No: 13/2015
24 April 2015
British Lime Association Launches Student Award for All Undergraduates
The British Lime Association (BLA) is launching a competition for students with the aim of rewarding originality and innovation in uses of lime in building, construction and civil engineering. The award recognises the importance of UK lime as a sustainable and essential mineral in building, construction and civil engineering.
Pal Chana, Executive Director MPA, said, “We often don’t realise how essential and versatile lime is as a mineral. Industries and commodities as diverse as construction, steel making, drinking water and even sugar all depend on this critical mineral. It is the oldest man made material and historically, societies have relied heavily on lime to produce many everyday items since the Roman times. Yet, lime frequently remains unseen.”
BLA is inviting UK undergraduates to submit papers or projects on any topic within building, construction and civil engineering that uses lime with a sustainability theme. In particular, papers featuring new, inventive ideas and novel uses of lime are being encouraged.
There will be a cash prize of £1,000 for the winning entry presented at an industry dinner later this year. The competition is open until 30 September 2015.
If you would like more details or to enter, please contact Peter Grosvenor – email: ; tel: 07704 174727.
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Notes for Editors
The British Lime Association (BLA) represents the three major UK manufacturers of lime; Lhoist UK, Singleton Birch Ltd and Lafarge Tarmac Ltd. The BLA is part of the Mineral Products Association.
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) is the trade association for the aggregates, asphalt, cement, concrete, dimension stone, lime, mortar and silica sand industries. With the recent addition of British Precast and the British Association of Reinforcement (BAR), it has a growing membership of 480 companies and is the sectoral voice for mineral products. MPA membership is made up of the vast majority of independent SME quarrying companies throughout the UK, as well as the 9 major international and global companies. It covers 100% of GB cement production, 90% of aggregates production, 95% of asphalt and over 70% of ready-mixed concrete and precast concrete production. Each year the industry supplies £9 billion of materials and services to the £120 billion construction and other sectors. Industry production represents the largest materials flow in the UK economy and is also one of the largest manufacturing sectors. For more information visit:
www.mineralproducts.org
For further information please contact Hilary Arrowsmith at
; tel: 020 7963 8000.