Marketplace Case Studies and Articles

 

 

  • Construction Products Innovation and Achievement publication.
  • Groundwork is a federation of Trusts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, each working with local partners to re-connect people with their surroundings by working to regenerate neglected and derelict land and transforming these
  • Bardon Aggregates has successfully worked in partnership with Birse Civils Ltd on three prestigious sea defence contracts in the North West. Steve McClure, Special Products Manager, Northern Region,
  • Nottingham East Midlands Airport (NEMA) has grown in the past five years from a large provincial airport to a major passenger and freight terminal serving a wide community in the East Midlands.
  • At the 2004 Civic Trust Awards, Bill Dunster Architects received the Sustainability Award, sponsored by Aggregate Industries, for the stunning and innovative development in Surrey known as BedZed
  • The Highways Agency (HA) - the body responsible for maintaining the motorways and trunk roads in England and Wales - has over the past three years been reviewing its contractor management.
  • A student at Nottingham University undertook a detailed appraisal of the contribution to sustainable housing by the volume house builders as a part of his dissertation in summer of 2004.
  • Last year we reported that Masterblock had achieved certification of their EnviroBlock range through the Building Research Establishment (BRE) scheme of environmental profiling. In March 2004 the product was launched.
  • The "Green Building" phenomenon in the US is gathering pace both the type and the number of projects applying its principles. This is a major area of market growth for Aggregate Industries and
  • In 2004, satellite tracking was installed into a core fleet of 30 tipping trucks within our Derbyshire operations. When setting up this initiative we had to consider the following drivers and can report a number of specific benefits.