Did you know that a Did you know that a Did you know that a Did you know that a brisk walk in your brisk walk in your brisk walk in your brisk walk in your local park everyday local park everyday local park everyday local park everyday can reduce the risk of heart attacks, strokes and diabe-tes by 50%, fracture of the femur by 30% , colon cancer by 30%, breast cancer by 30% and Alzhei-mer's by 25%. And that the more often a person visits urban green spaces, the less

they will report stress-related illnesses.

What’s more, air quality, air temperature, water and flood management, are all kept within manageable limits because of parks

and green spaces.

Love Parks Week runs 23-31 July this year and the aim of the organisers is to get 1

million people out enjoying their local parks.

We know how beautiful some of our local parks are—we have helped to renovate them and restore them to their former glory. So why not take this opportunity to get out and visit them. Take your friends, family and a picnic. Have some fun, get a little exercise perhaps, and show off some of our

great work.

We have worked as a specialist contractor on more than a dozen parks in the North West and Yorkshire and many of them are holding events during Love Parks Week. You can see some information and images on our website and Facebook page, but best

of all, go see them for yourself.

Dunwood Park, Oldham; Brinks-

burn Denes Park, Darlington; Stam-

ford Park, Ashton-under-Lyne; Lich-

field Park, Lichfield; Avenham and

Miller Park, Preston; Castle Park,

Frodsham; Roberts Park, Saltaire;

Mount Pleasant, Sheffield; Stanley

Park, Liverpool; Stanley Park, Black-

pool; Corpora"on Park, Blackburn;

Weston Park, Sheffield; Wentworth

Castle, Stainborough; Heaton Park,

Manchester

compliance with it, along with how they monitor their compliance and involve the

workforce.

Congratulations and thank you to all our staff for taking responsibility, and putting

Health and Safety first.

See back for our Safety Starts HereSafety Starts HereSafety Starts HereSafety Starts Here campaign

As testament to the great Health and Safe-ty culture we have at Casey, we have been awarded a MERIT in the British Safety Council’s International Safety Award. This is in addition to our re-cent RoSPA Gold

Award for Occupational Health and Safety.

Submissions for this award are stringently marked and must detail the management of occupational health and safety at your or-ganization. Companies are asked to detail their understanding of legislation and their

International Safety Award for CaseyInternational Safety Award for CaseyInternational Safety Award for CaseyInternational Safety Award for Casey

To submit articles or information for this newsletter, contact Debbie Hubbard on 07834 867580 or debbie.hubbard@casey.co.uk. Thank you to all contributors to this issue.

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We are delighted to have been awarded contractor partner status in several client

construction frameworks recently.

Procurement for AllProcurement for AllProcurement for AllProcurement for All is a national organisa-tion currently representing 11 Registered Social Landlord members, and that is likely to increase. The aim is to offer efficiencies to all members for capital works and refur-bishment of around 9,000 dwellings across the North West, Midlands, North East, Cam-

bridge and Surrey.

In Business for YorkshireIn Business for YorkshireIn Business for YorkshireIn Business for Yorkshire is a coalition of Yorkshire Housing and South Yorkshire Housing Association who are developing over £50 million of social housing schemes

across Yorkshire and Humberside.

Procure Plus Procure Plus Procure Plus Procure Plus is a consortium of Registered (housing) Providers in the North West, and has formed an alliance with partners in Cumbria, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Humber-

side and the North East’

Together Housing Group Together Housing Group Together Housing Group Together Housing Group provides afforda-ble, modern homes across the North of Eng-land. It was formed in April 2011 from Chevin, Green Vale, Harewood, Pendle, Pen-

nine and Twin Valley housing associations.

Cheshire East Council Cheshire East Council Cheshire East Council Cheshire East Council was formed in April 2009 from Congleton, Crewe and Nantwich and Macclesfield Boroughs and Cheshire

County Council.

Love our Green SpacesLove our Green SpacesLove our Green SpacesLove our Green Spaces

Phil Hey collecting our RoSPA Gold Award from Mike Parker, RoSPA Trustee, in May

You can also watch a short video about the Eastlands Homes project on our website:

www.casey.co.uk/casey/news

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Casey Retrofit Environmental Solutions

community to understand how to reduce

their carbon footprint.

The organisation continues to invest heavily to improve the energy efficiency of its homes, and wants to build on the reduction of over 125,000kg per year in CO2 produc-tion that has been achieved at just one of

its estates in Gorton.

Home Dwelle.ing will be the hub for this new literacy programme which is designed to ensure that new behaviour is derived from

residents’ own ideas.

The building is located adjacent to Platt and Worsley Courts, and will be completed in August. Visit www.dwelle.co.uk for more

information

The Casey Green Team at the Greenbuild Expo 2011, Manchester Central

Casey were the only contractor taking part in this year’s Greenbuild Expo Greenbuild Expo Greenbuild Expo Greenbuild Expo held at Man-

chester Central.

The show is the UK’s newest event focusing on sustainable building and refurbishment. It covers everything from renewable technol-ogies, sustainable building materials and practices, legislation and training opportuni-ties. A series of informative seminars and workshops were held covering topics from renewable energies and legislation to fund-

ing and retrofit for buildings.

As the only contractor, we were able to showcase some of our recent, and new, projects where we could demonstrate the savings to be made. A good example is the Eastlands Homes Case Study shown oppo-site that quantifies the savings in costs, energy used and CO2 produced as a result of thermal insulation and render applica-

tion.

For Social Registered Landlords it can be very difficult to calculate the grants availa-ble under the CESP grant scheme. It is designed to encourage energy / CO2 saving works to be carried out alongside other ma-jor works and points are awarded for the scale of the works, the density of the quali-fying properties and the economic status of

the geographical area.

The energy companies who fund CESP have an obligation to meet funding targets for these kinds of works by December 2012 otherwise they will incur penalties of up to 10% of their global turnover. As the dead-line gets closer the more the energy compa-nies will compete for the projects that are

going ahead.

It is quite a minefield, but Casey is able to provide calculations for qualifying points, and negotiate with the energy companies to obtain the best funding deal and, therefore,

the best deal for our clients.

If any Housing Trusts or Local Authorities are planning improvement works, they can contact us to find out if CESP grants might be available, and whether those grants

might make additional works viable.

For more information contact James Billing at our offices or check the Dept of Energy and Climate Change website:

www.decc.gov.uk.

Scale of Grants AvailableScale of Grants AvailableScale of Grants AvailableScale of Grants Available

Casey are about to commence a project for

High Peak Community Housing.

The project includes the application of an insulated render system to 507 ‘no fines’,

hard to treat properties.

The CESP funding achieved for this project

was £1.9m

At the Greenbuild Expo, Casey sponsored a stand by Dwelle who built a house at the show utilising highly sustainable materials

to promote zero carbon design and living.

After the show, the building was transported by Casey to an Eastlands Homes site in

Rusholme. It will serve two functions:

• To demonstrate how Dwelle’s careful design and specification can provide a

number of benefits to modern living

• To facilitate a Carbon Literacy pro-gramme for Eastlands Homes, with sup-

port from Casey.

Eastland Homes recognises that education is key to assisting residents and the local

Dwelle, Eastlands Homes and the Centre for Carbon Literacy

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Eastlands Homes have delivered over £20 million worth of major improvement work to their housing stock in Openshaw and Beswick with Casey and have been successful in their transfer bid for a further 3000 properties due to their outstanding performance as a Community landlord. Casey was appointed as preferred contractor to undertake a major external works programme on behalf of Eastlands Homes in Gorton, East Man-chester. A key requirement of the scheme was to reduce the heat loss from the fabric of the building including doors, windows and external walls. The goal was to achieve maxi-mum insulation efficiency with minimum intrusion to the property and disruption to the residents lives. Our aim was to help residents work towards better health and an enhanced financial situation. Using a thermal imaging camera we were able to assess the positive effect of the works prior to and after completion, which is highlighted in the image shown. We are mindful of the government’s target of reducing carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. External insulation to the 7 million solid wall homes in the UK is crucial to hit-ting the carbon reduction targets and this is a top priority along with solar photovoltaic panels. Insulated render schemes can be part funded by utility companies under a legal obli-gation to save carbon emissions under what is known as the CESP scheme which is the Community Energy Saving Programme (previously the CERT scheme). As an expert in this field, Casey has been able to draw down a suitable grant allocation and put together a financial package for Eastlands Homes to enable them to get sever-al hundred thousand pounds worth of the work done for free and have a major effect on the lives of their customers, the residents. This is a service that we are rolling out for our social housing framework partners. As preferred partner for this joint venture with a robust track record with Eastlands Homes, we were able to provide a tried and tested costing model that was very com-petitive and would guarantee a very high quality of service for the residents. The main purpose of these works was to re-insulate these estate based properties, improving the poor visual appearance and reducing major heat loss and heating bills. Another important requirement was to instigate a degree of behavioural change from the residents themselves with regard to use of heating systems and reducing heat loss from their properties. We are currently undertaking several training schemes in carbon reduction at our resident consultation events across Manchester and the North West. We made calculations on the data collected to project the savings on to the whole scheme of 339 properties. The results were astonishing and equated to the following:

• Energy use - reduced by 657,743.98 kWh per year. This is the equivalent amount of energy required to make more than 29 million cups of tea with an old 2000 Watt kettle.

• CO2 production – reduced by 127,627.49 kg per year – the equivalent of which would be produced by driving a small car to the moon and back almost twice, or more than 37 times around the circumference of the earth.

• Cost – reduced by £19,816.83 per year – enough to buy the car new and enough fuel to drive it around the earth more than five times.

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Annual COAnnual COAnnual COAnnual CO2222 production was production was production was production was reduced by the equivalent of reduced by the equivalent of reduced by the equivalent of reduced by the equivalent of that produced by driving a that produced by driving a that produced by driving a that produced by driving a small car to the moon and back small car to the moon and back small car to the moon and back small car to the moon and back almost twice, or driving more almost twice, or driving more almost twice, or driving more almost twice, or driving more than 37 times around the cir-than 37 times around the cir-than 37 times around the cir-than 37 times around the cir-cumference of the earth.cumference of the earth.cumference of the earth.cumference of the earth. Annual savings were enough to Annual savings were enough to Annual savings were enough to Annual savings were enough to buy that car new with enough buy that car new with enough buy that car new with enough buy that car new with enough fuel to drive around the earth fuel to drive around the earth fuel to drive around the earth fuel to drive around the earth more than five times.more than five times.more than five times.more than five times.

Training in carbon reduction is Training in carbon reduction is Training in carbon reduction is Training in carbon reduction is essential to bring about essential to bring about essential to bring about essential to bring about behavioural change.behavioural change.behavioural change.behavioural change.

This image shows a property partway through the ther-mal insulation process. At this point, only the thermal panels have been installed on the left hand side of the property and the temperature difference is already 4ºC. The application of the render will provide even more insulation.

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Staff Moves and GroovesStaff Moves and GroovesStaff Moves and GroovesStaff Moves and Grooves WelcomeWelcomeWelcomeWelcome to Devri Taylor who has joined our head office admin team. She lives in Rochdale and previ-ously worked as a retail supervisor for Arcadia. If anyone is wondering about her name, Devri is the name of a song by

The Platters.

Congratulations Congratulations Congratulations Congratulations to Zbigniew and Edyta Pikul on the birth of their baby boy, Mathew; and to Alison and Peter Duffy on

the birth of their baby girl, Libby Jane.

Welcome to the worldWelcome to the worldWelcome to the worldWelcome to the world Lily Mae Hayes, whose dad Dave is foreman at Town Farm and whose granddad Chris is a driver at Hares Hill. Lily Mae arrived a few weeks early, but she, mum, dad

and granddad are all doing well.

Happy birthdayHappy birthdayHappy birthdayHappy birthday to Chris Griffin who is now

officially a windsurfing pensioner! SAFETY STARTS WITH YOUSAFETY STARTS WITH YOUSAFETY STARTS WITH YOUSAFETY STARTS WITH YOU

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We have a great health and safety record at Casey that we are very proud of. To maintain it means al-ways stay-ing focussed

on safety and pushing the message.

You will notice a new message on all our hard hats and high viz wear as it gets re-

placed: Safety Starts HereSafety Starts HereSafety Starts HereSafety Starts Here

It’s an important message and it means that health and safety starts with each and every one of us. It is not something that is just the responsibility of our Site Managers or the Health and Safety department. We are all responsible for safety for ourselves and each other—we are all Health and Safety

Officers.

Don’t decide to ignore something that you know is wrong or unsafe. Don’t decide to just walk past thinking, “He knows what he’s doing”. Don’t decide to cut corners

because it’s got to be done in a hurry.

It could be the worse decision you ever

make. Safety starts with youSafety starts with youSafety starts with youSafety starts with you.

Neighbours’ Day - Parklands, Speke with South Liverpool

Housing

Gerry Beirne, Sarah Harwood and team certainly got lucky with the June weather for the Neighbours’ Day at Parklands. It looks like a fun day was had by all members of

the community!

Thanks go to Kevin Griffin who braved the heat dressed as Ivor Goodsite, the Consid-erate Constructors’ mascot, and our two

brickies, Glynn and Andy Bradley.

As well as our Facebook page, we are now on Twitter (@caseycompanies), and we have even set up a YouTube channel (look for

TheCaseyCompanies channel).

There is a great video on YouTube, put to-gether by Richard Charlesworth. It’s a video for the residents at Shiregreen, introducing them to the street scene works we were carrying out in their area for Sanctuary Housing. It’s a great demonstration of how

we can keep residents informed.

We also now have a blog on our website—www.casey.co.uk/casey/blog. There is a great post on there by Paul Byrne about quantifying carbon offsetting, based on ex-perience at Eastlands. It’s a fascinating read for Housing Associations and, in fact, for anyone responsible for paying the heat-

ing bills!

If you have an interesting idea for a blog post we’d love to hear from you. It’s about using new ways to engage with our clients and their clients. It’s about sharing our knowledge with each other and letting peo-ple know what a wealth of experience and

knowledge we have amongst our ranks.

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necessary for operations, a small fleet of vehicles for collection/delivery and a work-

shop for general maintenance.

Along with the acquisition, Enviro welcomes the transfer of twelve new experienced staff

members to the team.

Dave Scott has been seconded from Hareshill to manage operations at Morley’s Quarry; “I am delighted with this opportunity and am very enthusiastic about the benefits

Astley can bring to the Enviro portfolio”.

Casey Enviro has recently acquired Astley Sand & Aggregates Ltd and Astley Plant Ltd. The acquisition includes Morley’s Quar-ry along the East Lancs Road to the west of Manchester; strategically located for the Greater Manchester inert waste/aggregate markets. The site includes an inert landfill, extraction of sand and gravel for use as primary aggregates and recycling of second-ary soils and aggregates from CDE (construction/demolition/excavation) waste. Astley Plant includes plant and machinery

Enviro Acquires Astley Sand & Aggregates