CALA Homes Press Release

CALA Group Limited has won a top industry honour for its health and safety programme on its CALA Homes sites.

Edinburgh-based CALA Group, which operates award-winning, premium housebuilding companies in Scotland, Yorkshire, the Midlands and the South East of England, won the award for Best Housebuilder’s Safety Programme at the  Construction Health And Safety Awards 2008.

CALA Group took the top prize for its Above and Beyond Campaign, a series of initiatives developed by the company’s Health and Safety managers, which goes above and beyond minimum legal requirements on site, aiming to reduce accidents and make for a more healthy and safe working environment .

Examples of CALA Group’s initiatives included: providing internal temporary access stairs and external scaffold staircases which remove the need for ladders; installing cameras on forklifts, improving rear vision for drivers; better hygiene on site by making available a worker protection system made up of barrier creams, hand wash creams and sun blocks; and reduced working at height by building roofs on the ground and then lifting into position by crane.

This is the first time which CALA Group has won the top award.

Alan Downie, CALA Group Managing Director and Main Board Director responsible for Health and Safety says:  “I am delighted that our focus on Health and Safety initiatives has been externally recognised.  Praise is due not just to our Health and Safety managers who devised and implemented the scheme, but to all our workforce and sub contractors who have conscientiously taken part.”

CALA Group Limited is one of the UK’s leading privately-owned residential and commercial property developers.  In addition to CALA Properties, the commercial property business, and CALA Finance, its residential development funding arm, it operates six CALA Homes subsidiaries in the North, East and West of Scotland, in Yorkshire, the Midlands and in the South East of England. CALA Homes is presently building a range of apartments and houses, at prices from £100,000 to £1+ million, at more than 30 developments across the UK.