To mark the start of Scottish Apprenticeship Week, Tarmac is offering two apprenticeships at its Dunbar cement plant in Scotland, with a further 10 apprenticeships also available across England.
Tarmac celebrates one-year milestone at industry-leading training facility
Tarmac is celebrating 12 months of success at its first-class training facility – the National Skills and Safety Park, one year on from its official opening by His Royal Highness The Duke of Cambridge.
Tarmac secures diversity and inclusion accolade
Tarmac, a leading building materials and construction solutions business, has achieved a globally-recognised accreditation for its commitment to inclusion and diversity in the workplace.
Tarmac Kier JV awarded TfL framework contract win
A 50-50 joint venture between Tarmac and Kier has secured a major contract for Transport for London (TfL) to deliver and support the construction, renewal, and enhancement of highways infrastructure across the capital, including the delivery of new schemes to boost walking and cycling.
Tarmac grant completes 10-year project to revamp Buxton community centre
A community project in Buxton has been completed thanks to a grant from Tarmac’s Landfill Communities Fund.
Powering through the crisis with smart, collaborative working
Collaborative working practices have allowed many highways schemes to continue throughout 2020. Although the housing industry has slowed significantly, road building and asphalt supply has remained strong throughout 2020. Careful adjustment to working practices and transport arrangements have minimised the risk of transmission, while allowing work to continue. Some local authorities have found that the smaller gang sizes associated with using innovative SMA type materials in place of alternatives like HRA and chips has made site logistics and Covid safe working practices easier. Tarmac asphalt plants have also adopted a …
Tarmac launch their online Guide to Pothole Repairs
To mark National Pothole Day on 15 January, Tarmac launched an online guide to pothole repairs. Timely intervention and choosing the right material can help prevent serious deterioration in the condition of a road and help extend its life. The online guide helps highways teams to choose from the range of repair materials on offer, from packed cold lay asphalts and longer lasting hotbox materials to specialist bagged asphalts for use in mobile asphalt heaters. Take a look at our Guide to Pothole Repairs
Way behind on Warm Mix
Warm mix asphalts offer big savings in carbon emissions, but the UK is still way behind the US in the use of this technology. Despite over 300 local authorities declaring a climate emergency in 2019 and Warm Mix Asphalt getting the backing of The All Party Parliamentary Group [APPG] on Highways in their ‘Working for Better Roads’ a report, warm mix asphalt still represents just 5-6% of asphalt volumes in the UK. This compares to almost 50% in the United States. Warm mix asphalts generally support carbon dioxide savings of …
Low carbon asphalt incorporating rubber from recycled tyres
After learning more about its sustainability benefits, Wolverhampton City Council decided to use Tarmac’s Rubber Modified Asphalt to resurface Northycote Lane, a busy road in the Bushberry North Area of the city. As well as having 8% lower carbon emissions due to the warm mix binder technology, using this material avoided sending around 500 tyres to landfill. Using low temperature asphalt helped knock two days off the original programme time. Choosing a Rubber Modified, Warm Mix SMA helped Bolton Council to take steps towards meeting their ‘net-zero carbon’ by 2030 …
Ultilayer WMA with recycled Steel Slag aggregates – London Borough of Ealing
The A312, Mandeville Road, a busy A-road linking the A40 to Harrow and servicing the London Underground Station at Northolt required scheduled resurfacing. ULTILAYER, Tarmac’s high-performance asphalt was selected using a 14mm steel slag aggregate and Ultilow warm mix binder technology.
