The Geographic Information System (GIS) team at Tarmac won the Esri UK Customer Success Award for Excellence in Analytical Insights, at the Esri UK Annual Conference earlier this month. The award recognised their innovative use of the ArcGIS application. The ArcGIS app – a web-based mapping platform created by Esri – was originally used by Tarmac’s Land and Natural Resources department to make digital data, such as site locations and Land Registry information, available to share online for business use. When Tarmac’s cement and lime geology team looked for easier …
Tarmac steps up to renovate and improve access at local Mountsorrel memorial
The team at Tarmac’s Mountsorrel Quarry have supported the refurbishment of a local war memorial and the steps up to it.
Harnessing nature’s power: collaborative effort explores algae for lower-carbon road construction
A research partnership led by carbon removal company CO2CO Ltd aims to revolutionise road construction with a novel, lower-carbon approach to producing bitumen from algae. If successfully scaled up, this pioneering innovation could further enhance the sustainability of road construction.
Tarmac gifts important nature reserve to local wildlife trust
Tarmac has gifted Oare Marshes, an internationally important nature reserve in Faversham, to Kent Wildlife Trust.
Tarmac offers AI-enhanced concrete sensors to boost sustainable construction
Tarmac, a CRH company and the UK’s leading sustainable construction materials provider, is offering its customers access to advanced AI-enhanced digital sensors that can help to optimise concrete mixes, lower carbon emissions and reduce on-site construction time.
Residents praise huge improvement as the new Willenhall Greenway route nears completion
Residents have praised the newly improved walking and cycle route, which is part of Walsall Council’s 10-year plan to improve Willenhall.
AIA annual survey reveals impact of pressures on local roads in England and Wales
An independent survey by the Asphalt Industry Alliance (AIA) – a partnership between the Mineral Products Association and Eurobitume UK – has estimated that a record high of £16.3 billion would be needed to address the backlog of local highways repairs across England and Wales.
The age of alliance
There was a time in the UK infrastructure sector when work on many projects was transactional. As a materials provider bidding for contracts, it went something like this: you spent time working hard to respond to a tier one contractor’s bid. You hoped your recommendations would make it into their tender. Your opportunity to engage with the client was minimal at best.
Tarmac supports Lutterworth Athletic FC redevelopment
Tarmac recently supported local grassroots football club Lutterworth Athletic with a major development of their grounds and facilities.
History repeats itself after Tarmac donation funds new village hall
A donation of £140,000 from the Tarmac Landfill Communities Fund has helped to build a brand-new community hall in Nottinghamshire, one hundred years after the previous building was funded by a similar donation.