Armstrong Ceilings runs tile recycling scheme

An off-cut recycling scheme by Armstrong Ceilings has enabled 8,000m2 of ceiling tiles to be saved from landfill, taken from a construction project in Peterborough.

Architects Nightingale Associates approved the use of Armstrong's Bioguard Plain mineral tiles throughout the new major acute hospital, the largest element of the Greater Peterborough Health Investment Plan.

Bioguard Plain mineral tiles contain fungicides and biocides which actively combat harmful fungi, mould and mildew, yeasts and bacteria.

The new Peterborough City Hospital comprises the acute hospital and a mental health unit on the site of the Edith Cavell Hospital (ECH), and a City Care Centre on the former Peterborough District Hospital (PDH) site.

ECH and PDH remained operational throughout their respective builds.

A PFI project backed by Brookfield, HSBC and Macquarie Bank, it is due for completion in October 2010 after more than three years on the 14-hectare site.

Ceilings installer Roskel Contracts, an Omega and Armstrong-approved contractor, has been on the acute site for 18 months, combining a standard installation with the logistics of running its first off-cut recycling scheme.

The large number of relatively small rooms proved particularly challenging.

There was a total of 4,500 different rooms, each of which required three handovers; the initial trim, installation of the ceiling grid and service tiles, and then finally, the tiles themselves.

Roskel's team of up to 40 men filled wheelie bins with pre-sized bags inside, which when full, were wheeled round to a secure facility.

When this was full, the contents were removed by articulated truck to Armstrong's plant in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, where they were recycled.

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