Capita Symonds will be attending a number of conferences and events over the coming months.
Why not come along and meet us:
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INTEGRATED TRANSPORT LONDON - Silver Sponsors
Thursday 6th November, Novotel London St Pancras
The Capital’s most prestigious and topical event surrounding the delivery of the Transport Strategy for London and the implementation of a sustainable post-Olympic infrastructure.
Find out more about Integrate Transport London
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PASSENGER TRANSPORT 2008 - Exhibitors
Thursday 13 November 2008, Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Planning for our Future Passenger Transport Needs
Find out more about Passenger Transport 2008
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ASSET 2008 - Exhibitor
Thursday 20th November, QEII Centre, London
Managing and relocating the Government estates
Find out more about Asset 08
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THAMES GATEWAY FORUM 2008
Wednesday 26th – Thursday 27th November, ExCel, Docklands
The only event dedicated to bringing together the organisations involved in regenerating the Thames Gateway
Find out more about Thames Gateway Forum 2008
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Tuesday, 7 October 2008
New Appointment - Alistair Kirk, Director of Engineering and Technology
We have recently appointed Alistair Kirk as our new Director of Engineering and Technology for our Infrastructure Division.
Alistair was previously Director of Controls at Laing O'Rourke, responsible for mitigating pre-contract business risk and assuring project outturns.
He has also worked as Programme Controls Director for Network Rail, managing their projects and engineering works nationally encompassing planning, project controls, estimating and risk management functions.
He also spent 15 years in the defence industry with BAE Systems holding a number of senior management positions, latterly as programme director for the Royal Navy's latest batch of warships and leading one of its aerospace support business units.
Alistair Kirk will be based across our London and East Grinstead offices.
Alistair was previously Director of Controls at Laing O'Rourke, responsible for mitigating pre-contract business risk and assuring project outturns.
He has also worked as Programme Controls Director for Network Rail, managing their projects and engineering works nationally encompassing planning, project controls, estimating and risk management functions.
He also spent 15 years in the defence industry with BAE Systems holding a number of senior management positions, latterly as programme director for the Royal Navy's latest batch of warships and leading one of its aerospace support business units.
Alistair Kirk will be based across our London and East Grinstead offices.
Friday, 3 October 2008
Mossband Viaduct and Eask Bridge videos
NCE (New Civil Engineer) magazine have recently posted a couple of videos on YouTube featuring projects Capita Symonds have been involved in.
Mossband Viaduct and Esk Bridge Move
Both of these projects are part of the bigger "M6 Extension project" to fill the missing link between Scotland and England - currently there is a 9km gap in motorway from the top of the M6 in Carlisle to the A74(M) near Gretna. The new stretch of motorway should ease safety concerns and create a through flow of traffic to and from Scotland on this major route.
Capita Symonds are providing Environmental Assessment, Management and Design, Geotechnical Engineering, Highway Design and Structural Engineering on the project.
Find out more about the M6 Extension project and our involvement
Mossband Viaduct
Esk Bridge Move
http://www.nce.co.uk/
Mossband Viaduct and Esk Bridge Move
Both of these projects are part of the bigger "M6 Extension project" to fill the missing link between Scotland and England - currently there is a 9km gap in motorway from the top of the M6 in Carlisle to the A74(M) near Gretna. The new stretch of motorway should ease safety concerns and create a through flow of traffic to and from Scotland on this major route.
Capita Symonds are providing Environmental Assessment, Management and Design, Geotechnical Engineering, Highway Design and Structural Engineering on the project.
Find out more about the M6 Extension project and our involvement
Mossband Viaduct
Esk Bridge Move
http://www.nce.co.uk/
New - Book Health & Safety Training Courses Online
Our Health & Safety Training team, have now launched an online booking form, to make it easier and quicker to sign up for their courses.
Capita Symonds provides many health and safety courses including, IOSH, NEBOSH, CDM 2007, Managing Contractors Safely and Health and Safety leadership.
Find out more about our Health and Safety Training Courses, including courses, dates, venues and presenters.
Capita Symonds provides many health and safety courses including, IOSH, NEBOSH, CDM 2007, Managing Contractors Safely and Health and Safety leadership.
Find out more about our Health and Safety Training Courses, including courses, dates, venues and presenters.
Thursday, 2 October 2008
She bangs the drums.....well a marimba anyway
Justine Lloyd - Project Support for Capita Symonds’ Telecomms division in Cheadle Hulme – has won two major Drum Corp (an American style marching band) awards recently.
Every Saturday Justine (5th from left below) gets up at 0430am to travel from Poynton in the North West to Eastleigh in Hampshire (over 200 miles) to play the ‘Marimba’ (similar to a xylophone) in The Senators band.
The effort is certainly worth it as the team recently won the Drum Corp UK (DCUK) Championship for the eighth time.
What’s more, a week later they beat 20 teams from five countires to win the European Championships (DCE) in the Netherlands - the second year running they’ve won the award – 'drumming' up (sorry) a spectacular 90.20 points out of a 100 in the process.
Wednesday, 1 October 2008
Capita Symonds Video
If you want to find out more about life in Capita Symonds, our projects, working for us and more, have a look at some of our videos:
Go to our YouTube Channel
See videos on the Capita Symonds website
or watch some of them below:
Capita Symonds at Think 08
Jonathan Goring (our MD) talks about Successful People, Projects and Performance
Rob Firth talks about Capita Architecture
Working at Capita Symonds
Working at Capita Architecture
Wales Millennium Centre - Cardiff
Regeneration and Communities
Go to our YouTube Channel
See videos on the Capita Symonds website
or watch some of them below:
Capita Symonds at Think 08
Jonathan Goring (our MD) talks about Successful People, Projects and Performance
Rob Firth talks about Capita Architecture
Working at Capita Symonds
Working at Capita Architecture
Wales Millennium Centre - Cardiff
Regeneration and Communities
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Jobs at Capita Symonds
We currently have 68 jobs listed on the Capita Symonds vacancy board!
The roles are located across the UK, and across many of our varied disciplines.
View our current jobs
We also have a Graduate Structural Engineer vacancy in London.
View our current Graduate vacancies
The roles are located across the UK, and across many of our varied disciplines.
View our current jobs
We also have a Graduate Structural Engineer vacancy in London.
View our current Graduate vacancies
Monday, 29 September 2008
Annual Safety Lecture - 22nd October 2008
The annual Capita Symonds / ICE Annual Safety Lecture on will be held on 22nd October 2008
This year's subject will be "Combining Safety, Health and Environment - have we succeeded?", and will be hosted by John Armitt, CBE FREng FlCEChairman, Olympic Delivery Authority.
In this lecture John will reflect on the move in recent years in corporate governance from just safety to safety, health and environment; the expectations in the performance of the industry; and the roles of the respective players: clients, designers, contractors/suppliers.
For more information and to register go to the Capita Symonds website
Find our more about Capita Symonds' Health and Safety Training courses (including IOSH & NEBOSH)
This year's subject will be "Combining Safety, Health and Environment - have we succeeded?", and will be hosted by John Armitt, CBE FREng FlCEChairman, Olympic Delivery Authority.
In this lecture John will reflect on the move in recent years in corporate governance from just safety to safety, health and environment; the expectations in the performance of the industry; and the roles of the respective players: clients, designers, contractors/suppliers.
For more information and to register go to the Capita Symonds website
Find our more about Capita Symonds' Health and Safety Training courses (including IOSH & NEBOSH)
Capita Symonds Volunteers redecorate Sheffield School
60 volunteers from Capita and Capita Symonds’ Sheffield offices recently spent three days revamping a local primary school.
The voluntary scheme – which was organised in conjunction with South Yorkshire Cares, a Business in the Community initiative – saw employees from Capita’s local offices – Capita Symonds, Capita Hartshead, Capita Group Marketing and Veredus – helping to spruce up the nearby Springfield School.
Led by Project Manager Andrew Borthwick, a Capita Symonds team redecorated the school’s IT suite, school reception area and staff room kitchen.
Michelle Tilney, Community Coordinator of Business in the Community said: “We are really pleased that so many volunteers joined this exciting project. This project created a colourful and lively environment for the children to study, staff to work in and visitors to enjoy.”
Andy Borthwick added: “This was a great opportunity to make a real difference in the local community and for our employees from a wide range of business to work together. We have been
working with Business in the Community on a range of projects and we look forward to many more to come”.
See related article in South Yorkshire's "The Star" newpaper
Friday, 26 September 2008
Bjørvika Tunnel project reaches key stage
A Capita Symonds project in Norway has reached a major milestone with the immersion of the first tunnel element in the Bjørvika Immersed Tunnel project in Oslo harbour.
The 600m long structure - part of a much longer network of tunnels carrying traffic beneath the city on the E18 highway – is made up of of six tunnel elements and will eventually carry a dual three-lane highway under the harbour. It is the first ever immersed tunnel in Norway
A Capita Symonds team – led by Associate Director Jon Baber – has been working on the project since 1999 when we provided advice on the project’s feasibility.
We also provided outline design and detailed design of the tunnel structure - working with Norwegian consultants Aas Jakobsen - as well as preparing contract documents. Our team is currently providing advice and site support during the construction phase.
The tunnelling contract is linked to the redevelopment of the harbour area which includes a new opera house as well as commercial and residential districts. The remaining tunnel elements are due to be in place by mid October before work starts on the road construction and the installation of the various mechanical and electrical systems. The €300m highway tunnel is due to open to traffic in 2010 with the remainder of the harbour development planned to be complete around 2012.
The immersed tube tunnel technique is highly specialised and Capita Symonds is one of only a few consultants in the world with the expertise to deliver this type of project.
The work involves the construction of large box-shaped tunnel elements in dry docks, or purpose built basins, which are then sealed with bulkheads before being floated up and towed to site where they are sunk into a pre-dredged trench in the river or sea bed. The tunnel elements are then joined together with a complex arrangement of watertight gaskets and, once backfilled, the road or railway can then be constructed internally.
Capita Symonds’ client on the project is the Norwegian Public Roads Administration while the contractor for the immersed tunnel is a joint venture between Skanska, BAM and Volker Stevin.
Our portfolio of immersed tunnel projects extends to over 30 major international schemes. It includes the Conwy Tunnel in North Wales, the Medway tunnel in Kent, the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork, Ireland and the largest concrete immersed tunnel in the world - the Øresund Tunnel between Denmark and Sweden. Our other current projects include the Limerick Tunnel in Ireland and the Tyne Tunnel in Newcastle where the team is providing technical advice to the lending bank.
The 600m long structure - part of a much longer network of tunnels carrying traffic beneath the city on the E18 highway – is made up of of six tunnel elements and will eventually carry a dual three-lane highway under the harbour. It is the first ever immersed tunnel in Norway
A Capita Symonds team – led by Associate Director Jon Baber – has been working on the project since 1999 when we provided advice on the project’s feasibility.
We also provided outline design and detailed design of the tunnel structure - working with Norwegian consultants Aas Jakobsen - as well as preparing contract documents. Our team is currently providing advice and site support during the construction phase.
The tunnelling contract is linked to the redevelopment of the harbour area which includes a new opera house as well as commercial and residential districts. The remaining tunnel elements are due to be in place by mid October before work starts on the road construction and the installation of the various mechanical and electrical systems. The €300m highway tunnel is due to open to traffic in 2010 with the remainder of the harbour development planned to be complete around 2012.
The immersed tube tunnel technique is highly specialised and Capita Symonds is one of only a few consultants in the world with the expertise to deliver this type of project.
The work involves the construction of large box-shaped tunnel elements in dry docks, or purpose built basins, which are then sealed with bulkheads before being floated up and towed to site where they are sunk into a pre-dredged trench in the river or sea bed. The tunnel elements are then joined together with a complex arrangement of watertight gaskets and, once backfilled, the road or railway can then be constructed internally.
Capita Symonds’ client on the project is the Norwegian Public Roads Administration while the contractor for the immersed tunnel is a joint venture between Skanska, BAM and Volker Stevin.
Our portfolio of immersed tunnel projects extends to over 30 major international schemes. It includes the Conwy Tunnel in North Wales, the Medway tunnel in Kent, the Jack Lynch Tunnel in Cork, Ireland and the largest concrete immersed tunnel in the world - the Øresund Tunnel between Denmark and Sweden. Our other current projects include the Limerick Tunnel in Ireland and the Tyne Tunnel in Newcastle where the team is providing technical advice to the lending bank.
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