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CM Staff
A round-up of the most impressive construction pictures from the past months.
Pye Homes’ yoga session (Image: Pye Homes)
From hard hats to yoga mats
Pye Homes invited construction workers to join a wellness session highlighting the importance of mental health awareness to celebrate International Day of Yoga in June.
Through its parent company, Blenheim Palace, the housebuilder has appointed a wellbeing coach and trained psychotherapist to provide support regarding mental health concerns, as well as mentoring, coaching and training.
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Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings (Image: Historic England Archive)
Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings regeneration
Historic England named Capital & Centric as the preferred developer to acquire over 1.2 hectares (3 acres) of brownfield land within the grounds of the historic Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings for residential development.
Built between 1796 and 1797, the Grade I-listed mill complex is the world’s first iron-framed building and is known as the grandparent of modern skyscrapers.
Finlay Gallagher, aged 13
UK’s youngest digger driver
Schoolboy Finlay Gallagher became the UK’s youngest qualified digger driver at the age of 13.
Gallagher spent his school holidays learning how to put a JCB digger through its paces and passed his Construction Plant Competence Scheme exam with flying colours.
FM Conway and TfL’s trial of the new mix
Recycled asphalt trial
FM Conway and Transport for London have completed a "groundbreaking" trial to mix 50% recycled asphalt product (RAP) into the top layer of road surfaces at the A1 Mill Hill interchange.
The test combined both practical and laboratory testing to prove that recycled asphalt material meets the performance and durability level of traditional fresh asphalt mixes.
Mick Colley (right) taking the old cigarette box he left behind in 1979 from Josh, the City of York Council stonemason who found the items (Image: York City Council)
Visit from the past
Sixty-two-year-old Mick Colley was presented with a Park Drive cigarette packet, a 10p coin and playing cards that he placed under the lead roofing of York’s Bootham Bar while working as an apprentice for the council in 1979.
Colley, who now works for Network Rail, said that he and his colleague Jack Summerville secreted the items as a “nod to the future”.
1 Broadgate, City of London
1 Broadgate completion
Sir Robert McAlpine achieved practical completion in August of its 56,500 sq metre 1 Broadgate office scheme in the City of London for clients British Land and GIC.
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