Construction company GRAHAM has been appointed by Procter & Gamble to carry out a multimillion-pound design and build contract at its innovation centre in Reading.

 

Located to the south of Reading city centre, the site has been used for industrial purposes since the mid-20th century.

 

It most recently housed the research and development laboratory responsible for new Procter & Gamble razor products.

 

Working with The Fairhursts Design Group, GRAHAM will demolish the south-western wing of the existing building to make way for a new two-storey building comprising offices and laboratories.

 

Rob Joyce, GRAHAM’s London office director, said: "This new development will provide state-of-the-art laboratories and research facilities to support the needs of Procter & Gamble’s workforce.

 

"Our aim is to create a modern, fit for purpose facility that is sympathetic to the site’s history while encouraging innovation."

 

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Here at Time and Attendance South East, we provide seamless integration between the CSCS smartcard and our own flagship WinTA.NET software, which provides time management, visitor/contractor management and fire/evacuation roll-call systems. We are IT partners with the Construction Skills Certification Scheme.

 

The integration takes the end-user form of a CSCS “card wizard”. This set of rules allows a company to quickly grant contractors access to their clocking system. 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 of using the wizard is that:

 

• The Contractors 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