Building our World. Tarmac, a CRH company, is the UK’s leading sustainable building materials and construction solutions business.
With 150 years of experience and heritage to our name, we’re a national network of local businesses, combining the knowledge and expertise of two of the construction industry’s most iconic brands: Tarmac, pioneers and inventors of the modern road, and Blue Circle, the company that patented Portland Cement.
We employ around 7,000 people across a network of more than 350 sites across the UK.
Tarmac is part of CRH, the world’s leading building materials business.
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Tarmac combines the knowledge and expertise of two of the construction industry’s most iconic brands; Tarmac, the pioneers of the modern road; and Blue Circle, the company that patented Portland Cement.
Tarmac. Building our World.
Tarmac is evolving.
Our focus is Simplify, Connect and Optimise.
Across our business we are reinventing, reshaping, and automating. Offering more sustainable, lean, and effective solutions to accelerate the switch to integrated and next-generation construction. End to end, we have a transparent strategy to progress toward digitally enhanced, Net Zero. construction.
Across the supply chain and in partnership with industry, academic, and environmental organizations we are collaborating to future-proof productivity, minimize viable product requirements, and balance the pace of change.
Tarmac. Construction for everyone.
As well as providing market-leading packed products and PAVE infrastructure solutions, we contribute to some of the UK’s biggest construction projects. We have innovated for over 150 years and offer a rich heritage of contributions to landmark construction.
These include HS2, Preston Bypass/M1 (UK’s first motorway) Birmingham Library, St Paul’s Cathedral restoration, Silverstone, One Blackfriar, Wembley Stadium, Heathrow Terminal 5, Glasgow Airport, Blackpool Sea Defences, The Shard, London 2012 and The Mersey Gateway.
Our building and construction solutions span aggregates, asphalt, cement, ready-mix concrete, road contracting, highway maintenance, infrastructure services, building products, and recycling services. This combination of people, technology, assets, and innovation enables us to offer unrivalled choice and flexibility.
Our people
We employ around 7,000 people across the UK and are committed to developing a diverse thinking, multi-skilled, digitally savvy workforce.
We support personal development and well-being. We have invested in learning, development, and retraining opportunities at all career levels and opened our industry-leading Safety Park, dedicated to skills development and construction safety, in 2019. Almost 2,500 people benefited from specialized and personal learning in just 3 years.
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