by Sarah Topping | Jul 21, 2022 | CSR, News, Project Information
Last week we marked a key milestone on the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine project, by hosting an event to celebrate the completion of a key phase in the refurbishment with a ceremonial laying of the building’s final brick by iiCON’s founding Director Janet Hemingway, and LSTM’s Director, David Lalloo. L-R Sean Fenner, Regional Director, Kier – Professor David Lalloo, Director, LSTM – Professor Janet Hemingway, Director iiCON – Bob Adams, Director, Kier Operated jointly by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and iiCON: Infection Innovation Consortium, the new centre, Pembroke House, builds on the Liverpool City Region’s world-leading capability in infectious disease research and innovation. The building, located in the heart of Liverpool’s Knowledge Quarter is undergoing an extensive refurbishment and this involves the external façade being retained while internal works deliver an attractive, contemporary space with state-of-the-art facilities with immersive and experiential technologies at its core. Once complete, the centre will provide a bespoke centre for world-class collaborative and interactive online learning, industry collaboration, and community engagement and training. The centre will accelerate the development of transformative technologies, and future-proof the region as a world-leading centre for infection innovation, research, and learning. Professor David Lalloo said: “Pembroke House responds to a growing need for a step-change in training to equip health professionals to deal with the global health challenges of the future. “The new centre will support impactful global partnerships with multiple stakeholders in teaching and research and enhance LSTM’s educational collaboration with overseas partners and students by linking learning on-campus in Liverpool into a world-class, globally connected digital learning environment. “It’s exciting to be ‘topping out’ the...
by Sarah Topping | Jul 20, 2022 | CSR, News, Project Information
On Friday evening, the Shakespeare North playhouse officially open its doors to the public with a celebration event and parade held in Prescot town centre. The project team was invited to take part in the parade and even Kieran and Kiera had their first event out since the pandemic began. Wearing their PPE, they took part in the parade along the main street of Prescot, up to the doors of the new building. Kieran and Kiera loved meeting all the people of Prescot and the children were very happy to see them! Click here to read more about the...
by Sarah Topping | Jun 10, 2022 | CSR, News
In May, an event was held in London to celebrate the Kier Foundation turning ten. Colleagues from across the country came together to recognise the fantastic achievements the charity has accomplished over this time. From challenges where colleagues have walked, cycled, and even rowed parts of the country (and abroad) to bake sales, and much more, over £2.3.m has been raised for 638 charities across the UK. As part of the celebrations on Thursday, some of our charity champions, trustees and fundraisers presented a cheque of £300,000 to End Youth Homelessness, our charity partner, for all the funds raised to date. During the event Peter Gleave, Dale Capstick and Ben Bolton, who were part of the English 3000 Mountain Challenge team for Spring Into Action, were presented with the Chief Executive’s Special Award. This was for the team undertaking the challenge and also the phenomenal fundraising efforts that has seen them raise a fantastic £14,137. You can watch a short video of the challenge...
by Sarah Topping | Jun 10, 2022 | CSR, News, Project Information
Yesterday we welcomed the Construction Minister, Lee Rowley MP, to visit the recently-completed Shakespeare North Playhouse in Prescot. Hosting the visit were Andrew Davies and Sophie Timms from Kier. They were joined by the Leader of Knowsley Council, Cllr Graham Morgan, Andrew Donaldson (Exec Director, Communities & Neighbourhoods), Melanie Lewis (Chief Executive of the Playhouse), Marie Rimmer (MP for St Helens South and Whiston), and John Fogarty (Liverpool City Region Combined Authority). The attraction is the first of its kind in the Liverpool city region, and the venue’s official opening weekend is Saturday 16 July and Sunday 17 July. Working collaboratively with Knowsley Council, Kier is proud to have played its part in delivering this project, which is the first of its kind in the Liverpool city region. As well as having a significant cultural impact regionally and nationally, the project is a wonderful representation of modern and traditional construction techniques where in keeping with the Jacobean design, the theatre is built from reclaimed hardwood, designed and crafted by hand; a traditional method of construction rarely used in the 21st century. The Minister was keen to learn about apprentices on the project and he spent some time with members of Kier staff and subcontractors who either started their careers as an apprentice or are currently employed as...
by Sarah Topping | Jun 9, 2022 | CSR, News, Project Information
Last week we were delighted to host a steel signing event at the £9.6m Lelley Fields Crematorium project in Holderness to mark a key milestone in the project. Due to complete in early 2023, the site will offer peace, tranquility, natural landscaping, and state-of-the-art facilities to create a fitting place to commemorate loved ones. The event included a welcome from Cllr Jonathan Owen, Leader of East Riding of Yorkshire Council, a tour of the site, and a display of building and landscape plans. Works began on site in 2021 and we are making excellent progress with the project to deliver a new state-of-the-art facility in the heart of Holderness, working to the design of the council’s team in infrastructure and facilities. Read more about the event...
by Sarah Topping | May 16, 2022 | CSR, News
On Friday morning at 5am, a group of 12 employees, led by Peter Gleave, set off to undertake one of the hardest endurance challenges that the UK has to offer, the English 3000 Mountain Challenge in the Lake District. There are 4 mountains in the Lake District that stand over 3000ft, they are Skiddaw, Helvellyn, Scafell and Scafell Pike. The challenge was to summit all four mountains in under 24 hours! They started their journey in Keswick and the first peak to complete was Skiddaw. Once this was done, they headed back down into Keswick then through Borrowdale to Scafell, picking up this summit via Lords Rake, a challenging grade one scramble. Once complete, they headed back down to Mickledore via Fox’s Gill and started their steep ascent to the summit of Scafell Pike. One of the hardest parts of the whole challenge was to climb High Raise, a mountain just under 3000ft that sits between Scafell Pike and Helvellyn, leaving High Raise at dusk they headed into the dark to pick up their support teams to have their final break before they started the journey through the night and into the early hours of Saturday to the final peak, Helvellyn. The team battled gale force winds and poor visibility across high ground for most of the day but they pressed on and achieved the challenge with 5 minutes to spare! Well done to you all – Peter Gleave, James Webster, Nicola Ridgeway, Allan Mannion, Richard Anderson, Peter Finegan, Ben Bolton, Tom Disley, James Donafee, Dale Capstick, Leam McMaster and Sean Terron. Not to forget a thank you to...
