Dec 20 in Company, Demolition
The former Perfume Factory in North Acton, London is progressing well. Within two weeks, we’ve completed the hard and soft-strip, including removing internal rooms, doors, electrics and asbestos from the ceilings and now this three storey factory is being demolished to the ground. All materials from the building are being segregated for recycling. We expect …
Dec 19 in Company
Everyone should be able to eat at Christmas and the Shorts team have helped towards achieving that. For the last three weeks, we’ve been collecting tinned food and Christmas consumables ready for donation to Bracknell Food Bank. Bracknell Food Bank, managed by the Trussell Trust, runs a network of over 400 foodbanks, giving emergency food …
Dec 15 in Company
The team from Shorts Head office in Bracknell, took part in Save the Children’s Christmas Jumper Day on Friday 15 December. The team donned their best Christmas jumpers, in exchange for donating £2 to Save the Children Charity which will help children have a better future all around the world. We raised over £85.00.
Dec 11 in Company, Plant and tool hire & shops
Shorts Plant and Tool Hire in Ascot sponsored a memorial football match at Bracknell Football Club by donating the use of our new portable toilets. Our toilets made their debut appearance on Friday 8 December serving over 400 guests at a football match in memory of Richard Shaw, a keen football player, who recently passed …
Dec 05 in Company, Demolition
The former Perfume Factory in North Acton, London is our latest demolition project on behalf of Imperial College London. This three storey, art deco factory will be demolished and turned into London’s biggest ever “build-to-rent” housing development. Shorts Demolition have moved in and completed a hard and soft strip- removing internal rooms, doors, electrics and …
Dec 04 in Company
Shorts Group welcomed an Assessor from CQS, to review our Management systems for Quality, Environmental and Health and Safety – also known as the ISO Accreditations. This accreditation is vital for a company in our industry and fortunately, we didn’t fall short. We exceeded all expectations and achieved the next level: ISO 9001:2015. A massive …
Nov 23 in Company, Waste management, Plant and tool hire & shops
After the successful role out of a paper-less system within our waste management division in April 2017, Shorts have now implemented a paper-less system within our Plant Hire division. Going paper-less is a huge milestone for Shorts Group. A company with an ethos for recycling and sustainable operations, using copious amounts of paper and ink …
Nov 21 in Company, Demolition
Shorts have started the demolition of a former care home in Maidenhead on behalf of Feltham construction. This 47-bedroom facility, sat in the middle of our housing estate involves a soft strip, asbestos removal and finally complete demolition works of this 90s style brick building. All this will be complete within the next six weeks. …
Nov 15 in Company, Waste management
Shorts Group has launched extra customer service support for its customers. This week, we’ve implemented ‘Live Chat’ on our website: shorts-group.co.uk Moving with the times, Shorts Group has launched ‘Instant Chat’ as an extra way of providing visitors instant access to the support and sales team. Visitors can get answers in seconds about our skips, …
Nov 15 in Company, Plant and tool hire & shops
Shorts Group is excited to announce they will soon be offering portable toilet hire and servicing. Shorts Plant and Tool Hire division have purchased 250 portable toilets all donning the well-known green and grey branding and more importantly, a carefully chosen style which allows for superior ventilation. This new service is the brainchild of Bryony …
Nov 08 in Company
Preparations are underway for Christmas Shutdown here at Shorts. We are working on implementing service provisions for our plant, trade waste and skip customers. Despite officially shutting down our offices on Friday 22 December at 5pm and re-opening on Tuesday 2 January at 7.30am we want to ensure we don’t give our customers operational problems …
Nov 03 in Company
Gary, Michelle and Bryony Short took to the skies last as special guests to the JCB Factory. Personally invited by host James Richardson, Managing Director of Greenshields JCB. The day started with a helicopter collection service from Shorts Agricultural premises- Planners Farm, direct to their factory in Staffordshire. The invitation was on the back of …
Oct 30 in Company
Shorts Group will once again be showing our support for members of the Armed Forces and Remembrance Day by donning poppies on our fleet of 60 vehicles. Throughout November, all of our vehicles, including dustcarts, skip vehicles and our demolition vans will all display the well-known red poppy on the front of their cabs. Every …
Oct 13 in Company, Plant and tool hire & shops
Shorts Plant and Tool hire have added two new VOLVO ECR88D Excavators to their fleet this week. These new 8 tonne excavators are now available for hire with top specifications, including: Fully automatic Geith quick hitch – this gives the user the ability to change the digging buckets at just the flick of a switch. …
Sep 29 in Company
The team at Shorts Head Office in Bracknell all took part in the the MacMillan Coffee morning. We raised £233.53 for McMillan cancer Support, who do fantastic work looking after patients with cancer. Mike Banham, General Manager and David Guest, Finance Director served up delicious treats to the team in exchange for donations.
Sep 13 in Company, Plant and tool hire & shops
Shorts Plant and Tool Hire in Milford recently supported local community event Chiddfest, by providing fence panels, free of charge. We are delighted to have received a lovely thank you letter from the organisers of the event. “This is a very belated thank you for all the support you gave to ensure the success of Chiddfest 2017 www.chiddfest.com …
Sep 12 in Company, Road sweeping, Waste management
Shorts Senior Management team attended this year’s RWM Exhibition in Birmingham today. With over 450 exhibitors from the Waste, Energy, Water, Renewables and Recycling industries, this is a must go-to annual show where we get the opportunity to speak to suppliers all under one roof and source the latest solutions for our businesses. The show …
Sep 11 in Company, Waste management
The team at Planners Workshops have been putting their skills to the test on an 11 year old grinding machine and the results are outstanding. Our Doppstadt AK430 horizontal Timber grinding machine from St Georges Transfer Station was nearing the end of its shelf-life until Dominik, Sam, Danny and Steve got to work on it. …
Aug 26 in Company, Plant and tool hire & shops
Preparations are underway in Egham, Berkshire as event organisers are preparing for the annual Egham Show this bank holiday weekend. On-hire for the week is our 12m telehandler which is proving an essential piece of equipment for event organiser Andrew Hall, Chairman of the Egham Show: “The Shorts JCB telehandler is a fantastic piece of …
Aug 14 in Company, Agriculture
Shorts Agricultural Services are delighted to be featured on this month’s PitchCare.com website. Journalist, Jane Carley visited our head office in Berkshire recently to talk to our Agricultural Manager, James Winfield to talk polo pitch maintenance, focusing on our partnership with our customer King Power. To read the full article, please click on the link: …
