Profiles
V.J. Donegan & Company has achieved a RoSPA President’s (13 consecutive Golds) Health and Safety Award demonstrating its dedication to ensuring its staff, clients and subcontractors get home safely at the end of every working day. With almost 2,000 entries annually from over 50 countries, impacting over seven million employees, they offer a platform to spotlight an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement and excellence in health and safety.
The RoSPA Awards provide an unparalleled opportunity to stand among leaders shaping safer, healthier workplaces and the award entry process can now also be used as reflective practise to contribute to CPD.
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Geotechnical contractor Geobear has become the UK’s first geopolymer solutions provider to receive Highways Authorities Product Approval Scheme (HAPAS) certification. The HAPAS certificate ensures that Geobear’s solution meets the highest standards for use in UK highways projects. This accreditation is a part of Geobear’s commitment to safety, sustainability and quality, allowing it to reach further into UK markets, appealing to a wider scope of prospective clients.
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RIEGL’s Ultimate LiDARTM Technology offers a wide range of performance characteristics and serves as a platform for continuing innovation in 3D for the lidar industry. The new products include the VQ-1560 III-S, dual channel waveform processing airborne lidar scanning system; VZ-4000i-25 long range 3D terrestrial laser scanner; VUX-100-25 UAV lidar sensor with extra large field of view for wide area coverage and RiLOC-FRIEGL’s high-precision IMU/GNSS solution for VUXseries laser scanners.
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Instead of working through various suppliers to gain guidance on technology solutions, this joint partnership effort will enable geotechnical mine monitoring clients to purchase a comprehensive slope stability monitoring portfolio from a single point of contact.
Located just north of junction 18 of the M6 motorway, near Holmes Chapel in Cheshire, the 85-metre-long River Dane bridge was constructed in 1962 to transport traffic across the river at high level. Over the years, the migration of salts through the bridge joints to the piers and columns below created heavy corrosion damage.
This ultimately led to the de-bonding of the covering concrete. Some of this damage was caused by compromised waterproofing on the bridge which allowed water to seep into the columns and soffit. In February 2022, the contractor engaged Saint-Gobain Weber to review its suggestions for the optimum products to use for the repairs.
To address the corrosion issues, CRL installed a cathodic protection (CP) system. The project was so successful that phases one and two were awarded project of the year and project of the year over £1m at the 2023 Concrete Society Awards and Concrete Repair Association awards respectively.