“Urban village” development continues
The Exchange Square area in Birmingham city centre will be developed into a build-to-rent scheme with 375 flats over 37 storeys.
The scheme will be located opposite the new HS2 Curzon Birmingham station.
Birmingham City Council’s planning committee voted through the plans at the end of 2019. Work started in late June/early July and completion is predicted for summer 2023. The next stage of this development includes a 15-storey 235-bed Premier Inn Hotel and Bar+Block Steakhouse Restaurant, along with 7,500 sq ft of retail space.
This is the second stage of development of the planned £350 “urban village”; the first was completed November 2019 and consisted of 603 build-to-rent apartments across three buildings of seven, 14 and 27 storeys.
Andrew Saunderson, director of investments at Grainger said: “We are delighted to progress on our Exchange Square development, our second build to rent scheme in Birmingham.
“The Exchange Square location makes it attractive and convenient for renters in the city, and we look forward to seeing this landmark scheme progress.”
Nikal co-founder and managing director Nick Payne added: “We’re so proud of what we have achieved to date in Birmingham. We started with dreams and derelict land, and to see ambitions transformed into thriving busy communities that people can call home is why we do what we do.
“This next chapter in our Masshouse story is our most ambitious to date, and we could not have asked for a better partner in this project than Grainger.
“Their foresight, passion and dedication to creating a sense of place and community, whilst providing high quality homes for all, is admirable.
“We are looking forward to working with them to deliver Exchange Square phase two in Birmingham.”
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 WinTA.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
To make it easier to include new contractors in your site’s existing health and safety and security procedures, please contact us today.
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