V
ery much a family run business J O’Doherty Haulage Ltd was, like many success stories, started by one man and, in this case, a lorry. He is none other than Jim O’Doherty, an Irishman who started up as a sole trader
back in 1987 who saw a gap in the market to provide a skilled service to the building and construction industry. Almost three decades later his business has expanded to encompass not just general haulage but plant hire, demolition, general contracting, aggregates, recycling and skip hire – offering a complete one stop shop to the construction industry at large. And Volvo road-going trucks and construction equipment play a vital role in making this all happen. As the company has grown, Jim has been joined by
two of his sons James junior and Kieran who are actively involved in the day to day running of the company’s newly enhanced recycling yard at Edmonton North London. Overseeing the whole of the Edmonton operation is General Manager John Rochester who brings many years of experience from within the construction industry and is focused in further expanding the recycling business to fulfil the company’s quota of 365,000 tonnes of material per annum.
And he has plenty of scope, following a major
investment at the Edmonton facility which was able to expand and acquire more land turning it into a 7.2 acre site. Then, about eighteen months ago, the company set about concreting the entire area using as much as 10,000m3 of concrete laid to a depth of half a metre and strength of 97Nm. The work was carried out completely
‘in house’ and in doing so the yard became fit for purpose for handling heavy duty traffic and provided a solid foundation for the recycling business. At the same time a new shed was erected to house the handling and recycling of C&D waste, complete with a fully manned picking station. With plenty of room to expand in the future, the transfer station which operates around the clock handling C&D including cardboard, plastics, inert building waste is currently producing 100,000 tonnes of recycled material per annum. An important part of the recycling process which dominates the 7.2 acre Edmonton site is a mountain of demolition waste material which is brought back to the facility either from O’Doherty’s own contracts or from third parties around Greater London. (For example O’Doherty’s Edmonton facility is the only one licensed to process the redundant tunnel supporting segments from the Crossrail project.) This operation is supported by O’Doherty’s sister company Embassy Demolition which can trace its routes as far back as 1971. This important arm to the business undertakes speciality demolition and the attendant recycling solutions throughout Greater London and the Home Counties. All demolition material is brought back to the Edmonton facility for processing and recycling and is dealt with by a mix of resident Volvo excavators ranging from fourteen to forty eight tonnes equipped with either hydraulic hammers, selector grabs or standard buckets. Material is processed through an assortment of crushers and screens to produce a wide variety of crushed recycled material. In fact all grades are catered for from 70mm down to dust.
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