Today see’s the Tideway Innovation Forum (TIF) meet for the fifth time this year, during which we have created the Great Think innovation programme from scratch! The meeting was hosted at COMIT (Construction Opportunities for Mobile IT) of which Tideway are corporate members. All members of the Alliance are represented @ TIF with the aim of…
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Yesterday we invited the Tideway Alliance Innovation Champions, along with colleagues from Crossrail and HS2’s PDN Committees back to the Design Museum in South Kensington for our end of year celebration. Having piqued our interest the first time we visited as a team just a couple of weeks ago, we thought it would be a…
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This latest ‘Guest Blog’ for innovation advent is written by Joseph Henderson, Tideway Civil Engineering apprentice for West. Joe’s vision has inspired us to develop a ‘tag line’ for the Great Think Programme. Imagine. Innovate. Inspire. Imagine if we could undertake site surveys from a great vantage point and use high resolution images taken from the latest drone…
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Hi all, Well I’ll be honest, I ran out of time to do my innovation advent calendar today, so I thought how can I get it done quickly? So, I’m using my speech to text function on my iPad to narrate my blog and and it’s kindly writing it straight up for me. I’ll try…
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A bumper edition of the blog today(to make up for skipping weekends) – allow me to introduce eco-innovator Ben Weeks, who wants to tell us what life might be like on Mars… Over the last few weeks I have had some fantastic conversations with Sophie and Paul from the Innovation team. In fact, before then,…
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It’s Innovation Advent Day 9 and today we have a guest blog from Harrison O’Hara, who will be shortly joining the Tideway HSW team as a HSW Technology Consultant for one of Tideway’s innovation projects. I have spent most of my working life promoting the use of mobile and other technologies in the construction…
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When Sophie asked me to provide this post for the Advent calendar, I thought it would be easy, until I looked at all the excellent posts provided to date when I realised that the bar has been set HIGH… So I am going to reflect on my ‘year in innovation’. I joined the Tideway Innovation…
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Today for Innovation Advent, we have a blog from one of our own Innovation Champions – I3P and Yammer extraordinaire Phil Smith, Environmental Advisor for West. Thanks to Phil for sharing his reflections on the year and his Christmas aims! I’ve officially decided that this year has been record breaking. Starting with my own milestone…
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Welcome back to Innovation Advent. Today we have a guest blog from Karen Young, Tideway Head of Quality, who tells us about the Tideway antics on World Quality Day. On the 10th of November Tideway celebrated World Quality Day (WQD). WQD is designed to increase worldwide awareness of the important contribution that quality makes towards both…
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I was lucky enough to visit the new Design Museum with the rest of the Innovation team and The Great Think’s sponsor, Roger Bailey, on 24th November – its official launch day. As well as being housed in an incredible redesign of the former Commonwealth Institute, its opening exhibitions were fantastically thought-provoking and well worth a…
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