Construct - Issue 45

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SUPPORTING SERVICE PERSONNEL

FMCONWAY IS PROUDTO SUPPORT CURRENTANDPAST MEMBERSOF THEARMEDFORCES, BY TEACHINGCONSTRUCTION SKILLSANDHELPINGSMOOTH THEIR TRANSITION INTOCIVIL EMPLOYMENT process. After a hiatus during COVID-19, FM Conway delivered a second course this year, expanding it to three days so the engineers could visit an asphalt plant and understand the manufacturing process. The business also contributed to the Royal Engineers’ road-building course, which takes place every year at a Ministry of Defence site near Rochester in Kent. Trainees build a stretch of road from scratch, including sections of footpath, using both concrete and asphalt surfaces. FM Conway’s team joined the project at the point where the sub-base was about to be laid. Senior supervisor Dave Gambrell,

The Army’s Royal Engineers have to be able to turn their hands to almost any construction or engineering task. When they asked FM Conway for help with training in carriageway construction, the business was happy to oblige. “This was something we wanted to be involved with because we feel it’s important to support our armed forces in whichever way we can,” says Nick Webster, FM Conway’s surfacing business manager. FM Conway’s association with the Royal Engineers began four years ago, when a group spent a day with the business in Merton to gain experience of the paving

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