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We’re excited to share that our CA team recently completed a Microsoft training session right here in our office. Leveraging our own training facilities allowed us to create an environment tailored to our team’s needs, making the session highly effective and engaging for everyone involved. The training empowered our team with essential skills and deeper insights into Microsoft tools, enhancing both individual and collective productivity.

The CA team had an amazing time at Buckmore Park with some thrilling go-karting action! It was fantastic to bring everyone together for some team building, and enjoy some friendly competition on the track. It was great to get all of the team from CA Drillers, CA Fire Protection and CA Telecom together on the track.

Proud sponsors of Herne Bay FC Women’s team! ⚽️

Sunday 13th October was a great day for Herne Bay FC Women’s team, even though they narrowly missed out with a 2-1 loss to QPR, the atmosphere was incredible with a record-breaking crowd.

Special thanks to Kenny Hawkins for presenting the Player of the Match award to Stephanie Adby, a well-deserved recognition for her outstanding performance.

We look forward to more exciting matches ahead.

It was great to have been a part of the Peter Jones Foundation’s first Race for Enterprise event on the 25th of September!

Collectively an incredible £120,000 was raised! This significant amount will help support young people, in developing essential skills, an entrepreneurial mindset, and boosting their employability.

A huge shout out to our incredible apprentice, Jordan, who recently shared his journey with us and the University of Greenwich.

Jordan talked openly about how his apprenticeship has given him much more than just a degree – it’s been an opportunity to build real professional networks and gain invaluable experience while earning at the same time.

From learning industry-relevant skills to connecting with professionals in the field, this is what makes the apprenticeship path unique and rewarding.

Thank you, Jordan, for inspiring us with your honest perspective!

If you would like to read the full article follow the link: https://lnkd.in/eWUzeiYa

CA Drillers and CA Fire Protection attended The Alan Brazil TalkSPORT Charity Golf Tournament 2024.

The team had a fantastic day at the stunning Woburn Golf Course.

It was an honor for the CA team to play alongside football legend Ray Parlour and Tom Skinner, among others.

This event was in support of two incredible charities, CALM and Reverse Rett, both of which are doing important work.

CA Fire Protection and CA Drillers were proud to sponsor the day, and we’re excited to share that CA Fire Protection came 2nd!

A huge thank you to everyone at talkSPORT for hosting a brilliant event.

The CA Team was recently involved in a community project to extend the playground area at a school in London. The area was unused and needed transforming ready for the first day back of term.

This was a collaboration between Erith, CA Drillers and CA Telecom UK.

Erith cleared away the shrubbery, which had built up over the years –
making the area unusable

CA had to excavate out the area to a depth that allowed us to install MOT TYPE 1 Stone in order to be able to lay the new surface of asphalt.

It was then ready for a brand-new tarmac area to be laid, providing a smooth, durable surface for school activities. This provides more usable space for the students to use during break time.

Thanks to the grab lorry, we’ve been able to efficiently remove waste and bring in fresh materials.

CA Drillers recently teamed up with ISG on their flagship project in London to conduct a Health & Safety stand down, focusing on respiratory issues caused by construction dust on-site.

We organised guest speakers from the RVT Group and JSP Safety to run through their latest equipment and the importance of ensuring everything is properly fitted. Thank you to Colin Nottage who lead the Respiratory Lead for the Health in Construction Leadership Group. Your expertise and insights were invaluable to everyone on-site.

We also want to extend our gratitude to the ISG H&S team for their support and for accommodating this important initiative.

The team had an incredible day at the Walkers Construction UK Ltd Charity Football event on the
22 nd August 2024.

The teams were giving their all on the pitch for such a worthy cause. It was inspiring to see everyone come together to support the Walker Construction Trust and their mission to support and assist local charities.

The total amount raised was just under £3,375.000!

Beyond the competitiveness of the game there was an amazing community spirit, fun and
networking to support the cause.

A massive shoutout to Walkers Construction UK Ltd for inviting the CA Team.
And to the teams— well played to all. Congratulations to CA Telecom UK Ltd on taking home the
trophy, but in the end, everyone was a winner

Can’t wait to do it all again next year!

A huge thank you to everyone who attended the CA Charity Golf Day on Friday 21st June at the Cave Hotel & Golf Resort

The total amount raised for the Red Eagle Foundation was £8070. This donation will grant a wish to a child/family who has life limiting illnesses.

Thank you to Dominic Comins from Red Eagle Foundation for helping throughout the day, and for running the dartboard competition which was won by Malcolm Cook

We could not have raised this amount without our sponsors, a massive thank you to NBC, Standard Plant, Pirtek Ashford, Brokk UK Ltd, Work & Wear, Diaquip, Trade Recruitment, GB Farrar, Bauvill, A Signs, JustSo and Practical Hire for sponsoring the day.

Thank you to everyone who brought raffle tickets on the day. We had amazing prizes on offer this year, and this was all down to Husqvarna, Huddle Markering, Centricity, Fleetmaxx Solutions, Trade Recruitment, Cave Hotel, Tyrolit, Kent Bearings, Hilti, AAK, NBC, Practical Hire, Pioneer Civil Engineering, Pioneer Rail, Prime Hire, Walkers Construction, GB Farrar, HRS Rail, Quelfire, Erith and Freedom Group.

We recently had the pleasure of drilling these angled holes to allow for new electrics to pass through at a Land Rover service centre in Maidstone. These were drilled with correx placed beneath the rig to prevent slurry from affecting the tiled slab.

Another successful structural opening completed for one of our regular clients in London.

CA Drillers formed the new stair opening through 550mm thick RC slab, cutting into sections, lifting and removing from site.

CA Drillers hosted their annual Charity Golf Day back in June. The day was a huge success and a lot of money was raised. One of our chosen charities was the Kent Wish Foundation who provide children and young adults who are in and out of hospital with severe illnesses the chance to experience a wish of a lifetime.

We would like to thank everyone who donated, brough raffle prizes and sponsored the day. With your help we have managed to donate a huge sum of £5870 to the Kent Wish Foundation. This donation has paid for Disneyland Paris tickets for a family whose child has White Sutton Syndrome and is constantly in and out of hospital with daily seizures

Thank you to all who has made this possible

C A Drillers is always on the lookout for ways to make a positive impact and today we’ve made another stride in our journey towards sustainability.

By integrating electric vehicles into our fleet, we’re making strides in reducing our carbon footprint and embracing the benefits of clean, renewable energy. By switching to EVs, we reduce our carbon emissions, improve air quality, and make significant progress towards our environmental targets. Here’s to many more milestones to come in our sustainability journey!

CA Annual Charity Golf Day ⛳️

On Friday 9th June we hosted our annual charity golf day at the Boughton Golf Club.

It was a fantastic day, and we hope that everyone enjoyed themselves.

This year our chosen charities were Kent Wish Foundation, Mind Matters and We are with you. Money was raised from sponsoring the golf drink buggies, stake & holes and the raffle.

We would like to thank all of our sponsors,

NBC, CAHill Renewables and Work and wear, Capital Fleet, Erith, GB Farrar, CSK, A-Signs, Lipscomb Canterbury, Plaspipes, Kent Climate Solutions, Bauvil, Practical Hire and ISG.

We would also like to thank everyone who donated a raffle prize,

AAK Auto Services, Boughton Golf Club, Hilti, Practical Hire, Autograph, Haywards Motors, Tyrolit, Fleetmaxx, Brokk, Bam, Erith and GB Farrar.

And a massive thank you to everyone who brought raffle tickets. There was some amazing prizes this year.

This year we managed to raise £7490 this is a huge achievement and thank you to everyone involved.

Our golf winners this year were NBC

The wooden spoon award went to our very own Sam Gellatly from CA Drillers.

We are already excited for the next charity golf day in 2024.

CA Charity Golf Day 2022

On the 17th June 2022 we hosted our first charity golf day at Boughton golf course which was a huge success.

It was a fantastic day with great company, a well-established golf course and most importantly a lot of money was raised for our two chosen charities. In total we raised £2515.00 this was raised through our raffle and sponsors on the day. We would like to thank everyone who contributed to the raffle by donating and purchasing tickets and a thank you to those who sponsored the day.

The total raised will be donated to our two chosen charities Demelza House and Pilgrims Hospice. We are excited to host our next Charity golf day in 2023.

We have added 2 new low-emission vehicles to our fleet at C A Drillers & CA Telecom. Where possible we are adding newer more energy-efficient vehicles to our expanding fleet. The new range is very modern looking inside, with lots of new additions. This will make the journey a lot more comfortable and smooth for our drillers.

This year CA Drillers are developing their social media pages, this will be done across both Facebook and LinkedIn. So far we have rolled out a ‘photo of the month’ scheme to all of our operatives, enabling us to source a variety of photos from different perspectives and jobs we are working on. Here is January:

This is a photo snapped whilst working on a Silvertown Tunnel project, during this 300mm deep trenches were created using the floor saw by one of our experienced operatives.

This particular floor sawing project has seen over 2,500 meters cut so far with the project still ongoing!

We are delighted to announce that CA Drillers have moved to new premises. After nearly 40 years of trading we have finally outgrown our old offices and workshops. Our new home is over 16,000 square foot and will enable the company to expand and safeguard the futures of our 100+ employees.

Over the years the number of employees has grown along with the business and this is expected to increase with the new and exciting projects that we have planned including our newly established company, CA Fire Protection Ltd.

We have always known that the time would come where we would need to upsize and grow in to a bigger office/workshop but we wanted to ensure we found the right location and office space to expand into. Our new business unit has plenty of room in terms of office space, workshop area and parking. We picked the location based on the accessibility to the main routes to London, Kent and other main motorways whilst ensuring it was suitable for all employees. The new facility is large enough to accommodate parking for all employees as well as our fleet of vans.

The whole team has been involved to ensure the transition runs as smooth as possible while continuing to carry out ongoing projects.

This is a huge milestone for us all within the company and there are already new projects in the pipeline that we are excited to get stuck in to.

We look forward to welcoming new and existing clients to the new premises.

The team have been busy in New Romney.

They use the Track saw and Brokk to create an opening into a heavily reinforced existing bank fold wall.

Specialist plunge wire sawing on a project in Central London. CA Drillers are undertaking several drainage runs up to 2m deep reinforced concrete. Speed is of the essence so we opted for this option over stitch drilling

We have added 3 new low emission vehicles to our fleet at C A Drillers. This consists of 2 new Renault Trafic vans and a Renault mini bus. Where possible we are adding newer more energy efficient vehicles to our expanding fleet.

The new vans are more environmentally friendly due to less fuel consumption and low CO2 emissions which is helped by the vans integrated stop and start technology. Adblue is used which helps to cut down on emissions which overall reduces pollution.

All of our vans are fitted with trackers to help keep track of the speed and location. This enables us to look at different routes while ensuring our operatives are driving economically. We are constantly looking for new ways in lowering our CO2 emissions by purchasing newer vehicles where possible.

The new range is very modern looking inside, with lots of new additions. This will make the journey a lot more comfortable and smooth for our drillers.

Further to our current and ongoing work on the south west highways our fleet of 40 vehicles are now being updated to be compliant with all highway maintenance specifications of retro-reflective microprismatic material and necessary beacons and strobes.

This is part of our on going commitment to our ever changing customer requirements.

CA Drillers are proud to be working on our 2nd job in France – this time working in Paris!! This is exciting news for CA Drillers expanding into Europe! We have been requested by our client to remove an existing reinforced concrete staircase which spans over 4 floors along with the landing areas on each floor. Additional to this main scope of works we are diamond cutting and breaking out to form new doorways and carrying soft strip throughout existing office areas. Due to the narrow landing areas we were unable to utilise our Brokk for this works. Instead we fabricated our Pentruder track to enable it to be set up on the staircase itself and then flush cut to the existing wall. We then incorporated diamond drilling, hydraulic bursting and breaking to remove the cut sections.

The area of works was propped with scaffolding to protect the area below and create a safe working environment. All debris being removed to skips via a rubble shoot through the middle of the staircase for maximum efficiency. We have already priced a 2nd phase and are confident that the success with the 1st phase will help with securing future works across the channel!!

C A Drillers entered this year’s Diamond Award’s competition (www.diamondaward.org) which was being held at the IACDS Networking Event in Bauma, Munich, Germany. We were delighted to be invited to enter by our suppliers, Pentruder UK!

We were asked to create a case study on a recent project we had worked on. There was no better project to choose than the work we have carried at London City Airport on behalf of Bam Nuttall UK.

Here is the link to our Case Study if you are intrigued!

We were not lucky enough to come away with first prize but are extremely proud that we received an award for being shortlisted within the category. The competition was opened to companies world wide.

Competitors be aware, we will be bigger and better next year!

We were honoured to work with the Grenfell charitable builds this month.

As part of the work carried out we will be featured on two programmes scheduled for broadcast on BBC 1

Please see our link below to the BBC trailer ahead of the broadcast.

We are proud to be part of the legacy for the Grenfell community

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/gG4wf5cl0TC26VzMJmlNL4/diy-sos-announces-build-for-the-grenfell-community

DIY SOS: Grenfell next week tells the emotional story of the building of a new home for the Dale Youth Boxing Club. pic.twitter.com/g3oCizX8vM

— BBC One (@BBCOne) August 28, 2018

We are delighted to be carrying out some wire sawing for the footing alterations as part of the works being carried at Boughton Golf Club. This is part of the build of a Hotel within its grounds. The project is nice and local to our head office!

The CA Drillers operatives working on Chelsea Barracks have been awarded the “Gang of the week” safety award for the excellent work they’re doing for us on site.

Michael Uragallo
Construction Manager
Mace Limited,
Chelsea Barracks

We have recently hit £1.5m on the ongoing job at 10 Trinity Square. This project has been made up of converting the huge grade two listed building which is one of London’s famous landmarks into luxurious apartments, Hotel and Club. The job is slowly coming to an end now and is expected to be fully complete by May 2017. We are extremely proud to be part of such a huge contract in London and lucky to have witnessed such an exclusive project from start to finish.

This week we have started a new phase of works at Chelsea Barracks for Mace. We have worked on the project for around 4 months now but this week we have been able to start the required works which involve the use of one of our BROKKs! Let the demolition work commence with this beast! The BROKK 100 can most definitely stand up to the job.

We have just purchased another new van, first of 2017! Let’s hope this is the start of a another great year. We have decided to go for an Iveco this time, seems a good choice so far.