A nice pad in Knightsbridge?!
Working in our great capital city is always a challenge. Requiring care, patience, special compliances like FORS Silver but above all… planning!
So when our transport division were asked for help by our partners Kingswell Heavy Haulage and their client A.J.Wells Ltd we marshalled ourselves to dot all of the ‘i’s and cross all of the ‘t’s.
In addition to the issues surrounding a drop in the busy retail sector of Knightsbridge, just a hop, skip and jump from the world famous Harrods department store, working at night in a road closure and co-ordinating with about a dozen stakeholders, part of the job required the application of a HIAB outrigger jackload to a pavement area.
For those of you not familiar with the subterranean aspects of these ‘streets of gold’, a scratch of the surface invariably reveals a matrix of drains, telecoms, fibre optics, gas supplies, CCTV/surveillance infrastructure, electrical cables, abandoned voids and sewers that have been constructed and compounded since at least the mediaeval period.
All in all, never the kind of spot you’d want to be punching a hole through with an errant hydraulic cylinder!
So in order to prevent even the slightest chance of damage, it was calculated that some of our 2.0m x 2.0m x 25 steel plates will bring any potential ground loadings well below the safe threshold for cracking paving slabs etc.
Being equipped with our SALLY sockets meant that the laying out and subsequent recovery of them was simply documented and swiftly and safely carried out.
