Tags: Barratt
Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Audit 2018
Barratt has successfully completed a best practice Five Star Occupational Health and Safety Audit conducted by the British Safety Council for a third time, demonstrating our commitment towards the continual improvement of our health and safety management systems and associated arrangements. We underwent a comprehensive, quantified and robust evaluation of our occupational health and safety policies,... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:49
Tags: Barratt, Best Practice, David Wilson, Health & Safety
Building Homes For Swifts and The Community
As part of our partnership with the RSPB, we've joined forces with Manthorpe Building Products to create a new swift nest box in a brick format which can easily be fitted in any new home.
The first of these swift bricks have just been fitted at North Thames' Kingsbrook development in Aylesbury. In total the division will be installing up to 900 of the bricks at the site.
Swift bricks are hollow, and... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 08:59
Tags: Barratt, David Wilson, Nature, RSPB, ecology
RSPB Partnership & Wildlife Friendly Garden Guide
As part of our partnership with the RSPB, we've published new guides to help us and our customers create wildlife friendly gardens. Our partnership with the RSPB emphasises our commitment to deliver more wildlife friendly housing across the country, helping to give nature a home.With 60% of wildlife species in the UK in decline over the past 50 years, and with 31% declining strongly, we all need to... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 08:36
Tags: Barratt, David Wilson, Nature, RSPB, ecology
COINS - Project Update
Barratt's current Commercial systems require disproportionate manual intervention, which leads to people spending far too much time reconciling paperwork instead of doing their day job.
COINS will consolidate disparate systems into a single place and automate a number of manual processes. It represents a strategic investment in technology, enabling people to work in a mobile, flexible fashion, exchanging... Read More »
Posted: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 08:30
Tags: Barratt, Coins, David Wilson
Supply Chain Sustainability School
Background: The Homes School has been effective at engaging the top 200 + suppliers of materials and equipment to the homes market. However we can be much more successful at engaging the sub-contract trades who are responsible for providing the skills and labour on site.
These trades have significant social impacts and also effect issues such as the performance gap, waste, materials use, energy &... Read More »
Posted: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 10:36
Our new National Drawing Portal
Introducing our new national drawing portal, a single platform offering access to drawings and documents across all functions.
The new drawing portal is one of a number of initiatives that has been developed by the Commercial Business Process Review, in conjunction with the provider Conject.
The aim of the Business Process Review is to improve the way each function carries out its core activities, to... Read More »
Posted: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 15:05
Tags: Barratt, Conject, National Drawing Portal