Company wins plaudits for its outstanding sustainability achievements.
Hampshire-based demolition and waste company, R Collard Ltd, were announced as winners last week at the 2015 Sustainability and Resource Awards. Managing Director Robert Collard accepted the award for Most Sustainable Construction and Demolition Project from Countdown host and former Apprentice presenter Nick Hewer at a lunch held at the Marriott London Grosvenor Square attended by the country’s top sustainability and waste management professionals.
Robert Collard, Managing Director of R Collard Ltd, who accepted the award on behalf of the company said, “I am delighted to receive this award which recognises the extra mile our company goes in implementing resource-management activities into the demolition projects we undertake.”
The award recognises the exemplary approach that the company took in the demolition of the former manufacturing facility at Thales in Gatwick where structural steelwork was salvaged, restored and re-used in the construction of R Collard’s new Materials Recycling Facility. The project provided an exemplar in applying best practice to waste management by pushing materials higher up the Hierarchy of Waste from ‘recycling’ to the more environmentally desirable category ‘re-use’ and demonstrated full chain of custody and a case study of the circular economy in action.
Eight hundred tonnes of 25 metre-length steel beams were carefully dismantled by hand supported by mechanical means and sent to a local steelwork pre-fabrication supplier where they were cleaned, cut to the specification supplied by our installers, new baseplates fitted, re-painted and transported to the Eversley yard to provide structural steelwork for the roof of the MRF building.
“This is our 20th anniversary year which has already proved highly successful in terms of growth for the business and to have won an award from as prestigious an organisation as the CIWM is a great endorsement for us,” continued Robert Collard.
“Knowledge, competence and professionalism are critical to maintain progress on waste and resource management, both here in the UK and across the world,” said CIWM chief executive Steve Lee. “As well as setting an example to other professionals in the sector, these winners have made a significant contribution to improving understanding and developing solutions to a range of waste and resource management challenges.”
R Collard’s Demolition Division provides a comprehensive portfolio of services from initial consultancy to site investigations through asbestos removal, structural demolition, groundworks and landscaping. The company is an active member of the trade association, The National Federation of Demolition Contractors (NFDC) and all works are independently audited under the NFDC’s Site Accreditation Scheme.
