JOHN BARRITT’S PRESENT ROLE & TITLE (April 2014 to present):
Director of John Barritt Consulting Ltd providing information and guidance services on recycled aggregates and related issues to aggregate producers, construction companies and environmental regulators.
PROFILE:
John has over 40 years’ experience in the construction materials industry, covering ready mix concrete, asphalt, quarrying, marine aggregates, slag and recycling.
From 2002 he has focused on improving resource efficiency in construction and reducing waste to landfill as well as assisting the Environment Agency and other UK Environment Regulators in developing and promoting ‘end of waste’ Quality Protocols for aggregates from a range of recycled and secondary resources.
PREVIOUS ROLE& TITLE (May 2002 to March 2014):
WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) Special Advisor: Providing technical leadership and support on aggregates, construction materials, waste regulations and statistics to support the strategy, design and execution of the Built Environment programme and other appropriate programmes across WRAP
KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Aggregates, ’end of waste’:
Led WRAP’s development with Industry, the Highways Agency and the Environment Agency of a quality managed recovery process enabling recycled aggregates from inert C&DW to cease to be waste, published as the Quality Protocol for the Production of aggregates from inert waste.
Construction Demolition & Excavation Waste (CDEW) Statistics:
Led WRAPs investigation into the use and disposal of CDEW in England for 2008, the report on which was published in 2010 providing WRAP, Defra and industry accurate data on waste streams, recovery, recycling and disposal.
Soils to Landfill:
Led WRAP’s 2012 project to determine the influence of the use and disposal of construction soils on the CDEW stream and targets for waste reduction.
Regulated Dangerous Substances in aggregates:
Led WRAP work with industry from 2006 to 2008 investigating the comparative leaching of RDS of aggregates from natural, recycled and secondary resources.
The use of hydraulically bound mixtures (HBM) to increase the recovery of CDEW:
Led WRAP projects from 2006 to 2010 to remove barriers to the wider use of HBMs to increase resource efficiency in construction.
The sustainable use of resources for the production of aggregates:
Led two WRAP projects with industry in 2004/6 to develop economic models to evaluate how all resources suitable for the production of aggregates would meet future market demand.
RELEVANT BACKGROUND EXPERIENCE
Chaired the 2003/4 working group that produced the end of waste Quality Protocol for the production of aggregates from inert waste (aggregates QP).
Chaired the 2009/10 Technical Advisory Group for the five year review of the aggregates QP.
Member of Technical Advisory Groups for the development of end of waste Quality Protocols for products, including aggregates from steel slag, pulverised fuel ash, incinerator bottom ash, paper sludge ash, and dredgings.
Steering group member for Government CDEW surveys for 1999, 2001, 2003 & 2005.
Chairman of the Quarry Products Association Recycled Aggregates Committee 1997/2001
Managing Director of Tarmac Recycling 1997/2001 (part of Tarmac Plc.)
Director of Tarmac Roadstone Eastern 1993/97
Director of East Coast Slag 1994/96 (joint venture Tarmac/British Steel)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Fellow of the Institute of Quarrying: 2006 to present
Member of B502, the British Standards Institute committee for aggregates: 2004 to present
Member of B502/6, the British Standards Institute subcommittee on aggregate testing: 2004 to present
Member of TC154 WG13 the CEN (European) aggregates standards committee on Regulated Dangerous Substances: 2006 to present
Associate member of MIBAAA (Manufacturers of IBA aggregates association) 2017 to present
Member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of ICE international journal Construction Materials 2016 to 2018