Huge housing developments begun
Avant Homes has begun construction on four new developments.
These housing developments include Craigowl Law in Dundee; Jackton Green in Jackton, near East Kilbride; Carron Feld in Larbert near Falkirk; and Draffen Park in Stewarton, north of Kilmarnock. Combined, the developments’ total value is £169.5m.
The construction will provide 622 new homes in the area, and Avant Homes was also committed to contributing £6.8m towards local education, open green spaces, footpath links and local infrastructure.
The first homes have been put up forsale, and are hope to be completed by autumn 2021.
Avant Homes Scotland managing director, Andrew Gawthorpe, said: “We’ve seen continued success throughout our sites in Scotland and we’re pleased to maintain our commitment to building high-quality homes in desirable locations, by extending our presence across the central belt of Scotland.
“We pride ourselves on daring to be different with our continually evolving product and enhanced specification, setting Avant Homes apart in the new build sector.
“This commitment to excellence, combined with new and exclusive housetypes, and our very latest specification features, means that these four new developments will offer an extremely high-quality collection of design-led homes. Work is underway on all four sites and we are very excited to reveal more in the coming months.”
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 Scotland, 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 .NET software, which provides time management, visitor/contractor management and fire/evacuation roll-call systems.
The contactless smartcard technology enables a touch-free, COVID-secure entrance and exit policy can be implemented on site.
The 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.