Client: Breyer Group Contract: Waste management & recycling Duration: ongoing Start Date: Jan 2019 Value: £70k per annum Recycling Rate: 98.35% The Client Established over 60 years ago, the Essex-based principal contractor specialises in delivering high-quality internal and external refurbishment and responsive repairs. The company, which employs over 400 staff is currently involved in over 20 frameworks and partnering arrangements with local authorities and independent housing associations to complete home refurbishments. The requirement Breyer needed a reliable and established operator to provide waste management services to facilitate its refurbishment of housing stock managed by Clarion Housing in Bromley, South East London. Replacements of kitchens, bathrooms and some external elements of tenanted properties generate considerable quantities of mixed construction wastes that need to be collected on-site and processed in a sustainable manner. Timeliness of skip collections/replacements and recycling rates are key factors. Our solution With space unavailable in residential locations to pre-sort wastes into different material streams on-site McGrath deliver 12-yard and 14-yard skips to allow mixed construction wastes can be collected. Separate wheelie bins are provided for plasterboard waste. We provide a responsive service for collections/replacement of skips - typically next-day or sometime same-day following a request by Breyer's site team. Digital consignment notes are emailed to the client upon receipt of the consignment at our Materials Recycling Facility (MRF) in Barking. Comprehensive post-segregation systems sort the consignments into individual material streams at our MRF. Our bespoke integrated facility combines mechanical, manual and magnetic techniques to generate discrete stocks of concrete/ hardcore, timber, plastics, metals, glass etc which are either recycled on-site or prepared for onward transportation to specialist suppliers for re-processing into new material feedstock. Detailed online monthly reports provide Breyer with an inventory of transactions, tonnages of wastes collected, recycling rates and an overall carbon footprint for the trans- portation and recycling of the materials. Breyer Group CASE STUDY Breyer have been using McGrath for many years attracted by their well-deserved reputation for reliability and attention to detail. The company's Zero-to-Landfill systems and detailed reporting enable us to demonstrate that we are implementing latest good practice in sustainability and meeting our internal and external environmental targets for waste management. John Walsh, Construction Director, Breyer Group
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Client:Breyer Group
Contract:Waste management & recycling
Duration:ongoing
Start Date:Jan 2019
Value:£70k per annum
Recycling Rate:98.35%
The Client
Established over 60 years ago, the Essex-basedprincipal contractor specialises in deliveringhigh-quality internal and externalrefurbishment and responsive repairs. Thecompany, which employs over 400 staff iscurrently involved in over 20 frameworks andpartnering arrangements with local authoritiesand independent housing associations tocomplete home refurbishments.
The requirement
Breyer needed a reliable and establishedoperator to provide waste managementservices to facilitate its refurbishment ofhousing stock managed by Clarion Housing inBromley, South East London. Replacements ofkitchens, bathrooms and some externalelements of tenanted properties generateconsiderable quantities of mixed constructionwastes that need to be collected on-site andprocessed in a sustainable manner. Timelinessof skip collections/replacements and recyclingrates are key factors.
Our solution
With space unavailable in residential locationsto pre-sort wastes into different materialstreams on-site McGrath deliver 12-yard and14-yard skips to allow mixed constructionwastes can be collected. Separate wheelie binsare provided for plasterboard waste.
We provide a responsive service forcollections/replacement of skips - typicallynext-day or sometime same-day following arequest by Breyer's site team. Digitalconsignment notes are emailed to the clientupon receipt of the consignment at ourMaterials Recycling Facility (MRF) in Barking.
Comprehensive post-segregation systems sortthe consignments into individual materialstreams at our MRF. Our bespoke integratedfacility combines mechanical, manual andmagnetic techniques to generate discretestocks of concrete/hardcore, timber, plastics, metals, glass etcwhich are either recycled on-site or preparedfor onward transportation to specialistsuppliers for re-processing into new materialfeedstock.
Detailed online monthly reports provideBreyer with an inventory of transactions,tonnages of wastes collected, recycling ratesand an overall carbon footprint for the trans-portation and recycling of the materials.
Breyer Group
CASE STUDY
Breyer have been using McGrath for many years attracted by their well-deserved reputation for reliability andattention to detail. The company's Zero-to-Landfill systems and detailed reporting enable us to demonstratethat we are implementing latest good practice in sustainability and meeting our internal and externalenvironmental targets for waste management.
John Walsh, Construction Director, Breyer Group
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