Switch your gritting and winter maintenance to Ground Control to monitor and manage your carbon. Our carbon dashboards will report on all our winter gritting and snow clearance services, making it easy to measure your carbon footprint, assess your scope three and GHG emissions, and take action. Speak to us ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eS-NvCsp #gritting #carbonsavings #nationwide #localteams #NetZero
Ground Control
Environmental Services
Billericay, Essex 18,449 followers
Award-winning external maintenance provider. National coverage all year round!
About us
Ground Control is a leading external maintenance business and biodiversity expert committed to enhancing and improving the physical environment. We have a strong commitment to sustainability, using technology and data to nurture natural environments and enable our customers to deliver on their environmental promises. We offer award-winning services including, Grounds Maintenance, Winter Gritting, Landscape Construction, Design, Arboriculture, Electric Vehicle charge point installation and much more to over 50,000 commercial properties across the UK. Ground Control’s vision is to leave the world in a better place than we found it. We are on a mission to realise the potential of human nature by bringing together people, places and the planet, which is Human Nature: At Its Best.
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http://www.ground-control.co.uk
External link for Ground Control
- Industry
- Environmental Services
- Company size
- 5,001-10,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Billericay, Essex
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1973
- Specialties
- Grounds Maintenance, Landscape Construction, Landscape Design, Fencing, Tree Surveys & Surgery, Gritting & Snow Clearance, Roofing, Window Cleaning, Vegetation Management, Pest Control, Invasive Weeds Management, and Ecology
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Kingfisher House
Radford Way
Billericay, Essex CM12 0EQ, GB
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Century Court
Lon Parcwr Business Park
Ruthin, LL15 1NJ, GB
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Mill of Towie
Lintmill
Cullen, Buckie AB56 4TA, GB
Employees at Ground Control
Updates
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Yesterday we expanded our Irish fleet with the addition of five new Ford Rangers as we continue to mobilise new contracts across Ireland. A fantastic sight outside our new Dublin headquarters in Swords yesterday! #Growth #GroundControl #Fleet #Ireland
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Can you believe the first day of meteorological autumn is just over a week away? With the winds picking up, do those car parks need a sweep? Whatever the weather, we've got it covered, with all season car park safety. ➡️https://lnkd.in/emCBHXNg #TreeWorks #Sweeping #AutumnMaintenance #TreeSurveys #PotholeRepairs #CivilWorks #Drainage #SUDS #EVCharging #WinterMaintenance
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Autumn works are getting underway as the wind picks up, and our latest piece of mechanised vegetation management kit is working its magic. Please, get in touch if you require tree works or any vegetation management, this autumn. We have the kit for it ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eNbsV3kV #TreeWorks #VegetationManagement #Arboriculture #Infrastructure #GCMech
#BabyBlue is out on her first job for Ground Control's Mechanised Division, #GCMech. We are removing leaf-fall species before autumn hits, as the leaves on the track can cause traction issues for the trains. This is one of the major lines through Nottingham and it is vital to keep this line open for the thousands of commuters who rely on it daily. These works will also provide greater visibility for both train drivers and line-side workers, to improve safety. We are working in support of 18 hand cutters, who are clearing track-side vegetation at night under possessions. Our #RRV division is then forwarding the material to the access point, where one of our teams stacks the material at night, ready for our dayshift team to chip the material into walking floors, before it's taken away for biomass. #SafetyFirst #ProtectingBritainsInfrastructure Ground Control Craig Sanders Louis Koroma Josh Airey Michael Dakers Alec Pearson
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Edible Science: Kew’s Kitchen Garden at Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew As a key visitor and educational attraction, our work revamped the garden to meet the day-to-day use by visitors and school groups, focused events including weekly horticulture and science tours, and Kew’s very own produce sales. Explore the works from our landscape construction specialists which include the installation of a timber pergola to keep tour groups dry, to new footpaths to increase accessibility. Edible Science: Kew’s Kitchen Garden ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/dEE7P6gf
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Ground Control reposted this
Serial entrepreneur Simon Morrish analyses the performance of one of his businesses - Ground Control - and while there is much to be proud of, he also sees room for improvement. "The financial year for 2023 to 2024 was the first in 20 years in which we did not record consecutive annual profit growth, a reflection of both the external environment but also growing pains that we didn’t fully anticipate," he writes in today's The Times. #entrepreneurs #scaleups #leadership #planning
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In his latest blog, Darren Daley briefly reflects on changes at Ground Control to tackle modern slavery in our industry. As Grounds Maintenance and Client Services Director, Darren has been part of our Modern Slavery Working Group and key to our work with Unseen UK. Read Darren's latest blog, and find out more ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eqMpRSXR
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Winter is coming. Enjoy the rest of the holiday season with the peace of mind that your winter maintenance and safety plans are covered and you won't waste money if the weather isn't predictable. Find out how you can forecast savings with a pay-per-visit winter contract ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eieP5Fpd #Gritting #PayPerVisit #WinterMaintenance #SaltSupplies #WeatherAware #Nationwide #FaciliitesManagement #WinterIsComing
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The GC fleet of excavators keeps on evolving! We have plant machinery for just about any vegetation project within the UK infrastructure, utility, and inland water sectors. Meet some of the fleet, and speak to the team ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eYDcnjmK #VegetationManagement #Drainage #Ditching #Desilting #Sweeping Another great video from Andrew Sullivan. Thanks Andrew
And just like, the family was complete! Introducing the newest member to the #GCMech tribe, #BabyBlue This is our brand new, custom 8.5 ton split-boom #Kobelco excavator. The four-stroke, liquid-cooled, direct injection diesel, turbo charged engine complies with EU Stage V exhaust emission regulations whilst also giving her plenty of power at the tracks! The full-size cab ensures operators remain comfortable, with extra leg room, ice-cold air conditioning (for the 5 days of annual summer that we get!) and furnace-hot heating for the 360 days of winter! She has been fitted with: - #Splitboom for greater reach - Customised cab guarding by Guard Engineering Ltd • Laser cut Ground Control logos on the body protection panels • X-watch height & slew restrictor • 1350kg counter weight for increased stability • 270° camera systems •Full #ROPS & #FOPS protection systems •Rubber track-pads for highways work • Fully removable rail-spec communications systems • Additonal work lights to ensure the machines can work safely at any time of the day or night! • Fully bio-oil compatible to increase environmental protection! This is the perfect addition to the growing fleet, providing us with a machine that can operate in areas with tighter access or where a lighter footprint is required! She comes fully equipped with a WESTTECH Maschinenbau GmbH #Woodcracker250 shear, a rotating grab, a cone splitter, a mulcher and a bucket for earthworks and reinstating. #BabyBlue was delivered at the perfect time by Civil Wise , as she's going straight into her first rail job on Monday for a week, before heading onto a huge highways job in Cambridge, where she is going to show exactly why she's small, but mighty! A massive thank you to Molson Group for supplying us with the machine and to Richard Court for customising her to the high specification that we required. If you would like to know any more about our fleet availability, or our capabilities please get in touch with Ground Control Craig Sanders Josh Airey Louis Koroma #BlueBeast #BlueBull #BabyBlue
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Some examples of schools embracing self-grown produce for #NationalAllotmentsWeek. Pinner Park Primary School, whom the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has recognised as #BeesNeedsChampions, added an allotment patch to their beautiful, biodiverse school grounds this year, which has been embraced by the pupils whom you can see here planting their vegetables with our volunteer digger for the day Richard Green Discover more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e7MkYnYb Likewise, pupils from South Green Infant and Nursey in Billericay, have also become eco-warriors, and experts in growing their fruit and vegetables, as they showed us at their new #biodiversity and edible garden recently, – the legacy of an award-winning Chelsea Flower Show exhibit, 'Diversity is Queen'. Discover more ➡️ https://lnkd.in/e6-3ttwg Two incredible schools, encouraging the next generation to nurture their natural environments for a better future. #NAW24 #Biodiversity #ForNature #Sustainability #HealthyLiving
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