UK cement news

The Clear Assured Bronze Standard, from assessment body The Clear Company, is awarded to businesses that can demonstrate that inclusivity and diversity are reflected across all policies and processes.

The companies have joined forces to launch a new Health and Safety Awards scheme for 2021. The new awards build on the established MPA Health & Safety Awards and retain many of the key elements associated with it.

A project to develop a wellbeing garden for serving personnel at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, is taking shape with Tarmac support.

The company is celebrating 20 years of its wetland project with the RSPB, with the announcement that a further 80 ha. of restored land from Hanson’s Needingworth site in Cambridgeshire will be transferred to the Ouse Fen nature reserve.

The company won the award for delivering exceptional resurfacing works at the Silverstone Circuit. The winning team was made up of 75 Tarmac employees from across the business.

The company is providing over 40 000 t of a spray concrete for the construction of the Thames Tideway Tunnel, the biggest infrastructure project undertaken by the UK water industry.

The World Cement Association has launched the Gender Focus Network, an initiative aiming to improve the representation of women within the global cement community.

The new policy outlines the steps that GCCA members commit to taking to work towards the achievement of Net Positive Impact in cement, concrete and aggregates operations.

The contract with Eco-Power Environmental will increase Tarmac’s use of sustainable fuels, significantly reducing its carbon footprint and reliance on fossil fuels.

Following the release of data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showing an acceleration in construction output growth in November, Moustafa Ali, Economist at GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company, offers his view on the outlook for the UK construction industry.