The works included all site levelling and grading, archaeological mitigation works, drainage, foundation and base materials with a surface wearing course of some 1million paving blocks – providing 20,000m² of paved lorry parking. New access points to the site were also constructed, along with perimeter kerbing footways and landscaping.

Jones Bros carried out all ground works for the Conygar/Road King joint venture, and procured compliant materials worth more than £750,000 from businesses based on the island.

Local suppliers to the project, included: Mona Precast, based in Gaerwen, which supplied paving materials. Hogan Group, which won the contract for dry aggregates, and Hanson, based in Gwalchmai, supplied the concrete.

On top of the £750,000 investment in local materials, Jones Bros also sourced a further £500,000 worth of materials from within 30 miles of the truck stop site, on the Parc Cybi business park.

The truck stop is open 24 hours a day 7 days a week, and it created over 35 permanent jobs.

For further info on this, please click here Truck Stop, Parc Cybi, Holyhead.

• Construction of 1,750m of a 7.3m wide carriageway
• Construction of four new roundabouts and modification of existing A55 slipway roundabout
• Street lighting, footpaths, fencing and random stone walling
• Highway and surface water drainage, including drainage swales and gravity foul sewers
• New reinforced earth and in situ concrete underpass, designed and constructed by Jones Bros
• Landscaping
• Service diversions

All work was carried out under strict archaeological constraints due to the proximity of ancient national monuments.

For further info on this, please click here Parc Cybi Industrial Estate.

A number of sustainable building technologies were installed in this bespoke project.

Recycled pulverised fuel ash from the power station provided material for the foundations and cement, and furnace bottom ash was used to construct the centre’s car park.

The building was insulated using recycled glass bottles and uses solar collectors to provide hot water. The education centre also has an environmentally friendly under-floor heating system, and rainwater from the roof is harvested and recycled.

The centre’s 15m fin also provides environmental benefits, housing energy-saving air heat pumps for the under-floor heating system, while roof-mounted cooling ducts are designed to catch the wind.

For further info on this, please click here Aberthaw Centre for Energy and the Environment.

The building was tailor made to the client’s requirements, and included housing offices, meeting rooms, kitchen and shower areas, as well as a storage shed with ample space to store components.

One of the overriding client requirements was for the building to be as energy efficient as possible, and also sympathetic to the surrounding environment. Therefore during the design stage, the specification included a timber frame building, lamb’s wool insulation, triple glazed windows, and solar panels coupled with under floor heating.
The outside was finished with natural local stone and areas of treated ship lapped timber.

The building was completed in November 2009, and marked a key milestone in the Crystal Rig project.

For further info on this, please click here Friardykes control building.

Jones Bros worked closely with Gwynedd Archaeological Trust, which had between 25 and 30 archaeologists on site.

The site ‘strip, map and sampling method’ was used to ensure that a wider picture of the archaeology of the site was recorded.

This allowed a more accurate completion date for the work to be given.

Work included construction of:  

• A new access road, including cycle/foot paths
  
• Two attenuation tanks
  
• Two detention basins and associated drainage  
  
• A new substation

In addition, the work involved the processing of rock excavated on site for use as capping materials.

For further info on this, please click here Parc Bryn Cegin Business Park.

In total, 350,000 cubic metres of soil and rock were stripped and re-deposited on site in order to create the new profile for the 3.6km long, 12m-wide circuit.  All materials excavated during construction remained on site. The establishment of an on-site quarry or ‘borrow pit’ reduced the cost of the project – and minimised disruption to the local area – by keeping an estimated 3,500 return truck journeys off the roads.

The construction of the track consisted of a:

• 200mm capping layer
• 100mm of type 1 sub-base
• 150mm lower road base
• 50mm binder
• 30mm surface courses

The lower road base was produced on-site using a specialist foaming plant which cold- mixed raw aggregate, pulverised fuel ash, cement and foamed bitumen.

For further info on this, please click here Anglesey Racing Circuit.