It’s nearly that time of year and we need to take a well earned break for Christmas. We will therefore be closing at lunchtime on Friday 22nd December 2023 and will re-open at 8.30 Tuesday 2nd January 2024. That really means to receive a FULL desktop utility search back before Christmas close, you need to… Read More
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Is the current UK health and safety legislation fit for purpose?
The UK has undergone some major health and safety legislation changes in the last few decades to protect workers in the construction sector. The Construction Design and Management Regulations in 2015 and The Control of Asbestos Regulations in 2012 are just two of these. While these new regulations aim to protect construction workers, they also… Read More
Top 5 most expensive health & safety fines of 2022
In 2022, the top Health and Safety fine reached a whopping £5 million – exceeding 2021’s highest fine by £1 million. Many of the significant fines in the last year were due to fatal falls. Construction companies need to double-check their height risk measures this year and ensure their legislation knowledge is up to date…. Read More
Christmas Closing Times
Cornerstone Projects will be closed from midday on Friday 23rd December 2022 and will re-open at 8:30am on Tuesday 3rd January 2022 Most of the utility companies are closed during this period so it makes sense for us to have some downtime during this period. You can still submit your enquiries through the website during… Read More
Minor Price Adjustments – Effective 01 June 2022
We are making some minor adjustments to our pricing. Unfortunately, like all businesses, we have seen a considerable increase in costs from our supply chains. Moreover, we have made substantial pay increases to all staff due to the recent and ongoing rises in the cost of living. As our staff are by far our most… Read More
UK construction events (hopefully) happening in 2022
Attending any of these upcoming construction events across the UK? As a part of the UK construction industry, attending events up and down country is always a great experience. Getting first looks at new and innovative tech and software is exciting, and there are plenty of networking opportunities. At the beginning of each year we… Read More
2021 Christmas Opening Times
Cornerstone Projects will be closed from midday on Christmas Eve (24th December 2021) and will re-open at 8.30am on Tuesday 4th January 2022. Most of the utility companies are closed during this period so it makes sense for us to have some downtime during this period. You can still submit your enquiries through the website… Read More
2020 – well, it was different!
As 2020 comes to an end I thought I’d share some of the problems and solutions that we’ve come across as a small business due to the Covid crisis. 2020 started well and we were receiving increasing numbers of orders – everything was well with the world except some murmurs in the news regarding a… Read More
ISO 9001:2015 2020 surveillance audit success
Last week, we had our annual surveillance audit for ISO 9001. Although we gained a 3 Year accreditation in early September 2018, this is subject to an annual assessment. The assessment is to ensure we are still using the Quality Management System that we worked hard to put in place and are making the necessary… Read More
Coronavirus – We are as prepared as we can be
We are closely monitoring the Coronavirus (Covid-19) situation and are following the advice issued by the Government and Public Health England. In order to effectively manage any impact to our staff or to you as a customer, we have already put in place measures to enable staff to work remotely if required. We are therefore… Read More
ISO 9001:2015 surveillance audit success
This week, we had our annual surveillance audit for ISO 9001. Although we gained a 3 Year accreditation in early September last year, this is subject to an annual assessment. The assessment is to ensure we are still using the Quality Management System that we worked hard to put in place and are making the… Read More
Smaller means more agile, more passion and for REAL!
I’ve said in previous blogs and articles that my career has always been in bigger businesses. Don’t get me wrong, I was at the forefront of technology, worked with some extremely bright and capable people. But, looking back, I lacked the passion and drive I have now working for a small and growing business. Strangely,… Read More
Cornerstone now on a mission with a vision & values
At the back-end of last year, my boss, Duncan (the creator and owner of the business) embarked on a leadership course. Aptly named “Growth Catalyst”, the course is a leadership development program for small businesses in Merseyside with 2-250 employees. It is developed by experts in the field of leadership and management and the program… Read More
GDPR & marketing to prospects
You will, no doubt, of heard of the new General Data Protection Regulations that came into effect on the 25/05/18. GDPR is a European directive with the specific intention to protect individuals against the misuse of their personal data. There has been a lot of confusion about whether this effects business to business communications and… Read More
Continuing success for cornerstone
Cornerstone Projects registered its 2000th customer during May 2017. Now in their 13th year, they are pleased to have reached this milestone so quickly. The last 6 months has also seen the fastest growth in both new customers registering and orders placed for utility searches and additional services such as CAD drawing, Section 50’s, Capacity… Read More
Cornerstone completes it’s 40,000th utility search
During September 2017, Cornerstone Projects Ltd saw it’s 40,000th underground utility search go through its books. Over the 13 years or so in business, this means the Cornerstone Projects team have ordered and checked over a 1/3 of a million individual plans from the utility companies. And this doesn’t take into account that a lot… Read More
Exciting developments to our utility search proposition coming soon…
We’re making some more utility search options available following some great feedback from our customers. These are exciting new developments that will offer some great benefits as follows:- Instant access plans Ever been in desperate need to see individual utility plans as they come in before your pack is complete? You will soon have the… Read More
Underground utility search expert, Cornerstone Projects, appointed to provide Scottish Water plans
The UK’s leading underground utility search provider, Cornerstone Projects, has been appointed by Scottish Water as an approved supplier on their commercial plant enquiries. It’s an exciting move for the nationwide company, which has been providing professional services to the UK construction industry for over 13 years. Now, appointed to provide Scottish Water plans to… Read More