Roland O'Connor spotted at the Construction Enquirer Awards

Great to see my old mate Roland O'Connor (third from left in the photo) with his Colmore Tang colleagues as they win "Best Contractor to Work For" at the Construction Enquirer Awards.

All good things must come to an end

There is a saying that all good things come to an end and that is certainly true here at C&D as Dr Roland O'Connor has decided to leave C&D and head off for a new challenge.

Roland, who has worked at C&D for many years, has decided that the time is right to change direction with his career and has accepted the position of Health, Safety & Environmental Officer at Colmore Tang (one of C&D's customers) who have grown their construction business from zero turnover to £60 million in just 12 months. This rapid growth has seen their workload in Birmingham grow to such an extent that a dedicated HS&E professional is required.

Roland starts his new position on Monday, 8th June, but he will be honouring his commitments to C&D for training courses already booked, and will, from time to time be returning to the C&D team to deliver training as and when required.

Roland comments on his time at C&D:

"It has been a great pleasure to work with the dedicated professionals at C&D, especially my oldest friend John Woodward, over the last few years and to see it go from strength to strength. I wish all the very best to the many C&D clients that I have worked with in the past and look forward to seeing you all again from time to time."

It goes without saying that we value his contribution to C&D during his time with us and we wish him all the best in this new exciting position.

Roland's workload will be shared amongst the other members of C&D for the time being, but as work loads continue to grow, we will be adding to our team in the future.

C&D Consultancy continue to be featured in Demolition magazine

When Mark Anthony Publications launched their new magazine "Demolition" earlier this year we were pleased to be featured in the first edition and that pleasure is now repeated with C&D featuring on pages 40 & 41 of the current edition in the "Breaking Free" article introducing our new breaker training course in conjunction with Rammer.

The new course, fully featured on our sister site www.demolitiontraining.com, is an industry first and follows extensive discussion with Alan Matchett at Rammer to provide not only a bespoke training course written around the Rammer operating manual, but an agreement to provide trainers to deliver the course anywhere in the world that Rammer hammers are in use.

The new course will be available from 1st April 2013, initially with one trainer whilst John Woodward, Duncan Rudall, Roland O'Connor and Craig Wilkinson complete the extensive inductions into "the Rammer way" in Finland from 20th to 23rd May.

If you would like to read the Rammer training article in full you can do so by visiting www.demolitionnews.com and registering for a paper copy of the magazine. Or why not read it online right now.

Roland O'Connor MIDE

We are delighted to announce that Roland O'Connor, well known to many C&D customers, is now a Full member of The Institute of Demolition Engineers following his succesful professional interview in Leeds.

Roland is mainly known to C&D customers for the work carried out in the training room and the site audit fields of the business, but he has, for the last 5 years, been involved in many demolition projects throughout the UK for Erith, City Demolition, Liston Group, GHA and others, and he has produced H&S plans, method statements, and plans of work for many varied projects.

The IDE professional interview was daunting for Roland as he had to face questions from President Steve Jack FIDE, Vice President Duncan Rudall FIDE, and Dave Darsey FIDE about his portfolio prepared from his work over the last 2 years.

From all at C&D CONGRATULATIONS AND WELL DONE!

Further training orders for C&D Consultancy

We are pleased to announce that C&D training division have been awarded further training orders from City Demolition (Birmingham) Limited, Coleman & Company, Armac Group and Lee Demolition.

The courses will be delivered by C&D trainers John Woodward, Roland O'Connor, Chris Williams and Duncan Rudall over the next three to four weeks.

The orders take the total days demolition specific training delivered by the C&D team over the last three months to over 200 days.

Roland O'Connor becomes AMIDE

C&D are very pleased to announce that Roland O'Connor passed the recent IDE exam and is now officially Roland O'Connor AMIDE.

Since joining C&D four years ago Roland has worked hard to learn as much about demolition as possible and that desire to learn has seen him become a CCDO Demolition Supervisor, a CCDO Demolition Manager and now he is on the way to becoming a full member of the IDE.

Having passed the exam Roland now needs to prepare his portfolio over the next two years, and then attend a professional interview to achieve the full member status. From all of the team at C&D Congatulations on a job well done!

Demolition Manager Course featured in Construction Index

Construction Index are featuring the new NDTG Demolition Manager Course in their latest issue but it is disappointing that there is no mention of our own Roland O’Connor and John Woodward who wrote and deliver the course!

Despite the lack of recognition for ourselves the article is worth a look, you can view it here

The next course commences on Wednesday 9th February at Hemel Hempstead.

Another Large Training Order for C&D

When the NDTG wanted to commence a Demolition Manager course to reflect the new styles of demolition management around today they spoke to a number of training providers before awarding the contract to C&D.

John Woodward & Roland O’Connor have developed and delivered the pilot course at Hemel
Hempstead over the last few weeks and have now received the order to deliver 60 courses in 2011 on a day release and block release basis at various times throughout the year.

Full details of the course, the content and the cost are available form Sophie Francis at NDTG and please note that the course is NOT AVAILABLE direct from C&D.

Erith renew training contract with C&D Consultancy

C&D are pleased to announce the renewal of their contract awarded by Erith for training across all Erith sites.

This sees Roland O'Connor continuing with the on-site training that has been ongoing for the last 6 months. We also take this opportunity to congratulate Erith on their fantastic success at the Demolition Awards 2010 in Amsterdam.

Read all about it at Erith's Fireworks in Amsterdam article

Another training order for C&D

C&D are pleased to advise that we have received an order from Total Reclaims Demolition Ltd to roll out the Mansell Construction Zero Harm training scheme throughout the Total Reclaims work force.

The training will require Roland O'Connor to spend a full week at Total, commencing Monday 13th September, to start the roll out with the keynote opening to each training day being delivered by Total Reclaim Managing Director Melvyn Cross.

Melvyn Cross stated that

“Total Reclaims are committed to the Zero Harm journey with Mansell and are delighted that C&D, as approved Zero Harm trainers, are able to assist us with the roll out.”

Another training order for C&D Consultancy

C&D are pleased to announce that they have been appointed as approved trainers for the Mansell Zero Harm initiative and are now able to assist clients in rolling out the training across the company.

The target of Zero Harm is:

• Zero fatalities
• Zero injuries to the public
• Zero permanently disabling injuries
• No long term harm to health
• An Accident Frequency Rate (AFR) of less than 0.1 by end of 2012

Both John Woodward and Roland O’Connor have attended all the relevant training from Mansell and have now been approved to start delivering the Zero Harm message.