Mark Kelly, Wates Construction
£1.7m extension to Manor Hospital, Walsall Kelly’s interpersonal skills won the hearts and minds of the judges on a £1.7m project to add two new operating theatres on to Manor Hospital, Walsall.
Judges praised the way he kept the interface of the site and hospital clean. He bribed the cleaners with bars of chocolate to make sure that the dusty site never impinged on the still operating hospital.
Noise and dust were potential problems because Kelly had to knock down existing structures before the extension could be built. Noisy work had to be carefully managed and even stopped at a moment’s notice when surgeons were operating.
To minimise the impact of construction on the patients, contractors were instructed to take their hard hats off when walking through the hospital.
Kelly joined Wates in 1987 as a finishing foreman and was promoted to site foreman in 1988. In 1995 he was made site manager.
Kevin Dyke, Wates Construction
£422,000 contract to refurbish the roof of Canada Life Assurance, Potters Bar When Dyke took on the job to refurbish the roof of an office building in Potters Bar, he decided to reuse all the existing glass in the 27 m-high glazed atrium and to clean it by erecting a space deck eight storeys up rather than bringing the glass down for cleaning. Abseilers were employed to fix a safety net and also fit a white sheet to the underside of the scaffold to try and keep the building’s entrance foyer visually acceptable.
All internal areas were off limits to the contractors. So all access had to be arranged through an external hoist.
When the glass was removed for cleaning, the frame was severely corroded and additional works had to be planned. Dyke also had to make a careful survey of the steelwork because of potential defects liabilities. In the end only one sheet of glass was damaged during the contract.
Dave Williams, Wates Construction
£776,000 contract to refurbish the Grand Committee Room, Palace of Westminster Williams, completing a clean sweep for Wates in this category, had just four weeks lead in to this project. And a 17-week contract period which was immovable because of the state opening of Parliament.
With English Heritage taking a keen interest, Williams had to manage the seamless installation of new air-conditioning, remote-controlled television cameras and new IT facilities.
All deliveries and other movements were carefully monitored for security reasons and a large amount of rescheduling had to be done to accommodate client variations.
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