22 August 2016
Drainage work saves customer disruption
The Track Partnership team carried out drainage work at Paddington this summer to prevent delays and disruptions. Preventative pipe renewal work was carefully co-ordinated between Network Rail and London Underground. Because the drainage affects both parties, they agreed to share the cost of the renewal. The drainage pipes at Paddington station, which are shared with
19 August 2016
2016 Newcastle College Rail Academy award winners
The Rail Academy awards celebrated the success of hard-working students. VGC sponsored a number of categories in the awards, as we did for the inaugural awards last year. The students were addressed by David Morgan of Network Rail, before the prizes were announced by Noel Milligan, P-way lecturer and course leader. This year’s categories sponsored
15 August 2016
My engineering summer placement
George Marling writes: My eight week summer engineering placement has been a great experience. During my time with VGC I was involved with multiple departments and was given a variety of responsibilities. This has greatly enhanced my engineering knowledge of rail projects and how the construction industry functions. Working within a site office environment with
11 August 2016
Fairness, inclusion and respect training day
Julie writes: A few weeks ago Jimmy Callaghan and I attended a Supply Chain Sustainability School course to become FIR ambassadors. FIR means fairness, inclusion and respect, and the idea is that the people on the course will become role models for FIR in their offices, sites or projects. We travelled to Birmingham to where
10 August 2016
VGC Group partners with London Irish
We have joined London Irish as an official partner for the 2016/17 season in an important commercial partnership for the club. This new sponsorship deal will see VGC Group become an official partner of the club with our logo appearing on the club’s playing shorts for all Greene King IPA Championship and British and Irish
3 August 2016
LU Beacon award for Farringdon SER project
VGC is proud to have earned a TfL LU Beacon award for our Farringdon signal equipment room project. Chris Hobden, programme delivery manager for London Underground, presented the award to Donal McCarthy, site manager, at a ceremony on 26 July at Farringdon station. The Beacon award acknowledges VGC’s commitment to good practice in site management
2 August 2016
George's work experience at VGC
George writes: My name is George Toogood and for two weeks I was at work experience at VGC Group. I worked for Zena Wigram, marketing manager. I got the opportunity for this experience after Zena heard I was looking for a positive way to spend some time in summer and thankfully she decided to take me in. I was completely
29 July 2016
Awards for National Grid team
John writes: Three people working for us on the north Deeside (Connah’s Quay) sub-station job have helped the site to win two safety awards. Connah’s Quay won the Best Project award and the EAC project won the 100% Safe award in the ALLstar 2016 awards for Morgan Sindall. That means the project is the best
25 July 2016
Network Rail Star award for Crossrail Anglia
Network Rail has given a Star award to VGC for work on Crossrail Anglia. The prestigious award was presented by Fenton Newport, Network Rail programme manager for Crossrail Anglia, during the project’s safety ‘Step up’ meeting on 1 July. VGC achieved a score of 97% across all work sites inspected by Network Rail and principal
21 July 2016
Manual handling awareness presentation
Richard writes: This week I gave a presentation on manual handling awareness at the Balfour Beatty A21 Tonbridge to Pembury road widening project. In fact, I held two presentations. One at 07.00 attended by the workforce and supervisors, and one at 08.00, attended by site engineers and office management. The course is one of our
18 July 2016
Millions of safe hours on 4LM
The Four Lines Modernisation (4LM) programme has hit three million hours without a RIDDOR*. This was confirmed after the Period 3 report, proving that 4LM continues to put safety first. The last RIDDOR took place back in period 8 2014/15, so it’s almost 18 months without a reoccurrence. 4LM is one of the projects being
12 July 2016
Ethical labour standard launch
Ciara writes: I was delighted to attend the launch of the Ethical Labour Standard earlier this month. BRE has developed this new standard to add to existing standards including ISO 6001 and SA8000, as well as the implementation of the Modern Slavery Act in UK law. Presentations were delivered by Jacqui Glass from Loughborough University,
