Sisk monthly: Review of October 2024

Over €150,000 raised for homelessness in Ireland

Close to 50 members of our team in Ireland took part in the Shine A Light sleep-out for Focus Ireland in October, raising awareness and funds for Ireland’s homelessness crisis. They slept at our Dublin HQ, grabbing any space they could around the outside of the building.

This great effort resulted in close to €160,000 donated, the highest amount of money raised by one organisation since the inception of Focus Ireland - Shine a Light!

Congratulations to the team and thanks to everyone who donated so generously, from colleagues to supply chain partners and everyone else in between.

Published: Paul Brown interview for Building magazine

Sisk CEO, Paul Brown, features in an in-depth interview with Building Magazine on topics including current state of play in UK construction sector, Life Sciences and supply chain resilience.

Read the full article here.

A12 concrete roads replacement project opens for traffic

Our latest project on National Highways' Concrete Roads Framework in the UK completed on 9 October, with the section of the A12 between J25 and 26 near Colchester opening for traffic with all lanes now back to normal operation.

During the works the team removed 66,000 tonnes of soil - which would be enough to cover 60 Premier League size football pitches! To read more about this fantastic project and see even more staggering facts about it, click here.

Topping out at Block O, Glass Bottle

Late in October we hosted a topping out ceremony with our client Lioncor, key supply chain partners and designers to mark the topping out of Block O at Glass Bottle, Dublin.

There are 176 Apartments in Block O on 15 floors over a basement. The top of the building is of 60m tall. The tower has a unitised aluminium fa?ade with glazed balconies. There is also 2km of aluminium fins on the outside and over 10,000m3 of concrete.

Amazing effort by our team and supply chain partners and we look forward to delivering the project.

Leanne Broderick appointed Managing Director of Regional Building, Sisk in Ireland

Leanne Broderick has been promoted to Managing Director for Regional Building at Sisk, in Ireland. This business unit covers Sisk’s construction activities outside of the Dublin region, excluding civil engineering.

To read more, click here.

Inside Sisk Podcast - Season 3: Episode 7 - The making of Silvertown

Silvertown is a very large, former industrial area on the Royal Docks in East London. It is being regenerated as a residential area and Sisk has been awarded the contract to build the first plot here.

This is a unique project for a number of reasons - the challenging nature of the site, the new modern methods of construction being utilised for the first time, some of the highly specialised carbon-reduction systems in place - to name a few.

In the latest episode of #InsideSisk, we meet members of the Silvertown site team and learn about this innovation in practice, the importance of strong working relationships, and the positive impact that the Silvertown project is having on the local community.

Download now from Apple, Spotify and other podcast platforms...search for 'Inside Sisk'.

Historic railway footbridge removed for restoration

Also in October, Sisk Rail in the UK successfully removed the existing footbridge at Stroud Station, Gloucestershire, as part of a refurbishment project.

This Grade II listed station, including the footbridge, was originally constructed in 1845. A fantastic, well-planned shift from the team meant the project went smoothly.

The bridge will now be refurbished on site before being reinstalled in January 2025.

CIF Safety Campaign 2024

We were proud to be a gold sponsor of the CIF Safety Campaign 2024. Several of our sites across Ireland participated in various safety initiatives throughout the month.

Some of the key events included:

Johnson & Johnson: Demonstrations included MEWP’s, Irish Heart Foundation, skin cancer awareness, plant people segregation and the importance of having exclusion zones in place.

Bon Secours Hospital: Carried out demonstrations on operating MEWPS safely with our supply chain. There were also 100 people that took part in the Construction Work Health Trust, health screening and the site H&S team hosted a Directors Safety Tour where our supply chain directors visited for a safety review of the project.

Glass Bottle: Martina Sammon, H&S Manager, Sisk carried out 2 X Hands for Life demonstrations and covered topics including, how to recognise a cardiac arrest.

Killaloe Bypass: Our team delivered a number of key knowledge sharing activities. They included critical risks associated to civils work and included People Plant Segregation.

Big thank you to all our H&S site teams and supply chain partners for their efforts and support of CIF Safety Campaign 2024.

Video of the month: One Opera Square topping out

The video below tells the story of Limerick’s One Opera Square and its topping out. This is a Grade A office space scheme in Limerick city centre. The €80M project will be an employment hub for 1,000 people and it will be the first commercial building in the Midwest to achieve this level of sustainable design accreditation in Ireland.