Temporary Clubhouse for Royal St. George's during the 140th British Open Golf

We are proud to have worked with Planit Events to supply a 12m x 40m Absolute Double Decker Pavilion to the Open Golf hosted by Royal St George's, Sandwich Kent. The structure acted as an extension to Club house for the Members and their guests. A bar was open inside all day and Members were able to book tables for lunch to entertain guests, friends and family. A further 12m x 15m Absolute Pavilion was supplied to bolster the ground floor capacity.

William Bailey of Planit Events commented "The double decker was admired by all of our guests. GL events paid the highest attention to detail throughout the job and the finish both inside and out was fantastic, in particular the internal linings."

New Appointments

We are pleased to announce that we have appointed a new Commercial Director and Operations Manager.

Commercial Director, James Anderson, will head up the Account Management Team and will be streamlining the processes between sales and operations. Prior to working at Owen Brown James helped to establish JCB Light Equipment and before that was the Group Events Director at the NEC Group.

Operations Manager Joe Barton joins us from Moy Park where he was Fleet Manager, prior to this Joe worked at Jungheinrich GB and Omya UK in transport and logistic management roles. Joe has been brought on to drive forward the operational efficiency at our Castle Donington depot.

We have recently been awarded SAFE contractor certification

SAFE contractor promotes higher standards of competence and compliance through the provision of relevant industry specific and tailored health and safety assessments for all professions and sectors. Owen Brown was assessed by the scheme before being awarded with the certificate and will undergo an annual assessment.

Simon Wood, Operations Director comments “We are keen to raise the industry standard, ensuring our site staff lead the field in this vital aspect. The SAFE contractor scheme provides us the opportunity to further train our site staff and move forward achieving additional qualifications. This will enable them to work more efficiently and safely on site and anticipate that over the coming months our clients will start to see the benefits of this”.

BS 8901 Certification

We are presently working towards achieving BS 8901 certification. This is the British Standard for sustainable event management and is the next step for our organisation to take following the launch of the ‘Think Green’ campaign for the environment back in 2010.

As part of this process we are looking at ways to improve the impact that our business has on the environment, society and economy. . This includes how we operate in the office, at our depots and on event sites.

From small gestures like paper and water wastage to larger initiatives such as reducing haulage and improving event waste recycling.

We aim to have external 3rd party certification by early 2012.

By working towards BS 8901 this year it stands us in a great position to adopt ISO 20121, when it replaces BS 8901 next year. ISO 20121 will be a new international standard promoting the sustainable management of events; it is expected to be finalised in 2012 to coincide with the London Olympics.

As we operate internationally it would be a great accolade to have this international standard and we hope that this will demonstrate worldwide that we are committed to continually improving and becoming a sustainable organisation.

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