O’Rourke office staff set for temperature checks as firm begins site roll-out of covid technology

By Dave Rogers2020-06-08T05:00:00

Firm has trialled initiative on its HS2 and Hinkley jobs as part of effort to deal with coronavirus threat

Laing O’Rourke plans to use temperature checking thermal cameras at its two main offices in Dartford and Manchester once it has completed a roll-out of the technology across its sites in the wake of the ongoing covid-19 threat.

Most of the firm’s sites, which number around 60, are back up and running with the main exception being its Edinburgh St James mixed-use scheme where the Scottish government has banned all non-essential construction work, although restrictions north of the border are beginning to be loosened.

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