We are very pleased to announce that Tiz Gibson has joined our team in the newly-formed position of Local Authority Business Lead. Tiz’s appointment follows our success in completing a number of projects for local Councils, including our most recent – working with North East Lincolnshire Council to replace over 20,000 traditional street lights with
Most companies in the rail industry view their suppliers as an integral extension of their organisations and strive for a transparent and efficient collaboration with best in class suppliers. The Achilles Link-up community helps to create business opportunities for suppliers like McCann in a collaborative environment. It gives us an equal opportunity to demonstrate our
After months of coming runners up and Third Place in the Skansa/Balfour Beatty JV M25 Scheme 5A, we are proud to announce that this month the McCann team have taken the lead position in First Place! Lead by John Henham, our delivery team tirelessly works hard to ensure the highest safety standards, zero accidents and
Our first aid training course was recently proven invaluable to one of our members of staff Steve McKewan. Whilst driving to work last month, Steve was witness to a serious traffic accident involving a HGV and a newspaper boy at a set of traffic lights. Using the skills he had learnt at McCann, Steve was
Owing to our ever vigilant and experienced workforce, McCann’s have now managed to complete more than a year without a single lost time accident. The company continues to closely monitor its policies and procedures and examine all workplace incidents in a bid to control and reduce personal injuries.
The McCann civil engineering team has recently completed a £3.3m Road Improvement Scheme in Nottingham on Derby Road between Bramcote Roundabout and Queen’s Medical Centre. The extensive works involved widening the carriageway, reducing the bus lane and installing new traffic signalling to help ease congestion and reduce travel time for commuters. McCann successfully managed and
McCann is introducing new personal safety monitors to lone workers. The monitors, MySOS Mandown by Skyguard, have several unique features which make them ideal for our purposes. They have been field tested by the garage staff and callout operatives and will now be rolled out to those considered at heightened risk within our workforce. An SOS
Most companies in the rail industry view their suppliers as an integral extension of their organisations and strive for a transparent and efficient collaboration with best in class suppliers. The Achilles Link-up community helps to create business opportunities for suppliers like McCann in a collaborative environment. It gives us an equal opportunity to demonstrate our
Recent projects awarded under the Highways Agency’s CMF 2 Framework Contract have seen McCann’s actively supporting the HA’s Sustainability Action Plan. Our recently completed street lighting works between Junctions 26 – 27 of the M62 being one of the earliest schemes to be delivered with a ‘designed in’ midnight to 5am shutdown facility, which along
We are proud to announce the launch of new Corporate Joint Venture, Nexus Highways Ltd. Established earlier this year, in partnership with Thomas Bow City Asphalt Group, Nexus Highways has been strategically developed to vie for larger, multi-discipline public works contracts. It’s robust financial backing, combined with a skilled and knowledgeable management team, will allow
Congratulations to the McCann team for winning the Heathrow Night Managers Health & Safety supplier of the month award for May, June and July. The scores were granted on the basis of a scoresheet league prepared by all the Mansells Night Managers. Also ‘Man of the Month’ awards were presented to Stuart Griffin, Kevin McDonagh,
We undertook the design and build lighting contract as Principal Contractor for London Borough of Hounslow’s Osterley athletics track. The site presented unique planning challenges: it’s on Heathrow flight paths, close to a major road and near local residents, so light pollution was an issue. The project was part of the Sport England Inspired Facilities
A recent project has seen McCann successfully install the infrastructure for a state-of-the-art Mobile Lighting Rig system at Nottingham Forest’s City Ground. After much speculation over the debate between artificial grass and harvesting the natural grounds, Nottingham Forest are one of the first football clubs in the Championship to utilise the MLR system. The MLR
Innes England the prominent City property agency acting on behalf of the McCann Group has been instructed to market the Access 26 site located in the Nottingham M1 corridor. John McCann said ‘Access 26 is a strategic location for businesses seeking excellent links to the regions arterial roads. Our design and planning team has carried
Recent weeks has seen the CMF team being awarded a number of impressive schemes under the Highway Agencies Construction Management Framework. Works orders with a combined value in excess of £1.9 million have been issued for lighting works on the M65, and M62, VRS works on the M53 and lighting works along with signs and
The recent Quarterly Operational Meeting saw the launch of an improved ‘Near Miss’ recognition and reporting system, with an improved tool box talk developed in-house by John Harte and Padraic Sweeney delivered to those present in conjunction with the Highway Agencies ‘Silence is Consent’ DVD. The talk and DVD will be rolled out as part
We are pleased to announce that McCann’s has been selected by Sport England to support their framework for the Design and Construction of External Sports Lighting. The requirements include visiting and surveying sites for condition and suitability, preparing feasibility reports including outline design proposals, consulting with local Planning and Building Control departments, preparation and submission
McCann’s recent appointment to Cumbria’s framework contract for Lighting and Sign Data Asset Collection will, once we have completed the initial works, enable the County Council to present accurate information to their energy providers and thus allow their usage to be accurately calculated. The enhanced information which will accrue should also enable them with our
After a recent Considerate Constructors Scheme audit on our M62/M18 NRTS Upgrade scheme, being carried out for Fluor, CSS both congratulated Lee Swift and his team on their performance and went on to state: ‘This site has complied with the Scheme’s Site Code of Considerate Practice by achieving a score of 4 or above in
August saw the company adding to its already healthy order book with a variety of awards including: – Lighting for Birse on the A13 at Sadlers Farm. – Lighting and signs for Skanska on the M1 at Junction 19.
Our recent recruitment drive and reorganisation reflects both a growing order book and the levels of opportunity available to us, it has seen the business not only processing in excess of 200 quality applicants seeking positions within our delivery teams but also the strengthening our senior management team. Ian Brown has joined the business to
Despite facing stiff competition we were delighted to have been reappointed as the term contractor for North East Lincolnshire Councils contract for the installation and maintenance of its street lighting and lit signs. This ongoing contractual relationship which dates back to October 1990 has seen the McCann Group maintaining the lighting infrastructure to the towns
Following a recent system and performance audit we were delighted to be awarded a Certificate of Accreditation issued by Achilles’ relating to Building Confidence accreditation which enables us to remain an approved supplier to the Skanska and Costain groups of companies. The Achilles’ audit was closely followed by a further audit carried out on behalf
As part of our contractual commitment to North East Lincolnshire Council our term contract team based in Grimsby undertook to repair reported faults within 3.5 days. To date they have achieved a consistent result of fault repairs being completed within 2.8 days. Best practise developed and employed to deliver this outstanding level of service, will
…well one in 40 anyway! McCann have been confirmed as the electrical and motorway communications contractor of choice on the Highway Agency’s, Construction Management Framework joining eleven other specialist contractors appointed to deliver various aspects of this £300 million framework. In excess of forty contractors had sought a place on this prestigious contract. This unique framework
McCann’s Brilliance team were delighted to be recognised as part of the prestigous recent visitBlackpool tourism awards. Host Sally Lindsay, famous for her role as ‘Shelley’ in Coronation Street presented the ‘Tourism Experience of the Year’ in recognition of the contribution this unique project has made to the city of Blackpool’ tourist experience.
McCann’s working for main contractor Carillion, in Highways Agency Area 6, will shortly be engaged in the provision of the infrastructure including foundations, cabinet sites, steps and associated cabling works, for the installation of 10 CCTV sites. The provision of these cameras is aimed at improving monitoring and safety on the areas busy highway network.
The Carlisle Northern Development Route will when completed ease congestion and improve journey times in Carlisle by taking commercial and other through-traffic out of the city. It is anticipated it will also improve the local economy and attract up to 5,500 new jobs to the area by improving transport links between West Cumbria, Scotland and
Morgan Est have entered in to a collaborative relationship with McCann’s as one of their supply chain partners to deliver their “Mind Safety” behavioural based safety training program to all our workforce supplying both trainers and the Morgan Est Safety Bus as required.
November saw two Iveco Tracker 32 tonne Grab Wagons resplendent in our new livery roll out of our Nottingham depot, representing further major investment in specialist plant which has been made by the group over the last twelve months. With over 60 major items of plant added to the fleet in the last year McCann’s
Following a sustained search over the past five years the group have acquired an excellent 4.14 acre site on the prestigious @ccess 26 development. The @ccess 26 development is situated close to Junction 26 of the M1 near Nottingham and benefits from excellent road, rail and bus links. It is proposed we develop the site
At McCann’s we welcome the opportunity offered by early contractor involvement (ECI) for our staff to contribute to the development of future schemes on the network. We are currently assisting BAM Nuttall in developing there A5 Beech Road project and Lafarge with their Black cat to Wyboston scheme on the A1 and look forward to
