Stanhope PLC

Building awareness in safety

Firedog were tasked with researching attitudes to safety on Bovis / Stanhope sites with a view to develop an awareness campaign around increasing the levels of safety. The ultimate result would be to reduce the numbers of injuries on site without resorting to shock tactics, which tend to disengage the audience. Focus groups and dip-stick research into current safety initiatives and attitudes was undertaken at various BLL/Stanhope sites. The approved strategy informed by the research results, was to produce 5 poster campaigns that were designed to be rotated across 5 sites every fortnight. The desired effect was to produce relevant message that updated frequently.

Here is some detail on two of the five campaigns:

HOLIDAYS CAMPAIGN – The Holidays campaign was designed to offer a negative and positive message in direct contrast with each other so that the audience could identify with both end results. The poster is split showing the same person either enjoying themselves on what is clearly a holiday activity or lying in a hospital immobilised and seriously injured.

DANGEROUS ANIMALS CAMPAIGN – This concept was based on the fact that most injuries on site are caused by workmen working with everyday construction tools. Our research indicated that these were the most common type of injury on site.

Five poster campaigns were designed and produced by Firedog. 35 unique posters across five different campaigns. The A1, A2 and A3 posters have been strategically placed across the sites to further reinforce the safety message that’s common to Bovis Lend Lease and Stanhope projects.

Working with communities in Croydon

The Croydon Gateway site is a massive tract of land bordering East Croydon Railway Station. Stanhope and partners, Schroders, own the land and have plans to develop the site. It was essential that the local community understood the benefits of how the Croydon Gateway could transform their lives and what benefits the Stanhope plans offer in terms of modernising the CBD of Croydon. We were required to effectively win the hearts and minds of the local community by re-designing the Croydon Gateway brand. Our objective was to make the brand feel more approachable and accessible.

Understanding how much impact this major development will have on the local Croydon community, Firedog developed a lifestyle brand that encompassed a ‘Live. Work. Play.’ proposition. We purposefully designed a brand that was about people and space. To demonstrate the benefits of the development we used a natural green palette with silhouettes to illustrate the various ways in which Croydon Gateway will be used as well as to reinforce the fact that much needed greenery will be introduced to the CBD of Croydon. The use of computer generated imagery adds a human element that people can relate to. The brand success allowed us to subsequently deliver creativity around press, sponsorship, outdoor advertising, direct mail, community relations and web. We were also been appointed to design and produce the hoarding across the entire site as well as designing an 80m long, 3m high site billboard which will was visible to all East Croydon commuters and has been one of the most eminently visible, high impact billboards in the South East.

Communicating sustainability for Unilever

We were tasked to create a brochure that communicates the project’s commitment to sustainability to the community. The brochure needed to ooze the combined commitment to recycling, sustainable and environmentally sensitive development practices. We designed an A4 landscape gate-fold brochure that offered bespoke photography of Unilever House in London. The brochure was printed on 100% recycled stock to further enforce the commitment to sustainable practices. The communication was designed to highlight what practices are enforced on site and which areas of the building have been recycled. It was imperative to communicate a corporate social responsibility message to the market. The publication was exceptionally received by both Unilever and Stanhope and it reflected greatly on the development – A beacon for sustainable development in the UK.