Case Studies
Below is a list of all case studies but you can also filter them by sector by selecting one of these tags:
Stately Home Gardens renovation – Surrey Hills
Using: Ground Mats (GPRM) A client working through a range of landscaping projects within one large garden complex needed a mitigation for the sizes and types of plant and machinery that were to be required throughout the works. Plus an area for parking tradesmen vans was needed. Because the activity was moving around the site,…
Henfield- Pre development site archaeological investigation
Using: ZIGMATS Part of a developer’s responsibilities prior to excavating on a green field site are the required archaeological investigations. They vary in site and scope, but very often require some level of vehicular or plant access on unmade/agricultural land. It is often the very first ground disturbance on site, and if not managed properly…
Rampion Off Shore Wind Farm – Access 4
Using: 3m x 1m x 70mm Ekki/Wooden Mats Creating roadways across land for a project like the Rampion off shore wind farm is always a challenge. Not least when the stakeholders and landowners are one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies with mission critical underground infrastructure crossing the route of the project’s own high voltage…
Heathrow Road Access
Using: FE45 – 3.6 x 3.0 x 45 mm An underground fuel line junction required repairs on a section that ran underneath a roadway used by heavy trucks in LHR. The 2.50 m (8 foot) square hole was to be left open for a period of weeks whilst an engineered solution was manufactured. Because it…
Royal Mail Logistics – Daventry
Using: Heavy duty – SERIES 38 – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY A last minute and unforeseen change on a major civil project at the Royal Mail logistics centre in Daventry left a potential new client with a really big problem. How to arrange that during the day, crews could carry out substantive remedial…
BNP Paribas/NHS Shrewsbury and Telford – Shrewsbury Hospital
Using: 3m x 1.5m x 25mm Anti Skid – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY A maintenance crew had a substantial schedule of works to perform on half a kilometre of underground pipework. The steam lines in question, were inside a network of sectional reinforced tunnels, directly under the access roads for the busy staff…
Battersea Power Station
Client: Ronin Events, Battersea Power Station Using: 6m x 3m x 25mm – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY 4m x 2m x 25mm – Steel C/W SALLY How do you make safe the long abandoned and derelict interior of the world famous Battersea power station safe and secure for thousands of visitors attending an…
Marylin Monroe
Using: Ground Mats (GPRM) Client: Anonymous – Secret location – South East England It’s not every day that you get asked to move a 20th Century icon (in fact we do have some form of this as a longstanding client, The Green Oak Carpentry Company, worked with Paul de Moncheuax to build a timber sculpture…
Concorde – London Heathrow
Using: 7.5m x 3m x 25mm AIR SIDE – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY Airside During a period of exceptionally high winds, the relatively complete version of Concorde on the apron at LHR was actually trying to take off! Having had the mighty Olympus engines and a good deal of the engineering kit removed,…
Big Bang at Battersea
Using: Demolition Grade Plates A client needed something to prevent debris from being scattered when their pyrotechnics devices were being detonated at a publicity stunt at Battersea’s iconic power station. The results ? Fire fighters were called to Battersea Power Station after a TV stunt caused concerns the historic building was alight. Flames were projected…