Contracting joint venture Costain and Jacobs, along with materials supplier Aggregate Industries, are working to reduce the environmental impact of upgrading a 14km section of the A30 in Cornwall through use of locally sourced waste material.
The project team working on National Highways’ A30 Chiverton to Carland Cross upgrade have developed…
Materials science and technology can only take us so far when it comes to recycling construction waste. to take it further, industry attitudes must change and standards must evolve.
Today, with the climate emergency, few would question why you would try to recycle and reuse construction waste. But 40 years ago…
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Introducing circular economies into construction projects has been discussed as a concept for a number of years but this episode of the podcast looks at some projects that have actually put it into action. Following some discussion on the main news…
Material passports could enable highway authorities, among others, to construct more for their money at a much reduced carbon count by facilitating use of “preloved” components.
Imagine you have a bridge to build on a tight budget. You visit a digital materials exchange to find a similar bridge that is scheduled…
Almost half of the world’s materials extracted from our planet every year are for the built environment. It makes for stark reading, especially when, compared to other sectors, the construction industry has made little progress to become resource efficient and the traditional “take, make, waste” approach remains the far easier…
Heavy industry must work together and adopt circular economy thinking in order to support the construction industry in the drive to carbon net zero, according to the sustainability boss at steel manufacturer ArcelorMittal.
“The challenge to decarbonise cannot be left to each industry to work in a silo,” said ArcelorMittal head…
Track from a disused railway line that was removed as part of the Wednesbury to Brierley Hill Metro extension has been given to the Severn Valley Railway by Transport for West Midlands and the Midland Metro Alliance.
More than 1.6km of track from the former South Staffordshire Railway has been removed…
Scottish infrastructure leaders have called for an end to construction’s “take-make-waste” culture.
Instead infrastructure projects in Scotland should now be built using less new materials and significantly more secondary and recycled materials, members of the Scottish Infrastructure Circular Economy Forum (SICEF) have said. The SICEF, convened by Aecom together with Scotland’s…
The latest episode of The Engineers Collective is out now. To listen click here. This month, NCE editor Claire Smith is joined by news editor Rob Horgan and features editor Nadine Buddoo to discuss the engineering industry’s latest moves. The team explores what happens next for High Speed 2, after…
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