Sunderland City Council is committed to working with contractors who share a commitment to delivering social value through their work.
We have partnered with VolkerStevin to deliver a number of construction schemes, including the build of a high-level pedestrian and cycle bridge crossing the Wear to improve connectivity between the city centre and the Stadium of Light.
To date they have supported 6 apprentices, providing them with invaluable on-site experience to support their studies and develop #SkillsForLife
We visited the site of the new Wear Footbridge development to speak with VolkerStevin apprentices Adam Tattersall and Amelia McVay, as well as Project Director, Mark Denham, about the important part they’re playing in connecting people to key parts of our beautiful city.
VolkerStevin is always on the lookout for degree apprentices on projects across the country. Express an interest by sending your CV to recruitment@volkerstevin.co.uk
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So my name is aelia and I started at vka 7 about a couple of months ago I’ve been doing um I’m an apprentice Qs and I’ve been doing it for about a year now um I absolutely love it um The Apprentice the apprenticeship scheme here is just
Amazing I think one of the most important skills for life that I’ve gained through this apprenticeship is confidence um I obviously came here I didn’t know anything about civil engineering but that was just that was something that they didn’t care about they just were supportive and they
Wanted to help us in whatever way the cach D currently working on um the we foot bridge and so there’s going to be a big bridge from just right here or that the just where the beam is so the Riverside idea will connect more people to the local area to local businesses
And just really open the Riverside up hi I’m Adam tasol and I’m a civil engineering degree Apprentice so just after 6 form I got a work experience R here at V Ste through that it allowed us to get a summer placement working as a 3D visualizer and after this foot bre
Has been put in with the residential housing on the North side and the work in Social areas on the south side is going to give a good connection of both both CES are life one of the key social impacts I think is low carbon having a foot Bridge connecting both sides of the
River we are allows for Less Car traffic and bus traffic my name is Mark Denham and I’m Project Director for vul Ste here on the new high level weer foot Bridge uh the construction of the foot bridge is kind of a key part of the Riverside master plan linking in the
South to the north it’s going to open up huge opportunities for jobs loads of development going on and it’s a real key link that we’re doing the foot bridge is 250 M long 10 m wide 30 m in the air so it’s a real iconic important piece of infrastructure we’re building here in
Sunland the Project’s going to bring great benefits when it’s built in terms of jobs skills and experience new places for people to live but it’s so important while we’re here we start making that difference as quick as we can ships is a great way to do that but also we’ve
Created 27 New local roles for people to work on the scheme we’ve got a key focus on local supply chain and it’s key we bring the benefits that the bridge is going to bring as soon as we can during the construction phase