Contract Update.

During the past week there have been some great examples of excellent standards being set in Worcestershire.

The new method of pedestrian management is in operation on all our surfacing sites and great credit goes to Mike Carr and his team for ensuring that our sites set standards for others to follow.

Congratulations to Melvyn Trigg for the excellent standards of workmanship and health and safety on a footway scheme in Worcester.

We have also seen some great examples of "value added" in particular by the traffic management teams who carry out additional tasks to enhance the network.

On a sadder note two members of staff have suffered bereavements, our sympathy and support goes out to Jackie and Chris G.

Lucy and Tracey are both leaving us shortly for pastures new, we wish them both every success in the future.

Our new paver.

This week we took delivery of a brand new paver for use in Worcestershire.

We have chosen this size of machine to enable us to deliver a quality service for smaller schemes such as patching, but also to have the flexibility to also deal with traditional size works

New recycling initiatives.

In the last month we have introduced two new recycling processes aimed at reducing the quantity of blacktop we purchase.

We are now recycling on site the arisings produced from the "three million footway project". We are using a Bagella asphalt recycler, and initially this will be used on five schemes recycling on site in excess of 1000 tonnes of footway binder course.

We have also introduced an infra red patching process to repair carriageway defects. Fred White, Tim Cooper and Paul Chadwick are deliveing "The Fastpatch" process, and achieving excellent results.