Construction assigned for self-storage company

MCS Group, a construction business with its headquarters in Warwick, has secured construction contracts with self-storage company Lok’nStore.

Three contracts have been assigned, for self-storage facilities in Winwick Road, Warrington, Pantheon Park, Wolverhampton, and Gunnells Wood Road, Stevenage.

Lok’nStore, established in 1995, is pursing an active growth campaign, with many new facilities already launched across the country.

Alan Shadbolt, group commercial director at MCS Group, said: “We’ve got a very successful, longstanding relationship with Lok’nStore. It is a very ambitious company, and we are delighted to be instructed to deliver its new developments at Warrington, Wolverhampton and Stevenage.

“Our teams are already on site and the groundworks teams are making great progress.”

Lok’nStore chief executive Andrew Jacobs, added: “Our objective remains to grow by both acquiring more sites to build new landmark stores for Lok’nStore’s own balance sheet and to increase the number of stores we manage under the Lok’nStore brand for third parties.”

Many construction contractors and clients require contractor staff to hold and display Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) smart-cards, which prove their qualifications, before allowing them on site.

Here at Time and Attendance Midlands, we are an IT partner of the CSCS through our parent company, Tensor plc. This means that we can provide seamless integration between the CSCS smartcard and our .NET software, which provides time management, visitor/contractor management and fire/evacuation roll-call systems.

The integration takes the end-user form of a CSCS “card wizard”. This set of rules allows a company to quickly grant construction contractors recognition by and access to our hardware, such as clocking terminals, turnstiles, and door controllers. The wizard will run one of three scenarios when giving access rights to contractors. These are:

  • Contractors who are completely new to the system.
  • Contractors whose name exists on the system but their CSCS card has not been entered.
  • Contractors who are fully recorded on the system and have used their card at other sites, but are new to this particular site.

For each different scenario the wizard will guide the user through the enrolment procedure. The result is that:

  • The contractor’s CSCS card is read (using a USB card reader attached to a Tensor.NET Client PC)
  • Details are extracted from the card to update the contractor’s details within the system
  • Options such as a company, site, shift group and department are assigned to the cardholder

We can handle any size site: our Enterprise software is able to perform for global, multi-site corporations with thousands of employees/users, while our Start edition helps small businesses with less than 50 users.

To make it easier to include new contractors in your site’s existing health and safety and security procedures, please contact us today.