Health & Safety Week 2019 - Bouygues Construction United Kingdom
This week, staff at Bouygues Construction United Kingdom’s businesses – which include construction company Bouygues UK, energy and services provider Bouygues Energies & Services and property development company Linkcity – are taking part in a week of activities to emphasise the importance of health, safety and wellbeing.
Bouygues Energies & Services UK awarded Westminster City Council Facilities Management contract
Bouygues Energies & Services announces new central London facilities management partnership.
Westminster City Council has appointed Bouygues Energies & Services to deliver a wide range of services across 160 locations including City Hall, libraries and other community facilities.
The five year contract, with the potential for two times two year extension, will see Bouygues Energies & Services deliver a diverse range of services. These will include mechanical and electrical maintenance, helpdesk, cleaning, and security services.
Case studies
VIRTUS DATA CENTRES, LONDON5
Virtus Data Centre, the UK’s fastest growing data centre provider, owns, designs, builds and operates the country’s most efficient and flexible data centres. VIRTUS leads the industry with award winning innovation in hyper efficient, ultra-high density and highly interconnected facilities. Having worked with VIRTUS for a number of years Bouygues Energies & Services were approached to design and build a new data centre at VIRTUS’ impressive Stockley Park Campus.
The LONDON5 eco-efficient facility has been designed to meet the growing demand for scalable, reliable and on demand colocation services.
10,000m²
net technical space
24MW
of total IT power
2.4kW²
average power density
Our Solution
Bouygues Energies & Services led the development of the design and build, as well as electrical, mechanical, IST and security solutions for the LONDON5 facility. For this project the team was awarded DCD Data Centre Construction Team of the Year Award 2019.
By enforcing "Intelligent by design" principles we introduce eco-efficient and optimised design for fully flexible and tailored customer solutions. This incorporate solutions for ultra power density 40kW+ per rack footprint. With over 10,000m² of Tier 3 technical space, the data centre is capable of 24MW of IT load and has a variety of power resilience options at N, N+1 and N+N.
Our solution included:
- Highly efficient chilled water cooling
- Efficient UPS systems
- Leak detection systems
- Water mist
- 24/7 on site security
- CCTV with full site coverage
- Access controls
- Biometric entry system
Client Benefits
A single point of contact to boost performance.
Providing detailed design, architectural, procurement, construction, Integrated System Testing (IST), and mechanical & electrical services installation to offer seamless engineering solutions to the challenges facing our client.
Green credentials.
LONDON5 is designed to achieve BREEAM “Excellent” standards and make use of efficient technology such as waste heat reuse.
Energy efficiency.
By implementing our ‘Intelligent by design’ principles, we achieved a power usage effectiveness (PUE)
rating of < 1.3 by supplying high efficiency chilled water using free cooling and air containment at the rack.
Call for startup partners!
Apply here to co-create the campus of tomorrow.
In the UK, Bouygues Construction’s companies design, build and maintain Education campuses. Our offers cover the campus experience, mobility, security, environmental sustainability, and creating buildings that aid academic learning. We want to form partnerships with startups, scaleups and SMEs to enrich this offer.
Construction Skills Workshop for Local People in Tower Hamlets
Bouygues Construction United Kingdom hosts women's construction skills academy highlighting the range of career opportunities in construction
In partnership with Tower Hamlets Council, Mount Anvil, Endeavour UK and Women into Construction, Bouygues Construction United Kingdom’s bespoke five-day course was targeted specifically to female residents of the borough. Participants received a combination of classroom and practical training, giving them tangible qualifications to embark on a potential career in the construction industry and to apply for relevant roles.
Raising Funds for the Special Olympics
Through our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) fund, Bouygues Energies & Services have been able to sponsor athlete, Ross Sinclair, to represent Team GB at the Special Olympics World Games in Abu Dhabi next month.
Ross was selected to represent GB as part of the Men’s Football Squad, following his success at national trials in February 2018. However, the GB Special Olympics Team is not government funded, so they rely heavily on fundraising and donations. Which is how Bouygues Energies & Services came to be involved!
New LED Street Lights Save Brent £850,000 a Year
Bouygues Energies & Services has worked with Brent Borough Council to transform their street lighting. 21,000 new LED street lights have been installed in Brent during a 12-month investment programme that was completed in January 2019.
Defining our role in the UK's Bioeconomy Strategy
In December last year, the UK government published their bioeconomy strategy; Growing the Bioeconomy: A national bioeconomy strategy to 2030. Echoing many of the key messages highlighted in the European Bioeconomy Strategy, the UK paper emphasised the strength of our sector both in terms of societal impact and financial value.
Why should security staff care about mental health?
Why should security staff care about mental health?
At Bouygues Energies & Services we care about mental health. We have a number of trained Mental Health First Aiders across the company who can spot signs of colleagues who may be having a difficult time and offer help. In addition, the focus of our ‘Health and Safety’ week held in October was around mental health and wellbeing.
Festive fundraising at Bouygues Energies & Services
In order to give something back this festive season, Bouygues Energies & Services ran a ’12 Days of Christmas’ raising and giving campaign.
Our 12 Days of Christmas campaign was intended to have a positive impact on charities, the local community and of course, our employees and we’re delighted to say that it has been a great success!
