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Where we started...

...is just the beginning.From the point Edgar Purnell Hooley evolved the modern asphalt road, over 100 years ago, the name Tarmac has been synonymous with quality road surfacing.Tarmac National Contracting builds on our know-how for roads and brings our expertise to bear on the full range of services demanded by Local Authorities and public sector clients. From road surfacing to lighting, traffic management to grass cutting, we have a fence to fence, ‘no job too small’ attitude.

Among highways maintenance providers Tarmac National Contracting is unique.Others are often plagued by a common problem; reliant on a wide selection of products and services supplied by third parties, the longer their supply chain gets, the more likely Local Authorities will be subjected to increased costs and knock-on complications. We act as a single provider.

Not only of services, but of products too. From the raw materials in our own quarries, to our unique product innovations, to our years of accumulated knowledge, we deliver everything that is required from within our Tarmac family.

And while we may be known for our know-how in road maintenance, by transferring our expertise and dedicated approach to other disciplines, we are able to offer the complete set of highways services.

Because our systems for supplying each arm of our business have been finely tuned over our many years in the industry, we don’t really see it as a supply ‘chain’, more a continuous thread.

This means that not only will you benefit from our expertise at every stage of the process, but also from noticeably lower costs. It’s all part of what makes us perfectly placed to expand our range of services to offer you a different approach to highways maintenance – to be a single, seamless provider of everything from aggregate to lamps - and everything in between.

As our company expanded so our breadth of services evolved and Tarmac became a major supplier of large-scale civil engineering expertise to the construction industry.

From this, Tarmac National Contracting emerged, our operation dedicated to the many and varied disciplines in road maintenance contracting. Working in both the private and public sector we offer a flexible and innovative service, delivering our accumulated experience and know-how to benefit you and your community.

We offer an extensive range of services:

Highways maintenanceOur highways maintenance department provides a full range of services to support the UK’s road network 24/7, 365 days a year. Everything from winter maintenance and emergency call-outs to street lighting, road markings and asset management.

Civil engineeringOur contracting offices have developed teams of specialist civil engineering operatives to provide support to a variety of contracts in their own right.

Road planingOur in-house planing company, National Road Planing is the UK’s premier road planing contractor. Combining 30 years experience in the industry, with the largest technologically advanced fleet we have the flexibility and resources to provide specialist solutions to meet your needs.

Project management and ECI (Early Contract Involvement)The early involvement of the contractor and supply chain leads to greater innovation, better risk management, forward investment in staff and plant development of affordable, safer solutions. Through direct, early involvement with our management and technical teams we can provide innovative and value engineering expertise for any construction project.

PartneringOur reputation for delivering quality, safety and financial certainty in contracts has been further enhanced by embracing partnering and a non-adversarial culture.

Sustainable constructionSustainability is at the core of our business strategy. In 2010 we scooped a major national sustainability award for our ground-breaking approach to recycling and resurfacing part of the M25 motorway, achieving the highest ever re-use of Recycled Asphalt (RA) in a surface course on a Highways Agency road, at 40%.

This was no one-off either, Tarmac has a great deal of experience in delivering major road recycling contracts. Such as the A38 in Devon, one of the UK’s biggest breakthrough road recycling schemes to date, demonstrating that sustainable asphalt was viable and practical on large scale heavily trafficked roads.

The work involved recycling approximately 60,000 tonnes of carriageway pavement, which included tar-bound materials. The re-use of the carriageway planings saved approximately 300 lorry movements, as there was no need to remove those planings off site or bring in fresh aggregates from local quarries.

Tarmac is the leading innovator in the use of reclaimed asphalt. Having invested £6.6 million in a nationwide network of asphalt reprocessing plants, we can recycle road arising into new asphalt products.

The typical recycled content of our standard asphalt mixes range from 20% to over 50% depending on customer specification. FoamMaster, our innovative cold mix solution, increases this to as much as 95% whilst Trench FSMR our groundbreaking reinstatement system eliminates waste completely.

Tarmac, at your service.Over our many years at the forefront of the industry it was a natural progression for us to install or lay our own products as well as making them. After all, who would understand how to apply a tarmac surface better than the company who originated it?

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Across the UK there is a Tarmac National Contracting gang

working on the Highways Agency network everyday of the week.

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Tarmac is the only supplier to have Highways

Agency Category Management Procurement

Approval across all 12 categories.

• Winter maintenance - we offer a complete service to help you plan and manage winter maintenance more effectively. We can help you make cost savings on salt provision, provide a 24/7 precautionary and emergency gritter service, maintain grit bins throughout your network and repair frost damage on roads and pavements.

• 24/7 emergency call-out - our emergency crews are on standby 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, responding to a whole range of issues within one hour of receiving the call. Every day brings different challenges, from helping to keep roads safe following road traffic collisions, flooding and vandalism to removing carcasses from the carriageway and repairing potholes to reduce third party liability.

• Street lighting and signage - our service includes maintaining street lighting, replacing lamps, cleaning, erecting signs, changing road layouts and providing visual surveys to help manage costs.

• Landscaping and grass-cutting - we can do everything from hard landscaping as part of urban regeneration projects to cutting grass verges and trimming hedgerows.

• Fencing - our teams can erect and repair everything from crash and sound barriers to bollards, guard rails and safety fencing. We scour our national contacts to match like-for-like, even on fences no longer in production.

• Traffic management - we provide a full traffic management service 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Using fully trained operatives, we manage everything

from road closures and motorway works to designing optimum traffic management systems increasing both traffic and pedestrian flow.

• Surface dressing, slurry sealing and high friction

surfacing - surface dressing and slurry sealing help prolong the life of carriageways and pavements, providing water-proofing qualities and ensuring the surfaces remain structurally sound. Where skidding is a problem and to promote safer driving, we also provide high friction surfacing.

• Carriageway and footway construction and repairs - we do everything from replacing missing slabs and repairing potholes to resurfacing miles of carriageway using thousands of tonnes of materials from our own quarries. Because speed and sustainability are both essential, we have developed specialist products such as FastPath, our single layer pathway repair solution and FoamMaster, a 95% sustainable system that uses road arisings and other recycled aggregates to produce new binder course and base materials.

• Junction improvements - we offer a full design and build service for junction improvements to counteract everything from visibility issues, a high prevalence of road traffic accidents or simply new road builds. We take care of all aspects of the build including road markings, lighting, signage, pedestrian access, kerbs and drainage.

• Design and technical solutions - whatever the project, we can deliver the solution. Our design team regularly provides plans for junction improvements, traffic management systems, hard landscaping ideas, signage

and street lighting requirements. Our Technical Centre also innovate new materials and test core samples to provide detailed reports and recommendations on surface structure.

• Network management - we have the people and the capability to manage whole strategic road networks. Delivering key services, managing budgets, providing best value to stakeholders, reducing public liabilities, while measuring our results against key performance indicators.

• Road markings and studs - whether it’s retracing faded lines, providing new markings after resurfacing or fitting studs into motorways and carriageways, we can do it.

• Drainage works - every road has drainage. Which means without regular maintenance, every road is liable to flooding. We can reduce this threat. Our gulley emptying teams can maintain whole networks, cleaning tens of thousands of gulleys a year. Our state-of-the-art gulley emptiers are equipped with powerful jets, vacuums and tracking tools to record mapping data, which is then used to manage costs and reduce liabilities.

• Asset management - using our proven model and in-depth data, we can help you manage budgets more efficiently, reduce costs, limit liabilities, recommend improvements and even help you write business case studies. Spend now to save money later through the capabilities of HARP.

The many solutions we offer.

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100% of Tarmac’s UK business has

achieved the Carbon Trust Standard.

By working with you, discussing your needs, particular circumstances and unique requirements, we can formulate an integrated programme of maintenance. We achieve this by using the full extent of our know-how, combining it with our huge product range and matching the solutions most appropriately to your requirements. And by sharing our capabilities and resources within our family of companies, we can develop best-in-industry services and deliver successful, strategic contracts.

We’ll take care of it.Our supporting services are an area in which we pride ourselves. Each discipline is approached with the same commitment to delivering an exceptional service as is applied to highways maintenance. From cyclical services like winter maintenance, gully cleaning or landscaping, to reactive services such as pothole repairs and emergency services, we can be relied on to fulfil the rigorous minute by minute demands of your infrastructure.

Keeping communities moving.Tarmac National Contracting are the experts. On hand to deliver answers, whatever the situation demands. Answers that draw on our company’s expertise in road construction and management, but also cost efficient solutions for all aspects of the day to day running of your council.

Our contract was for 10 years during which time we would manage projects ranging massively in value and scope. Simple performance criteria and objectives were established to enable partners to know what they were responsible for delivering and whether they were delivering it.

THE RESULTS

By adopting the principles of target price costing and pain gain incentives we have demonstrated operational efficiencies and achieved cashable savings for Nottinghamshire County Council.

We have been able to show an average target price accuracy of approximately minus 6%. Since first becoming a partner Tarmac has successfully completed over 800 individual schemes.

“Tarmac has worked closely with us to deliver real efficiency improvements by bringing their private industry commercial expertise and experience to bear.”

Ross Marshall, Nottinghamshire County Council Service Manager

THE PROJECT

Tarmac National Contracting were appointed to join the Nottingham Highways Partnership in 2006, extending the partnership to cover a range of services including patching and surface renewal, drainage and kerbing, and general highways improvements.

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Walsall Borough Council and Tarmac National Contracting

THE PROJECT

Through partnership working with Walsall Borough Council we are providing a more streamlined winter maintenance service throughout the borough. Walsall Borough Council required a fast and effective solution to its highway winter maintenance programme to ensure minimum disruption for local road users.

As part of the contract Tarmac reviewed all of the existing routes to establish the route lengths and the council requirements. We then carried out an exercise to look at how many gritters would be required to deliver the new service to the Council.

To prepare for winter, we carried out training with the drivers, purchased new satellite systems, ordered 3,500 tonnes of salt and carried out an operational snowfall day before the winter season commenced.

THE RESULTS

Tarmac National Contracting has delivered a route optimisation project for Walsall Council’s winter maintenance programme to all their local routes. The introduction of this system helped supply new routes with route cards and satellite navigation to assist the gritter drivers during the gritting process.

The review of the Council’s roads means the council made savings in excess of £250k, as the review meant they did not have to purchase unnecessary gritters.

The new fleet has a quick change body system (QCB) that allows maximum utilisation of the vehicles throughout the year for highways maintenance activities.

“The winter service review has proved to be successful with many residents sending in compliments”.

Marion Parry, Acting Group Leader

As part of our contract we provide grass cutting, weed spraying, hedge trimming and winter grass edge trimming for the Leicestershire Highways Alliance Works Partnership.

THE RESULTS

From 2010 to 2011 we have cut in excess of fifteen million square metres of grass, equating to 1,944 football pitches the size of Old Trafford. Over that same season we achieved seven programmed cuts to deadline.

We regularly monitor operative’s performance by monthly audits and have achieved zero Lost Time Injuries (LTI’s) over the full contract period since 2008. We also frequently review and update our processes, introducing new plant and equipment when needed. We recently introduced a new grip cutting machine that has substantially reduced the hire of excavation equipment saving on both cost and impact upon the environment. As the contract involves working on high speed roads the use of both tractors and urban mowers has made substantial savings when compared to previous operations.

Throughout the contract we have made year on year savings, culminating in a 5.4 percent saving in 2011/12.

“The relationship we have with Tarmac has proven to be very valuable to Leicestershire. Tarmac’s approach and innovative solutions has meant the Council has made some significant time and cost savings.”

Mark Stevens, Assistant Director (Highways) Leicestershire County Council.

Leicestershire County Council grass cutting service

THE PROJECT

Tarmac’s National Contracting team have been working in partnership with Leicestershire County Council since 2008 looking after a number of their highway maintenance operations from surfacing to grass cutting.

Tarmac’s remit on this contract includes active traffic management, inspection and maintenance of bridges, pavements, earthworks, motorway communications and a range of other highway assets, a comprehensive winter maintenance programme and provision of 24-hour emergency response teams.

It also covers cyclical highways maintenance, winter maintenance and a range of environmental works, including grass cutting of highway verges, landscaping and horticultural improvements.

THE RESULTS

Meeting the targeted performance levels on response time to emergency incidents and category one defects is one of the most crucial contractual requirements.

To date, 100% of 24 hour category one defects have been completed within the specified time, against a target of 98%, while the average time for safety fence repairs was nearly half the permitted seven days.

Tarmac has also shown its team’s ability to respond quickly and decisively to emergency repairs. Between 7am – 7pm, they are required to attend the scene of the incident within one hour of receiving notification and 1½ hours outside these times. Tarmac has outperformed the expected response times - the recorded actual average response time was 25 minutes during the normal working hours and 42 minutes outside these hours.

Further efficiencies have also been delivered by Tarmac through restructuring the contract workforce. This approach has culminated in savings to RMS of £66,000 per annum.Inspectors now carry out final fixed debris control and carry out small works as opposed to calling contractors out, resulting in a reduction of fuel and man hours.

“We rely upon the expertise of Tarmac to deliver a maintenance strategy for the road and associated infrastructure, to protect and maintain our strategic road asset and deliver long-term value.”

Alistair Snart, Operations Director for RMS

THE PROJECT

The A1 Darrington to Dishforth DBFO Project is an innovative, long-term highways maintenance and operation contract delivered by Tarmac’s National Contracting on behalf of Road Management Services Ltd (RMS).

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Working smarter, together. Highways Asset Renewal Partnership.

In the short term, HARP is designed to alleviate any maintenance back log. In the long term it will provide and instil the associated principles and values of whole life asset management. HARP uses innovative surveying techniques to map and evaluate the true condition of the highway asset. Once the survey is complete, the condition data is analysed and then used to build the programme of work required to address the backlog and to also help secure the funding required to maintain the road network. A combination of the accurate condition data and the improved road network allow for proper asset management and smooth running for years to come.

HARP is a proven success in Blackpool. The project is expected to deliver £25 million savings over 10 years. The partnership provides solutions to challenging authority issues.

Network decline, asset valueUsing our leading survey technology we can provide councils with a clear and detailed understanding of the value of their road asset – ensuring that both officers and elected members understand the level of investment required to tackle network decline. Gaining an accurate understanding of the value of your road asset will also help your finance officers to meet your Whole Government Accounting requirements.

Failing roads, budget deficitsWith our proven asset surveys, your council can gain a detailed understanding of the condition of local roads – providing elected members with the visibility by ward to target funding where it is needed most. Crucially, by using our innovative and proven financing model, you can ensure that budgets do not need to be diverted from other essential services.

Investment case and technical innovationOnce comprehensive network data is in place, we can help your highways team to build a robust business case for additional highways investment and develop a project which will unlock long-term financial savings. As the project commences into the delivery stage, Tarmac will provide highways officers with the surfacing expertise and technical insight to select durable surface treatments and measure the whole-life cost of roads.

Local jobs and a skills legacyTaking proactive action to arrest network decline will reduce the cost of reactive maintenance in the long-term. And with a clear commitment to partnership working, HARP can ensure that council highways jobs are retained and in-house skills developed through a programme of practical workshops and skills sharing.

The Highways Asset Renewal Partnership is a unique public and private partnership between Blackpool Council, Tarmac Limited and asset management company Gaist.

Created to deliver solutions to a range of local authority needs, the partnership provides assistance in securing funding, accurate understanding of the highways asset and prioritised maintenance programmes across the network.

Blackpool Asset Management.

In common with other councils, Blackpool had under invested in highways maintenance for a number of years resulting in escalating costs and fixes that failed to cure long-term structural decline. This gradual but accelerating deterioration of the network hindered the operation of the town’s economy and failed to provide the service and street environment which residents demanded from the Council.

Further consequences were disruption, reduced budgets and a large number of costly insurance claims resulting from tripping and slipping accidents, and a constant pressure from residents for reactive repairs to deal with immediate cosmetic and safety problems. The Council’s biggest asset, worth nearly half a billion pounds, had an uncertain future.

The HARP partnership has allowed Blackpool Council to develop a comprehensive asset management plan for their members and the evidence has successfully delivered the business case to borrow £30m to invest in its road structure over 4 years.

Since the project started, Blackpool has been able to move away from managed decline to a position of positive highways asset management which will provide the network that residents and visitors demand for years to come. The project is delivering real and tangible benefits for residents and visitors to Blackpool in terms of the overall condition, safety and appearance of its road network, which forms a vital part of our public realm.

“This is a shining example of how progress can be made to find new ways of securing capital, making long-term investment and creating long-term savings.”

Matthew Lugg OBE HMEP Advocate

Asset management for better resultsBy managing assets effectively and valuing them equally, we can offer meaningful efficiencies and a seamless service. And we look on your road network as one of your community’s most important assets. And as such we put a focus on maintaining, indeed increasing, its value which will, in turn, bring value back to the community. It’s in this area that we can really add value, by bringing our encyclopaedic know-how and insight into road networks to bear. For instance, in extreme winter weather we know that by concentrating on gritting and maintaining trunk and A roads and keeping them moving, we can make sure day-to-day life does not grind to a halt and it’s business as usual for you and your community.

Harnessing technologyWe have recently invested in the Works Order Management System (WOMS), a works planning tool which greatly improves the scheduling of works. By enabling us to automatically notify the necessary bodies associated with the works, under the 2007 Traffic Management Act, we can better co-ordinate sites and ultimately reduce disruption to the area.

Bringing value to you and your community.With budgets constantly being squeezed, getting the best value for your community is a main priority. Which makes it our priority. By focussing on four key areas we can strategically manage all local authority services to bring you the best value possible.

It’s an invaluable tool that helps us to think ahead so things run simply, smoothly and effectively. But process and systems technology is not our only initiative. Among other innovations, we now equip our vehicles with 360º cameras so operators have full vision of their location, this greatly enhances road works safety which in turn leads to more efficient working practices. So whatever application it may have, we embrace and invest in technology because it makes lives easier and safer.

Health & safety - protecting everyoneBy implementing best health and safety working practices we can look after one of our most valuable assets, people. We tailor our measures to be flexible and in-tune with local protocol and processes. This dedicated, integrated management system limits unnecessary risk whilst allowing us to proceed with the job in hand. For example, we have initiated a programme, unique to Tarmac, to counter Hand Arm Vibration Syndrome (HAVS) in hand-held pneumatic tool operators. HAVmeters attach to the tools and alert when the prescribed level of daily exposure has been reached, protecting the operators and promoting better working conditions for all.

Needless to say our commitment to health and safety extends to protecting your community, we operate in potentially hazardous environments and so isolating residents from danger with stringent but workable practices is also paramount.

Cost saving measures that add upWe take a holistic approach to cost efficiency,a philosophy that derives from having a supply chain entirely within our own family of companies. These savings are passed directly onto local authorities by offering the very best value for available budgets. And by thinking around problems we often find with an alternative approach we can more effectively use funds, it’s an area in which our extensive expertise is truly brought to bear.

It’s what Britain’s built on.

In 1901 the county surveyor of Nottingham, Edgar Purnell Hooley, came across a spilt barrel of tar that had been covered over with slag from the local ironworks to stop it becoming a nuisance.

As a result of this quirk of fate, the modern road surface was born. And the rest, as they say, is history.

The invention of the modern road surface was just the first, in a long line of firsts.

Tarmac was instrumental in the construction of the M6, Britain’s first stretch of motorway. Our knowledge of concrete played an integral role in the construction of the groundbreaking Thames Barrier. And, we were a leading member of the team that built the Channel Tunnel.

Throughout our long history our aim has always been to help our customers achieve more for less, by providing solutions that allow projects to be completed to higher standards, in smaller time frames, at lower costs.

Today we offer a complete range of innovative products that not only do this, but also improve the sustainable performance of the built environment by reducing waste, energy usage and carbon emissions.

Innovations like porous asphalt for sustainable drainage systems, watertight concrete, which eliminates the need for external membranes, and low carbon concrete that reduces carbon emissions by as much as 45%.

Creating solutions is what our business is all about. It’s what we do. It’s what Britain’s built on.

Safety is at the forefront of Tarmac’s

commitment to employees, communities

and customers alike. We are proud of our

safety heritage and commitment to a zero

harm culture. We strive to lead rather than

follow and our quality regime is supported

by industry accreditation.

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With an extensive estate of asphalt plants

and dedicated recycling units across the UK,

Tarmac offers a truly national service.

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Tarmac National Contracting have been

awarded the prestigious ‘Investors in People’

Gold Award across its whole business.

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