International Women’s day
Celebrating International Women’s Day!
Back on the 8th March, we recognised the incredible women making their mark in the construction & manufacturing industry—on-site, in the office, and in leadership. From production and projects to our support services and designers, their contributions are shaping the future of our built environment.
Construction & manufacturing have traditionally been male-dominated fields, but progress is happening. At EAG & Multifab we are committed to breaking barriers, fostering inclusivity, and ensuring that women have the opportunities, support, and recognition they deserve.
At EAG & Multifab, over 20% of our workforce is female and with an aim to increase this over time.
This year’s #Accelerateaction theme reminds us that when we empower women in construction & manufacturing, we build stronger teams, better projects, and a more innovative industry.
To all the women in construction & manufacturing — thank you for your resilience, expertise, and dedication. Let’s keep paving the way for the next generation!
#IWD2025 #EmpowerWomen
Reflections in the Early Spring Sun
Now complete and the set off perfectly by the blue sky showing off the Windows, Curtain Walling and Terracotta at there absolute best, McLarens Project Director, Zak Carroll at Aldgate Place said:
“EAG were a pleasure to work with on our Aldgate place project, their wealth of facade knowledge along with a hands-on, non-confrontational management style was well received. Giving close support to myself and the project team when needed to ensure problems were solved, deadlines were hit and quality standards achieved.”
“Aldgate place was a challenging project where we needed a strong and competent facade contractor. Daren and the wider EAG team fitted the bill perfectly and worked extremely hard to exceed both McLaren our clients expectations delivering a first-class product.
“I would happily recommend EAG to clients and Architects and look forward to working with EAG on future McLaren developments”
Completion of 135 Park Street
EAG have completed our works at 135 Park Street for Kier Construction. Known now as TIDE Bankside the Project meets the highest environmental standards, TIDE Bankside offers 147,500 sq ft of commercial and affordable workspaces, intelligently designed to maximise natural ventilation and reduce energy consumption.
Each floor features landscaped private terraces to provide alternative outdoor working environments, as well as an extensive shared roof garden contributing to the local biodiversity with the planting of trees, grasses, and flowering plants. Active lifestyles are supported with 284 cycle spaces, electric bike charging stations, and end-of-journey facilities, including a dedicated bike maintenance area.
Aldgate Place Phase 2
EAG are proud to announce their appointment by McLaren Construction as specialist façade contractor on Phase 2 of Aldgate Place to provide 159 premium rental apartments, 19,000 sq. ft. high-quality workspace and 8,000 sq. ft. new restaurant, bars and retail space on this 136,000 sq. ft. residential-led, mixed‐use scheme for British Land.
This phase of the Aldgate development will include 159 premium Build to Rent apartments, offices, and retail and leisure space. The project will see EAG design, manufacture and install hundreds of windows, doors, and winter garden screens as part of their works on this logistically challenging site.
John Foster, CCO UK of The Clarison Group, says, “We are delighted again to support McLaren on this flagship project for British Land. Our team were able to offer a sustainable and technical solution for this highly complex façade which offers uniquely designed winter garden apartment space.”
ISO Accreditations
EAG is pleased to announce the successful implementation and award of the international standard, ISO 45001:2018 which specifies an occupational health and safety (OH&S) management system.
The certification complements our two existing ISO accreditations; ISO 14001:2015 (Environmental Management) which was awarded in 2018 and ISO 9001:2015 (Quality Management) which was awarded in March 2020.
EAG recognised that to survive in today’s competitive marketplace, we needed to manage and improve our already effective Environment, Quality and Safety systems. Therefore, a year ago we pledged to achieve ISO 45001 status within 12 months to demonstrate our commitment to continuous improvement. Our investment into each of these three accreditations refines the way we work, it offers transparency and promotes our corporate social responsibility. Furthermore, it impacts how employees and prospective clients perceive our business and make us more attractive to prospective clients and future employees.
During the process to acquire these three standards, a lot of time and commitment was applied to ensure we were successful with our applications, none more so than from the internal HSEQ team. Although we retained high standards of Environment, Quality & safety practices, the process to evaluate our existing procedures to ensure they aligned to the new requirements was of the uppermost importance and a comprehensive appraisal was carried out by the team.
The transition of our safety system over to the ISO 45001:2018 system was a relatively smooth process. This was due to existing comprehensive documentation procedures and the proactive attitudes of our employees regarding Health & Safety and our HSEQ systems.
We have a progressive continual improvement plan in mind and having a fully effective HSEQ system in place is paramount to our business. Therefore, the implementation of the three standards has benchmarked our future performance and objectives.
Grant Young, Health & Safety Manager, would like to thank Heather Foy, HSEQ coordinator, for her continued effort to ensure the process to obtain all three standards was smooth and completed in the timelines agreed. Further appreciation to the Projects departmental managers and the effort by John Seeley to ensure the internal audit process was brought up to date. Further appreciation goes out to the Site manager Andy Breedon and the Design, sales and estimating departments.
Thank you to everyone who worked tirelessly to ensure we achieve our goals.
Nick Tappin, Finance Director, commented:
‘’As a relatively new Director at EAG I have been very impressed with how the Health and Safety and Quality sides aspects of the business are run. Health and Safety takes a very high priority right through the organisation already. Achieving the ISO 45001 standard is a very testing accomplishment, it reinforces already proven processes and puts down a path for continued improvement. Well done team!’’
Daren Clifton, Construction Director, commented:
“As the Construction Director of EAG, I have become acutely aware of our current and prospective Clients desires to engage with Specialist Sub-Contractors who are prepared to go that one step further than having just a policy and management system in place for HSEQ.
In EAG gaining ISO: 9001, 14001 and 45001, we show that we have had the commitment, dedication, and procedures in place to gain these accreditations and that we will continually improve our HSEQ processes, to ensure we maintain the highest standards possible.
This was a great team effort from all aspects of the business, and we should be proud of this achievement”.
EAG SCORE A GOAL FOR THE FOUNDRY
First of all on behalf of Ballymore thank you for your £1000 donation and supporting our charity football tournament in the Nine Elms Powerleague in conjunction with Embassy Gardens on the 22nd of November.
EAG fielded a football team made up of EAG & Complete Facades employees against ten other competing teams and made it to the quarter finals.
Top left-right: Vlad Cosma, Gabriel Muller, Ben Davies, Dani Cioca, Catalin Burda,
Cosmin Bararu, Bogdan Stana, Tinel Dobre.
Gentlemen many thanks for your commitment and participation !!
The charity we are asking you to make your £1000 donation towards is The Foundry. Your donation will go towards disadvantaged teenagers in the Vauxhall area as well as homecare assistance for the elderly and also keeping the gym open that they run free of charge during working hours as a means of keeping teenagers off the streets and engaging them in areas such as general fitness, boxing, football, athletics and upskilling as personal trainers. Further to this The Foundry will also be supporting along with Ballymore a hot-kitchen where some of the teenagers working with them are trained in food preparation and in turn the food is sold at minimum prices as well as supplied to the homeless.
Centenary Building, Southampton University
EAG are delighted to display their work at the university campus in the gallery. The project was handed over to the Client on 27/9/19.
Well done to all concerned for delivering this tiled Masterpiece! The 5000+ glazed ceramic terracotta tiles form the envelope rain screen cladding.
EAG WIN BAM Health and Safety Awards 2019
EAG have been awarded BAM facade contractor of the year and overall BAM South East Contractor of the year for their work on the Centenary Building at the University of Southampton.
Site manager Andy Breedon being presented with one of the awards.
“Well done all those involved with consistently achieving the high level expected on this demanding project. Really proud of you all.”
Regards, Simon Gladwin MD
EAG open in Madrid
We are delighted to announce that as of 1st September we have now opened a design office located in Paseo Infanta Isabel 17, central Madrid. This is part of the planned expansion of our in house design facility which we believe will quickly strengthen our ability to deliver new and exciting projects.
Jose Yerga (centre) will be heading up this team as Design Manager, initially with two new members of staff Juan Fernandez as Designer and Mariana Cortes as Junior Designer, with a plan to increase this team to a total of four in due course.
Best wishes from your UK colleagues!
Construction News Project of the Year Winner, July 2019
Greenwood Place Community Centre
EAG were commissioned by Kier Construction in July 2017 as specialist facade trade contractor to provide a mixture of high performance aluminium curtain walling, windows and sliding doors as part of this multi million pound development.
Located in Kentish Town, the new three storey 3,228 sq m Community Resource Centre provides separate, dedicated, high-quality services for people with dementia, learning disabilities and mental health problems. In addition, it also provides services for younger people with profound and multiple learning disabilities and autism.
EAG successfully completed their contract for Kier in October 2018. The scheme was delivered on time, on budget, and with zero defects at handover.
Architects: PCKO
Client: London Borough of Camden
Image courtesy of: e-architect
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