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Highways and infrastructure solutions from Aggregate Industries 02 Delivering value in construction materials and services

Aggregate Industries is one of the UK’s leading aggregates, construction and building materials groups.

With over 350 locations in the UK, the This means that our customers can Channel Islands and Northern Europe, have full confidence in sourcing we offer a unique portfolio and delivery materials from a responsible supplier of construction solutions, producing and meet their own sustainability and supplying a wide range of targets more easily. construction materials. Sustainability made clear In addition we offer a road contracting We introduced Life™ to help our service that boasts over 70 years’ customers source sustainable experience in highways maintenance, solutions under one simple and easy road surfacing and traffic management. brand. Each of the solutions that carry The Responsible Source™ the Life logo meet or exceed the three benchmarks that we have set in the key areas of carbon reduction,

non-primary material content and water treatment or control within a In 2009, Aggregate Industries became SUDS solution as shown below. the first company in the world to be The sustainable contribution of certified to BES 6001 ‘The Framework each Life solution is clearly and Standard for the Responsible Sourcing simply quantified for our customers to of Construction Products’, by the reference. For more information on our Building Research Establishment (BRE). Life range of solutions, please visit Today, the majority of our products are www.aggregate.com/life. certified as VERY GOOD under the BES 6001 standard.

20% reduction in CO2

45% non-primary materials

Sustainable Drainage Systems

Life benchmarks

Today, the majority of our products are certified as VERY GOOD under the BES 6001 standard Construction solutions 03 for highways

Roads are the most heavily used mode of transport in the UK, accounting for 90% of passenger journeys, and play a vital role in UK’s economic prosperity.

Over the last decade, there has been Building our future highways investment to make our road network In the future, new technology will change safer and more reliable, but with over the way we drive, but we will also have 440 billion vehicle journeys taken by to deal with extra traffic. The strategic road per year in the UK, a sustained road network is particularly likely to face and focused road investment more pressure and significant demand programme is required to build a for the construction sector. modern and efficient highways network fit for the future. We are able to offer integrated, multi-product solutions for highway Investing in our network schemes and the infrastructure that Current policy sets out the Government’s is required to serve them. Our range commitment to transform our highways, includes bespoke products to meet delivering a sustainable route based the specific demands of working on improvement programme and the biggest the network, with products that meet ever upgrade to the existing network. challenging specifications whilst also increasing the efficiency of construction. The full multi-billion pound programme of improvements to the highways As government policy continues to network will focus on cutting congestion set the background for modernisation, and minimising the environmental impact we are committed to playing our part of roads. The programme includes the in transforming our highways network extension of the managed motorway and securing growth and prosperity for network, a focus on high-density freight the future. routes, road maintenance including the resurfacing of 80% of our A roads and motorways by 2020 and the reduction of potholes on our local roads. 04

Bridge construction Asphalt

Contracting

Aggregate fills and sub-bases Precast concrete solutions

Concrete

Car parks and forecourts Asphalt Precast concrete solutions

SUDS Hard landscaping

Contracting

Highway construction Asphalt

Contracting

Aggregate fills and sub-bases

Traffic management

Site won paving materials

Precast concrete solutions Construction solutions 05 for highways

We specialise in the supply of the following products and services to the highways and infrastructure industry:

Asphalt Our vast range of asphalt includes environmental options as well as a number of specialist products designed for challenging applications such as motorways, airfields or sports arenas. Our innovative products include cold-mix materials, high recycled content products, coloured asphalts and low-noise road surfaces.

Traffic management

We are one of the largest traffic management providers

Motorway services in the UK and have extensive experience in providing temporary traffic management to large regional Asphalt frameworks, significant highways schemes and smaller Hard landscaping short term regional maintenance contracts. Precast concrete solutions

Concrete Contracting Concrete block walling We have over 80 years of experience in highways maintenance, road surfacing construction and associated civil engineering services including public realm enhancements, traffic management and hydraulically bound materials.

We also supply:

n Aggregate fills and sub-bases n Floor screed

n Architectural cast stone n Hard landscaping

n Asphalt n Masonry walling blocks

n Concrete n Precast concrete solutions

n Concrete blocks n Specialist sands

n Contracting n SUDS

To find out more about our product and service solutions please call our major projects team on 0844 557 8393 or visit www.aggregate.com/sectors 06 Aggregate Industries Our experience

Aggregate Industries has supplied some of the largest, most complex and high profile infrastructure projects of recent times.

01 M1 junction 25-28 widening 03 Tyne Tunnel construction 05 M6 Thelwall Viaduct

The widening of a three-lane motorway The design and build of a 1.5km With work taking place both above and section, to ease a notorious congestion second vehicle tunnel under the River below the viaduct at the same time, a key blackspot around Nottingham and the Tyne was one of the UK’s biggest active project requirement was swift completion East Midlands Airport, called for an transport infrastructure projects. with minimal disruption. A further integrated approach involving several Aggregate Industries supplied a challenge was the viaduct’s micro Aggregate Industries companies. concrete mix that overcame many of climate, with the structure becoming the inherent issues including thermal very cold during winter months. The project required up to 50,000 tonnes cracking, plastic settlement, chloride ion of asphalt in a single month, the majority Aggregate Industries proposed an ingress and sustainability. of which came from the Bardon Hill alternative material, modifying the asphalt plant. Despite challenging With a plant a mile away from the site, polymer in the bitumen to provide a weather conditions experienced during we also had the capacity to cope with solution that was very resistant to the life of the contract, the three-year the project’s heavy concrete demands, deformation and fatigue cracking. project was completed ahead of schedule. providing sixteen 580m3 roof and wall The material not only vastly improved pours with the pump fed constantly ride quality and surface characteristics, 02 Wheedon Road, Northampton during pours lasting up to 18 hours. but also saved time and money on this As well as creating new access and prestige project. 04 St John’s Hill, Shrewsbury link roads for this important gateway 06 M11 Logistics Centre, Essex to Northampton town centre, Shropshire Council required an asphalt Aggregate Industries helped refurbish that provided a more sustainable solution Speed of construction was a key factor the surrounding infrastructure with hard for its highways programme. Aggregate in this project, which saw external landscaping, pedestrian crossings, tree Industries responded by developing a hardstanding required for marshalling planting and new street lighting. revolutionary Life™ product that HGVs loaded with materials bound for incorporated half warm mix technology. Olympics projects in East London. With 2800m2 of sandstone used in the Handling up to 90 trucks an hour, any central reservation and footpaths, plus As well as delivering significant solution also needed to be strong and a range of other high quality materials reduction in carbon footprint, the durable, whilst remaining cost effective. used in other areas, the whole project asphalt delivered a hot mix equivalent combined longevity and durability with performance in terms of deformation Despite the tight timescales and excellent aesthetic appeal. resistance, stiffness and compactability, challenging weather conditions, handover despite it being produced, transported was achieved on time with a continuous

and installed a lower temperature. mixing plant providing a daily output of 2000m3 of materials on site. The

Aggregate Industries solution was cost effective, and also offered significant strength and durability advantages.

To view more case studies, please visit www.aggregate.com 01

02 03 04 05 06 Aggregate Industries 07 The complete service

The Aggregate Industries group offers an extensive range of products and services to the construction industry.

Aggregates Overseas

We supply crushed rock, sand and gravel, Aggregate Industries Overseas stone and fill materials for construction. supplies high quality aggregates to These can be delivered by road, rail or Europe from bases in the UK, marine transport. We also produce silica Poland, Germany, Norway and specialist sands. and Latvia.

Tel: 01455 285200 Tel: 01530 512025 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Asphalt Commercial landscaping

We are a leading supplier of a full range of Flag paving, block paving and kerb products coated materials with over 40 locations in are available in both concrete and natural the UK, serving major conurbations, stone. Surface water drainage products are including sites for collect business. also part of a wide ranging portfolio.

Tel: 01455 288222 Tel: 01335 372222 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Contracting Building products

We strengthen our construction materials We produce decorative masonry portfolio through our involvement in building blocks, reconstructed stone infrastructure, surfacing and civil walling, architectural cast stone dressings contracting works. and roofing slates.

Tel: 01530 510066 Tel: 01285 646884 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Concrete Cementitious materials

We offer a complete range of ready-mixed We import grey and white cement from concretes and screeds, operating from Northern Europe and supply Fly Ash to over 70 sites. We also have an operation ready-mixed, precast, mortar, screed and that caters for smaller collect loads render companies.

Tel: 01283 714187 Tel: 01530 512000 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Aggregate Industries, Bardon Hall Copt Oak Road, Markfield, Leicestershire LE67 9PJ

Tel: 01530 510066 Fax: 01530 249542 www.aggregate.com