Building Briefs – July 16th

Environmental and land services provider, The NWH Group (NWH), has committed £500,000 investment in its own unique HGV driver apprenticeship scheme for the next five years and beyond.

Run in conjunction with Glasgow Training Group (GTG), NWH hopes to recruit and train 80 HGV driver apprentices during the course of the next five years with successful graduates achieving a Modern Apprenticeship in Driving.

The scheme is open to people aged 18 – 24 years who are looking for an exciting and challenging career path and who already have an ordinary driving licence, and possibly some professional driving experience. The scheme is also open to those simply looking for a change in career direction.

The NWH Group apprenticeship programme provides individuals with a well-rounded experience where apprentices are provided with a one year rolling programme, in addition to coaching on their actual driving, including activities to develop skills and experience in a wide range of roles and departments including accounts and finance, administration and transport. This breadth of experience helps to ensure that apprentices really understand the inner workings of the business and the vital role they have to play once they become fully qualified drivers.

The first four 2018 apprentices started recently, and the plan is to recruit a further eight later in the year, followed by another 18 during 2019. The intake will continue to increase through to 2022 and beyond.

1,000 more Carillion staff transfer to new employers

Close to three quarters of Carillion’s pre-liquidation workforce have now been found secure on-going employment after 1,085 employees transferred to new suppliers over the past week.

The Official Receiver added that regrettably three roles in the corporate centre are no longer required and those employees will leave the business later this week.

A total of 13,430 jobs (73% of the pre-liquidation workforce) have been saved during the liquidation to date and 2,407 (13%) jobs have been made redundant.

A further 1,256 employees have left the business during the liquidation through finding new work, retirement or for other reasons.

Second phase of East Kilbride gas project to begin

Work is to start on the second phase of a gas upgrade project in East Kilbride.

SGN will replace old metal gas mains with new plastic pipe along the Kingsway (A725) to ensure a continued safe and reliable gas supply to the local area.

Work will take place on a section of Kingsway (A725) north of Whitemoss Roundabout and will be progressing along the A725 towards the Whirlies Roundabout.

Up to £41,000 will be invested in the scheme, which will get underway on Tuesday, 17 July. Work will last around four weeks.

Work continues on £4m Railway upgrade project in Baillieston

Work is continuing on a £4 million railway upgrade project in Baillieston, Glasgow.

A new road bridge is being built over the railway at Muirhead Road to enable two way traffic, cycle route and pedestrian footpaths.

The structure is being replaced as part of a wider programme of work to renew and refurbish bridges all across the railway as part of Network Rail’s UK wide Railway Upgrade Plan.

David Linden, MP for Glasgow East, recently visited the site to view progress on the project.

Muirhead Road is on schedule to re-open by September with work to reconstruct the bridge fully complete in October.

Urban Union supports youth sporting event

Young people across Scotland enjoyed the seventh annual Youth Work Games this week, thanks to a generous donation from regeneration firm Urban Union.

Working in partnership with Muirhouse Youth Development Group, Urban Union donated towards this year’s event, which brought children from all over the country together to enjoy a variety of sporting activities on the banks of Loch Tay.

The games, which began in 2012 during the London Olympics, took place over three days where the children enjoyed a wide range of activities including swamp football, tug of war and archery.

This year, 150 young people from across Scotland, aged from 12 to 19, went head to head to compete for the title of Youth Work Champion.