Laing O’Rourke’s work to decarbonise manufactured concrete components used on its projects has been boosted with a grant from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s Industrial Energy Transformation Fund.
The firm’s project involves a comprehensive study at its Centre of Excellence for Modern Construction at Streetley in Nottinghamshire. Laing O’Rourke has said that it will “investigate every facet of the production process” in the study, which will be carried out in a consortium with the University of Cambridge and the University of Sheffield’s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre. The work will cover the use of low carbon concrete, steel and aggregate materials and technologies and the systems used to create formwork and cure products.