Bricklaying students from Calderdale College had a lesson in ground preparation from Sirius staff today.  16 students made a site visit to Sirius’ Keighley Road site to understand the complexities of ground preparation prior to construction of Residential properties by client Redrow (Yorkshire).  Sirius Site Manager Nigel Johnson gave the site tour and talk along with Commercial Manager, John-Paul Bowden.  The talk was loosely based around site re-profiling, foundation types, and the Re-Engineering of fill materials beneath a former Railway Cutting.  The visit hoped to give students an insight into the various processes applied to a site before laying bricks and mortar.  Andy Jowett, Calderdale College Lecturer said ‘the visit has been invaluable, it is much easier to explain practices on-site as it happens than in the classroom’.  The College hope to arrange further visits to the Keighley Road site, as the development progresses.