Winners and nominees of the quarterly SMP Alliance OU7COME Awards for Q3 2024.
Winners Q3 2024
Home Safe & Well
Nominees:
WINNER: bmJV Team
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Jonathan Byrne and Keelie Walker , for producing a free digital system to streamline inductions and reduce workload by at least 80% ▪ Flannery Plant Hire for supporting bmJV
Over 5 million people in the UK live with diabetes, which has a major impact on health, wellbeing and ability to work. A survey undertaken by bmJV in partnership with The Diabetes Safety Organisation identified a lack of awareness around diabetes and how to respond to an individual having a hypo incident. This team helped organise confidential on-site health checks. As a result,19 colleagues were referred to their GP. One individual with very high blood pressure was taken to A&E immediately. The confidential test results are being used in a Parliamentary Advisory Committee technical submission on 'Diabetes within Construction'.
project safety days with an excavator simulator and red zone / PPI briefings
Craig Hulse
Dave Burgess
▪ NEAR TM Team for collaborating with all Alliance partners, suppliers and Operations Directorate to plan for winter maintenance ▪ Kenny Forbes , Senior General Foreman of the M1 J16-19 scheme for organising a Supplier Innovation Day ▪ Steve Askham , Community Relations and Stakeholder Manager, for working with local police to ensure drivers of vehicles travelling illegally through the works are investigated ▪ Phil Sunderland , CR Civils Plant Operator on NEAR M1 J32-35a scheme, for helping a distressed member of the public on a highways bridge
Jonathan Marsh Phil Marquand
Jerry Scott
Aiden Finch
Confident Customers
Nominees:
This team delivered an innovative solution to queueing on M25 J5-7 NEAR South programme as part of an ongoing consultation with the on-site TM team. Mobile VMS proposed a trial of their new Automated Queue Warning (AQW) system to help reduce overall risk of rear-end collisions, smoothing traffic flow and providing additional updates on queuing traffic to the motoring public and project teams. The system delivers real-time advance active warning capability with no need for manual interference, ensuring real-time messaging on VMS upstream, allowing reactive driving behaviour and appropriate slowdowns at critical points. It also provides reporting on journey times and queue behaviour to enable even more informed TM decisions. WINNER: Mobile VMS & NEAR South team
▪ Richard Wood, Harry Parnell, Sonica Bains, Siobhan Traynor and Scott Steven who produced a H&S File for the M3 project handover which is an example of excellence ▪ NEAR M5 J4a-6 Scheme Team for not receiving any customer complaints or queries during the busiest time on the M5 (end of July to mid-September) ▪ M42 DHS TM & Communications Team for using lessons learnt from M40 / M42 ALR scheme, robust stakeholder communication and sympathetic TM design to keep traffic flowing, reduce traffic incidents and scoring 97% for June's Customer Audit ▪ NEAR South Customer and Communications Team for scoring over 90% in the customer correspondence audits despite handling hundreds of written complaints and numerous phone calls following installation of TM on the five NEAR South schemes
Tim Brooks
Michelle Curran
Leon Ireland
Mark Neville
Simon McAteer
Jon Pettman
Production Excellence
Nominees:
▪ M42 DHS Team . bmJV, Hardstaff, CR Civils and PJ Davidson implemented robust lean processes to achieve Open for Traffic six weeks ahead of plan and c£7m below budget ▪ Forkers M1 J16-19 Team integrated with bmJV's culture and working practices to deliver a significant contribution to the project’s success ▪ NEAR M1 J23a-25 Team's commitment to embedding Lean has directly contributed to enhancing operational efficiency that in turn hasdelivered noticeable gains ▪ NEAR M25 South Team . James Dunne, Jonathan Knight and Jay Athwal reduced the drainage programme from 70 to 32 days (replicated across other scheme EAs), saving £900k in labour and reducing risk by over £2m ▪ Dawson WAM Team demonstrated outstanding production excellence as bmJV's piling subcontractor on the M5 J4a-6 NEAR scheme, including zero recorded incidents
JOINT WINNER 1: Chris Tandy with Van Elle / bmJV piling teams
Following a review of lessons learned from M6 J4-5 DHS scheme, the bmJV team instigated a Lean process review of plunge piling for verge CCTV masts. This work was undertaken during night lane closures with short working windows. Ordinarily, it required two nights of TM, attendance and exposure to live lanes. Working collaboratively with Van Elle and the Lean team, bmJV completed installation in just over two hours. As well as sharing with the M42 DHS scheme to multiply the commercial and safety benefits, quantity surveyor Chris Tandy proactively shared the knowledge with Balfour Beatty for use on the M1 J10-13 scheme, where further performance improvements were made.
Chris Tandy
Production Excellence
Nominees:
▪ M42 DHS Team . bmJV, Hardstaff, CR Civils and PJ Davidson implemented robust lean processes to achieve Open for Traffic six weeks ahead of plan and c£7m below budget ▪ Forkers M1 J16-19 Team integrated with bmJV's culture and working practices to deliver a significant contribution to the project’s success ▪ NEAR M1 J23a-25 Team's commitment to embedding Lean has directly contributed to enhancing operational efficiency that in turn hasdelivered noticeable gains ▪ NEAR M25 South Team . James Dunne, Jonathan Knight and Jay Athwal reduced the drainage programme from 70 to 32 days (replicated across other scheme EAs), saving £900k in labour and reducing risk by over £2m ▪ Dawson WAM Team demonstrated outstanding production excellence as bmJV's piling subcontractor on the M5 J4a-6 NEAR scheme, including zero recorded incidents
The NEAR programme is of a national scale, intensity and deadline not before seen across the strategic road network. This created considerable challenges for the management and resolution of Bulk Purchase requirements, particularly for technology-related aspects, something that posed a significant risk to delivery of the whole NEAR programme. The team worked collaboratively and engaged with multiple stakeholders to understand and overcome legacy ways of working / processes that simply weren’t designed for national programmes with extremely short deadlines. JOINT WINNER 2: NEAR Bulk Purchase Team
Sangeetha Senthil Kumar
Stephen Jackson
David McHugh
Mike Gibbins
Inspiring Workplaces
Nominees:
WINNER: NEAR South Customer & Communications Team
▪ Steve Gee, Risk Manager, pioneered an agile, impactful approach to risk management by supplementing Alliance methods with technology and tools that allow rapid initial data collection ▪ NEAR M1 J16-19 Team for hosting a charity rounders match at the local sports centre in Crick and raising £510 to support families with children battling cancer ▪ NEAR M5 Team for holding an interactive ‘M5 Discovery Day’ for Year 12 and Year 13 students from Worcester Sixth Form College
This team creates a sense of inclusivity and collaborative working while looking after the wellbeing of colleagues spanning five projects. They achieved this through a series of recent events: Neurodiversity Celebration Week: Event attended by nearly 60 colleagues with autistic guest speaker Dean Beadle who shared workplace experiences. World Suicide Prevention Day: Sean Toom from Proud2bSafe shared his experiences with suicide, which was an opportunity for teams to talk and share resources for anyone struggling.
Kathryn Boyce
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Pennie Cooke , Head of Planning at McCann’s, collaborated with Balfour Beatty’s programme manager to create a compliant, detailed programme for a major lighting project
‘Movement and Mediation’ & ‘Music and Movement’: Wellness sessions created for on-site teams.
Carly Robson
Enriched Communities
Nominees:
▪ M6 and M40/M42 Team for giving 150 volunteer hours and in-kind donations to Birmingham Crisis Centre, Europe’s largest women’s refuge, worth £1,500 ▪ NEAR M1 J23-25 Team for taking part in the Big Track, a 10-mile charity walk in aid of the Base 51 charity, to raise awareness of young people’s mental health and encourage donations across bmJV. ▪ M6 J21a-26 Social Value Team for creating an innovative children’s learning resource and sustainability feature at Cleavley Community Forest Garden in Salford ▪ NEAR South Customer and Comms Team for delivering many social value initiatives in partnership with suppliers including WJ, Dawson WAM, Zone Contractors, Zone and Fortel to name a few! ▪ Team SVD (all partners, team members and suppliers) for continuing their outstanding work in this area
WINNER: Vicky Phillips
Vicky has introduced activities across five projects including volunteering, EDI, wellbeing toolbox talks, careers days, work placements and STEM engagement. Highly collaborative, she has created new community partnerships of benefit to clients, subcontractors and colleagues, as well as taking on challenges and finding meaningful solutions e.g. Birmingham Crisis centre, where 24 volunteers redecorated areas of the refuge. She has a positive impact on people such as one colleague with special educational needs who she found a placement for. Vicky has also helped unemployed people visit the project, which in one instance led to a contractor employing a young female who was a "natural" on the excavator. All enables projects to meet (and sometimes exceed) social value targets.
Vicky Phillips
Enhanced Environments
Nominees:
WINNER: NEAR South Team
▪ Sajni Vekaria, Chloe Fowler, Robert Stevenson, Annie Harris, Kafai Liu for embedding PAS2080 carbon management system across NEAR South ▪ M1 NEAR North Site Team went beyond the given legal requirements to protect an unexpected find of bluebells
Natural England dormouse licenses were needed for critical path works across NEAR South, which was the biggest risk to scheme at the time because of the timescales for issuing licences. Vinod and Dominic embodied a truly collaborative approach with DED, Thomson Ecology & Natural England to work through the requirements to achieve licenses being issued in unprecedented tight timescales. The collaborative approach and hard work from the everyone involved not only allowed works to continue through the summer having completed site clearance on critical areas, but also enabled the team to start working on one of the bays ahead of programme. It has set a new benchmark for how we can work with Natural England to achieve what some had deemed ‘impossible’.
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Materials Engineering Team for environmental and sustainability compliance through a departure from standards to achieve higher material recovery and recycling rates
Paul Franklin Dominic Wallace
▪ NEAR M1 J23a-25 NEAR M1 J23a-25 tested soil and removed c2000 tonnes less from EAs saving 400+ HGV journeys and reducing emissions for the material alone by circa 12.4T ▪ M42 J4-5 DHS Team. Hill & Smith with bmJV created a new Rigid Concrete Barrier for the central reserve with 50% less steel, 20% less concrete, reduced carbon by 33%, and six times quicker to install
Vinod Dhayal
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