Knauf Drywall Recycling Is Right Treatment For Hospital
 Good
drywall design and practice – coupled with Knauf Drywall’s
plasterboard recycling service – helped contractor Kier Eastern
achieve award-winning environmental performance at the Garrett
Anderson Centre, Ipswich Hospital. Working with Knauf Drywall and
dry lining subcontractor BR Hodgson, Kier Eastern was able to
minimise the quantities of plasterboard waste sent to landfill.
Plasterboard waste is virtually inevitable in drywall construction,
but both the gypsum cores and the paper liners of clean waste are
recyclable.
The Garrett Anderson Centre is a £26 million treatment centre, built
for the Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust by Kier Eastern. The four storey,
8,000m2 building is linked to the existing hospital, and contains a
range of medical departments and care facilities. Internal drywalls
involved about 22,000m2 of plasterboard and generated more than 40
tons of offcuts and other waste, all of which was recycled.
As part of its environmental policy, Kier Eastern has a strategic
commitment to reducing waste generation – so at the Garrett Anderson
Centre it undertook various initiatives to minimise and manage
plasterboard waste. This won a National Silver Award at the
International Green Apple Awards for Environmental Best Practice –
and gave Kier Eastern the Environmental Awareness Award at the
Evening Telegraph Business Awards in Peterborough for the second
year running.
As supplier of drywall material, Knauf Drywall in partnership with
BR Hodgson suggested that Kier Eastern used the waste take-back
scheme. Kier Eastern and BR Hodgson also drew on Knauf Drywall’s
design expertise in the early stages of the project to assist with
reducing wastage through rationalising drywall systems and types of
plasterboard required. It specified 2,700mm (room height) boards to
avoid horizontal joints near the ceiling which would require
additional work in jointing and board cutting – and more waste.
Kier Eastern and BR Hodgson undertook a cost benefit analysis based
on normal wastage factors and concluded that the Knauf Drywall
recycling service was cost neutral when compared with disposal to
landfill.
Recycling targets were set and plans were based on expected
quantities of waste at various stages of the project, to ensure
containers would be available where and when needed. The 35 yard
roll-on, roll-off container was selected as the most cost effective
option as there was adequate space at the Garrett Anderson Centre
site for the container and associated vehicle manoeuvres. BR Hodgson
staff were responsible for placing plasterboard waste in mini-skips
on loading platforms at each level of the building. The mini-skips
were moved by crane to the main container, where the waste board was
transferred and packed flat. Containers were replaced on average
every 14 days, with about 9 tons of recyclable material returning to
the Knauf Drywall factory each time.
Kier Eastern considers that the approaches taken to minimise and
manage plasterboard waste were successful. It found that Knauf
Drywall had developed a flexible take back scheme that would be easy
to implement on construction projects of varying sizes and in
different locations. In addition, through legislative changes and
increasing disposal costs, economic paybacks can be realised through
waste minimisation and management. These incentives have reinforced
Kier Eastern’s commitment to addressing plasterboard waste on all
projects.
Knauf Drywall manufactures a full range of plasters, plasterboards,
insulating laminates, dry flooring, drywall accessories, and metal
sections for domestic, commercial and public sector applications.
Knauf Drywall pioneered carbon neutral plasterboard in the UK with
Knauf Futurepanel. Knauf Drywall also actively promotes recycling
from building sites and has a zero waste policy in its energy
efficient factories at Sittingbourne in Kent and Immingham on
Humberside.
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