Free CPD webinar: Preparing your site for winter shutdown
This webinar has now taken place, however a video recording is available and will be hosted in our video section of the website’s Knowledge Hub shortly.
Join our technical team to hear about preparing your site for winter shutdown over the festive break.
Learn from us during an interactive webinar, where our Technical Director, Leela O’Dea, will arm you with a checklist of things to consider before leaving site for winter closure and festive holidays. She will also be on hand to answer your queries.
Some of what she will cover includes important silt control matters, such as:
- applying a Rain Ready® approach to managing silt on site
- water quality and quantity management during wet weather
- releasing water from site
- permits to pump
- monitoring
About the speaker
Having worked in the freshwater environment since 2000, she has spent many years advising contractors across the UK on technical know-how and best practice to deliver effective surface water management plans.
A very informative session, the presentation itself was visually engaging and well put together.
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Keepmoat Homes Ltd
Innovative solutions I’d not considered before.
Jacobs
It was very informative and good to see the technical side between silt pollution and shown in depth background on the ways it can be reduced.
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Ferrovial Construction UK & Ireland
I liked the wide breadth of issues covered and the range of examples of best practice techniques that can be employed.
Cormac Construction
Quite informative and interesting. Really enjoyed learning about the measures to be put in place for silt pollution.
Kier Transportation
Your industry specific training provided a good overview of the key risks, challenges and the specific controls and capture techniques that can be implemented to reduce silt pollution.
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Graham Construction
It was to the point, factual and covered the required info for the large sites I work on.
Natasha Woest
MacArthur Green
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