The website offers an industry spanning sales platform linking up all building and civil engineering contractors and their sites regardless of size of project or parent company.

Users will encounter a familiar style online sales website, with clear categories and the option to sell at auction or to set a fixed price. A fixed low percentage is charged to the seller upon the successful completion of a sale. Users can hold an account and be invoiced on a monthly basis.

The site also features RSS Auctions; using this tool subscribers are immediately informed when items are uploaded that fall into certain specified categories. This will allow specialist contractors to keep watch for any stock that comes onto the market that is core to their business.

ConstructionResale.co.uk launches at a time when the UK construction industry produces 13m tonnes of material waste, products that were ordered, delivered to site, never used, skipped and sent to landfill. (Source: DTI Construction and Building Services Information.)

The fragmented site by site nature of the UK construction industry means that communication between sites is limited which leads to unnecessary waste. ConstructionResale.co.uk provides a service that can bring together construction procurement professionals to significantly reduce waste, benefiting both the environment and the economy.

Improved sustainability

Construction is facing enormous pressure to find ways to conserve and make best use of our increasingly scarce natural resources. Site Waste Management Plans (SWMPs) will make it a legal requirement for those responsible for construction projects in England worth more than £250,000 to assess how much waste will be produced on-site, and how it will be recycled or disposed of responsibly. (Source: Netregs) ConstructionResale.co.uk is being launched at a crucial time to assist the UK construction industry with the fulfillment of legal and corporate social responsibilities.

Improved profits

Unnecessary waste does not only impact on the environment but also the profitability of a business. In the UK it is estimated that 13% of all materials delivered to sites go into skips without ever being used. (Source: CIRIA)

A recent study revealed the true cost of the average 8 cu yd skip:
Skip Hire £ 85
Labour to fill skip £ 163
Cost of Materials put in skip £1095
TOTAL TRUE COST = £1343

(Source: Darlington Study, Waste Minimisation in Construction – A Case Study, Robin Gibson, Senior Environmental Advisor)

ConstructionResale.co.uk will reduce these costs and allow the construction industry to benefit from:

- Reduced material costs.
- Reduced waste carriage and disposal costs.
- Opportunity to sell used construction equipment direct to other contractors rather than back to original suppliers at unrealistically low prices.
- Increased options for contractors trying to track down ‘in demand’ specialist construction materials and products that often go into short supply at times of great demand.
- Opportunity to buy used rather than hired or new with the security that there is a marketplace for the resale of these materials.
- Access for smaller contractors to the ‘cut price’ material waste of the larger contractor.
- A platform that demolition contractors can use to sell useful reclaimed building materials avoiding unnecessary recycling. 

“The vast quantity of useful material waste produced by the construction industry and a lack of cross company communication has led me to create ConstructionResale.co.uk. We are an online marketplace that facilitates the sale and purchase of construction materials and products to improve the sustainability and economic efficiency of our industry,” says Will Goode, Managing Director, ConstructionResale.co.uk