INSIDER UPDATE: Tom Baxendell, Land Based Service Technician Engineer
In this blog post, Apprentice Land Based Service Engineering Technician, Tom Baxendell, shares his apprenticeship journey with Bachy Soletanche, what a typical day looks like and what skills he is learning along the way. ...... I’m currently completing a three-year apprenticeship at Bachy Soletanche to become a plant mechanic. I chose an apprenticeship as it was the [...]
From cleaner to site engineer in under a year: Osaro Okuonghae
In this blog post, graduate site engineer, Osaro Okuonghae, shares his inspiring career journey with Bachy Soletanche. He tells us how he rapidly progressed from cleaning the welfare accommodation units at HS2’s Old Oak Common Station to delivering the engineering works on the very same site just one year later. When I moved to the UK from [...]
Caz Sumner: Teacher to Assistant Estimator
In this Insider Update, we chat to Caz Sumner, who recently joined Bachy Soletanche as an Assistant Estimator based in our Burscough office. In this interview, Caz talks about her professional experience, including her recent career change, how we can increase young people’s exposure to the industry and what inspired her love for engineering. [...]
Bachy Soletanche Awarded Full Sutton Prison Geotechnical Works
Bachy Soletanche has commenced work on the contract to deliver the geotechnical works for a new prison in Full Sutton, East Riding of Yorkshire. The contract was awarded by Principal Contractor, Kier, who are operating as part of the Alliance 4 New Prisons collaboration. The scheme, officially launched by Damian Hinds, Minister for Prisons and Probation, is part of [...]
Bachy Soletanche supports two social inclusion charities through the VINCI UK Foundation
Through its sponsorship of the VINCI UK Foundation, Bachy Soletanche has recently secured £6,000 of funding for two charities that are helping to tackle social inequality across London’s most underprivileged areas. The sponsored charities, Doorstep Library and Brent City Netball Academy, have each received a £3,000 grant to help support their work. Both charities were nominated by Emma-Louise Sylvester, [...]
iGuard Scoops Safety Innovation Trophy at the FPS Awards 2022
Bachy Soletanche’s commitment to health and safety was recently recognised when the company scooped the Safety Innovation prize at the 2022 Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS) awards. The company was awarded the trophy for the innovative iGuard and training solution, developed alongside TSS2. The iGuard (ignition guard) is an access control module that can be retrofitted to tracked piling [...]
Looking after your wellbeing: World Mental Health Day 2022
Over the past few months, we’ve heard a lot about the cost-of-living crisis and the impact it is having on our finances. Fuelled by soaring prices of fuel, energy and food, the UK economy is experiencing its highest inflation rate in 40 years. Compounded by recent tax and interest rate hikes, this is leading to the biggest squeeze on [...]
Innovation Prize Supporting Lancashire Conservation for Ribble River Trust
This time last year, Bachy Soletanche donated its VINCI Environment Award prize money, which it won for the development of an emissions-busting exhaust filtration system, to conservation charity, Ribble Rivers Trust. One year later, we decided to catch up with the Trust to find out about the vital work they have been carrying out over the past 12 months [...]
Triple Success at the 2022 Ground Engineering Awards
Bachy Soletanche had an outstanding evening at the Ground Engineering Awards, picking up trophies in the Contractor of the Year, Health and Safety, and UK Project of the Year categories. The Contractor of the Year title was awarded in recognition of Bachy Soletanche’s outstanding accomplishments over the past year, including those relating to business growth, training and development, carbon [...]
Bachy Soletanche Welcomes Tamás Kaltenbacher as New Managing Director
Bachy Soletanche has recently appointed Tamás Kaltenbacher as its new Managing Director. Tamás joins the company from HBM, the Hungarian subsidiary of Soletanche Bachy, where he worked as the Managing Director for the past six years. Tamás has worked for Soletanche Bachy for a total of 17 years and throughout this time, he has gained experience in management, [...]
What To Consider When Reviewing A Piling Tender
The Debate within Geotechnics: What To Consider When Reviewing A Piling Tender Submission. This next edition in Bachy Soletanche’s series of thought leadership reports exploring the value within geotechnics and what to consider when comparing a piling tender. The complexity of piling tenders can vary so much from one to the next that sometimes it’s hard to [...]
HS2 trials ‘first of a kind’ electric drilling rig in bid to cut carbon in construction
HS2 Ltd’s construction partner Balfour Beatty VINCI Joint Venture (BBV), is currently trialling the world’s first all-electric, high-capacity drilling rig on a construction site in Warwickshire, as the Joint Venture steps up its plans to meet HS2 Ltd’s ambition for diesel-free construction sites. Andrea Davidson, HS2’s Air Quality Manager said: “We are proud to be working with our supply [...]