University of Nottingham awards laboratory contract

Tarmac has worked with construction and infrastructure company Morgan Sindall in the UK to develop a pioneering new system that recycles utility trench arisings, eliminating waste sent to landfill and cutting reinstatement costs by up to 30%.

EPC-UK, a major company in the field of commercial explosives for industries including quarrying and mining, has reinforced its commitment to ensuring that improved customer service is at the forefront of the organisation, by promoting four team members to key customer facing positions.

Ryan Ward, commercial manager – Explosives, Services and Metrics; Charlotte Hegarty, customer service manager; John Morgan, area supervisor for Shropshire and Leicestershire; and Leanne Tuscher, transport manager, assumed

Aggregate Industries, through its Bennett’s Barges business, has secured the contract to move spoil away, by river, on the western section of the £4.2 billion (€4.81bn) Thames Tideway Tunnel project.

The Thames Tideway Tunnel, financed and delivered by Tideway, is a 25km tunnel that will tackle sewage discharges into the River Thames in Southeast England. Running from Acton in west London to Beckton in the east, the project has been divided into three construction sections (west, central and east), each

Aker Solutions has secured a contract for engineering, procurement and management assistance to realise the CO2 capture plant at Norcem's cement factory in Brevik, Norway.

A biodiversity research project carried out by a team from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, eastern England, has won the UK section of the Quarry Life Awards.

The project, which looked at insect biodiversity in grasslands at Needingworth sand and gravel quarry in County Cambridgeshire, claimed the €5,000 (£4,000) first prize at an awards ceremony held at The Forest Centre in Marston Moretaine, County Bedfordshire.

The Quarry Life Awards is an international competition organised by Hanson’s parent