineering within the college and will soon be finishing and looking for work placements.

Following a Carillion site induction the students were shown around the site. They were shown the civils aspects of the site, these being a series of “home zones” done by K. Rouse. The home zones see the removal of broken paving and clay and the installation of new drainage, foot paths and block paved parking areas for the residents of Swarcliffe. Pictures of these can be found on the Contracts page of the website.

The students were then taken into Sherburn Court, which is a block of flats at the top of the estate and has seen a full re-furbishment. The entire block has had new kitchens, bathrooms, windows, improved communal areas along with a long list of general improvements.

The visit was a great success in allowing the students to experience a live site.

K. Rouse hopes to undertake another site visit later on in the year.

Picture one shows the students looking at the works that have been undertaken in Sherburn Court.

Picture two shows the students in front of a “homezone”. In the picture Lenny Hanlon (4th from Left), Chris Phillips (6th from Left) and Vaughan Minshull (far right)

New contract awarded in Congleton
– 375mm diameter sewer, rising main drain and associated connections to storage tanks to be done on an un-adopted track. Fencing works and installation of a new car park to take place on this contract for Morgan Est for United Utilities