Education and collaboration key to achieving Net Zero in construction industry

By Chris Sheehan, Managing Director at the Sheehan Group Becoming carbon neutral is now firmly on the agenda in the boardrooms of most major UK infrastructure companies. There has been a shift in mentality, fuelled by the Government’s Zero Carbon target of 2050. Whereas previously some companies simply paid lip service to sustainability many are […]

Sheehan Group produces record volume of low carbon concrete blocks

The Sheehan Group have produced 380 miles of recycled concrete blocks in the past 12 months – the equivalent of the distance between Oxford and Edinburgh. We produce the concrete blocks by recycling leftover aggregate from demolition and construction sites – saving it from landfill. Construction waste is recycled at the Sheehan Group’s CDE Global […]

Circular driven economy in construction is critical to tackling climate emergency

The world’s consumption of natural resources has reached record levels, but recycling is falling, the think tank Circle Economy has revealed. Circle Economy has reported the amount of material used has reached 100bn tonnes a year. Its report warns the huge strain being placed on the world’s resources due to unsustainable extraction of fossil fuels, […]