Case Studies
Below is a list of all case studies but you can also filter them by sector by selecting one of these tags:
WWTW, Kent – Large masses in small spaces
Using: Steel plates for Ballast/Test Weights/Kentledge Blocks A long standing customer contacted us with a basic concept for a temporary ‘stop end’ on a drain run within the confines of an older WWTW. In principle it was fairly straightforward and have normally involved stackable kentledge blocks, but there was a problem. Despite the area adjacent…
Support of a scaffolding section – Parliament Square, Westminster
Using: Out size and odd sized plates The Palace of Westminster is a fine old building but certainly requires a fair bit of upkeep. It’s importance, size and position in one of the busiest parts of the nation’s capital, not to mention sensitive security issues, presents those charged with its care with some very particular…
Working with U.K Airports – Protecting new concrete
Using: 6m x 3m x 25mm AIR SIDE – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY Even those that have never set foot on a runway or airside apron will have looked out a plane window in wonder at the massive patchwork quilt of concrete panels that make up modern ground airport infrastructure. It is of…
Ashtead Level Crossing Works – Network Rail
Using: 6m x 3m x 25mm Anti Skid – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY A fundamental planning oversight from many years ago had left a Network Rail maintenance manager with a really serious problem. A section of roadway on a level crossing was in dire need of repair. This would normally a difficult enough…
Mynachady Wind Farm – South Wales
Using: 4m x 2m x 25mm Airside – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY As is often the case with wind farms, being as they, usually sited on remote hill tops, some heavy equipment has to be moved along roads and thoroughfares that are wholly unsuited for oversize traffic. This was certainly the case for…
Toyoda Gosei Ltd – Swansea – South Wales
Using: 4m x 2m x 25mm – Steel C/W SALLY A Japanese injection mouldings manufacturer, specialising in products for the automotive industry invested millions of pounds in its Swansea facility. This included a huge new concrete floor slab on which some new and very heavy injection moulding machines were to be installed. A series of…
Airside – London Heathrow
Using: 3m x 1.5m x 25mm Airside – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY Having supplied plates for ‘airside’ projects in the past we were aware of some of the problems faced by these challenging sites. Normal friction treatments were unsuitable for various reasons including; Should the resin-grit become unadhered due impact, bending of plates…
Barriers and blockers – Various sites U.K
Using: Heavy duty – SERIES 38 – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY In a programme of security upgrades a client had a series of sites whose vehicle access security was handled by automated or manned barriers. This is due unfortunately, to a world full of hostile actors, which as the headlines will show, have…
Chelmsford Racecourse – Betfred
Using: 4m x 2m x 25mm Anti Skid – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY As part of a substantial work on the recently constructed facilities at the racecourse, some really big equipment and large structural elements were required on the infield area of the course. One thing was for absolute certain was that the…
Platform works – Eurostar TMD – Temple Mills, London
Using: 2.0m x 2.0m x 25mm Anti Skid – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY A customer with Eurostar as a client was commissioned to do some extensive works on the rolling stock maintenance workshops at Temple Mills ‘Train Maintenance Depot’ (TMD). As one would expect, Eurostar are an operation with significant engineering expertise and…