We are delighted to announce that we are now a Suffolk New College Industry Partner. We look forward to working collaboratively to embed the construction industry into the college and curriculum, helping to raise learners’ aspirations, employability skills and help shape future talent.
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Gipping become Industry Partner to Suffolk New College!
Our staff had a mammoth task judging the many entries into an art competition organised in collaboration with Ipswich Museum. As part of our hashtag#mammothmakeover and to brighten up the hoardings outside, entries into an art competition on the theme of Will.i.am the Woolly Mammoth and Rosie the Rhino, were invited from age groups ranging […]
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A Mammoth art competition!
When Lofty Heights CIC Skills Academy asked if we could conduct some mock interviews to help equip some of their students with vital skills, we didn’t hesitate. Our Associate Director – Construction, Julian Davies MCIOB, spent Wednesday morning meeting and interviewing young people who are benefiting from the great work Lofty heights is doing to […]
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Julian goes to Lofty Heights to help!
We were delighted to host a ‘Suicide Prevention in Heavy Industry’ Workshop this morning at Lofty Heights CIC Skills Academy in Ipswich. The course was brilliantly presented by Anita Malster of Blossom Mental Health Training and we welcomed attendees from Terrasite Ltd , EPPH Ltd and Bower Fuller, who joined some of Gipping’s own Site […]
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Suicide Prevention in Heavy Industry Workshop
Here’s an interesting fact to finish the week… If all the tubes used in the external and internal scaffolding at our Ipswich Museum site were placed end-to-end, they would cover a distance of over 50,000 feet! That is just short of ten miles….or Ipswich to Felixstowe as the crow flies!
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A scaffolding fact……
Congratulations to Leanda Hoyland-Linch MCIM MIAM, Gipping Construction’s Creative, Media and Marketing Manager on being awarded Member level in her professional application to the Chartered Institute of Marketing. To achieve CIM Member (MCIM) level, Leanda had to prove a minimum of seven years as an experienced marketing manager working at strategic level. MCIMs set the […]
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Leanda awarded Member level of the Chartered Institute of Marketing
Our Site Manager, Nick Maslin, and Creative Media and Marketing Manager Leanda Hoyland-Linch, hosted a visit from a lovely group of visitors to Ipswich Museum this morning to show progress on the site. Now all the precious artefacts and displays are dismantled and carefully wrapped, stored or cladded, the scale of some of the magnificent […]
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A visit to Ipswich Museum
This week is #menshealthweek. The theme for this year is: Men don’t talk. The day after King Charles announced that he had a problem with an enlarged prostate, there were 16,410 visits to the relevant National Health Service website page compared with 1,414 visits the previous day. Prostate Cancer UK saw an almost doubling in […]
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Men’s health week
At Gipping we take the mental health of our employees as seriously as we take their physical health and feel it is vital to offer support to anyone who is struggling to cope. Our Contracts Manager, Peter Flatt, and Associate Director, Construction, Julian Davies MCIOB, recently took part in a highly beneficial ‘Suicide Prevention in […]
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The shocking statistics of male suicide in heavy industry
We were very proud to hold our first ‘World of Work Day’ at our Ravenswood site yesterday, for a group of young people from Inspire Suffolk. After an induction and health & safety briefing by Contracts Manager Peter Flatt, the group were kitted out in full PPE. Accompanied by Peter and Project Manager, Lee Walsom, […]
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Our first ‘World of Work Day’ at our Ravenswood