CONSTRUCTION MANAGER CONSTRUCTION | NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 NOVEMBER/DECEMBER For members of the CIOB constructionmanagermagazine.com | WWW.CONSTRUCTIONMANAGERMAGAZINE.COM LINCOLN CATHEDRAL GOLDEN GLOW LASER GUNS HELP LINCOLN CATHEDRAL’S CONSERVATION MCALPINE CEO PROFILE | STRUCTURAL STEEL SPECIAL | BIM STANDARDS CPD 01.CMNovDec19.Coverfinal.indd 1 21/10/2019 15:07 70% open fl oor space and wide access, bi-directional channels for unobstructed inspection and cleaning Fully SfA8 compliant Walkable top deck Fully confi gurable lateral Nested storage saves and vertical access points space and reduces transportation costs Confi gure tank Lightweight, on-site around easy and safe unforeseen to handle and obstacles construct At least 2 x faster Shape tank to fi t site constraints installation BBA approved for traffi cked and non-traffi cked situations FREE Market-leading Non-handed – oriented BIM Revit Packages As you can see, we right every time thought outside the box Smart connection requires Our free online confi gurator tool, video demos no pegs, clips, caps or tools and a scale model kit are just a click away… qbic.wavin.co.uk 07617_002_WAV_Q-Bic Plus Campaign_Crate Ad L_CM_255x208_New Brand_AW.indd 1 11/10/2019 14:51 constructionmanagermagazine.com CONTENTS 11/19 Contents News 04 News in pictures 06 Data: Brick sales past their peak? 08 Awaiting a new safety regime 10 Paul Hamer interview 28 Sir Robert McAlpine’s CEO profiled Opinion 14 Caroline Gumble on community 16 Feedback: Readers’ views Technical 20 Conserving Lincoln Cathedral How new tech has updated the job Structural Steel Design Awards 2019 28 Tottenham Hotspur New Stadium 30 Coal Drops Yard, King’s Cross 32 Taplow Riverside Footbridge 34 Tombola HQ, Sunderland 36 Wimbledon No.1 Court 38 Commendations 39 Merits BIM & Digital 40 Concrete monitoring system Real-time data from the IoT 42 Overcoming BIM’s two-tier system How to engage beyond the elite 45 Procurement is the key to change The next wave of disruptive tech CPD 48 National BIM standards Working towards standardisation Legal 54 Approved inspectors duty of care Herons Court v NHBC Community 20 10 65 56 CIOB launches two webinars 57 Business school wins award Switchboard: +44 (0)20 7490 5595 Or write to us at the address below: Construction Manager is published 58 Midlands members’ site visits Editor: Will Mann, 020 3865 21032 Construction Manager monthly by Atom Media Partners. 59 Contractors back scholarships [email protected] Published for the Chartered Institute The contents of this magazine are 60 Maidstone Hub annual dinner Associate editor: of Building by Atom Media Partners, copyright. 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ISSN 1360 3566 CONSTRUCTION MANAGER NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 | 3 03.cmnov19.contents.SC2_sc.indd 3 21/10/2019 14:56 NEWS constructionmanagermagazine.com News Tideway Kier demolishes A13 road erects giant bridge in a weekend mental health Kier has demolished the first bridge as part of the sculpture £79m A13 widening project in Thurrock over a weekend, two and a half hours ahead of schedule. A wooden sculpture Kier oversaw the removal of the Saffron Gardens designed to raise Bridge, previously used by farm vehicles, while also awareness of mental undertaking works such as street lighting column health issues in removal and BT communication cable installation at construction has been the same time to minimise future closures. re-erected on a site in Kent. Head Above Water, by Steuart Padwick, which previously stood at Gabriel’s Wharf in the heart of London, has been relocated to a Northfleet site that provides materials and logistical support for London’s new super sewer. The 9m-tall structure was initially created to support a Time to Change Skanska claims V-shaped campaign aimed at bridge refurb first encouraging more Skanska has claimed to be the first contractor in people to talk about the UK to deliver a unique reinforced concrete and address issues encasement for V-shaped piers, completing the associated with work one month ahead of schedule. While working mental health. on a refurbishment of a bridge for Peterborough City Council, the contractor strengthened six of the eight piers supporting the 155m-long Nene Bridge, MJ CHAPMAN which carries 60,000 vehicles a day. DANIEL LYNCH DANIEL Offsite-constructed pier to be London’s longest A pier built offsite in Holland has become London’s longest after it was installed at the Royal Wharf development in Greenwich. The canting brow, part of the pier structure, for the Royal Wharf Pier arrived in the capital in September, carried on a 65m x 60m vessel, while the pontoon was transported by the MTS Viscount tug along the river Thames. Developed by Ballymore & Oxley, the pier will serve as a new stop for the Thames Clippers service. 4 | CONSTRUCTION MANAGER NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2019 04_05.CMNovDec19.newsopener_sc.indd 4 22/10/2019 11:13 constructionmanagermagazine.com NEWS The world’s largest crane, dubbed Big Carl, has started work on Hinkley Point C, where it is being used by BYLOR – a joint venture between Laing O’Rourke and Bouygues TP – on the main civil News story for CM? engineering works. The 250m-tall Sarens SGC-250 Email [email protected] crane can lift 5,000 tonnes at a radius of 40m. Balfour Beatty Skanska and Ikea to build 200 News in quotes develops giant BoKlok offsite homes in Bristol “A common pool of motorway Offsite homes builder BoKlok, a joint venture resources across the vacuum cleaner between Skanska and furniture retailer Ikea, is entire UK construction to build 200 homes in Bristol in one of its first Balfour Beatty’s plant industry would vastly UK schemes. Work on the project for Bristol City and fleet division increase the potential for Council is due to start in autumn 2020, subject has developed a keeping vital resources to planning permission. BoKlok homes are built custom-designed, in the marketplace at primarily from wood, using industrialised processes vehicle-mounted high value” and are completed offsite at a facility in Estonia. vacuum litter-picking Philip Charles, machine to help clean principal sustainability busy motorways. The consultant, Aecom, on new machine enables why his firm is leading maintenance crews attempts to create a to collect litter of national resource and various sizes, shapes, exchange mechanism and weights from the to allow the trade of roadside with use of surplus materials and a handheld vacuum products across UK pipe secured to a construction projects. machine, mounted on a truck bed. The “Ensuring that every litter is then deposited service we offer is into a compartment digitally optimised… within the vehicle, RG Carter’s offsite-built council is core to our new and any dust homes win Stirling Prize Leading Edge strategy” Costain CEO Alex contained through A council house development of 105 homes built Vaughan explains why a specialised filter. using offsite construction methods by RG Carter the firm has made and designed by Mikhail Riches Architects has Nathan Marsh its first won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2019. Goldsmith Street ever chief digital officer. in Norwich is one of the UK’s largest Passivhaus developments and the £14.7m project was “What are we waiting constructed using offsite-manufactured timber for? Why is there still frames, reducing construction traffic to the site. a sense of waiting to be told?” Reinvention of centuries-old cob Speaking at a houses wins major European award Local Government A team of researchers from the University of Association Plymouth who have found a way to bring the conference, Dame centuries-old technique of building cob houses Judith Hackitt warned – by mixing earth and natural fibres with water – construction firms on up to date and turn them into sustainable homes higher-risk residential have won a major European award. The CobBauge buildings not to wait project won a category devoted to sustainability for the government at the RegioStars awards in Brussels. The team to introduce has developed a new method of using cob that new regulations will comply with thermal regulations on both sides before improving of the channel (Part L in the UK and RT2012 in competences. France). Previously cob has not been compliant. “A serious issue” A new survey by the Considerate Constructors Scheme found that fatigue is rife in the sector, with over a third of respondents working in excess of a 50-hour week.