Issue 4
CIDON GROUP Newsletter
CIDON GROUP
Newsletter
April 2015
ETHANE IMPORT TANK, SEAL SANDS
Cidon Group
It has been a busy six months for Cidon since
the last newsletter in all aspects of the business,
including new project awards, final designs
agreed for the Head Office, procuring plant,
implementing of new procedures and signing
off our accredited Formwork apprenticeship.
Tenders and Contracts
Works are well under way for two new clients at
Office 3, St Pauls Place Sheffield for Bowmer
and Kirkland, and the new Ethane Tank at
Hartlepool for Balfour Beatty.
Office 3 comprises of a ten storey 78,000 ft2
office block, with ground floor retail space,
office units and car parking. Following an
ongoing, successful delivery at St Paul’s,
Bowmer and Kirkland have recently awarded
Cidon the prestigious South Shields Library and
Digital Media Centre, due to commence on site
in June 2015. The three-storey building will
form the first part of the towns regeneration
project, including an IT suite, exhibition space, a
cafe and rooftop restaurant with terrace.
Works are progressing well at the 77,000 cubic
metre storage tank at Seal Sands with two
shifts per day currently underway. Following a
recent immigration inspection on this site,
Cidon were officially acknowledged by the
home office for successfully carrying out all
necessary passport checks for our employees.
Following successful completion of Q9 at
Quartermile, Cidon have been awarded their
fifth phase on site. Q24 and Q25, recently
commenced March 2015 for Sir Robert
McAlpine.
Despite the recent spell of wet and windy
weather at Penistone Sawmill, the pace of
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construction on our prestigious development of
14 dwellings on the site of the Old Sawmill in
Penistone has increased significantly. Block A
comprising of four houses and a cluster of five
apartments will be watertight within a couple of
weeks and the finishes within the five houses of
Block B are very close to completion. The 4 bed
fully furnished show house is due to open April
2015
Student Castle in York was successfully
completed March 2015 ahead of programme,
well done to all the team involved. Following a
successful delivery in York, Vinci have
subsequently awarded the new Spire Hospital in
Manchester, due to commence April 2015.
Ferrybridge Power Station is still going strong,
18 months on from initiation, due to be
completed in June 2015.
Carlton Gate in Leeds has been successfully
delivered, and the series of eight blocks of
apartments at Holbeck are due to be completed
at the end of this month for Keepmoat. City
Towers in Sheffield has recently been awarded
by repeat client Campbell Homes, and
commenced on site for the five storey
residential frame.
Penistone Sawmill
St Pauls Place Sheffield
Sheffield Children’s Hospital
Following the very challenging 27 mile, Three
Yorkshire Peaks walk, Cidon donated more
than £3000 to the children’s hospital charity,
along with a contribution of Toys R Us vouchers
just in time for Christmas. The first group to
finish completed the walk in a staggering 9
hours! Well done to all involved, and thank you
to everyone who supported through
sponsorship. The monies will be put towards
the specialist equipment not funded by the NHS
in the new hospital building.
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New Head Office
Recognition and Awards
The design and approvals to build our proposed
new Head Office, within our existing yard at
Mason Way, are now complete, and tenders are
expected back by 27th March. Our Directors are
committed to seeing the work completed by
the end of November 2015 when we can look
forward to the fresh smell of paint. The
building
will
provide
substantial
accommodation over two floors including
dedicated training facilities for apprentices.
Although the building includes a structural steel
frame, we intend taking the opportunity to
display our many talents within a two storey
high, specially profiled insitu concrete reception
wall.
The entrance canopy will also be
supported on two concrete circular feature
columns.
Following a great evening at the Concrete
Awards dinner held at the Grosvenor Hotel in
London, Cidon were the proud winners of the
Certificate of Excellence award for the Glasgow
School of Art, Reid Building. The award,
presented by Janet Street Porter was proudly
received by Steve Simpson, Rob Smith and
Stevie Auton in October.
agents. When used in conjunction with an IBC
Dispenser this allows for easy transfer whilst
providing 100% protection against spills. The
use of the 1000l IBC has also proved to give an
economic advantage over smaller deliveries.
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Lessons Learnt
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Accredited Formwork Apprenticeship
Following a considerable amount of discussion
and preparation, Cidon have partnered with
Sheffield College, to deliver a CITB accredited
block release apprenticeship in Formwork
Construction. The first block of training will
commence in April 2015 at Sheffield College,
and subsequent blocks will be delivered from
the yard in Barnsley over a two year training
scheme. Following an outstanding success rate
from our first intake in July 2014, Cidon are
working towards a second intake of trainees for
the scheme Summer 2015. The success of this
scheme has been a result of the continued
training and mentoring invested on site,
consequently raising up an eager and talented
pool of labour for the business. Well done to
Steve Auton, Jordan Bennett, Joe Marshall,
Oliver Snell, Joe Thompson and Peter Webb
who will be starting the apprenticeship in April.
Training and Upcoming Courses
Over the last six months, Cidon have delivered
training in a number of areas across the
workforce, including CPCS Lift Supervisor,
Slinger Signaller, IPAF Duel, 5 day Setting out,
SSSTS, and SSTPS Haki endorsement. Over
the coming 8 weeks, we also have the following
scheduled,
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HGV Class 2
CPCS Truck Mounted Concrete Pump
CPCS Crawler Crane
CPCS Mobile Crane
2 day setting out for Engineers
First Aid at Work
SMSTS
CJD Plant
CJD has recently invested in a number of areas,
including two, 7.5T Lorries, as well as a 13T JCB
Excavator, 6T Excavator, JCB Telehandler,
Terex 50T Mobile Crane, and six vans to
upgrade the fleet.
New Recruits
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Sam Gibson, Trainee Engineer at Seal Sands
Paul Smith, Trainee Engineer at Seal Sands
Joe Isotta, Trainee Engineer at Edinburgh
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Roll Out of Procurement Manual
Three years ago Jane Galloway joined Cidon
Construction as an administrator/document
controller. Jane has recently been promoted as
the procurement manager, and responsible for
ensuring that the best quality goods are
purchased at the most competitive prices. Jane
has recently undertaken a review of all current
suppliers and produced a procurement manual.
The new procedure will be briefed out to all
sites in the next coming of weeks. If you have
any site requirements, feedback or suggestions
for improvement in this department, please
contact Jane directly in the office.
Re-use of pre-cut kicker timbers to close
off platform gap and prevent materials
falling at Seal Sands.
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Consider potential positive hydrostatic
pressures
when
specifying
pump
chambers (Edinburgh)
Any daywork sheets presented from our
subcontractors should only be signed for
as received and not agreed, therefore sign
and state ‘FRPO’ (For Record Purposes
Only).
Cidon dayworks must be presented to our
client daily, and sent back to the relevant
QS weekly.
Daywork sheets received from our
subcontractors more than 1 week old to be
rejected.
Always keep a running log of any events
by our suppliers which have caused delay
and relay them back to the QS / Contracts
Manager weekly, e.g. crane wind logs.
Continue to ensure original copies of
passports and work permits are taken for
all foreign workers on first day. Copies
must be returned to the office
immediately.
Summary of the Good Initiatives
Curved lifting beam
Bespoke
lifting
beam, consisting of
a heavy section
universal beam, and
base plate widened
with the addition of a 500mm wide steel plate.
Lifting eyes have been welded to the underside
of the plate in order to mirror the radius of the
tanks wall reinforcement. This has allowed the
walls to be quickly prefabricated on a flatbed,
whilst forming it to the final shape of the wall
on lifting.
Step Ladders
When
previously
faced
with
the
problem
of
tightening the top
bolt on the higher
shutters, we adopted to using a stabilised step
ladder over the traditional ladder.
This
lightweight aluminium ladder provides a stable,
completely enclosed working platform, yet
proved to be flexible enough to be carried along
the working platforms.
Fuel Bunds
The introduction of
the IBC storage
bund had allowed
the
safe
and
contained storage of
construction chemicals such as release or curing
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