Construction nearing completion near Bicester
An 85-home housing development in Ambrosden, near Bicester, is nearing completion.
The scheme, known as Blackthorn Meadows, comprises a mix of two, three, four and five-bed homes and one and two-bed apartments.
The Northern Home Counties branch of Bellway, a successful 70 year-old house-building firm with 19 regional service providers, is in charge of construction.
Sales manager for Bellway Northern Home Counties, Andrew Odams, said: “Our Blackthorn Meadows development has been a great success with many house-hunters finding their perfect place here, within easy reach of Bicester, one of Oxfordshire’s fastest-growing towns.
“It has been great to see a wide variety of buyers move into their new homes at Blackthorn Meadows and form a new community in what is already a thriving area.”
Many construction contractors and clients require contractor staff to hold and display Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) smart-cards, which prove their qualifications, before allowing them on site.
Here at Time and Attendance South East, we are an IT partner of the CSCS through our parent company, Tensor plc. This means that we can provide seamless integration between the CSCS smartcard and our WinTA.NET software, which provides time management, visitor/contractor management and fire/evacuation roll-call systems.
Using a contactless card to exit and enter sites will help minimise the spread of any infections.
The system integration takes the end-user form of a CSCS “card wizard”.
This set of rules allows a company to quickly grant construction contractors recognition by and access to our hardware, such as clocking terminals, turnstiles, and door controllers.
The wizard will run one of three scenarios when giving access rights to contractors. These are:
- Contractors who are completely new to the system.
- Contractors whose name exists on the system but their CSCS card has not been entered.
- Contractors who are fully recorded on the system and have used their card at other sites, but are new to this particular site.
For each different scenario the wizard will guide the user through the enrolment procedure. The result is that:
- The contractor’s CSCS card is read (using a USB card reader attached to a Tensor.NET Client PC)
- Details are extracted from the card to update the contractor’s details within the system
- Options such as a company, site, shift group and department are assigned to the cardholder
To make it easier to include new contractors in your site’s existing health and safety and security procedures, please contact us today.
We can handle any size site: our Enterprise software is able to perform for global, multi-site corporations with thousands of employees/users, while our Start edition helps small businesses with less than 50 users.
Please get in touch for more information and for a detailed quote.