15th May 2013

CEEQUAL award for M74 completion

The M74 Completion Project in Glasgow won the 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award for Materials Use from CEEQUAL, the sustainability assessment and awards scheme for civil engineering.

The M74 Completion Project in Glasgow won the 2013 Outstanding Achievement Award for Materials Use from CEEQUAL, the sustainability assessment and awards scheme for civil engineering.

Some 2.5 million tonnes of recycled or reclaimed aggregates were used on the project which also saw the remediation of 86,000 tonnes of chromium waste.

The judges noted that:

“The project had a primary focus on the use of materials from secondary sources. The substantial majority of this was sourced locally from other projects. Achievement of this strategy also required the stabilisation of large quantities of contaminated ground.”

The awards recognise projects that have demonstrated pinnacle best practice performance in any of the 12 sections (using Version 4 Methodology) of their CEEQUAL Assessment.