**Greener highway repairs for HCC**
You will by now know that I am beginning to get into trucks. Well, this is another exciting HCC Highways truck. It's our new concrete mixer which enables us to make concrete from the gravel and tarmac taken from previous road repairs and delivered to where we need it right across Hampshire.
The mixer’s green credentials are further enhanced in that it is fuelled by low carbon hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuel.
Tackling climate change and recycling as much as possible touches everything HCC do, so we are always looking to innovate when it comes to the materials and resources used across highway maintenance activities. This is a further example of how we are striving to build in more sustainable and climate friendly methods in our operations.
And it’s yet another way in which our award- winning Hampshire Highways Carbon Strategy is driving improvements towards meeting our target to be carbon neutral by 2050.
As a next step, Hampshire Highways will be conducting an assessment of clinker free cement for inclusion in the concrete mix. This emits only 180 kgCO2e in its manufacture compared to 900 kgCO2e emitted by the manufacture of traditional Portland cement. This will be another effective innovative solution to combatting the impacts of climate change.