Trade Journals for the Concrete Industry

Laing O’Rourke is the largest privately owned construction solutions provider in the UK. Employing over 30,000 people across Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and Australasia, the company’s operations span five core sectors: lifestyle; business; social infrastructure; transport and mining; and energy, utilities and waste. In March 2010 the company opened Explore Industrial Park, a state-of-the-art new precast factory in the East Midlands, built to strengthen the company’s offsite manufacturing capabilities and to support its construction projects across the UK. The first part of the two-part plant report describes the project development and the two pallet carousel systems in detail. The second part of the report in CPI 5-10 supplements the report with a description of the control system, static production of bespoke architectural products, reinforcement production, and the batching and mixing system.