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Tranisition Fund Launch
Autumn 2015
The Fund will be formally launched in the autumn of 2015 and is currently engaged in seeking transition funds so as to complete independent verification of >50% of quarries by 2018.
Contractor Laing O’Rourke has completed its largest concrete pour to date on its construction of the 50-storey high One Blackfriars tower block in central London.
7th February 2015
On Saturday 7th February 2015 Laing O’Rourke took delivery of approximately 400 trucks of concrete to the site from factories in Kings Cross and Silvertown for a 24-hour continuous pour. They placed 3,200m3 of concrete in one go, making it the largest single pour that Laing O’Rourke has ever done.
Once completed in spring 2018, the tower will have 57,000 tonnes (23,750 m3) of concrete in its structure.
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Managing the off-site ecological impacts arising from using quarried aggregate based concrete within Developments
How Developer's funding makes a difference
Approximately 65-75% of the aggregate used in Ready Mix Concrete is quarried within 30 miles of its use, with some 450 British quarries involved in this supply chain. This represents one of the largest off site ecological impact for new developments and infrastructure in the UK. The Green Quarry Concrete Fund offers a route to developers to directly mitigate their supply chain impacts at UK quarries and have their contributions acknowledged. Quarries lie at the top of a competitive Ready Mix Concrete supply chain with less than 5% currently affording ongoing ecological enhancement processes that are being independently verified. In 2012, the UK Aggregate Levy was subsumed entirely in to the funding of the public purse. The Green Quarry Concrete Fund is not an offsetting scheme (all certified enhancements occur at quarry sites) and is focused on achieving a speedy, country wide transition at best value and least disruption to the Construction Industry.
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We operate a transition fund that supports Green Developments by contributing to the certified biodiversity enhancement of British quarries that supply UK Ready Mix Concrete aggregate.
