Waste Recycling Centre, Rotherham

Mascot Management were appointed as Construction Managers on the refurbishment and alterations to a former Foundry to form a new Waste Recyling Centre.

The system within the facility at Rotherham is capable of recycling and recovering up to 80% of domestic waste with a sterile and environmentally-friendly autoclave process. The system is cleaner, safer, more cost effective and more efficient than other technologies. It can process 100,000 tonnes per annum of waste, equivalent to the waste produced by a town of 200,000 people. The plant is treating "black bag" residual waste from the neighbouring councils. Around 20 tonnes of waste is treated in vessels before being sorted using separation equipment such as size screening and magnetic separation.

The initial brief from the client was to procure the works as quickly as possible, in order for the works to be completed on site, to allow the facility to become operational as soon as possible. The completed design of the installation/process was also still under development and this together with the implications of working within an existing structure resulting in large parts of the design and installation being bespoke to the building meant that Construction Management was the ideal procurement route . The client had agreements in place with key suppliers of the major plant and this added further responsibility on Mascot Management to co-ordinate the installations between these suppliers and the rest of the package contractors.