2025 EIG 1-Day Technical Meeting
25th November 2025 - Stratford Manor Hotel, Warwickshire
EIG 1-Day Technical Seminar, Stratford-upon-Avon — Event Summary
The 2025 EIG One-Day Technical Seminar brought together professionals from over 60 organisations, making it the best-attended 1-day technical event in EIG history. Held in Stratford-upon-Avon, the day offered CPD, industry insight, and a full programme focused on the realities of planning and developing construction mineral resources in an increasingly constrained landscape.
This year’s event was dedicated to Geoffrey Walton, founder of the EIG 1-day technical seminar series, who sadly passed away in February at the age of 85. His commitment to knowledge sharing is the reason these meetings exist, and it was fitting to see such strong engagement in a year held in his honour.
Programme Overview
The seminar delivered exactly what the pre-event programme promised: a clear-eyed look at the challenges facing the UK extractives industry — from identifying viable deposits to navigating regulatory frameworks, evolving material specifications, and the broader push toward circularity.
Across 10 technical presentations and a concluding town-hall panel, attendees heard from experts across industry, consultancy, and research on topics including:
The Future of High Specification Mineral Supply
How PSV stone is utilised in asphalt (Mike Wharton, MPA)
Current PSV supply and demand, including insights from the latest BGS survey (Alan Thompson, Cuesta Consulting)
How circularity may reshape future requirements
Managing Nuisance Blasting
“The journey so far and next steps” (Nick Horsley, MPA & Tom Clifford, GEARS)
Practical approaches to impact mitigation
Use of Imported Materials in Quarry Restoration
Impending changes to Landfill Tax and their implications
Integrating inert fill into design, including attenuation layers
(Chris Berryman & Mike Reeve, SLR Consulting)
The Future of Sand & Gravel Aggregates
Industry perspectives on viability, cost pressures, and shifting markets (Craig Arditto)
Changing uses and specifications for industrial sands (Tom Bide, BGS)
Update on marine aggregates (Dr Andrew Bellamy)
Mineral Supply Issues: Constraints on Future Reserves
A cross-industry panel — Nick Horsley (MPA), Chris Heffernan (MPG), Kris Furness (Breedon), Jenna Conway (Heatons) and Jim Davies (MHCLG) — tackled the big strategic questions: development pressure, resource sterilisation, replenishment challenges, and how the sector might respond.
Exhibitors, Sponsors & Networking
The event offered plenty of opportunities for networking, discussion and collaboration and welcomed eight exhibition stands from BAM Ritchies, Geobrugg, GWP Consultants, MPG, The Geological Society, LSS, Hafren Water and Envireau.
We would also like to, again, express our sincere thanks to our sponsors MPA, Heatons, MPG and Breedon Group. Without your support, the event would have never been possible.
Looking Ahead: Liverpool 2026
Our next major gathering will be the EIG Conference in Liverpool, September 2026 — a four-day event combining two days of field excursions with two days of conference sessions. More details will follow soon, keep an eye on our event page for more information…
The event was preceded by the QNJAC meeting held on the evening of Monday 24th November 2025.