INTRODUCTION

NEWS
NEW CONTRACTS
 ALL HALLOWS SCHOOL
New extension to school for
Inseen
 DALSTON LANE
Premier Inn for Anglo Holt
 DEEPCUT
New Care home for
Healthcare Development
Services
 LIGHTWATER
New Care home for
Lawrence Baker
 MARKYATE
Groundworks for 73 houses
for Weston Homes
 BARNET
Bulk earthworks for
Countryside Properties
 MILLBROOK PARK
Site-wide earthworks for
Inglis Consortium
 RAF UXBRIDGE
Infrastructure, roads, sewers
and 278 works for Prosurv
 RUGBY
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INTRODUCTION
From a company and personal point of view it was a great
summer. The first phase at Cody Park was completed in July and
Redfield’s Phase 1 was successfully handed over this month. Further
progress has been made on our Main Contracting aspirations with the
award of infrastructure roads and sewers at RAF Uxbridge and two
bulk earthworks contracts for Countryside and the Inglis Consortium at Barnet. The Estimating
Department is busy working on further main contracting schemes and hopes to secure more work shortly.
Our traditional core groundwork has continued to grow and deliver quality work on time and safely,
winning repeat work with our existing clients as well as some new ones. Continued success has
allowed us to employ 8 new members of staff to further commit to our 3 year expansion business plan
and to invest heavily in new plant and equipment as set out in our plant page at the back. In the next
quarter we are looking to further recruit and purchase more plant.
I would like to personally thank Gwyn McGrath and the site teams for helping us attain the OHSAS 18001
standard, which again shows Natta’s commitment to the highest safety standards.
Going forward we are planning to launch a specialist basements division utilising our current proven
track record, expertise and design capability to tap into the London market for retro fit basements for
existing buildings. We are currently talking to a number of potential clients.
Earlier this month a team from Natta took part in Weston Homes Charity Golf Day in aid of St Clare
Hospice. They beat their last years target and raised a staggering £51,000. We would like to congratulate
Bob Weston and his team on their success and thank them for such an enjoyable day. You can see
details of the cheque presentations from our own Golf Day below. I also want to say a personal
congratulation to my wife Joanne who recently completed the Great North
Run in memory of her Dad Peter Dawe. She raised over £1,000 for
Alzheimer’s Society which is a great achievement.
It is important as a team that we keep the positive summer momentum
moving forward into the traditionally more challenging autumn and winter
period. Keep up the good work and be safe.
John Whelan—Managing Director
New care home for
Healthcare Development
Services
NATTA GROUP 2013
CHARITY GOLF DAY
The Natta Group Charity Golf
Day on Wednesday 29th May
2013, at the Sherfield Oaks Golf
Club in Sherfield on Loddon was
again a resounding success.
We raised an amazing £11,250
and recently presented cheques
to our two nominated charities;
BRIGHTWELLS
GOSTREY CENTRE
The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity, registered
no. 1095197, for the Centre for Children and
Young People at the Royal Marsden Hospital in
Sutton and the Brightwells Gostrey Centre for
the elderly, registered no.1053876, based in
Farnham for £4,500 and £6,750 respectively.
We wish to extend our thanks
to everyone who took part.
A special mention goes to
John Murphy and Sue
Lipyeat for all their hard work
on organising and
coordinating the day.
Again we were delighted by the outstanding
generosity of all the players and our thanks go
to all our clients and suppliers for their donations,
without who, the day would not be a success.
John J Whelan - Chairman
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STAFF NEWS
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New Personnel
Over the last quarter Natta has
employed several new members of
staff:Martin Comley
Nick GrahamGraham-Brown
Martin Comley our new Plant
Manager joined us back in August.
For the past 42 years he has worked
at Comley Demolition. Living in
Hindhead with his wife, his hobbies
include raising 7 pedigree Hereford
Cattle and restoring old tractors.
He said, “So far I am really enjoying
my time at Natta. It is a refreshing
change to be learning new skills and
dealing with different people.”
Nick Graham-Brown joined Natta as
our new Marketing Manager back in May.
His role includes the management of
Natta’s and CISTC’s social media channels,
Search Engine Optimisation and general
actioning of Marketing efforts. He has
previous experience in Hospitality
Management, eCommerce, SEO and PPC
management. His interests include
Photography, Skiing, Cinema and Reading.
Tim Hayward
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Tim Hayward joined Natta as
an Assistant Buyer to James back
in May of this year. He has
worked in the industry for 24
years mostly in merchants, more
recently Burdens. Tim quipped,
“My role is to save money when I
can on all purchases from
suppliers. I like a round of golf
when I can although with three
little ones I don’t get much time.”
Charley Smith joined our
training division, CISTC, back in
June. Her role is Sales and
Administration, including helping
to grow the business, bookings
and invoicing. In her spare time
Charley is a keen baker running
her own home cake and cupcake
business in Basingstoke!
….Hopefully Natta might have our
own ‘Great British Bake Off’
champion soon!
Charley Smith
We also welcome Max Hughes
who has joined our Plant
Department as a trainee Plant
Mechanic and Fitter. His
previous experience includes
marine engineering. Living in
Hailing Island his hobbies include
sailing, watersports and biking.
Graduate Recruitment
Max Hughes
Continuing our Graduate recruitment drive we
have recently appointed the following Graduates
Simon King
Simon King joined us 3 months ago as a
Graduate Quantity Surveyor in the Surveying
Department. Last year, he previously worked
for Natta for three months as part of his
summer placement. Now graduated from the
University of Portsmouth he is back with us.
He plays the odd tennis tournament and match
at the weekends and looks forward to working
with you all in the future.
Curtis Jones started as a Graduate
Engineer in August. He has been
based at Millbrook Park, Barnet for
the last 7 weeks. He studied Civil
Engineering at Brighton University,
graduating in June 2012 with a 1st class
Degree. He enjoys skiing, football and
travelling with his girlfriend. He said,
“Since starting at Natta I have found
each day to be different and exciting,
and have learnt something new every
day.“
Curtis Jones
Alberto Gomez
Alberto Gomez also joined us in August as a
Graduate Site Engineer. After completing his
BA in Civil Engineering in Spain in 2010 he
came to England in 2011. With the dedicated
support of his wife he did an MA in Health &
Safety in Madrid Open University and
completed it in 2012. He is finally delighted to
be doing his dream job and says, “Now I would
like to progress and develop in Natta so I try to do
my best every day and learn from my Project
Manager, Tony Cheek, my mentor, Jack Taylor,
and every professional on the site. “
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HEALTH & SAFETY NEWS NATTA LEADING
OHSAS 18001 ACCREDITATION THE WAY!
Following our successful audit on 6th and 7th of September I am pleased to
announce that we have achieved OHSAS 18001 accreditation for Occupational
Health and Safety (OHSAS). This important accolade is widely viewed as the world’s
most recognised occupational health and safety management systems standard
and is further testament to Natta’s continual improvement in our internal processes.
We have also successfully procured the SMAS Worksafe
Contractor Accreditation. With the formation of SSIP
some of our clients now simply require its suppliers to hold
a certificate issued by SSIP rather than looking for
specific schemes. This will avoid the need for us to
register under a number of different schemes, saving us
time and money.
Finally, well done to Henry Carter who was presented with a
£25 voucher award by Kevin Frost (NGB ESH Manager) at our
AWE Aldermaston site. Recognition was shown to Henry for
the quality of his AOR submissions and recognising good
practice as well as bad. Good job!
Henry Carter & Keith Frost (NGB)
Gwyn McGrath - SHEQ Manager
STAFF NEWS
CONGRATULATIONS
Well done to Phil & Georgie Giles for the
birth of their beautiful new daughter Phoebe
Kate Giles born Friday 16th August at
9.01pm, 7Lb 14oz. A sister for Megan.
John Whelan & Joe Correale
Also congratulations to Gavin Moger who
got engaged to his girlfriend Sarah on 27th
August. He said “After an initial shock she
happily said yes. We decided not to wait and
are planning to get married in January ‘14.”
We also want to congratulate Tim Bevis who has
passed his Level 2 and Level 3 Diploma in Plant
Mechanics and is now a fully qualified plant fitter
and Danny Chandler who from hundreds has
been selected to compete in the ISKA World Kick
boxing championship in Cyprus in October this
year. Well done both of you!
MISSING YOU ALREADY
We said a fond farewell to our Plant Manager Joe Correale who retired back in
May. Joe had been associated with Natta for over 20 years and we wish to thank
him for all his hard work and also for his personal help to the Whelan family. The
plant department gave him an engraved pewter wine
goblet. Other goodies included vouchers for his favourite
Yllka
hotel in Cornwall and some Mercedes accessories.
One of our Senior Quantity Surveyors Yllka Uruci also left us
in August. There was an office collection and she was
presented with a bracelet and a watch. We wish her well.
John O’Donnell & John Whelan
After 30+ years of loyal service John O’Donnell retired back
in July. Natta presented John with a watch and the boys on
site had a whip round and bought him 2 tickets for the 3 day
event at Newbury Race course (The Hennessy Cup).
PLANT NEWS
During the last quarter we have purchased a Luigong 936 (37t) Excavator and a Luigong 925 (27t) Excavator plus
3 Terex TA25 Dump Trucks shown here. All are currently working flat out at Barnet.
We are also investing in our van fleet and recently purchased 12 new Citroen Belingo Vans model HDI75 manual
L1625 Enterprise. They are currently awaiting new signage and then they will be rolled out to site. We have also
bought 2 new DX60 Bobcats (6t) machines. Other purchases include, 2 new state of the art GS08 Smart Rovers
using GPS for land surveys. These are currently at Barnet being utilised for surveying and setting up stations. A
new TS12 Robotic EDM and 2 Probst Slab lifters for manual handling( no power or batteries needed), 2 Block
Grabs for block paving and kerbing, Peri formwork and RMD falsework system and a new drainage CCTV camera.
CSCS HEALTH & SAFETY TEST
Martin Boyling – Refresher, Henry Carter - Refresher
Nick Graham-Brown, Steven Morley, Curtin Jones – MAP,
Douglas Flashman – MAP, Karl Shepherd, Huw Rees – MAP,
Angel Garcia Dominguez – MAP, Andy Cameron, Ken
Mulholland, James Barham, Keith Inskip, Kevin Barrington,
Matt Garside, Rezart Islami, Simon Bessant, Sandy Moir,
Yulian Ivanov, Stephen Millar – MAP, Grahame Wilfort, Dave
Naylor
CPCS
Steve Drake – Slinger Signaller, Albert Mina – Slinger Signaller,
Charanjeet Singh – Forward Tipping Dumper
SMSTS
Nishil Patani, Callum Baines, Jack Taylor
FIRST AID AT WORK
Confined Space
Ben Gamroth – Refresher, Paul Garland – Refresher,
Stewart Collins – Refresher, Carole Gamroth – 1 Day, Kevin
Matthews – Refresher, David Hughes – 1 Day,
Izet Osmani, Eamon Hunt, Noel Hart, Jamie Cracknell, Steve
Drake, Nick Taylor, Martin Boyling, Xhavit Dauti
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