It’s estimated that the UK construction industry uses a whopping 400 million tonnes of material each year and produces 1000 million tonnes of waste, 25 million tonnes of which are destined for landfill.

With both his father and his uncles in the industry, you could say that construction is in Brendan O’Hara’s blood.

Last week, following the Chancellor’s launch of the National Infrastructure Commission in York, a body that will ensure that the billions of pounds the Government is to spend on transport links in the North will deliver real benefits for people and businesses, George Osborne made a visit to the A1L2B site.