Cement is a key ingredient in any stabilisation or groundworks activity but with the growing urgency to reduce carbon emissions the hunt is on to find ways of making it greener.

The drive towards implementing the waste hierarchy into all aspects of government policy in the UK has led to a raft of new phrases being coined.

With a year to go before abstraction licences become necessary to undertake quarry dewatering activities, DLA Piper associate solicitor Penny Simpson describes some of the main hurdles firm

The pending change in the qualifications framework has gained a great deal of national press attention recently with headlines screaming at the birth of the McDonalds A-level.

Writing exclusively for MQR Magazine, Martin Isles, QPA director of health and safety, charges the HSE with failing adequately to support quarry firms’ desires to reach target zero and call

Associate solicitor in Weightmans’ Regulatory Services Unit, Glyn Thompson, carries on the theme of falls from height by adding a legal perspective to the problem and looking at the duties

Falls from height are the most common cause of workplace fatalities in the UK.

Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs) are now a legal requirement when tendering for projects over £300,000, from housing developments to road-building.

A remarkable haul of 28 flint hand-axes, dated by archaeologists to be around 100,000 years old, have been unearthed in gravel from a licensed marine aggregate dredging area 13km off Great Yarmouth

With site waste management plans (SWMPs) now in force and a 50% reduction in C&D waste targeted by 2012, WRAP is to focus the attention of its next capital grant competition on skip was

John Penny, area estates manager for Aggregate Industries, looks into the debate and draws on his own experiences in the past few years

As the construction trade braces itself for the introduction of Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs) and the prospect of more EU legislation, Digbits’ managing director, Marcus Clay, takes a

New washing plant produces high-spec recycled aggregates and saves water

How to get your share of £1 billion for training

Interfacing weighing systems using radio modems

Emlyn Roberts, sales director with Weightron Bilanciai, outlines how recent advances in technology and engineering are improving weighbridge versatility

The use of new technology called VIPER means that VOSA is cracking down on overloaded and unevenly loaded vehicles.

The importance of quantifying the quarrying industry’s value-adding activities

New Milton Sand and Ballast open new greenfield sand and gravel site adjacent to Bournemouth Airport

While an accurate number reflecting the quantity of recycled aggregates produced in the UK each year is elusive, all indicators suggest the trend is upward.

The use of RFID technology in fuel-management best practice

The Learning and Skills Council’s national skills programme, Train to Grain, aims to give businesses across England greater access to the training their employees need to succeed

Advice on specifying outdoor generator enclosures

JCB Power Products Ltd have made great strides since entering the power-generation market in 2006 and now boast a range of 44 models with major sales into the quarrying, construction and wa

A compact and powerful seismograph from Accudata

With a construction, demolition and excavation waste processing capacity of over 1.6million tonnes of material a year, along with its own rail facility and barges, Powerday’s Willesden, Nor

A case study on the role of the stemming column on fragmentation in an overburden sandstone formation

The first site we look at in our Changing face of aggregates focus is a good example of one of the many smaller sites now starting up around the UK to feed the growing demand for more susta

Claims farmers are the compensation equivalent of their intensive agriculture namesakes. And with an eye to large yields they are digging up a raft of historic deafness and HAVS claims.

In the final installment of his Recycling Diaries, Andrew Hewitt recounts the days up to the plant big switch on at SB Waste in late January.

The Ffos-y-fran Land Reclamation Scheme in Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, one of the largest projects of its kind in Europe, will see more than 400ha of derelict land being restored and the opencast extraction of almost 11 million tonnes of coal over the next 17 years

Colas have been furthering the use of more productive and durable materials for surfacing runways on the island of Tiree and attracting wide interest from the UK airfields sector

Regular maintenance and adherence to some basic rules should be enough to ensure that bitumen is safely stored at quarries and roadstone facilities.

An introduction to the new European Standards and PD document, and their application in the UK

New Benninghoven coating plant for Newtongrange

By Penny Simpson, an associate at DLA Piper UK LLP

Terex Construction focus on the right products, the right people and the right processes

Why regular fan servicing and maintenance is essential for the quarrying industry

Major facility upgrade at one of the UK’s largest quarrying operations

Martin Isles gives an insight into the scheme and this year’s winners

When supplying major construction projects, it is essential that thorough and accurate concrete testing is carried out to meet client requirements and ensure safety, explains John Sutton, g

Ensuring a high specific input of energy into the mix

The latest digital online moisture measurement is not only critical to the production of quality concrete, but also financially beneficial, as Rolf Laffan, chairman of Hydronix Ltd, explain

Using mobile volumetric dispensers to sell concrete can provide aggregate producers with a speedy return on investment, as Richard Calder, technical manager with Armcon Cementech, explains<

While some still feel that the only business of business is to turn a profit while sticking to the rules of the game, the overwhelming drive is towards firms taking up some of the social sl

As it is the festive time of year when attention turns to goodwill, MQR is taking a look at corporate social responsibility (CSR).

The end of the year at SB Waste in Wolverhampton finds Andrew Hewitt in reflective mood and the company’s new recycling plant still not operational.

Professional selection and operation of hydraulic excavators

By Dirk Tegtmeier, product manager, Terex O&K