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A peaceful resolution – Former Kodak building, Reading
Using: Articulated Units c/w HIAB (Lorry Loading Cranes) Just as the large site formerly home to Kodak was being prepared for demolition in order to be redeveloped, an armada of marauding caravans arrived and occupied the recently cleared out areas. Quick action was required before too much of the accompanying mess was generated. It was…
TVCB – A solid response
Using: TVCB (Temporary Vehicle Control Barrier) There is no faster way to deploy a very real physical barrier than with 2 and a half tonnes of reinforced concrete in the form of a TVCB. That’s what the intruders at a communal field in Sayers Common in Sussex found out when we delivered two within half…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Working with Veolia at Swan Hunter Shipyard
7.5m x 3m x 25mm Anti Skid – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY We were contacted by Veolia Environmental Services about an important project at the Swan Hunter former shipyard in Tyneside. They are embarking on the ambitious task of a safe and sustainable decommissioning and recycling of 8 former gas platforms, at 18…