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Spring Newsletter 2013 MD‘s Message 2013 has already presented us with more than the usual assortment of challenges. The directors have worked closely with Stephen and Martin to ensure that a smooth leadership transition for the rebranded Imtech Smith took place, allowing them both to leave the business at the end of March. I am sure that you, like me, wish them success and happiness for the future. The move towards the new UK structure we spoke about earlier in the year sees us continue to facilitate the transfer of our FM team over to Inviron and to welcome the Imtech Inviron North Engineering Services offices under our management. You may also have been aware that Imtech have been in the spotlight a little more than usual because of events in Poland and Germany – if you want to know the latest update on these issues please go to the Imtech NV website . On the whole, in the UK, we have managed the situation proactively and although there may be some cost savings to come in 2013, there is nothing of any major significance so it‘s business as usual. Thanks to all of your efforts and, despite a very difficult marketplace, we have had great success in delivering our current projects and securing a good forward order book. There is a slight lull in our work whilst we wait for new projects to kick into action on site and we still have a small way to go to ensure that we secure our full years‘ turnover, but we have targeted projects that we are very close to that should help us achieve our goal. It really is great to be part of a business that regularly gains accolade and praise from clients for our approach to Health & Safety and ―can do‖ attitude of our staff. From the pictures in this edition of the newsletter, it is clear to see the enjoyment and pride felt by those getting together for social occasions and to support our nominated charities and I hope that this will continue with the events planned over the summer. Thank you for your continued support. Gary Dowd

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Page 1: Imtech Smith Newsletter Spring / Summer 2013

Spring Newsletter 2013

MD‘s Message

2013 has already presented us with more than the usual

assortment of challenges.

The directors have worked closely with Stephen and Martin

to ensure that a smooth leadership transition for the rebranded Imtech Smith took place, allowing them both to leave the business at the end of March. I am sure that you, like me, wish them success and happiness for the future.

The move towards the new UK structure we spoke about earlier in the year sees us continue to facilitate the transfer of our FM team over to Inviron and to welcome the Imtech Inviron North Engineering Services offices under our management.

You may also have been aware that Imtech have been in the spotlight a little more than usual because of events in Poland and Germany – if you want to know the latest update on these issues please go to the Imtech NV website . On the whole, in the UK, we have managed the situation proactively and although there may be some cost savings to come in 2013, there is nothing of any major significance so it‘s business as usual.

Thanks to all of your efforts and, despite a very difficult marketplace, we have had great success in delivering our current projects and securing a good forward order book. There is a slight lull in our work whilst we wait for new projects to kick into action on site and we still have a small way to go to ensure that we secure our full years‘ turnover, but we have targeted projects that we are very close to that should help us achieve our goal.

It really is great to be part of a business that regularly gains accolade and praise from clients for our approach to Health & Safety and ―can do‖ attitude of our staff.

From the pictures in this edition of the newsletter, it is clear to see the enjoyment and pride felt by those getting together for social occasions and to support our nominated charities and I hope that this will continue with the events planned over the summer.

Thank you for your continued support.

Gary Dowd

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Kings College, London

Birley Fields, Manchester

Plot 4, First Street, Manchester

Atherton, Manchester

Sainsbury‘s, Blackpool

Abraham Moss Primary School, Phase 2

St Barnabas School

Regent Crescent Mall, Trafford Centre

Lombard Street

The project is situated in the affectionately known area as

the "Square Mile" in the heart of the city of London's finan-

cial area, adjacent to the bank of England.

The works consist of the retention of the building existing

façade with a total new build internally consisting of two

basement levels with nine above ground floors.

The contract has a very high specification demand in

terms of quality and finishes incumbent with the location.

Major New Contracts

Prefabricated Case Study

As with most city centre projects nowadays, access in and out of the project is restricted by

adjacent buildings and roads to two elevations which provides for interesting logistics in

terms of deliveries with the added issues of storage being at a premium.

The works being carried cover a range of M&E services from main switchgear, generator

support, Chillers, Mechanical ventilation, specialist security installations, Access control,

CCTV and full sprinkler protection.

Plant areas are situated at roof level as well as the main equipment located within the

basement which is assigned in full to providing space to accommodate the heating

equipment, electrical distribution, tanks, generator and associated piped and distributed

services.

Major New Contracts

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Prefabricated Case Study

The scope of installation is to a Cat A level with flexibility built in for future tenancy

occupation to sub divide office space in future.

The use of horizontal and vertical modular service distribution has been selected and

employed throughout the scheme which provides for a much tighter co-ordinated installation,

reducing space for installed services, less waste generated on site, reducing the requirement

to work at height and significantly reduce the installation time at site level.

The project is due for completion mid-November 2013.

Thanks goes to the team which consists of Chris Riley, Martin Loughlin and Mike Young as

the Contract Management team on site with the presence of Chris Bright and Lee Owen as

site supervision.

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Here‘s a quick run down on the progress of our current projects:

Site Update

ESLA

Phase 1 handed over 18th March 2013.

Phase 2 currently underway with expected

completion August 2013.

Job has been completed to a high standard

and is a credit to Wayne Gregson, Adam

Martin, Mark Bell and Ross Blundell.

Kensington

The project involves 153 no high end exclusive

apartments, ranging from £850k for a Bedsit to

£14.4m for the Big Pent house.

The show apartment is now open to the public.

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Site Update

Merepark—Liverpool

The Lewis‘s Building is a 9 storey

building located in the heart of Liverpool

and forms an integral part of Liverpool‘s

rich retailing history.

Part of this building is now open as a

126 bed Apart Hotel over 4 levels. There

is 80,000 Sq. ft. of office space and

160,00 Sq. ft. of retail area that Imtech

Smith have been responsible for the

design, installation and commissioning

of electrical and mechanical services.

The first Adagio Apart hotel in the

country was opened to the public on

March 28 2013.

Thanks goes to the project team for their

efforts in successfully completing the

project and handing over with zero

defects in conjunction with Mere Park

Construction.

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Site Update

The new 7,946 sq ft, state of the art, purpose built academy took two years to build and

includes the best facilities in the city for design technology and engineering.

The new ST Alban‘s Academy has exceptional specialist accommodation for science,

art, music, ICT and physical education. As an inclusive Church of England school the academy

also hosts a new prayer room equipped for multi-faith worship with washing facilities suitable for

Muslim prayer.

Sports facilities include a four badminton court size sports hall and fitness suite and this month

work will begin on the construction of an all-weather floodlit sports pitch.

The building which has a solid fuel heating system using recycled wood chips complies with all

BREEAM assessment ratings for environmental performance.

Initiated within the Birmingham BSF programme, and complicated by its eventual cancellation,

the challenging budget led to an economic, yet inspiring design.

St Albans

St Alban's Academy opened

its £17.6 million state of the

art school building on

18th January 2013

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Site Update

Inside, the academy is broken down into two

small schools, St Patrick‘s and St Peter‘s, each

with their own head teachers. This ensures that

all students are well known by teaching staff

and reflects our commitment to human scale

education.

The spacious, dramatic, central atrium,

technically an outdoor space, is unheated but

under cover, and has allowed us to maximise

the internal space, with large classrooms in

prime locations that have views out across the

city and into the atrium.

The new building allows St Albans to expand its

current roll from 440 students aged 11-16 to

800 students aged 11-18.

Thanks goes to the Project Management Team

Karl Voss and Warren Pearson and to the site

team for their hard work and commitment

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A fantastic Xmas party to end a great year at Imtech Smith. After months of preparation and

planning the room at the Imperial Hotel in Blackpool looked wonderful and what a fantastic night

it turned out to be, not only did 10 lucky people win great prizes to include TV’s, Blu Ray DVD

players and golf days but a staggering £271 was also raised for North West Air Ambulance.

Here’s for 2013’s Xmas Party … more details to follow shortly.

Xmas all wrapped up …..

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Congratulations go to the following teams for scooping Heath & Safety team of the month.

Awards & Achievements

An early Xmas present of the team

at Abraham Moss who wrapped up

the year with a 100% clean sheet

win for December.

Lewis‘s got the year off to a great

start winning the first award of the

year for January. They also donated

£100 of their winnings to the Sophie

Baines fund. Well done guys

February saw the first win for the team at

Kensington, they also scooped the prize again in

March … Can they hold onto pole position to

make it a hat trick in April? Congratulations guys.

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Hazard Alert Submission

Congratulations go to Lewis‘s with a 17.3 submission over target for December. Well done to

the team at Kensington with an extra 34.7 submissions overs required number for January,

which is a tremendous 750% over target. And a pat on the back for Lombard Street team for

the 18 submission over target they put in for February. Despite the team only being on site 4

days they exceeded their monthly target ten-fold! Keep up the good work guys!

Awards & Achievements

Stephen Baines accepting his award off our very

own Phil Boyham

Stephen Baines accepting his £30

award for March in the hazard card alert

card draw on the Waters site.

Congratulations Stephen.

Adam Clarke accepting his award off Operations

Director John McGuire

Adam Clarke won £30 in the hazard

card alert card draw for February on the

Waters site.

Well done Adam

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Awards & Achievements

The team at Abraham Moss Phase 2 deserve a pat on the back for scoring 38 out of 50 in the

Keepmoat Considerate Contractors Survey. This is a very good score considering the new

scoring system they have in place and the difficulties that they face on site. The team scored

very good and excellent in all categories. Well done guys keep up the fantastic work.

Dan Watchorn receiving his vouchers off Graham Mercer, Project Director for Balfour Beatty

and Chris Riley, Contracts Manager at Imtech Smith

Dan Watchorn, Mechanical Pipe Fitter on Lombard Street received M&S and Argos

vouchers from Balfour Beatty and Imtech Smith for submitting hazard warning cards

during March.

All of the team are fully committed to Imtech H&S, Dan was the lucky one to be drawn out

of the hat. Congratulations Dan!

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Awards & Achievements

James Ross has been awarded by our Client ISG for his pro-active comments on Hazard

Cards to identify potential safety risks which were acted upon by ISG to make the site a safer

place to work.

James was presented with £30 worth of vouchers for a H&S Catalogue, (which happened to

have a food section) and James opted to buy Biscuits/coffee/tea etc for the site team.

Well done James keep the Hazard cards coming!

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Awards & Achievements

Adam Beatson has been singled out as an outstanding performer on two occasions recently,

firstly by Carillion, Adam was tasked with providing residential engineering support on one of

the NBS Admin buildings and was nominated by both the Site and Regional Managers for

adding value to their delivery.

Secondly Adam has been singled out by the NBS IT team for his dedication to achieving

milestones, this in no small part has led to a further 200k of new business.

Adam accepting his cheque off MD Gary Dowd and Technical Facilities Operations Manager Scott Rogers

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Awards & Achievements

Success in the RoSPA Awards 2013 for

Imtech Smith

Imtech Smith, has had its approach to occupational safety and health recognised in an awards

scheme run by the safety charity, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents (RoSPA).

The Gold award in the RoSPA Occupational Health and Safety Awards 2013 will be presented

in a ceremony at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel, at the National Exhibition Centre, on

Wednesday May 15, 2013.

Dating back 57 years, the RoSPA Awards scheme is the largest and longest-running

programme of its kind in the UK. It recognises commitment to accident and ill health prevention

and is open to businesses and organisations of all types and sizes from across the UK and

overseas. The scheme not only looks at accident records, but also entrants‘ overarching health

and safety management systems, including practices such as leadership and workforce

involvement.

David Rawlins, RoSPA‘s awards manager, said: ―RoSPA firmly believes that organisations that

demonstrate commitment to continuous improvement in accident and ill health prevention

deserve recognition. Imtech Smith has shown that it is committed to striving for such

continuous improvement and we are delighted to honour it through the presentation of an

award.‖

This will be the third year in a row that Imtech Smith has maintained the ‗Gold’ status and just

goes to show that we are fully committed to the health & safety of our colleagues and our

contractors. Well done to each and every one of you for maintaining consistently high

standards.

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Awards & Achievements

The annual Dinner Dance of the B&ES North West Region was held on 2nd March 2013 in

the Platinum Suite at the Reebok Stadium.

This event also incorporated the North West Training Group Awards (for 2012)

L-R—Phil & Jackie Boyham, Chad Hardman & Amy Rimmer, Ian Lammas & Dawn Mills,

Phil & Sarah Greenhalsh and John & Jane McGuire

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Here are the recent new starters to the organisation, I am sure you will have seen some of

them around the business and have no doubt welcomed them all to Imtech Smith family and

are assisting where required.

Scott Leadbetter started as

Building Fabric Project

Manager on 29 October 2012

Adam Ainsley started as

Projects Planner on 17

December 2012

David Bewley started as

Project Manager on 1

February 2013

David Wilcock started as FM

Mechanical Project Engineer

18 February 2013

George Best started as Senior

QS on 28 January 2013

Shane Ponting started as

QHSE Manager on 14 March

2013

Team News

New Starters

Gemma Robinson started as

Assistant Accountant on 2nd

April 2013

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Old Timers ..

Congratulations go to the following employees who have been presented with vouchers

for the long service award.

Andy Hopwood being presented with his

vouchers by Paul Healey.

A spokesperson on site at Atherton

Community School where Andy is

currently working commented '' Andy is a

Conscientious & hard working individual

and highly valued by the Company''

Julian McCorry being presented with his

vouchers by Dan Docherty

Team News

Ross Blundell was presented with his

award by Alastair McEachan for

achieving the 15 years service award.

Alan Bush was presented with vouchers by

Andy Cook for achieving the 15 years service

award.

Dave Arden has given been with the company

25 years next month … that‘s commitment for

you .. Well done Dave and here‘s to the next

25 years !!!

Phil Layton was presented his vouchers by

Dan Docherty for his 15 years service to the

company. Well done Phil

Thomas Eaves is also one of our old timers

with over 15 years service - photo to follow

next month.

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Health

Doctors Orders …..

The Occupational Health Screening Mobile Unit has

now completed its rounds for 2013 and hopefully was

a positive outcome for all those concerned.

The mobile screening van visited sites and Calder

House throughout Q4 and employees were offered a

30— 45 minute meeting with the Health Nurse.

The screening included amongst other tests:-

Review of Previous occupational, family, personal

medical history and evaluation in comparison to job

risks via questionnaire

Height, Weight and Body Mass Index (BMI)

Pulse and Blood Pressure

Measurement of near / distance/ colour vision

Lung function test

Urinalysis

Finger prick Cholesterol

Skin Assessment

The results of the health screening are completely

confidential and hope that if you do have any queries to either

speak with HR or your doctor.

The remainder of employees will be offered the assessment

throughout Q1/Q2 2014, details of which will be sent in due

course. this will then become a 2 year rolling programme,

details of which will be sent out at the appropriate time.

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Yes that‘s what you lot think of some of your colleagues which is why they are in the hall of

fame for being worthy winners of the Outstanding Performance Award. The lucky winners

were treated to a £100 Shopping Voucher, £125 voucher for Gaucho Grill Restaurant,

Champagne and Chocolates on arrival and exclusive use of our 2 bed penthouse Abito

apartment in Manchester and access to a selection of complimentary drinks.

Congratulations to all of you!

If there is someone you feel deserves an Outstanding Performance Award for their work,

complete an Outstanding Performance nomination form and return it to Carly Callon at

[email protected] for them to be in with a chance of winning this fantastic prize.

Outstanding …...

Chris Nelson George McCormick David Pierrie

Anthony Rogers Wayne Gregson Adam Martin

Nicola Spencer

Jill Stewart Phil Layton

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Apprenticeships & Awards

Blackpool and The Fylde College has recognised and rewarded top apprentices and

employers from across the Fylde Coast at a glittering awards evening, held this year at the

Blackpool Tower Ballroom on 14th March 2014. Dan Docherty HR Manager was there to

present the award for Business and Professional Studies to the Highly Commended

Apprentice and Apprentice of the Year. He was also on hand to award Ambassador of

Industry to Tangerine Confectionery.

Business and Professional Studies Highly Commended Apprentice – Luke Brockbank who works at Tangerine Confectionery.

Business and Professional Studies Apprentice of The Year – Beatrix Rowe who works at UK TEFL

Business and Professional Studies Ambassador of In-dustry – Tangerine Confectionery pictured with Liz Boon

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Congratulations go to the following apprentices who have recently completed their

courses.

Adam Robinson qualified as an Electrician in October 2012 as did Oliver Stewart .

Dan cook finished his learning in November 2012 (however he did not follow our

apprenticeship scheme he followed Quick Step).

Tom Sharples qualified to be a Craftsman in April 2013.

Congratulations to all of you on your achievements

Tom Sharples Adam Robinson

Dan Cook Oliver Stewart

Apprenticeships & Awards

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Ian Mulligan—Electrical Estimator

5 minutes in the life of …..

Andy Hopwood—Foreman

Atherton Site

If you won the lottery, what would be the

first thing you’d buy?

Aston Martin DBS

3 pet hates ?

Bad drivers, back chat, pure laziness

If you were stuck on a desert island, name 3

things you’d like to have with you ?

BBQ, Speedboat, Alcohol

Best thing about Imtech Smith ?

Opportunities to progress whilst working in a

nice friendly environment.

Best joke you know (keep it clean)

A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The bus

driver says: “That's the ugliest baby that I've ever

seen. Ugh!” The woman goes to the rear of the

bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man

next to her: “The driver just insulted me!” The

man says: “You go right up there and tell him off

– go ahead, I'll hold your monkey for you.”

Favourite film ?

Full Metal Jacket

How would your friends describe you in 3

words ?

Dependable, reliable, joyful.

One thing you’d change about Imtech

Smith ?

colour of the work gear….more colourful tee

shirt. (not all blue)

Favourite holiday destination and why ?

Canada……..not too Hot, beautiful scenery

If you were on death row and were offered

anything for your last meal, what would you

choose?

Beans on toast.

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Charity Challenge & CSR

A refurbished camp fire and BBQ will be

real assets to the centre and the girls that

use the facilities. Groundwork's, tidying of

gardens and clearing of shrubs etc. also

took place.

Andy Rawlinson also managed to get the

materials free from our suppliers.

A huge thank you to all those that were

involved in the project.

Giving GUIDE—ance!

Imtech Smith were actively involved in the Community Day

project at Girlguiding GMW‘s Ashley Activity Centre in Cheshire

which was headed up by Lend Lease.

The project consisted of the refurbishment of an amenities build-

ing to include new toilet facilities, shower and upgrade to the ex-

isting lighting. Mario, Hoppy and Paul offered their expertise and

time to the project.

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Charity Challenge & CSR

We have had a busy end to 2012 and start to the new year with our fundraising activities. With

lots of events going on much needed cash has been raised for our nominated charities

together with a few charities that you have also got involved in.

A fantastic £273 was raised in the raffle at the

Xmas party. A further £135 was raised in the

supplier goods raffle that was held on the last day

before Xmas.

We have raised in the first quarter an amazing £2091 for our

nominated charities. Well done and thank you to all of you for your

efforts and donations.

Dan Hinton Adam Edmundson Steve Holder Steffan

Barnes-Fullalove

Movember is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on

thousands of men‘s faces in the UK and around the world.

The aim of which is to raise vital funds and awareness for

men‘s health, specifically prostate cancer and testicular

cancer. November saw some of our guys ditch the razors and

grow a Mo throughout the month. A dress down day was also

held which raised £113 and a further £220 was raised online.

Thanks to all that supported our team and for your generous

donations.

Some of our Mo – Growers … what a handsome bunch of tashers !!

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Charity Challenge & CSR

The Charity Bonus Ball has raised a total of

£156 since starting the middle of February with

winners pocketing on average £20 every week

whilst raising funds for Cancer Research &

North West Air Ambulance.

The bags to work scheme has raised an amazing

£855 so far this year. This is absolutely fantastic

and that money will go a long way into research

and finding a cure for Cancer. Look out for the next

collection date of the bags and get those

cupboards and wardrobes cleared whilst raising

vital funds for Cancer Research.

January was the month to think about the ladies as it

was Cervical Cancer Prevention Week between

20th—26th January. We had a Cervical Cancer

Awareness Day which saw us all dress down in the

colour green. This raised a fantastic £197, which the

company kindly fund matched giving a staggering

£394 in donations to the charity. Thanks to all for

digging deep and raising awareness.

We organised a Charity Comedy Night on 10th May at the

Frog & Bucket in Preston. The event sold out and raised an

incredible £955 our nominated charities. Thanks goes to

those that donated raffle prizes and those that supported the

event. We have been asked to organise another night later in

the year so watch this space .. Details to follow soon

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Charity Challenge & CSR

Wow what a busy Red Nose Day we had here at Calder House.

Not only did we have a dress down / dress up day. We also held a

cake sale, quiz and sweepstake in which we raised an incredible

£263.

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Charity Challenge & CSR

Winners of Best Dressed Individual

Winners of the Big Quiz were:

David Pierre was the overall winner with a score of 62

out of 64 - David won a bottle of bubbly.

Best Quiz Team Name: ‘Quiz My Big Red Nose’

Team members: Andy Mills, Amy Rimmer, Adam

Ainsley, Warren Pearson, Neil Hitchman, George Best,

Paul Egan, Phil Boyham, Neil Oliver & Peter Bibby –

they all won a bottle of wine each, unfortunately no

picture of the team as they had drunk the wine before

we could get them to smile !!

1st Carly Callon as Little

Red Riding Hood

2nd Theresa Daniels as a

40’s Flapper Girl

3rd Karl Voss in his ‘Duff’

Beer Slippers

Adam Edmundson won £15 in the sweepstake with

the correct Keith Lemon auction item of Hot Pants -

Congratulations Adam, hope the Mrs didn‘t spend it all

at once !

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Charity Challenge & CSR

Our own Sam Cole in Procurement cycled Arc to Arc, London to Paris in 3 days at the end of

March which worked out at just over 100 miles a day. There were 9 of them altogether who

took part and they raised money for Derian House, who look give care to parents and their

families before and after the death of a child. So far they have raised over £1,600 but there is

still time to donate through Sam‘s dad‘s just giving page.

http://www.justgiving.com/John-Cole193

And if that wasn‘t challenging enough they have decided to sign up for the coast to coast

challenge. An iconic route cycled by hundreds of people every year, usually over 4 or 5 days,

but these guys are doing it in just 1 day. A stunning 150 mile road ride with 4500 metres of

ascent from Seascale in the mountainous Western Lake District, through the Yorkshire Dales,

across the flat Vale of York and finally the Northern Valleys of the North York Moors, finishing

by the sea in Whitby. More details on this event will follow in the next edition.

5 of the 9 riders that completed the challenge.

Left to right: Dave Riley, John Cole, Sam Cole, Ash Butterfield and Jason Gorner.

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Charity Challenge & CSR

Another keen cyclist is Darren Nelson

from the Technical Facilities

Management Team.

Darren together with his good friend and

co rider Richard Burt set off from Lands

End on 6th April 2013 and finished their

journey around 7pm on Saturday 13th

April in John O‘ Groats in aid of Prostate

Cancer UK.

With a bit of re-mapping after some early

troubles, they covered a slightly different

route but still managed to ride 920miles

over the 8 days.

The longest day being day 7 were they

racked up an incredible 142.4miles riding

through the Glencoe Mountains and

alongside the picturesque Loch Lomond

and Loch Ness to Inverness.

You can catch up with their ride in more detail at www.cyclemadness.blogspot.co.uk well worth

a read and some comedy moments!!

You can also donate using the link www.justgiving.com/teams/cyclemadness

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Charity Challenge & CSR

In association with Keepmoat we are helping raise funds with

donations of items for raffles that they are holding for a very

special boy. Sam, (then aged 3) had been diagnosed with

Neuroblastoma, a particularly severe form of cancer which has a

low survival rate.

Sam has bravely undergone a course of Chemo-therapy and

has just, on his 4th birthday, commenced a second course.

Subsequently he will need stem cell replacement. Even if the

stem cell treatment is successful, there is still a high probability

that the cancer will return. His best chance of preventing this is

a treatment that is only available in Philadelphia, but it comes at

a substantial cost of £250,000 and that is without the cost of

transport and accommodation for the family for what could be up

to 6 months Should you wish to make a donation, we have

created a Just Giving web-page for the mountain climb which

will feed into the main fund for Sam's treatment.

www.justgiving.com/MountainClimbForSam

Peter Baines granddaughter has recently been

diagnosed with Bilateral Retino Blastoma (eye

cancer) which effects 1 in 20,000 children. She has

lost sight in her right eye and it was found that she

had two tumors in her left eye. Sophie started a

course of chemotherapy, she is now two thirds of the

way through her treatment and the treatment appears

to be having a positive impact in her left eye.

Various fundraising events have been scheduled to raise money for Sophie and the guys at

Lewis's donated £100 of their winnings from their Health & Safety Team of the Month award

for January to the Sophie Baines fund. Thank you it‘s greatly appreciated.

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Your News

Shane Ponting QHSE Manager tied the

knot to Lynne Caddick on Saturday April 6th,

at Clearwell Castle, Forest of Dean,

Gloucestershire. It was the one day that

week that was sunny and reasonably warm

so they had a perfect day for it.

Following the wedding, Shane & Lynne spent

11 days in Cancun, Mexico for their

honeymoon where they both enjoyed relaxing

in 30c temperatures (except for getting

sunburnt, and having a near miss with a

crocodile!).

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Baby Boom

Just like Spring sees the arrival of many lambs; it looks like something must be in the air at

Imtech Smith with 3 gorgeous bundles arriving early this year. Congratulations to all of our

new parents.

Sam Peters and his partner Katie are

the proud parents of Luna, born 15th

February weighing 5lbs 11ozs

Ashley Kitchener and partner Holly

were delighted when their little bundle

Amber Eve was born on 4th February

weighing a lovely 6lb 3oz .

Stuart and Magdalena Bunn wel-

comed Mollie Sofia into the world on

9th March weighing a healthy 8lb

14oz.

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Current Vacancies

Electrical Apprenticeship

Imtech Smith are currently accepting applications for electrical apprenticeships for a

September 2013 intake. Please email your current CV to Robyn Taylor at

[email protected]

Pipefitting Apprenticeship

Imtech Smith are currently accepting applications for mechanical (pipefitting) apprentice-

ships for a September 2013 intake. Please email your current CV to Robyn Taylor at

[email protected]

For further information on the current apprenticeship schemes please contact

01772 471111

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Competition Corner

There are 5 differences between the two pictures, spot them and return your entries to

[email protected] by Friday 14th June 2013 to be in with a chance of winning a

Blu Ray DVD Player. Good Luck!

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