How Wernick Refurbished Buildings managed their waste while sustaining growth
Growing from a humble maker of poultry crates in 1934 to one of the UK's largest suppliers of pre-owned modular buildings
About Wernick Refurbished Buildings
Wernick Refurbished Buildings relocate and refurbish modular buildings to give them a second life. Compared to getting a newly built structure, obtaining a used, refurbished modular building can reduce 46% carbon emissions.
Location: York, North Yorkshire
Industry: Construction
Services Required:
- Plasterboard waste
- Wood waste
- Metal waste
- General waste
- Dry mixed recycling
- And more…
Key Takeaways:
- Functional skips and hooks that also have pristine appearances for customer visits
- Waste services kept relevant under growing demands
- Managing up to 9 different waste streams with cost saving
An ever growing business
Wernick Group grew from a humble maker of poultry crates in 1934 to Britain’s largest independent manufacturer and hirer of portable and modular accommodation. As part of the Group, Wernick Refurbished Buildings has been continuing the growth. In recent years, they quadrupled in size and they can only expect to continue.
Being in the construction industry, their waste demands will surely keep growing. Wernick Refurbished Buildings require a waste management partner who can keep up with the large strides they’re taking.
Challenge 1:
Maintaining tidy storefront for customer visits
Wernick Refurbished Buildings get visits from customers regularly to review the modular buildings at site. Keeping the site clean and tidy is a basic requirement to give customers a good impression.
Solution:
Pristine and functional skips and hooks
In collaboration with Fairport, the skips and hooks that Yorwaste provided are pristine and can be refurbished when needed. Wernick Refurbished Buildings are able to display their modular buildings to customers in a professional environment.
Yorwaste in collaboration with Fairport provide us with high quality, extremely good-looking skips. We have customers visiting site regularly, so it's really important we get our waste dealt with efficiently.
Challenge 2:
Managing multiple waste streams
Being in the construction industry, Wernick Refurbished Buildings produce different types of waste. It is complicated for them to manage large amounts of waste. They have up to nine waste streams including plasterboard waste, wood waste and more.
Solution:
Traversing roller crushers for all waste streams
Wernicks Refurbished Buildings worked with Yorwaste and developed a plan to implement traversing roller crushers for each waste stream. This helps them manage their complicated waste requirements easily.
Yorwaste are going to be growing with us. We talked about future developments and how we can improve our efficiencies. We worked together and developed the idea of traversing roller crushers across all our waste streams.
Challenge 3:
Changing waste demands
Wernick Refurbished Buildings have grown over recent years alongside their waste demands and requirements.
Solution:
Reduced waste collections through better waste compactions
With the help of Yorwaste, Wernick Refurbished Buildings kept their waste services relevant and saved £20,000 from reduced waste collections through on-site compactions.
From a business point of view, £20,000 is a phenomenal saving. We can't speak more highly of Yorwaste.