In November 2011 the Belfast Streets Ahead project achieved an Excellent Graded CEEQUAL Award for Area 2 with a score of 83.4% adding to the previous Excellent award (78.1%) achieved in November 2010 for Areas 1 & 3. Roger Venables (Chief Executive, CEEQUAL) presented both awards.
South Eastern Regional College (SERC) Construction and Environmental Sustainability students recently attended a tour of our two biggest construction projects in Bangor, the Olympic swimming pool and the new Bangor Grammar School.
Sixteen unemployed young people recently celebrated their graduation from The Prince’s Trust’s Get into Construction programme with six completing work placements with Farrans (Construction) Limited.
Progress continues apace on the Skainos site. Visits have been carried out by particularly busy leading EBM staff, Skainos Board, new tenants and Skainos supporters around the site.
Farrans has received a top ‘green’ accolade from Business in the Community’s ARENA Network by achieving Platinum status, ranking overall 4th out of 250 compnaies in Northern Ireland, and first in the construction sector at this year’s 13th Northern Ireland Environmental Benchmarking Survey Results.
Farrans (Construction) Limited have been awarded the contract for the construction of the new £12.4m Accident and Emergency department at Antrim Area Hospital.
Farrans Construction is to build a new terminal at Belfast Harbour, which will be used to assemble wind turbines.
At the Construction Excellence Awards, held on Thursday 6th October, 2011 Farrans picked up two awards on the night for the Belfast Boys’ Model School.
Farrans were awarded the RoSPA Gold Award recognising their commitment to excellent health and safety standards.
The M80 Stepps to Haggs Project has now attained substantial completion.
At the Engineers Ireland awards ceremony, held in Dublin on Wednesday 5th October Farrans won the Engineers Ireland Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Award for Large-Sized Companies.
During the recent Considerate Constructors Scheme National Site Awards 2011 held in London on the 5th April 2011 Farrans teams have been rewarded with a number of accolades recognising the company's performance.