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to alleviate these issues to enable future regeneration. It’s a combination of what we call blue and green infrastructure, as it isn’t about heavy drainage, but solutions that work through infiltration and use softer, greener techniques as opposed to hard, concrete discharge channels.

“We take great pride in successfully bringing biodiversity and environmental net-gains to areas that we work in and have won multiple awards over the last few years for our work with green infrastructure,” he adds. “The most recent has been Making Space for Nature and prior to that it was a program called Green Infrastructure for Growth, which was focused on creating high-quality, natural spaces for residents and communities to enjoy, whilst also increasing biodiversity and the area’s contribution to sustainability. It’s been great to see the legacy of the volunteer groups that have been established to maintain the estates and the resultant sense of community ownership.”

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Sustainability is instrumental to Cormac’s ethos and practices, with its carbon reduction policy having sat high on its agenda for the last few years. Since 2019/2020, the company has already seen a reduction of 14 per cent, but that’s just the beginning. Its plant and fleet emissions make up a large portion of its overall carbon footprint, and although it employed an electrification strategy for its smaller vehicles, this didn’t cover its three and a half to five tonne tippers and load-carrying rigs.

“We have undertaken an R&D program with an organisation called Bennamann over the last couple of years, of which the Core Serve Group is a small shareholder. Between us we have been developing a strategy to use slurry, processed in plants on half a dozen or so local, council-owned farms, to produce a bio-methane alternative fuel to power our larger vehicles. We have had the initial prototype operating for the last 18 months and are now awaiting an order of 12 or 13 additional models of the same kind. Going forwards, we are looking to implement power plants and storage facilities for bio-methane among our network of depots, to hopefully enable us to provide a carbon-neutral, environment maintenance service for Cornwall council and its district.

“Carbon is huge factor for the construction industry,” Dominic concludes. “Reducing our carbon and innovating softer solutions within civil engineering, for me, has become far less about concrete and the impact of using natural resources. The focus has shifted towards creating infrastructure that better interfaces with people, communities and nature.” ■ www.cormacltd.co.uk