Aug'10 - Ashridge Ensure Supermarket Mushrooms are Marvellous with Environmentally Friendly Compost!

Ashridge is currently building a state-of-the-art mushroom compost facility at Leckford, Stockbridge, Hampshire. The multi-million pound contract is for Tunnel Tech who are exclusive suppliers of organic compost for the mushrooms grown for all the major UK supermarkets. This is the third major contract for Ashridge with Tunnel Tech, the UK’s leading producer of specialised compost for the commercial mushroom growing industry. In 2009, Ashridge was responsible for the construction of Tunnel Tech’s pioneering mushroom compost facility in Bawtry, Yorkshire which is recognised as the most modern phase I composting facility in the UK. At the 15-acre site on the John Lewis Partnership-owned Leckford Estate, the pasteurisation tunnels being constructed by Ashridge will provide a completely new compost production facility that utilises the environmentally friendly method where straw is recycled rather than burnt. The Leckford contract is scheduled for completion by Ashridge this month. It comprises of 9 concrete pasteurisation and spawn run tunnels each 4.5 metres high 4 metres wide and 42 metres long.  The tunnels total 1400m² with a further 630m² of handling halls and is a fully enclosed in a steel framed building plus a further 2000 m² of external hardstanding area with integral drainage. Peter Jones, Managing Director commented, ”Ashridge is extremely pleased to be working with Tunnel Tech once again after the successful completion of the fermentation bunkers at Bawtry, Yorkshire. We have a very tight schedule but are on track to deliver this project in budget, on time in August.”

July'10 - Ashridge Working with Oxfordshire County Council

Ashridge has recently commenced work on a new highways contract at Headington for Oxfordshire County Council. Ashridge is working on this Oxfordshire County Council scheme to improve the London Road, one of the busiest routes into Oxford.  Covering from Osler Road to Wharton Road these improvements are intended to improve journey times and reliability for local people travelling by bus. In addition, the aim is to make the Headington shopping area a better place to shop helping to ensure its future as a vibrant local centre. The contract comprises of the construction of better pavements, installation of new, high-quality street furniture, construction of two new pedestrian crossings, an inbound bus gate to reduce delays for passengers and gently raised junctions and side road crossings. The carriageway will also be resurfaced and existing traffic signals upgraded. Works are scheduled to last until the end of November with businesses open as usual throughout this period.

June'10 - Multi-Million Pound Mushroom Growing Facility Contract for Ashridge

Ashridge has been awarded the multi-million pound contract for a new mushroom growing facility at the Monaghan Mushrooms Farm in Goole,Whitley.   This contract confirms Ashridge's position as the Number 1 UK Civil Engineering Contractor to the mushroom industry and follows the successful delivery of various contracts at Bawtry for Monaghan Mushrooms-owned Tunnel Tech, the UK's leading producer of specialised compost for commercial mushroom growing. Ashridge is also currently building a state-of-the-art mushroom compost facility for Tunnel Tech at the John Lewis Partnership-owned Leckford Estate in Hampshire. In 2009 Ashridge completed over £4 million worth of work for Tunnel Tech at their new phase I compost production facility in Bawtry, Yorkshire.

Monaghan Mushrooms is one of the world's leading mushroom companies supplying a full range of top quality fresh mushrooms to leading national and international retailers throughout the UK and Ireland with annual sales of €150M and around 1500 employees across the group.

Works commence at the Monaghan Mushrooms Farm on 28th June 2010 and are scheduled for completion by Christmas 2010.

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May'10 - Ashridge are back on the Motorways!

Ashridge has recently had a number of successful contract wins which see the company return to motorway and trunk road maintenance work in the South of England. Currently, Ashridge is working for Enterprise Mouchel between Junction 2 and 3 on the M27. This particular contract includes remedial works to the embankment, new barriers, signage and the installation of fibre optic cables. Ashridge will shortly be commencing similar remedial works on the M4 at Junctions 5 and 6 where the requirements include embankment stabilisation, drainage, site clearance, safety barriers and bridge work.

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