The McDermotts 2024 Summer Fair charity raffle raised over £5,000 for local charities

The Manitou 360-degree Rotating Telehandler (MRT 2260) is the first item of plant incorporating Safety Shield Human Recognition technology that McDermotts have invested in.

Birmingham’s St. Patrick’s Day parade returned on 17th March, which celebrated the 50th year of the parade.

McDermotts’ annual Celebration Evening raises over £4,600 for local charities

Throughout 2023, at McDermotts we have continued our commitment to our people and communities by supporting a range of good causes and community projects.

The St. Modwen Homes Supply Chain Awards 2023 saw McDermotts presented with the award for Best Health and Safety.

McDermotts announce their new partnership with the charity Heartbeat Trust UK.

McDermotts volunteered their services to the DIY SOS project in Risley, Derbyshire, to support the build of a brand-new children’s counselling and therapy centre.

Congratulations to all seven of the McDermotts apprentices who have passed their Level 2 Groundworker apprenticeships.

The McDermotts 2023 Summer Fair charity raffle raised over £4,500 for two local charities

McDermotts’ annual Celebration Evening raises over £4,500 for local charities

McDermotts introduce mental health talks to encourage colleagues to start conversations

McDermotts staff donate over 200 gifts to families who are within refuges and the local community.

The Balfour Beatty UKCS Regional Civil Supply Chain Awards saw McDermotts presented with the social value award

We have welcomed six apprentices to McDermotts this month, who are undertaking a Level 2 Apprenticeship in groundworks

For our new project in Warrington, 100% of the new workers recruited by McDermotts have been directly sourced from within the local community

We are delighted to retain certifications to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001 awarded by NQA

In August 2022, apprentice Alex received a distinction in his Level 2 Groundworks apprenticeship

McDermotts colleagues donated a staggering 267.1kg to the Aston & Nechells food bank.

McDermotts and Balfour Beatty colleagues volunteered to prepare a patch of dead space land so that DIY SOS could building an amazing community centre in Stoke.

Our colleagues had fun while looking after their mental and physical wellbeing during Mental Health Awareness Week 2022.

McDermotts’ colleagues raised over £4,000 to assist the crisis in Ukraine at their annual celebration evening.

We recently invited Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, to meet with some of our apprentices on site at West Coventry Academy.

This week we welcomed representatives from Papyrus and Tommy’s to present a combined donation of £40,000 to these amazing charities.

This week we celebrated the graduation of McDermotts apprentices Lewis and Tyler, which marked the completion of their Level 2 Groundworks apprenticeship.

Earlier this month we held a refresher Thumbs Up safety training session on site at West Coventry Academy.

We’ll be working with branches of The Trussell Trust close to our head office and some of our sites, supporting them through fundraising and food donations.

We are delighted to retain certifications to ISO 9001, ISO 14001, ISO 45001, ISO 50001 and Achilles Building Confidence as well as warded 4 stars out of 5 from the Considerate Constructors Scheme.

We say a huge welcome to the eight new apprentices that have joined our team this month, undertaking a Level 2 Apprenticeship Standard in Groundworks.

We are delighted to have become one of a small number of contractors in the country to achieve certification to the National Highways Sector Scheme 30.

Several of our site teams have received awards recently from our customers in recognition of their efforts and safe working practices on site.

Meet Alex, Jack, Kyle and Luke, our newest apprentices

We are delighted to have collaborated with Willmott Dixon to help them achieve Level 3 of the Carbon Trust’s Supply Chain Standard.

Earlier this month we brought L Lynch in to run a training session on the plant-people interface for our team working on the Highways England A46 Binley project for Osborne’s.

SIFA Fireside is Birmingham’s main day centre for homeless and vulnerably housed adults. It’s a charity that we have supported for many years and last month we pledged to support their Building Employability project.

We donate some much needed laptops to Cromwell Primary School in Nechells.

Here’s an aerial view of the works undertaken at Newport Innovation Park in Telford for Balfour Beatty filmed between December 2019 and October 2020.

Congratulations to our newest apprenticeship graduates Kyle and Callum Elgie who have just completed their Level 2 NVQ Diploma in Construction and Civil Engineering Operations (Construction).

Every year we chose a good cause to support. In 2021, we will be raising money and supporting Papyrus and Tommy’s.

We are proud to report that we have been awarded 4.5 stars out of 5 from the Considerate Constructors Scheme (CCS) against their Code of Practice. The CCS is a national scheme designed to raise standards across all major construction sites.

We’re delivering a groundworks package for Morgan Sindall on the transformation of a historic grade II listed radio station into a secondary school on the outskirts of Rugby.

In support of Myton Hospices, our team joined Morgan Sindall and the Urban & Civic team in a 50-mile Houlton School velo bike ride.

Over the summer, our project team working on Fosse Park have been helping a Leicester Hospital create a Garden of Reflection and Remembrance as part of their Secret Garden project.

We are delighted to share that we have been retained certification by NQA to our integrated management system encompassing ISO9001, ISO14001, ISO50001, and ISO45001.

We supported a local food bank’s collection and delivery of food to the elderly and vulnerable during the current restrictions.

Whether you’re self isolating as a precautionary measure or your childcare facility or school is closed, the prospect of keeping children busy at home can be a daunting one.

We are delighted to share that we have been certified by NQA to the ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health & Safety Management Systems standard which builds upon our overarching value of Integrity, 3Ps commitment, and legal duty to protect the health, safety & welfare of our employees and those working on our behalf.

After a year of fundraising throughout the business for our 25th anniversary, we managed to raise enough money to be able to give both of our chosen charities, Ronald McDonald House and SIFA Fireside, £25,000 each.

Here’s our new Komatsu PC290LC-11 excavator fitted with a Topcon X53i system.

Over the last two months we have been busy purchasing and donating supplies for St Basils’ Christmas shoebox appeal.

We’re taking another look at ‘Living History – Don’t time fly when you’re having fun in Nechells!’, the book created by members of the Nechells POD.

Last week, the local residents of the POD bestowed a copy of their very own published book called ‘Living History – Don’t time fly when you’re having fun in Nechells!’  It is a beautiful compilation of memories about growing up in the local area and took nearly two years to complete!

As everyone knows, supporting the local community is at the heart of McDermotts. For the last three years, every Wednesday afternoon a member of staff from Head Office spends an hour with members of the POD – the local community centre for Nechells.

We were delighted to attend the Fosse Park autumn jobs fair at the Hilton hotel in Leicester on Friday which was held as part of the ‘Recruit Fosse Park’ campaign which is a free recruitment programme set up by the owners of Fosse Park, The Crown Estate.

Last week we hosted a golf day at Walmley Golf Club to celebrate our 25th Anniversary.

Earlier this month Bobby Friel, Joe McDermott and Kevin Hogan took on the 1,000km Monkey Run in Peru.

The 25th anniversary celebrations continued on Saturday when sixteen of McDermotts’ bravest staff travelled to Wales to take on the Velocity 2 zip wire challenge.

McDermotts was founded in August 1994, so to celebrate our birthday month we organised daytime celebrations for our colleagues across all of our sites and head office.

This years’ Summer Celebration was an extra special one, marking 25 years of McDermotts.

Thanks to a very generous donation from CCC, we were able to raffle off a holiday for four to Florida as part of our fundraising actitivities this year. The prize included return flights to Florida with Virgin Atlantic for two adults and two children, 14 nights accommodation in a family villa close to all theme parks and passes to Walt…

We are delighted to have been certified by NQA to ISO 50001:2018 Energy Management System which builds upon our 3Ps carbon commitment and legal duty to comply with the ESOS Regulations (Energy Savings Opportunity Scheme) by December 2019. ISO 50001:2018 is the newly revised international standard for Energy Management providing the most robust framework for optimising energy efficiency in public…

Well done to all the women that completed our first-ever Women in Construction course.

This low loader will soon be making it’s way to us.

We’re very excited to be getting some new plant from BTE Plant Sales starting with these Manitou telehandlers.

Hilti’s Fleet Management Service allows us to put together a customised mix of high-end tools and equipment to suit our needs.

As part of celebrating 25 years of McDermotts, we’re helping communities to create outdoor spaces that they can enjoy.

Here are a few more photos of the progress made at the new Pines School allotment.

We’re hosting our first women-only Introduction to Construction course starting at the end of April.

Earlier this month the project team working on the new Poppyfield Primary Academy reached a key milestone in the project, holding a ‘topping out’ ceremony to mark the occasion.

This time lapse shows how the new Green Heart at the centre of the University of Birmingham campus came to life

The pupils at The Pines Special School will soon be learning how to grow their own fruits and vegetables athanks to a little help from the McDermotts team.

After a year of fundraising we were delighted to present Carolyn from Alzheimer’s Society with a cheque for £9,000.

After a year of fundraising we were delighted to present Rachel from Birmingham Mind with a cheque for £9,000.

Earlier this month McDermotts won the People Award at the Willmott Dixon Partner Awards.

To mark World Mental Health Day 2018, we held a bake sale at head office in Birmingham. The day wasn’t just about eating lots of baked goods, it was also about taking time to stop and talk to colleagues.

We’re raising awareness of mental health issues and we’re also training staff in Mental Health First Aid.

This years’ Summer Celebration was an afternoon filled with lots of fun and laughter, ice creams and waffles, a little competition and a lot of fundraising for charity.

Today the Duke of Westminster handed over the gift of the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC) to the Prime Minister at a special event held in the presence of His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge.

Well done to the McDermotts team for tackling the Family Assault Course run by the SPFA (Student Parent Family Association) of St Peter & St Paul Catholic Primary School.

Following the retirement of two of our directors, Marie McDermott and Henry Gilbert, we have appointed two new directors – Joe McDermott and Keith Haywood.

Well done to all everyone that took part in Race for Life in Walsall on Sunday 13th May, raising £1,600 for Cancer Research.

On Monday 15 April, we were joined by BBC Midlands correspondant Peter Plisner at Project Green Heart at the University of Birmingham.

Find out who won our children’s Easter drawing competition.

This week we met Poppy from The Huntington’s Association to make a £1,000 donation.

Last week we got to meet Marie Calder from Trident Reach, a charity that supports over 2,000 vulnerable people across the Midlands.

Lawrence is a volunteer with the Samaritan so he was delighted to be able to hand over this cheque to his local branch – Samaritans Walsall and District.

This week we met Jen from The Brain Tumour Charity and were able to present her with a cheque for £1,000.

Yesterday we got to meet some of the volunteers and supporters of Breast Friends, a support group for women diagnosed with breast cancer.

Watch construction of the new extension to the Curzon Building at Birmingham City University in this time lapse video.

Well done to Vivian and Michael for receiving the site award from Willmott Dixon at the C-ALP’S site at Coventry University for demonstrating outstanding safety, commitment and general attitude to working on site.

We’ve added four new Hitachi ZX26U excavators and five new Hitachi ZX130LCN excavators to our fleet of machines.

Well done to Thomas for receiving a Green Card from Bowmer & Kirkland for demonstrating excellent standards of health and safety.

Christmas can be a tough time of year for some so we’ve been collecting items for our local Trussell Trust foodbank.

Here is the latest aerial video from DNRC showing the construction progress being made on site.

Well done to the McDermotts team for coming top of Bowmer & Kirkland’s subcontractor leader board at the University of Northampton’s new Waterside Campus.

After a year of fundraising, we’re delighted to announce that we’ve raised £15,000 for two great charities.

We’ve handed over the first building at the University of Northampton to main contractor, Bowmer & Kirkland.

Here are a couple of photos from a project we’re working on in Biggleswade for Bowmer & Kirkland.

Well done to our team taking part in the Big Fun Run Birmingham and raising over £600 for charity.

Last week Willmott Dixon’s All Safe Ambassador, Dylan Skelhorn, came to our office to share his story about how one decision changed his life forever.

We have successfully secured a new project with Willmott Dixon to construct a striking new parkland at the centre of the University of Birmingham campus known as Green Heart.

Well done to Bobby, Sean and Tony for not only coming first in the Rickshaw Run but raising over £2,000 for Cancer Research too!

Earlier in the Summer we worked with our customer Jaguar Land Rover to transform the garden at The Greenhouse Multi-Cultural Play and Arts Project in Liverpool.

Here is the latest aerial video from DNRC showing the construction progress being made on site.

Well done to Tom Healy for being awarded a Green Card from Simons Group at Bicester Shopping Village.

Our first family fun day was not only a huge success but we also raised £1.000 to be split between for our two charities – Birmingham Children’s Hospital and Cancer Research UK.

Over the last couple of weeks we have been supporting Willmott Dixon’s trainee challenge where they were tasked with transforming the garden at Hazel Oak School in Solihull.

Congratulations and well done to our colleague Dean Hanley who climbed up Derby Cathedral 20 times to raise money for Scotty’s Little Soldiers on Saturday 1st July.

Here are few progress photos from the new Ryvita Crisp Bread facility for main contractor GF Tomlinson in Bardney, Lincolnshire.

We’re proud to support Willmott Dixon’s trainee challenge again this year. This year it’s about transforming the garden of Hazel Oak School in Solihull.

These two Kubota mini diggers have joined our fleet of machines and are ready to start working on site in Oxford.

Well done to the McDermotts team for coming top of Bowmer & Kirkland’s safety leader board at the University of Northampton’s new Waterside Campus.

Three of our staff took part in the annual Douglas Macmillan Golf tournament, helping to raise £24,433!

With the help of Silbusters, we’re reducing our impact on the environment by treating concrete wash water.

Well done to Simon Watkins for being awarded a Green Card from Simons Group on the Bicester Village project.

The final charity to benefit from our pledge to make a donation to charity instead of sending Christmas cards is the 2nd Wordsley Scout Group.

Another charity to receive support from our pledge to make a donation instead of sending Christmas cards is Sands – Stillbirth & Neonatal Death Charity.

The third charity to receive support from our ‘no Christmas cards’ pledge is Max Appeal.

The second cause to receive a donation from instead of us sending Christmas cards is Wallasey Youth Rugby Club.

Instead of sending Christmas cards we have been making donations to charity. The first is Newborns in Need at Heartlands Hospital.

Here is the latest update from Interserve’s Project Director, Mark Green, on the progress being made at DNRC.

Christmas is a time for giving and this year, we decided to donate some practical gift bags to homeless charity SIFA Fireside.

No one should have to face going hungry at Christmas so we’ve been collecting for our local foodbank.

We are delighted to announce that we have met the Chartered Institute of Building’s stringent criteria to become a Chartered Building Company (CBC.)

Well done to our Movember team for raising £2,084 for charity while sporting some very impressive moustaches!

We’ve raised £800 for Children in Need today. As well as dressing down for the day, we’ve had a raffle and also been feasting on lots of sweet treats.

See the latest aerial footage of University of Northampton’s Watersde Campus development.

Some of our team are taking part in Movember, an annual event where men all over the world take on the challenge to grow a moustache and raise money for the Movember Foundation.

Our apprentices have been supporting some of Willmott Dixon’s trainees with a project at Highbury Orchard Community in Birmingham.

On Friday 7 October Managing Director Malcolm McDermott and Director Henry Gilbert became Chartered Fellows of the Chartered Institute of Building.

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling visited the Birmingham site of the new National College for High Speed Rail to see the high-tech training facility as it takes a step closer to completion.

It’s great to see our team getting recognition from our customers for their approach to health and safety.

We took part in our first Macmillan Coffee Morning today and raised £600.

A staff raffle and match-funding allowed us to donate £1,000 to Saras Hope Foundation.

We are working with Interserve to deliver a well-being garden at the Shepshed Volunteer Centre as part of a Community Benefits Plan for the Defence for National Rehabilitation Centre (DNRC.)

We have added three new 20 tonne Komatsu PC210LCi excavators to our fleet which include integrated machine control and a 3D guidance system.

McDermotts donates £2,034 to The Battle Fund to support Tom in his fight against ALS.

Following our donation to War Child earlier in the month we are delighted to also donate £5,000 to Save the Children.

McDermotts has donated £5,000 to international children’s charity, War Child.

McDermotts was highly commended in the Employer of the Year category at the 2016 Construction News Awards in London last week.

McDermotts demonstrates excellence with certification to the new ISO 2015 standards.

Here are some kind words we received from the Vice Chairman of Earl of Harrington’s Angling Club after we we carried out some improvement works at Mill Dam.

The first major milestone was reached on Phase 2a of the Curzon at Birmingham City University last week when the first pieces of the steel frame were erected.

We are delighted to have secured another flagship project, this time working alongside Willmott Dixon to build a new college in Birmingham.

Our Apprenticeship Academy was officially opened last week with guests including customers, suppliers and partners such as Solihull College and University Centre.

We are pleased to announce that we were highly commended in the category of SME of the Year at the recent West Midlands Celebrating Construction Awards.

A six-storey extension to the Birmingham City University campus at Eastside has been given the go ahead by the council’s planning committee.

Work has started on three new distribution centre projects.

We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded a silver RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Award for the second year running.

McDermotts has secured the groundworks package with Bowmer & Kirkland on the major new development at the University of Northampton’s new Waterside Campus.

A group of apprentices from McDermotts recently spent some time with local residents cleaning up the community gardens in Nechells in Birmingham.

Works are well underway at Bowmer & Kirkland’s Rugby Gateway project.

We are pleased to announce that we have been shortlisted as a finalist in the Employer of the Year category of the 2016 Construction News Awards.

At McDermotts we’re always looking for ways to work more efficiently so we used RMD Kwikform’s new CE marked ground shoring equipment to help us complete the drainage diversions at Project Beagle.