O'Keefe Utilities Limited

In 2005 Patrick O’Keefe identified a need for a recycling process and suitable material that could be used as the replacement of the virgin quarried Type 1 sub-base for highway reinstatements.  As a soil remediation specialist with over 20 years experience and a full-time laboratory he was able to conduct several years of extensive research and trials which has resulted in the production of a hydraulically bound Alternative Reinstatement Material (ARM).

The SMARTR Process

This lead to the creation of O'Keefe Utilities Limited and in conjunction with a leading European Soil Treatment Plant specialist, we developed, designed and built a mixing machine that could grade, stabilise and treat utility arisings that were previously sent to land fill sites; which was not only an expensive process, it was also not environmentally friendly or sustainable.  The process O'Keefe Utilities have developed is called the SMARTR Process. SMARTR is an acronym for: Stabilising Materials from Arisings - Re-grading & Treating for Re-use.

The material was designed to achieve the performance of a Structural Material for Reinstatement (SMR), as defined under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 in the Second Edition of the Street Works Code of Practice: Specification for the Reinstatement of Openings in Highway.  The Alternative Reinstatement Material we produce is known by its trade name; PAVIMENTUM.

PAVIMENTUM: The product name and it's origins

The name originates from the material that was used by the Romans for the construction of their roads over 2,000 years ago.

The roman roads were built using pieces of crushed stone, lime, flint, tile, and other materials which were set in a bed of ashes or cement and consolidated by beating down with a rammer.  The earth bed or the middle level of their road construction was known as 'Pavimentum’.

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