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    HBC joins MukAway soil exchange: digital spoil logistics insights for project teams

    March 5, 2026|

    Reviewed by Tom Sullivan

    HBC joins MukAway soil exchange: digital spoil logistics insights for project teams

    First reported on The Construction Index

    30 Second Briefing

    HBC Construction (formerly Henry Boot) has become the first major contractor to join MukAway, a digital spoil-management platform that matches sites with surplus soil to projects needing fill. The app, already used by major housebuilders including Vistry, Barratt, Bellway and Keepmoat, operates on a low subscription model to broker soil movements and cut waste to landfill. HBC managing director Lee Powell expects the platform to reduce muck-away costs and enable direct collaboration between contractors and housebuilders on bulk earthworks.

    Technical Brief

    • MukAway functions as a materials management application specifically targeting surplus soil and fill movements.
    • Platform currently has established user base with major UK housebuilders Vistry, Barratt, Bellway and Keepmoat.
    • HBC Construction is the first large multidisciplinary contractor to formally integrate with the MukAway network.
    • App developer frames HBC’s onboarding as enabling “full construction solution”, i.e. contractor–housebuilder bulk earthworks pairing.
    • Civil engineering relationships were already in place before HBC joined, indicating prior use on infrastructure-type schemes.
    • HBC’s managing director explicitly links adoption to measurable reductions in waste-to-landfill volumes.
    • MukAway’s CEO expects HBC’s participation to trigger follow-on adoption across the wider contracting sector.

    Our Take

    Among the 33 Software stories in our coverage, very few focus on UK-based contractors like HBC Construction and Henry Boot, signalling that digital soil exchange platforms are only just starting to penetrate mainstream building contractors rather than staying with specialist waste or remediation firms.

    With major UK housebuilders such as Vistry, Barratt, Bellway and Keepmoat named alongside HBC Construction, this kind of soil exchange software is likely to have most impact on large multi-site earthworks portfolios where balancing cut-and-fill across schemes can materially reduce haulage, disposal costs and embodied carbon.

    Because this sits in the Sustainability-tagged subset of our database, it reinforces a pattern where UK contractors are turning to relatively light-touch digital tools—rather than capex-heavy plant changes—to demonstrate carbon and waste reductions on projects to local authorities and ESG-conscious clients.

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