BUSINESS CONTINUITY PLANS COURSE - 05 March 2010

'What do you do on Monday after the fire on Sunday night?'

Unplanned events can have a devastating effect on businesses. Crises such as fire, damage to stock, theft or vandalism, natural disasters, powers cuts, illness of key staff or IT system failure, etc., could all make it difficult or even impossible to carry out your normal day-to-day activities.

At worst, this could see you losing important customers - and even going out of business altogether. But with good planning you can take steps to minimise the potential impact of a disaster - and ideally prevent it happening in the first place.

In order to develop a business continuity plan you need to have a thorough understanding of your business. This involves knowing the critical functions of your business, the effect of those functions being disrupted and the priority for recovery of those functions.

The completed business impact analysis will assist you to prioritise what or service you need to reinstate first during an emergency.

The business continuity management process is a circular process; it is vital the planning does not end once the plan is written. It should be reviewed and tested to ensure it remains up to date and effective

This course will help you to identify potential risks, make preparations for emergencies and test how your business is likely to cope in a disaster.

To book place(s), please contact Harpreet.

IDE Seminar Talk: Development of High Reach Rigs

Continuing our preview of IDE Seminar speakers for the 5th March, Ron Callan is a confirmed speaker.

Ron is Sales Manager for Kocurek Excavators, where he has worked for the past 12 years and at Samsung Excavators, JCB, Hitachi, and Kubota previous to that.

Kocurek offers a whole range of products and specializes in bespoke front end equipment for hydraulic excavators.

Ron's talk in Leeds is entitled "Development of High Reach Demolition Rigs".

Source: IDE

IDE Seminar Talk: Innovative Demolition of a 180m chimney with the Bierrum “Spider”

Gary Eastmen, currently the President of the International Chimney Committee, CCIND, is giving a talk at the IDE Spring Seminar in Leeds on March 5th.

The title of the talk is "Innovative Demolition of a 180m chimney with the Bierrum “Spider”"

Gary will cover the Spider demolition tool and the following work in his talk:

In 2006, Rugeley Power commenced the design and construction of a Flue Gas Desulphurisation installation at their Rugeley Power Station. The project involved the construction of a new 180m high chimney. The existing chimney needed to be demolished but it was situated very close to existing and new plant and the client specified that no material was allowed to fall outside the chimney.

Rugeley Power contracted with Bierrum International Ltd to use their “Spider” demolition system to ensure the safe and speedy removal of the structure without the need for expensive protection works to the surrounding equipment.

Source: IDE

Third largest building implosion by AED a success

Demolition News posted this great video of the 1515 tower in West Palm Beach, Florida implosion.

There's also this bystanders video of the same event. A little less professionally shot, but gives you the view most people would have had of the implosion:



With this job AED achieved the world's third largest building implosion. It wasn't without incident, however. Residents reported a few cases of broken windows, and some building damage was caused. Most local building and gardens just experienced dust and light rubble scatter.

Armac start Leisure Centre workouts

Our regular customer Armac Group of Birmingham, have started a Spring fitness campaign by demolishing two leisure centres in Bletchley and Banbury.

The demolition of the two differing structures is giving a Spring “workout” to the Armac fleet of demolition rigs currently carefully demolishing and clearing away the redundant leisure centres after the local authorities completed new centres on each site.

Bletchley, pictured below, was a striking pyramid construction well known in the area.



The contract in Banbury, at the unusually named Spice Balls complex was a difficult demolition within a tight site but Armac machines soon reduced the building to ground floor slab level and cleared away all arising to allow the slab to be removed and crushed for use by the client. The photograph below shows the demolition well underway.

Someone forgot to close the road, car hit by wrecking ball

Health and safety was clearing lacking on this site. Questions need to be asked about exactly why that wrecking ball was swinging so violently with people around and across an open road?

You'll also notice people nearby were not wearing basic safety equipment such as high-visibility clothing and hard hats. The road was also not closed to the general public.

The safest person was driving the car until they got hit. Lets hope whoever was inside walked away from the accident.