O’Brien Contractors awarded prize at International Green Apple Environment Awards

Civil engineering and groundworks specialist, O’Brien Contractors have been awarded the silver prize at the International Green Apple Environments Awards.

O’Brien received the award after providing their earthworks remediation solution for Nestle’s £200M coffee manufacturing facility, as part of the £11M groundworks and civil engineering package.

The judges were looking for projects that considered the impact on the environment, with sustainability in mind.

O’Brien found a strategy to rescue a site containing 40,000cu m of spoil not suitable for re-use after 2012 being the wettest year on record, causing the Nestle site to become saturated.

They developed and implemented a remediation strategy that cut costs by £800,000, reduced lorry movements by huge amounts, saving 15 tonnes of CO2, retained all spoil on-site and reduced imported stone by 70%.

Peter O’Brien, Managing Director, said: “Across all the projects we operate on, we pride ourselves on delivering a solution that considers the environment. To further endorse this commitment, we will continue to significantly invest in our earthworks service to ensure we provide clients with the most efficient earthworks solutions and also help them reduce waste and costs. Any recognition in the form of an award is very much well received.”

The project team worked 90,000 man hours, with no accidents, creating a safer stable site for ongoing construction work.

The judges praised O’Brien Contractors for their involvement in getting the Nestle Project back on track with a unique plan that utilised remediation instead of excavation, also offering a large reduction in vehicle movements, saving CO2 emissions.

 

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