CLW provides training to fast expanding Stam

News

31st May 2007

The UK’s leading construction NVQ provider, Construction Learning World, has recently administered an essential training and assessment programme for Nottingham-based reinforced concrete contractor Stam Construction.

Stam has recently won a £4 million contract at a Severn Trent water treatment works at Minworth near Birmingham. The contract, which will result in a significant increase to the company’s turnover, is part of a larger £100 million operation at the works run by an alliance between Biwater and North Midland Construction.

As well as its current 100 operatives, Stam has now started taking on around the same number in readiness for the contract’s busiest period, which begins this month. Any new employees not already fully qualified will be trained and accredited by Construction Learning World, which has incidentally been providing the same NVQ training and assessment service to North Midland Construction as well.

Harry Bradford, Construction Manager for Stam says: “We’ve been working with CLW for about a year now. We use them to do all our NVQs and to help operatives get their CSCS cards, if they haven’t already got them. There’s never any problem with the service the CLW team provides - they make it very easy and straightforward. I just phone them up, tell them what we want and they get on with it. The system works very well.”

Mark Buxton, Business Development Manager at Construction Learning World, adds: “Stam’s success goes to show that major developers are serious about awarding contracts to companies which have properly qualified workforces. We’re therefore delighted to have been able to make the assessment and qualification process as easy as possible.”

Stam’s part in the overall water treatment works project is the building of 22 primary settlement tanks, 22 auto de-sludge chambers, six distribution chambers and other associated structures, over an initial period of more than 60 weeks. Stam is the only reinforced concrete subcontractor employed on the site, the other ancillary items such as pipeworks and roadworks, are being handled by Biwater and Northern Midland’s own workforce.

Link: http://www.constructionlearningworld.com/news/2007/05/31/clw-provides-training-to-fast-expanding-stam/