BuilderScrap recently beat internationally renowned entrants to win The Rushlight Award for Waste Management.
The Rushlight Awards celebrate the leading energy, resource and environmental technologies of Britain and Ireland, and were held this year at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London on Thursday 28th January.

The awards were presented to businesses that excelled in the environmental and clean technology fields. BuilderScrap won the award for waste management, which was accepted by Eddie McGee, Les Owens and Brendon Kenny (Pictured).

BuilderScrap is an innovative new business, which aims to lower the amount of constructions waste being sent unnecessarily to landfill. Using web 2.0 technology, member of this free service are able to ‘post’ details of their surplus materials to the web. Other member can then enquire about these products.

As well as member of the construction industry, other sectors using the website include charities, schools and community groups.

The not for profit business benefits not only the environment through less waste going to landfill and fewer carbon emulsions to ‘remake’ new material, but also the person passing on material through lower disposal cost and the receiver of goals through lost cost free product procurement.

As well as the prestigious Rushlight Award, BuilderScrap has been short listed in the Sustain Magazine Awards, to be presented in early March, and BuilderScrap Apprentice Paul Jones has been nominated for an All Stars Award, to be presented on Friday 5th February.

Managing Director, Les Owens, said ‘I am extremely proud of everyone involved in the project. Since launching less than 16 months ago, we have seen a great take up and this is growing on a daily basis. We have also had a lot of interest from abroad, and I have been invited to present the product to the Massachusetts Department of Environment Protection in March.’

BuilderScrap.com is completely free to use, and is supported by BRE, O2, Salford University and the Centre for Construction Innovation.