Social Value

Last week our site team at Eastern Green, Coventry hosted a visit of students from Coventry University. We gave an introduction to the site, discussed the tender, procurement and ECI stages before detailing the project scope and taking the students on a tour of the site. Nick Harris, SHEQ advisor, was on hand to explain the significant H&S risks our…

Breheny Civil Engineering are extremely excited to announce we will be sponsoring the Jaguars Wheelchair Basketball Club for the 2023/24 and 2024/25 seasons! The Jaguars Wheelchair Basketball Club are based in Newark-on-Trent and have the main club alongside three satellite training venues. Our sponsorship will help the club expand its outreach across the East Midlands while also enabling them to…

Last week we had the privilege of presenting Sarah Poirier from the Lighthouse Construction Charity with a cheque for £4,000. This was money we raised at our 60th anniversary charity golf day earlier this year. We are delighted to be able to support the Lighthouse Construction Charity in its endeavours to support people from the Construction Industry.

We have recently had 228 solar panels installed on our Huntingdon office and workshop. In the first full month, they are generating 4.97MWh of electricity. This equates to an emission saving of 4.9T of CO2!

We have been busy helping out local residents at Halsey Road in Bedford. Our site team repaired a leaking fish pond and levelled a section of footway to help with accessibility. We are installing a new drainage system on Halsey Road and reconstructing both the road and footways on the housing estate, as part of our Bedford Framework for Bedford…

As part of our Bedford Framework for Bedford Borough Council, we recently repainted some of the road lines on Church Road, Willington. The work was done just outside of the primary school and was completed before the start of the school term.

Breheny staff assisted The Friends of Charterhouse Coventry in a litter pick ahead of Cov’s Big Bike Ride 2023. We helped to support the Big Bike Ride event in Coventry by providing branded hi-vis tabards for the participants to wear on the day as well as helping prepare a small section of the route. The event was a resounding success…

Last week we held our 60th Anniversary charity golf day in support of East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices and Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity. A huge thank you to all the players on the day and all the businesses who sponsored a hole, donated a raffle prize or made a donation through our GoFundMe page. https://www.gofundme.com/f/breheny-civil-engineering-60th-anniversary Thank you to Cambridge Country Club…

We are pleased to be the sponsor of The Breheny Challenge at the Newark Half Marathon, taking place on Sunday 13th August. This is for the fastest female and male runner that beats the target time. Full details of the event can be found here: https://www.newarkhalfmarathon.co.uk/

The Herne Relief Road team recently improved and upgraded a private access road to the Ross Wood campsite. The track was severely rutted and almost inaccessible to cars during the winter months. The track which serves the Scouts premises, is also an access tracks to five private residential properties, all of whom will benefit from the upgraded track. The works…

We attended a careers festival at Bedford Academy last week alongside Bedford Borough Council. It was a great chance to educate the students on what a career in civil engineering with Breheny looks like and how we are working together with Bedford Borough Council in the community.

We have been busy improving the condition of the driveway of the 7/94th Bedford Scouts hut in Kempston as part of our ongoing social value commitment to Bedford Borough Council. Take a look at the before and after shots of the driveway.