New Street Station – Birmingham

Nationwide Platforms supported a multi-million pound project to refurbish and expand New Street Station in Birmingham City Centre.

Working with the Mace Group, Nationwide Platforms provided powered access equipment from its market leading fleet, which included the build of new platforms and upgrade of the station incorporating multiple well-known retail units.

The project started in June 2012 and completed Sept 2015.

Key facts

• Client: Mace Group
• Project Value: £600 million
• Powered Access Equipment: More than 100 units were supplied at peak times which included Peco’s, Nano’s, GR’s, small electric scissors and Star 10’s up to large diesel and bi-fuel Booms.
• Innovations: SkySiren®, SkyRak®, SkyRakPlus®, SkyRakBoom®, MHA Special SkyRak® Booms, SkySentry™ and SkyScreen®.
• Additional Support: Nationwide Platforms have been involved from day one working with many sub contractors as well as Mace Group. Advice and support was provided for Safe Working at Height plus the introduction of a MEWP policy to include Secondary Guarding as standard.
• Trials for new products SkySentry™ and SkyScreen® were also a great success throughout this project.
• Nationwide Platforms also delivered a Tool Box Talk on site to 180 site staff around the safe use of MEWP’s and Emergency Lowering.

Customer quote

Mace Environmental Safety and Health Manager, Birmingham New Street Station, Paul Gaughran, said: “Nationwide Platforms have always embraced the ethos of the Birmingham Gateway Project. On such a diverse and complex project, Nationwide Platforms delivered and maintained a service which allowed safety and a complex programme to run in parallel. Continued support and initiatives throughout the lifespan of the project afforded us the opportunity to experiment with new products with a view to making work at height a safer environment to be in.

Nationwide Platforms in association with Mace delivered an on-site demonstration day covering emergency descent procedures and pre-use inspections which was a huge success and the sessions were delivered to more than 180 operatives in five different languages. Through engagement with our supply chain, Nationwide Platforms have introduced and trialled various new products on site with the full support of Mace on every occasion. Over the last three years the relationship between Mace and Nationwide Project has become very strong and without the continued support, commitment and professionalism of the team at Nationwide Platforms none of this would have been possible. I look forward to working with Nationwide Platforms in the future.”

Did you know? Nationwide Platforms has invested £75 million in its fleet of machines since 2012.