Now into our third year,and the results so far confirm why we decided to set up an Environmental System. Its not only assisted in decreasing overheads, its reducing our carbon footprint and helped us pick up an Award or two along the way. Assessed and accredited in February 2011 we are now building our Quality Management System and hope to see similar results in areas such as Customer Service and Snagging. Our website is updated regularly, so keep up to date by checking back regularly. 2010-2011 results shown below.
Could we help a local project by donation of reclaimed materials? Email us with your details.
Construction in the
What we recycle.........
Where possible items are recycled such as cardboard, timber, plastic and metal. Any leftover materials or suitable offcuts etc are returned to our yard for reuse on future projects. Using suitable reclaimed or recycled products can reduce the cost to our client. We are currently looking at other materials that we can recycle. All of the team are on board with the companies recycling plans and come up with further ideas in the quarterly meetings.
Donating Materials
We are always keen to work with local projects needing material donations. We currently provide a regular supply of random materials to TRAIL sculpture group. We also work with Local Authorities and community projects and schemes they are running. See 'Surplus For Sale' page for more details.
Working in conjunction with WRAP we have recently signed up for their campaign :
‘ We commit to playing our part in halving the amount of construction, demolition and excavation waste to landfill by 2012. We will work to adopt and implement standards for good practice in reducing waste, recycling more, and increasing the use of recycled and recovered materials.
As a carrier of our own waste, these new Regulations which came into force on April 1st 2009, make us responsible for separating all plasterboard waste and disposing of this at a Special facility, therefore charges for this have increased.
Where possible we encourage our teams to vehicle share to sites, sometimes this is not practical due to material and equipment loads required by gangs. All of our vehicles are fitted with a tracking system which helps us to monitor fuel vs mileage consumption
12 Golden Site Rules
Through running an 'Eco Competition' at Shaldon Primary School, with the help of the children we selected of the 100+ entries 10 of the best. These are shown on our Site Rules Posters which are displayed on all of our sites. Click here to view poster.
Supporting Devon
All of our team are local to the
Exeter City Council
Schooling
Alternatives to Landfill?????
The current top rate including landfill tax for Mixed Construction and Demolition Waste is NOW £100 per tonne this excludes transportation to landfill, profit & o/h and hourly labour costs. When planning a project please think about alternative methods of construction or demolition to avoid landfill and the rising costs.
For those contracts over £300k we have our own SWMP in place, this will be created before works commence and a copy given to the client.
All paper, cardboard, ink cartridges and now plastic bottle tops from the office milk are all recycled. As part of our EM System we are reviewing some of the energy and storage requirements within the offices and yard.
As a small business we can contribute and implement changes to ensure a more sustainable and environmentally friendly future, whether we are developing sites or refurbishing existing buildings, we are therefore committed to the rethinking of operations in the following areas:
Energy – reducing energy consumption, use of renewable energy and alternative technology
Materials – Ensure good choices are made at design, manufacture, construction and maintenance stages so that materials can be reused and recycled to reduce resource requirements.
Waste- To produce less waste and recycle more.
Pollution – Produce less toxicity, water, noise and widespread pollution.
(Extracted from our Policy)
SCHOOLING
Building Contractor Ltd
Teignmouth Devon UK
The Environment
'Quality Workmanship by a Qualified Workforce'
10:10 is a national campaign about aiming to produce 10% less carbon in one year than we did the year before.
The 10% reduction is measured across 4 key areas
Grid electricity: This includes all electricity sourced from the national grid.
On-site fossil fuel use: ie gas and oil
Vehicle fuel use: of Company Vehicles
Air travel: This does not apply to our business.
See our 10:10 blog for the website
uk/2010/09/case-study-building-contractors.
Serving Domestic, Commerical and Public Sector Clients
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