Case Studies in Civil Engineering
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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…
Who’s the only firm that could take the strain at the Liverpool docks?
Using: SERIES 38 – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY Something that anyone who has seen the truly massive portside container cranes at Liverpool 2 Docks may not have considered is how they got there. Had you asked us before this project, we might have assumed that they were assembled on site, out of locally…
Client: Modular Air Systems – Robin Hood School, Sutton
Using: POLYROADS Modular Air Systems had been dropped in it by another hire company at short notice and contacted us looking for a heavy duty solution to spread the load of an 80 tonne crane over a paved footway. Time was of the essence as Traffic Management/Road Closures had been organised and the works installing…
Sally Safelifters
We are prevalent in technology relating to road plates, their handling and their uses. Our researchers are always looking for the best solutions. That is how we maintain our status as ‘state of the art’. Over the years we’ve tried different ways of suspending and lifting plates of all sizes on site. Up until the…
Cargo Tunnel LHR
(Using 2.4m x 2.1m x 40mm C/W Sally Lifter – Bridging Plates) London Heathrow Airport has one of the busiest air cargo operations in the world, handling in excess of 2.3 million tonnes a year. The vast majority of which moves through a handful of cargo service tunnels. Closing these for any length of time,…
Working with Horsham District Council – Recycling centre and car park surface
2.5m x 1.25m x 25mm (8ft x 4ft x 1 inch) – Steel Horsham District Council had a problem. At a park and ride car park on the outskirts of Horsham town in Sussex an area had been set aside to handle truck mounted ‘roll on – roll off’ recycling and waste bins. The mass…
Lancaster Expressway
Using Custom made, project and special sized plates An 8695 Aston Mat One of the country’s leading structural concrete repairers and stabilisation specialists had a problem. In order to complete a project on one of the UK’s busiest dual carriageways feeding the M6 they had to remove the paved surface in order to access the…
White Horse – Chelsea FC
Using 2.5m x 1.25m x 20mm (8ft x 4ft x 3/4 inch) Anti Skid – Steel A long standing customer, WHITE HORSE CONTRACTORS, had a project at CHELSEA F.C’s Stamford Bridge ground. A below ground service trench, about 100 m long, needed covers that were durable, strong, not prone to theft or interference, but safe…