Ringway Worcestershire Annual Festive Carbon Reduction Campaign

Next Monday heralds the start of our annual Festive carbon reduction campaign. This year the campaign targets carbon awareness and we will be appointing each week a team of "Carbon Caretakers" to audit offices and depots using their carbon scorecards

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Prizes will be awarded throughout the month on a weekly basis and at the end of the month we will announce the "Carbon Champion"

We will also be making available a free supply of low energy bulbs at each workplace "free to a good home"...please use wisely.

This campaign will be the last during the life of this current contract....LETS MAKE IT THE BEST

National Road Safety Week

Next week is national Road Safety Week. Ringway will be taking an active part and we in Worcestershire will be carrying out road safety road shows around the County as follows

 

Tuesday 19th November	Time	Delivered by
Lydiate Ash	8.00 – 9.00am	Dave Rowley
Newland	8.00 – 9.00am	Stuart Freeman
Highways House	11.30 – 12.30pm	Dave Rowley
Stanford	3.00 – 4.00pm	Dave Rowley
Hinton	3.00 – 4.00pm	Stuart Freeman
Wednesday 20th November
Warndon	12.30pm - 1.30pm	Dave Rowley

At each roadshow we will be carrying out a road safety presentation and carrying out a road safety quiz with road safety prizes.

                                             DRIVE SAFELY

The Ringway Worcestershire team win Exceptional Project Award......

Congratulations to all of the team that have delivered the successful Lowesmoor scheme.

 

Details of the award are as follows......

 

 

The Programme Board and Package Panel have awarded the Lowesmoor Project Team an Exceptional Project Award. The presentation will be made by Ian Bamforth in the Council Chamber, County Hall.

 

Dear Max

I would like to nominate the Lowesmoor Project Team for the Package Panel Exceptional Project Award. This has been a complex project and has meant balancing a number of conflicting objectives including improving the public realm whilst minimising future maintenance liabilities, decreasing flood risk and minimising disruption to businesses, residents and commuters during construction. A number of colleagues have contributed towards the scheme including Mark Mills and Martin Rowe (Project Managers), Michele Jones, Nicky Fletcher, Gavin Loach, Julian Tipton, Steve Ruff and Richard Cartland (WCC), Jamie Wylie, Paul Bufton, Mark Broomby and Andy Seek (CH2M), Jim Blackwell and Alison Vincent (Worcester City), Sid Roberts, Terry Godwin, Jacquie Hyslop, Ray Gwynne and team (Ringway). The team has also received valuable support and advice from Pete Ashcroft, Nick Yarwood, Nick Twaite, Pete Jago, Tom Comerford and Ian Bamforth. Unsurprisingly there was the odd difference of opinion along the way but it is a testament to all those involved that they found a way forward and that the project has reached a successful conclusion.

Regards

 

Programme and Commissioning Manager

Worcestershire County Council

 

Bewdley Bypass Reopens Ahead Of Schedule.

Despite terrible weather conditions and difficulties with material deliveries the Worcestershire Highways team worked together to overcome all the problems and reopen Bewdley Bypass ahead of schedule.

Conditions proved particularly testing on Monday, but the team knowing the need to get the bypass reopen for business worked through the atrocious weather to deliver an excellent finished product.

Worcestershire by night......

With the onset of Autumn and the return of early nightfall, a lot of our works are being carried out under floodlight.

Last night we had a team working late into the night to successfully carry out repairs to the Evesham bridge repair route in less than 6 hours.

Throughout the months of September and October we have a 10 man team carrying out an upgrade of Worcester High Street.

 

By day the normal activities of the high street continue, but at night there are full scale construction activities taking place. At the end of every night the team clear the site to provide clear access to all the shops.

 

Works are progressing well with no complaints received.

 

Ray Gwin Retires...

Today sees the completion of the Lowesmoor scheme, the disbanding of Radar and the retirement of Ray Gwin. Ray has worked in and around Worcestershire for many years and we wish him all the best for the future and we thank him and his team for all the excellent works they have carried out.

50 years service and still going strong....

Fifty years ago today Chris Dovey started work for Worcestershire County Council. Chris is still a very active part of the Ringway Worcestershire Senior team, and evidence of this is Chris is heading up the high profile scheme in Worcester High Street that starts tonight.