Case Studies in Construction
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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…
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…
Reinforcement of pedestrian block paving for Versalift access – Library of Birmingham
Using: 2.5m x 1.25m x 25mm (8ft x 4ft x 1 inch) Anti Skid – Steel The Library of Birmingham, sited in the pedestrianised ‘Centenary Square’, Birmingham, wanted to install an eco-friendly and energy efficient combined heating and cooling units. To do this, rather bringing in a truly massive crane, capable of reaching over the…
Sediment Tanks – Waste Water Treatment Works – Kent
Using: 7.5m x 3m x 25mm – Steel C/W SALLY An area within a WWTW previously used as a sediment tank required some extensive civil work. One troublesome feature was the open top of the tank that was adjacent to where men would be working. Options such as fencing off or surrounding with concrete blocks…
Ferrybridge Power Station – West Yorkshire
Using: 3m x 1.5m x 25mm – Steel C/W SALLY In 2016 the power generator SSE has took its final investment decision to proceed with the Ferrybridge Multifuel 2 project in West Yorkshire, and we became involved in the construction phase early in 2017. Some heavy kit was required on site, including the requirement to…
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…