Royal Bank of Scotland HQ, Gogarburn

RBS Gogarburn is the site of the new world class headquarters of Royal Bank of Scotland, Scotland’s largest company and the fifth biggest bank worldwide.

This newbuilding is a business community with offices, restaurant,
shops, leisure facilities, nursery and training/conference centre.

Elliott Thomas was employed to provide a full logistics solution to main contractors Mace that included the following service provisions:

• Site security and access control points
• Fire safety and fire marshals
• Welfare provision
• Coordination of materials to site via Deliver E-Manager
• Transportation and materials handling
• Pedestrian and vehicular traffic management
• Waste management
• Multi service teams
• Ancilliary items

Royal Bank of Scotland (RBOS) Headquarters

Client : Mace
Contract Value : £5 million
Contract Duration : 3 years

It is testament to the company’s role on this project that RBS Gogarburn received the coveted Sword of Honour from the British Safety Council.

The London Construction Consolidation Centre (LCCC) in South Bermondsey has been funded by Transport for London (£1.85m), Stanhope and Bovis Lend Lease (£1.35m) and managed by Wilson James.

A recent winner of the European Supply Chain Excellence Awards 2006, the LCCC is making significant improvements to the construction industry's material delivery effectiveness, reducing CO2 emissions by 75%, increasing productivity by 47%, and for right materials, right place, right time there is a 70% improvement on industry norms.

Gary Sullivan, Managing Director at Wilson James, said: "The concept builds on the idea developed for delivering materials to BAA's London Heathrow Airport. It is run on the principle that the materials are delivered to the centre ahead of the time needed on site. By acting as a 'production buffer' they can be delivered to the site on a 'just in time' basis, increasing efficiency, providing programme certainty, freeing up valuable space and reducing labour on site".

Paul Sims, Bovis Lend Lease Operations Director, added: "Space is usually a problem on any city centre construction site with little room to store materials and restrictions on delivery times. The consolidation centre is close to our London projects and large enough to store materials in bulk. Delivery times are predictable because the lorries don't have far to travel and wastage is kept to a minimum because we don't have valuable building materials lying round on site for weeks before we need them."