This Global Recycling Day, we’re highlighting a practical example from one of our current sites, where our teams are using recycled aggregates to reduce environmental impact and support more circular construction practices.

Building Smarter With Recycled Aggregates

Across the site, we’re making use of recycled aggregates produced by crushing and processing concrete, brick, asphalt, and other construction waste materials. All materials meet the updated 2025 MCHW requirements and are fully compliant with WRAP protocols and UK quality standards.

By choosing recycled over virgin aggregates, we’re helping to reduce quarrying demand and keep valuable materials out of landfill — a simple but powerful step towards a more sustainable build.

Where Recycled Aggregates Are Being Used

To date, recycled 6F5 materials and crushed concrete have been incorporated into several essential temporary and permanent works, including:

• Capping layers for piling platforms
• Temporary haul roads and access routes
• Drainage and general fill
• Early-stage footpath and road formation

As the project progresses, further recycled aggregates will be used for sub-base layers, backfilling, pipe bedding, and other civil engineering activities.

Quality, Compliance and Assurance

Sustainability never replaces performance. Each batch of material goes through strict checks to ensure safety and suitability, including:

• Supplier certification (WRAP Protocol)
• Contamination and analytical checks
• BS EN 13242 and MCHW specification compliance
• Controlled storage and on-site quality monitoring

This ensures consistency, durability, and reliable performance across all applications.

Delivering Measurable Environmental Benefits

The reuse of recycled aggregates on site is already contributing to:

• Reduced extraction of natural quarried materials
• Lower carbon emissions linked to quarrying and transportation
• Less waste sent to landfill
• More circular use of resources across the construction phase

These benefits not only support our internal sustainability goals but also align with wider industry ambitions to reduce environmental impact.

Driving Circular Construction Forward

Global Recycling Day is a reminder that material reuse is a powerful tool in building a more sustainable future. Our work on this site shows how recycling can be embedded into everyday construction activity — delivering cost, carbon, and resource benefits without compromising quality.