06/04/09 - BCP Scoop WRAP Award

The Birmingham Construction Partnership (BCP) is celebrating this week after scooping the WRAP Award for Sustainable Construction at the 2009 Building Awards. More than 1,300 construction professionals gathered at the prestigious awards held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London to reward best practice, innovation and excellence in the building and construction industry.

The BCP, made up of Thomas Vale Construction and two other contractors was founded in 2004 to deliver Birmingham council's £500m capital building programme over the next seven years. So far, it has handed out projects worth more than £640m to partners in the housing, leisure, sports, schools and social care sectors. But more than that, it is delivering it in style. Waste has been turned from a cost into a resource: three waste management companies have been hired to sort and separate site waste, and if materials could be recycled or disposed of with minimal impact, this was encouraged. Another initiative was to produce a carbon measuring tool to help make informed decisions.

The judges commented: “What the partnership is doing is very practical and it has measured everything.”

WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) works to encourage and enable both businesses and consumers to be more efficient in their use of materials and to recycle more things, more often.

In October 2008 WRAP launched the Construction Commitments: Halving Waste to Landfill – a voluntary agreement designed to assist the construction industry halve the amount of construction, demolition and excavation waste it sends to landfill each year by 2012. To date, more than 60 high profile organisations from across the supply chain have signed WRAP’s commitments.

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