Safe, reliable and sustainable solutions to highway and infrastructure services.

We’ve reached this point by bringingthe strongest regional and nationalbusinesses throughout the UK into ourranks. We deliver every contract with thespecial local knowledge it requires andthe same high quality our clients havecome to expect.

At Bardon Contracting we are constantlyseeking ways we can create addedvalue by going beyond standard industrypractice to find innovative solutions toreduce costs and improve sustainability.We always aim to provide you withcomplete flexibility and choicethroughout the design and tender stagesas well as during the operation itself.

This is accomplished thanks to thesynergies created by the extensiverange of capabilities derived from ourposition within Aggregate Industriesand the superb specialist knowledgewe have gained through years ofgetting it right first time.

Highways Services

We have decades of experience indelivering the highest quality pavementsolutions and can often create savingsthrough alternative design orconstruction methods.

Civil Engineering

Our civil engineering team providesupport and resources to our highwayscontracts enabling full construction,whilst still servicing urban and airfieldconstruction projects nationally.

Traffic Management

These specialists ensure UK widehighway construction safety byinstalling and maintaining essentialtemporary traffic management systems.

Mobile Material Production

The on site production of boundmaterials, along with their installation,provides our clients with a truly localconstruction alternative.

Aggregate Industries Limited

Our parent company is an internationalaggregate, construction and buildingmaterials group, based in the UK, andwas incorporated into the SwissHolcim Group in April 2005.

The Group has leading regional marketpositions in the UK, as well as operationsin the Channel Islands and Norway.

Following a number of acquisitions,including Foster Yeoman, AggregateIndustries is a major producer andsupplier of primary, secondary andrecycled construction aggregates,asphalt, ready-mixed concrete andprecast concrete products.

Trading under the Bardon, Bradstone,and Charcon brand names amongstothers, the company has a strongreputation among contractors, clients,stockists, and small businesses, forcreating a better built environment.

National Business Local people

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Images

Cover

Night surfacing on the M1

Opposite

Taking delivery in

Slip End, Luton

Bottom left

Otterpool Promenade,

Liverpool

Bottom second

from left

Glynn Valley, Cornwall

Bottom second

from right

Churchgate, Bolton

Bottom right

Birmingham Airport

Over the last ten years Bardon Contracting has grown into one of the highway serviceindustry’s largest and most dynamic businesses, pioneering developments in safety,sustainability and whole life quality which benefit not only the end users but also ourclients and the industry as a whole.

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The ability to utilise the resources and capabilities ofall of Aggregate Industries is key to our success.

A commitmentto your needs

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Images

Opposite

Highway surfacing in

Glencoe, Scotland

Bottom left

Public Realm works in

Leicester’s cultural quarter

Bottom second

from left

Constructing a hard

standing for a car

park in Perry Barr,

Birmingham

Centre

Laying HRA in Slip

End, Luton

Bottom second

from right

Re-surfacing the taxiway

at Birmingham Airport

Bottom right

Resurfacing footways on

the Knoydart peninsula,

Scotland

As one of the nation’s leading surfacing contractors and strategic supply chain partnersBardon Contracting consistently provides high quality construction services to clients inboth the public and private sector. Through early involvement in a contract we are able toprovide innovative design solutions and consult on wider aspects of the project such astraffic management and sustainable construction alternatives. This consultation process is the key to our delivery of a unique service which meets your every need.

Highway Surfacing

Our extensive resources are spreadthroughout Britain, operating from tenregional offices. Each office has its owndepot and dedicated teams ofoperatives capable of servicing multiplecontracts throughout their region.

We possess the necessary flexibilityto undertake long term frameworksalongside regional individual spot projects.

Each regional business has anapproved supply chain developedthrough the establishment of longterm relationships which haveconsistently delivered quality projects.Each supplier is assessed annually aswell as after each project to ensurethey meet our stringent standards forsafety and quality.

Key services in this sector include:Major Highway Maintenance; Urbanand Rural Highway Maintenance;Design and Build Construction;Airfield Construction/Maintenance;Term Maintenance; Car Parks.

Civil Engineering

We have an excellent team of civilengineering operatives and resourceswhich support and improve ourhighway service provision andundertake further construction projectswithin the urban and airfield sectors.

We utilise the highest quality in-houseproducts and resources to provide thebest value and quality to the client,creating industry leading sustainablebuilt environments throughout the UK.

Aggregate Industries businesses suchas Charcon and Bradstone and itsready-mixed concrete companiesenable the firm to provide innovativeand unique product solutions, as wellensuring excellent supply chain control.

Key services include:Minor Structures; Hard and SoftLandscaping; Utilities; Public Realm;Airfields – Civil Engineering; Section278 Agreements.

Associated Services

It is always our intention to serviceevery need of our clients, and in orderto achieve this we have developedthe capability to perform a number of associated specialist functionsin-house. These include:

• HAPAS approval to lay high frictionsurfacing (anti-skid)

• Pavement coring for qualityassessment and technical purposes

• Saw cutting and diamond drillingspecialists who support our supplychain partners as well as providingservices to our surfacing division

• An internal ground probe radarteam who thoroughly assess eachof our sites for underground risksand unstable ground conditions

• Guillotines and trained operatives forcrack and seat highway refurbishmenton concrete carriageways.

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With over 70 years’ experience in providing the highest quality highway constructionand civil engineering solutions for a wide range of clients, you can be certain thatBardon Contracting is committed to your needs.

Commitment to delivering excellence

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Images

Opposite

Setting out a closure on

the M1

Bottom left

Traffic management on

the M5

Bottom second

from left

The plant loads

batched material into a

dumper truck

Bottom centre

Laying the RCC layer on

a hard standing for an

Olympic logistics centre

on the M11

Bottom second

from right

Laying CBGM in the

construction of a new

highway in Cashel, Ireland

Bottom right

Cutting joints on a new

highway in Ireland using

our patented equipment

Alongside our contracting resources we also operate two specialist businesses, each aleader in their chosen discipline. These provide support and consultation to the widerbusiness as well as providing their services direct to the open market.

Moxon Traffic Management

As a founding member of the TrafficManagement Contractors Associationand Sector Scheme 12 a, b and daccredited, Moxon TrafficManagement is one of the largesttraffic management providers in theUK. It prides itself on the way itdelivers traffic management solutionsand remains at the forefront ofinnovation within the industry.

It has extensive experience inproviding temporary trafficmanagement to large regionalframeworks, significant highwaysschemes and smaller short termregional maintenance contracts.

It is also able to provide extensiveconsultation at the design andprogramming phase, including theuse of 3D imaging to map traffic flowsto determine the optimum trafficmanagement layout for each phase of a project.

Its key services include the designimplementation, installation andmaintenance of temporary trafficmanagement, including temporarybarriers, CCTV, vehicle recovery andspeed enforcement. It has alsodeveloped the capability to providetraining in Sector Scheme 12.

Bardon Composite Pavements

A specialist in the on-site productionand laying of sustainable hydraulicallybound materials including: CementBound Granular Material (CBGM);Roller Compacted Concrete (RCC);Fly Ash and Slag Bound Materials(FABM/SBM) and Bentonite EnrichedSoil (BES).

With the ability to produce boundmaterials using site won or reclaimedaggregates, re-crushed concrete ortar bound material, Bardon CompositePavements can significantly improvethe sustainability of a project including:

• Reducing the use of virgin aggregates

• Lowering vehicle miles (and thereforeCO² and equivalent emissions) bybatching the material on site

• Creating significant reductions in the volume of waste sent to landfill

• Transforming carcinogenic tar boundwaste into a usable bound material.

Bardon Composite Pavementspossesses the largest fleet of TitanABG heavy duty pavers in Europe.Which, with their modified screeds, arecapable of laying material up to 12mwide and 300mm thick in a single layer.

Its mobile batching plants have beenmodified by its skilled technical team toprovide significantly increased outputswhile ensuring all material is of aconsistently high quality.

These versatile internal resources allowthe company to provide completeflexibility to the client in bothmobilisation time and programmeduration, consistently achievingoutput volumes which create savingsfor the client.

Through its skilled technicaldepartment it is able to provideconsultation on all aspects of eachproject, from material specification toconstruction design characteristicswhich meet the individualrequirements of the scheme.

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Our specialist divisions will work alongside your project team to identify and maximisepotential savings through innovative service delivery.

Responsiblein everything we do

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Images

Opposite

The final planting

completed on the

A38 Glynn Valley

Bottom left

Specially designed

waste bins installed in

Northampton

Bottom second

from left

One of our senior

managers delivering a

safety briefing

Bottom second

from right

One of our traffic

management operatives

working in full PPE

Bottom right

Transporting materials

using our dedicated

rail heads

Bardon Contracting has set itself strong goals for safety and sustainability which we canonly achieve by driving improvements throughout our business, and with the fullco-operation of our supply chain and clients. We have done this because every employeewithin our business believes that we can achieve these goals, and that anything less wouldbe unacceptable.

Safety

Throughout our business we haveestablished a deeply embedded safetyculture, focusing on the single ideathat no-one’s health should be put atrisk by what we do.

We have detailed procedures in placefor communicating safe practice andpotential risks, including a ‘Near HitHotline’ which employees can call 24hours a day to report any potentialincidents which occurred on their sites.

All incidents and significant near hitsresult in a ‘Safety Pause’. This involvesthe entire business stopping work andlistening (by phone conference) to alive briefing by our Managing Director.This briefing explains the event, itsimplications to the wider business andwhat steps can be taken to mitigatethe risk of reoccurrence.

The senior management team, alongsideexternal specialists, also deliver regionalannual safety road shows. Theseinvolve a full day of presentations toevery employee covering our safetyperformance for the previous year andhow we can improve as a business.

We regularly revise our PPE provisionbased on our understanding of therisks within our operations. For example,during 2005 our incident analysisidentified a trend of upper foot injuries.To prevent these we replaced all safetyboots in the business with bootsfeaturing specific metatarsal protection.This action almost completelyeliminated upper foot injuries. Afterdiscussion with our operatives wehave since introduced a modifiedboot which provides improved flexibility.

Sustainability

Bardon Contracting, as part ofAggregate Industries, has sustainabilityat the core of its business strategy andhas developed a wide range ofapproaches to sustainable construction.These include:

• The material production methodsused by Bardon CompositePavements (who regularly use site won and reclaimed materials)

• Our use of state of the artmachinery to maximise energyefficiency with minimal emissions

• Throughout our business wemeasure emissions, energy usage

and waste as part of our keyperformance indicators. This hasalso been adopted by some of ourkey supply chain partners, enablingfurther savings

• The use of mobile asphalt recyclingplants to recycle existing asphaltsurfacing into a new base andbinder course for footways andminor highways.

We always take a responsibleapproach to the consumption ofresources, and Aggregate Industrieshas been awarded BRE BES 6001 andcertified as a responsible source.

Our position as a contractor andmanufacturer enables us to considerthe impact of our projects in terms ofthe whole life of the products used,from initial quarrying right throughinstallation and beyond.

Every project we undertake isthoroughly assessed for its short andlong term environmental impact. Thisallows us to put in place controls whichnot only protect the environment now,but also protect future generations.

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Our scheme on the A38 in Glynn Valley was awarded the ‘Golden Apple’ by theGreen Organisation, as well as the ‘Sustain’ award in the category for ‘Property andthe Built Environment’ from Sustain Magazine. Both of these awards recognised ourwork towards minimising the environmental risks posed by the project and theinnovative solutions we provided based on our detailed consideration of the finalpost-completion habitat.

Resourcefulnessis the key to true innovation

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Images

Opposite

SUDS being installed

in Cambridge

Bottom left

Our mobile asphalt

recycling plant

in Bedfordshire

Bottom second

from left

Framework community

meeting to identify

design savings at

ECI stage

Bottom second

from right

Laying specialist

coloured asphalt in the

Emirates Stadium

Bottom right

K-lite kerb installed at

East Midlands Airport

Bardon Contracting fosters innovative thinking throughout our business, using theknowledge and skill of our employees to help create innovative solutions to problems inthe industry, at the same time as finding ways to improve the long term quality andsustainability of our projects.

We accomplish this through a number of means; some which focus on developing newproducts through technical research, and others which seek simply to tap into the wealthof experience and understanding contained within our skilled employees.

Researching Success

Our dedicated research anddevelopment team, made up fromacademics, engineers and techniciansfrom a number of countries, regularlyprovides the business with innovationin both the processes and technologyused in our projects as well as theproducts we use in constructing them.

Based out of our research laboratoryat Hulland Ward, this ‘centre ofexcellence’ is devoted to researchingall aspects of asphalt, concrete andrecycling within our industry. Thesedevelopments are approved andverified in partnership with othercentres of excellence such as theWaste Resources Action Programme(WRAP), Scott Wilson PavementEngineering (SWPE), NottinghamUniversity and the University of Ulster.

Superflex Asphalt

With a single-layer thickness of up to100mm, this product can eliminate theneed for separate binder and surfacecourses. This saves time and alsopaving machine fuel consumption byup to 50%. The material also provideswhole life savings through its increaseddurability; to support this we offer a tenyear guarantee on the texture (SCRIM)of the final surface.

Asphalt produced at lower temperatures*

By using a number of technologies wehave developed a superbly versatilenew asphalt. This product not onlysubstantially reduces the amount ofCO² produced in its manufacture, butalso emits almost no fumes, makinglaying the material significantly easierand ensuring no inconvenience to thelocal community or our employees.

Innovation through design

By involving Bardon Contracting in aproject at the design stage, a clientcan benefit from the extensivespecialist knowledge each member ofour commercial team possesses, aswell as gain access to the additionaltechnical managers from each of ourassociated businesses in concrete,asphalt, aggregates, building materialsand precast structural products.

By advising on all aspects of theconstruction, we are able to help ourclients achieve their long term goals for the project; such as increasedsustainability through the use ofrecycled materials, or whole lifequality through the use of longerlasting materials.

Our involvement gives a client accessto the full supply chain through onecontact, which simplifies the wholeprocess whilst still providing significantbest value in the project.

*Currently available in selected locations only.

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Specialist products have been developed throughout our range of surfacing optionsincluding asphalt, concrete and block paving divisions for our Sustainable UrbanDrainage System (SUDS). The resulting flexibility of the system means everyinstallation can be completely unique, and our skilled technical staff will always work closely with you to ensure your system achieves your goals.

Qualityin everything we do

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Images

Opposite

M1 Junctions 25 - 28

Bottom

Accreditations received

by our Integrated

Management System

At Bardon Contracting we recognise that ‘none added value’ processes and everypotential defect can create significant costs to our clients, the community and theenvironment. To ensure complete control of our operations we have adopted a leanapproach throughout the business.

Every aspect of our business process, from initial consultation to installation andmaintenance, minimises the risk of defects occurring and reduces potential wastesgenerated. We accomplish this using our accredited Integrated Management System to manage and understand our operations, supported by a strong business-wide focuson getting every task right first time.

Management and Control

All Bardon Contracting operations areundertaken within the framework onour Integrated Management System.This system ensures a consistently highquality service through the structuredownership and management of everystage of each project.

It provides easy accountability andcommunication throughout the contractby clearly identifying the key processesand the individuals responsible forcoordinating them.

For every contract we promote a‘community’ ethic amongst our supplychain partners, ourselves and the client.This approach improves communicationand enables the project managementteam to identify synergies in procurementand delivery which add value.

Monitoring Performance

Our detailed understanding of ourbusiness enables us to effectively identifyand implement business improvement.

To ensure we have up to date andrelevant performance information wemaintain and monitor our businessbased on a series of performanceindicators, aligned with the criticalfactors necessary for the successfuldelivery of our clients’ requirements.

We publish the information through aseries of ‘traffic lights’, benchmarkingour own performance against relativeindustry information.

By understanding and recordingperformance information and sharing itwith our clients, we are able create anopen and transparent working relationship,allowing us to collaboratively manageeach contract and develop savingsbased around our mutual goals.

Continuous Improvement

At Bardon Contracting an embeddedculture of continuous improvement hasgrown around our commitment tomeet and exceed the requirements ofour clients. We utilise our internal andexternal resources to identify the mosteffective improvements to our service.

Through Aggregate Industries, wepossess production and supplycapabilities to support ourexperienced teams through ourstrategically placed dry stonequarries, ready-mixed concrete andcoated macadam plants, recyclingfacilities and civil engineering precastconcrete product plants.

Using the unique wisdom of theseinternal resources alongside ourtechnical staff within our Researchand Development facility, we striveconstantly to improve not only thequality of our direct service buteverything about our business.

This culture is driven andcommunicated by our nationalPerformance Improvement Team,which is supported by localchampions who consult andrepresent the employees of eachregional business.

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For the widening of the M1 between Junctions 25 and 28 we were able to providethe client with a fully integrated highway service. Including: detailed designconsultation for both pavement construction and traffic management; high volumeasphalt surfacing delivered under 24 hour working; installation and maintenance oftraffic management (including CCTV, speed control and vehicle recovery) and thesupply of coated material including our own Hitex surface course.

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Bardon Contracting uses products and resources from companies within the Aggregate Industries Group.

Aggregates

Bardon Aggregates supplies crushedrock, sand and gravel and fill materials.These can be delivered by road, rail ormarine transport.

Tel: 01455 285 200Email: midlands.sales@aggregate.com

Asphalt and surfacing materials.

Bardon Asphalt is a leading supplier ofa full range of coated materials withover 50 locations in the UK, servingmajor conurbations, including ExpressAsphalt sites for collect business.

Tel: 01455 288 222Email: midlands.sales@aggregate.com

Ready-Mixed Concrete

Bardon Concrete (and London Concretewithin the M25) offers a completerange of ready-mixed concretes andscreeds, operating from over 50 sites.The Elite Minimix operation caters forsmaller collect loads.

Bardon ConcreteTel: 01283 714 187Email: bardon.concrete@aggregate.com

London ConcreteTel: 0208 380 7300Email: london.concrete@aggregate.com

Structural Products

Precast concrete solutions for structuralapplications, including precast stairways,retaining walls, flood defence, streetfurniture and service protection.

Tel: 01226 779 092Email: sales@precasthq.co.uk

Hard Landscaping

Charcon flag paving, block paving andkerb products are available in bothconcrete and natural stone. Surfacewater drainage and SUDS are also partof a wide ranging product portfolio.

Tel: 01335 372 222Email: sales.charcon@aggregate.com

For more information on these Aggregate Industries companies and products contactBardon Contracting on 01530 510 066 or call the individual businesses.

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If you have any questionsyou would like to discuss

directly with our team,please do not hesitate tocontact your local office on the number provided

Bardon Contracting, Bardon Hill, Coalville, Leicestershire LE67 1TL

Tel: +44 (0)1530 510 066 Email: bardon.contracting@aggregate.com

www.bardon-contracting.com

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