It has certainly been a case of full steam ahead for Aggregate Industries’ expert concrete division over the past few months in helping to provide the complex flooring concrete specification needed for the newly-launched Lake District’s Windermere Jetty project. Currently in construction, Windermere Jetty was commissioned by North West’s arts
Aggregate Industries, the Construction and infrastructure company has announced that their ‘Concrete Rugby’ scheme has been a success, as it has managed to reach more than 1,000 pupils in Leicestershire. Aggregate is based in Coalville and has been working with the rugby union team Leicester Tigers in order to offer
Aggregate Industries’ commercial hard landscaping division, Charcon, has completed a £20 million development for Sybil Andrews Academy. The Academy is part of the Moreton Hall development which is located in Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk. Aggregate Industries is one of the leading players within the construction and infrastructure industries. The company
It has certainly been a case of full steam ahead for Aggregate Industries’ expert concrete division over the past few months in helping to provide the complex flooring concrete specification needed for the newly-launched Lake District’s Windermere Jetty project. Currently in construction, Windermere Jetty was commissioned by North West’s arts and heritage association, Lakeland Arts, on the site of the original and iconic Windermere Steamboat Museum. The world class museum houses a collection of over 50 vessels of historic boats telling the story of boating on Windermere from 1780 to the present day. As part of the brief, lead contractor Thomas Armstrong Construction was tasked with providing a consistently dust free and durable surface flooring finish with no cracks to the museum’s extensive exhibition halls. The business subsequently awarded the work to industry expert, Aggregate Industries who oversaw the entire flooring specification; not only supplying the full product requirement but working with a design specialist to ensure a seamless solutions approach. “As a market leader, we have a raft of high performance concrete solutions at our disposal, all of which are based on carefully selected controlled binders, admixtures and aggregates, in order to provide enhanced and special technical properties for specialist applications,” said Neil Cochrane, specification manager at Aggregate Industries. Crucially, as a traditional dry shake topping would have been incredibly difficult to install over the museum’s underfloor heating solution, a tailor-made combination of internal Diamondcrete® slabs was used throughout. Carefully constructed from controlled binders and admixtures in conjunction with aggregates, Diamondcrete boasts superior durability and enhanced performance where abrasive elements are present. The result is a robust, superior strength concrete flooring solution able to withstand the harsh weather conditions associated with the area, along with high frequency and use expected of the museum. “This latest project at Lake Windermere is the perfect example of the importance of taking a tailored approach to concrete specification. We have no doubt that our combined supply of Diamondcrete concrete with its superior toughness, high volume stability and reduced shrinkage has created a durable flooring solution that will last for years to come,” concluded Neil.
Aggregate Industries, the Construction and infrastructure company has announced that their ‘Concrete Rugby’ scheme has been a success, as it has managed to reach more than 1,000 pupils in Leicestershire. Aggregate is based in Coalville and has been working with the rugby union team Leicester Tigers in order to offer children in local schools, education about healthy lifestyles as well as introducing a range of key rugby skills. During these workshops, the children learnt how to play contact or touch Rugby while also engaging in a selection of discussions that look into healthy eating, drugs, road safety, peer pressure and online safety. This scheme has been a great way for the construction and infrastructure company to give back to the local community. This scheme and others like it, are important to help raise awareness of healthy lifestyles and the role that sport can play in this. The programme has been led by the Rugby Development Officer at Leicester Tigers, Blaine Bonnin-Ward. The first nine months of the scheme have helped to highlight the importance of health and wellbeing for local children and schools. The Concrete Rugby scheme first started in November 2016 and has since been delivered to 1,081 children across 13 secondary schools. This scheme has been incredibly beneficial for school children in the area, with Rushey Mead School reviving their after school rugby club and more than forty children attending the newly created girls’ rugby club at Saint Martin’s School in Nuneaton. Aggregate Industries is involved in the quarrying, manufacture and supply of a range of heavy building materials in the construction industry. The company looks to deliver a wide ranging portfolio of sustainable solutions alongside their more traditional product offering. The company works across the UK, Channel Islands and Northern Europe. Aggregate Industries, are continuously working on a range of different projects and activities as part of their work with local communities.
Aggregate Industries’ commercial hard landscaping division, Charcon, has completed a £20 million development for Sybil Andrews Academy. The Academy is part of the Moreton Hall development which is located in Bury St Edmonds, Suffolk. Aggregate Industries is one of the leading players within the construction and infrastructure industries. The company supplies a variety of construction materials which includes aggregates as well as ready mixed or precast concretes and asphalt. The Charcon division of this business delivers a wide range of paving, natural stone as well as kerbing and drainage as part of the hard landscaping products they offer. Charcon were appointed to work on the Sybil Andrews Academy project by Barnes construction. The company consulted with the project architects Concertus in order to devise the best hard landscaping solution for the development. The landscaping need to allow ease of movement around the school as well as tying in with the green features of the school and its modern design. In order to boost the sustainability rating that the school received, over 3,500 sq. m. of Infilta 80mm, a permeable block that has been used for paving. There was also around 3,200 sq. m. Infilta specifier block paving that was used on site as the surface for the car park. These products were used because they are incredibly durable but also nice to look at while also being urban drainage systems. Infilta can be produced in more than 20 different colour and texture variations and are made from recycled aggregates. The product makes up a part of Charcon’s Life® portfolio which was intended to make it simpler to meet sustainable specification. In addition to this more than 1,700 sq. m. of Andover Textured block paving was used to deliver design flexibility for the walkways and play areas. Sybil Andrews Academy was completed in November last year, and now has 200 students who are benefitting from the high spec facilities.
