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My Company CRH - https://www.crh.com

From the 2021 Annual Report “CRH is the leading building materials business in the world”. To summise just how a small company in 1970 founded in Ireleand has made it to the global behemoth they are the company release a very informative video;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzStqSDjQnI

CRH is an incredibly large company with some basic 2021 performance highlights of sales of 31 billion dollars with profits after tax of 2.6 billion dollars. This has led to them being in 28 countries, 3235 locations, employing over 77400 employees and the number 1 building materials business in North America and Europe.

CRH is a diverse company in the building material sector with products in the Residential, Commercial, Utility and the Transport industry. A diverse portfolio that has let to strong performance even during the global pandemic.

CRH has 4 core strategic pillars that guide the company, Continuous Improvement, Focused Growth, Benefits of Scale and Integration and Developing Future Leaders. Which has enable this success and their at the forefront of low impact environmental solutions to capitalise on this emerging market.

CRH has 3 divisions;

Europe Materials – Focusing on cements and aggregates which is used in major public infrastructure, commercial buildings and residential building developments. This division accounted for 34% of the global sales in 2021.

Americas Materials – Vertically integrated supplier of aggregates, cement, asphalt, readymic concrent, paving and construction services in North America. This division accounted for 40% of global sales in 2021

Building Products – One of the leading suppliers of building products in the globe, suppling pavers, patio products, structural concreting, glazing systems to entire building projects. This division accounted for 26% of global sales in 2021.

Projects that CRH have had a large part in are;

The Dallas Cowboys Stadium in Texas, 3 million square foot, 100,000 seat stadium

Lövö Bridge, Finland – Delivering over 3000 cubic metres of frost resistant concrete for the 473 metre bridge

The Kovacica Windfarm – Supplied 34,000 cubic metres of specialised concrete for the construction of the turbines

Favourite Blogs

Angela Louttit Blog

The final stretch with a stretching photo… I’m a millennial, you have me hooked. What she has achieved over her years of study Is commendable. I only have a fur child and I’m finding study hard, with a family and full-time job. Wow.

Ryans Accoutning Blog

You make a Simpsons reference, I’m your forever. I grew up watching the Simpsons. I was always Bart Simpson growing up because I only have 4 fingers on my left hand, so I have always loved them. Look one day if enough people ask I’ll post a photo ;)

Katie Ferrier – Surviving ACCT11059

I feel that on a molecular level! Surviving is the aim of the game but once again another person with a young family studying, full time work and kicking goals. What’s not to love?

My Studiosity Feedback

So, as we all have realised now I’m very new to this university thing did make a small error in my understanding of what was required in the studiosity section, mind you I think I made them work harder. I have been working a bit out of order on this assignment and I actually submitted my KCQ’s that I had generate for Step 5. But I feel it would be duplicitous to send this document in as well as I submitted over 3000 words to Studiosity and they had comments and suggestions back to me within 3 hours. That’s incredible.

There was some minor issues with the Studiosity feedback as it’s more aligned to essay type writing with proper formatting, referencing and the use of “I” is generally not recommended. But reading through the feedback of “Natalie C” she was incredibly helpful in identifying some poor grammar and spelling and really assisted me with some choice of language. I tend to get very “wordy” and she made mention of my passive voice, which I really do use a little too much don’t I? Oh the irony in using a passive voice to identify I was using to much passive voice…. And again…. Someone stop me please!

Overall though I think this service is an incredibly handy to have for university studies and I’m so glad that I have been told of it’s existence and used it in one of my first ever assignments. It will be a resource I will look to as I progress in my studies.