Case Studies in Road Construction and Repair
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Double door containers – The one in, one out policy
Using: Secure Site Store – 20ft x 8ft High Cube – Double Door These are a relatively new assimilation into our hire fleet. They have all of the advantages of a normal High Cube 20 foot, but benefit from doors both ends. This means whichever way round the unit is dropped on site, there will…
Need to keep roadside plant secure? – Pump up the volume!
Using: Secure Site Store – 20ft x 8ft x 9ft 6in High Cube One of our longest standing clients used to suffer very badly with plant being stolen or maliciously interfered with from their invariably roadside job sites. But for many years now they have used 20 foot high cube containers to keep the 3…
Standing tall?
Using: Secure Site Store – 10ft x 8ft x 9ft 6in High Cube Sometimes a little more height is needed. That’s why we have some high cube versions of the standard 10ft x 8ft. Being more than foot taller inside, with their elevated roofs, they will hold higher items such as a 2.7 tonne mini…
Universal roadside storage
Using: Secure Site Store – 10ft x 8ft We have more of these handy storage units on the hire fleet than just about anything else. A perennial favourite with roadside crews such as gas, water and civil, they can be moved and re-sited with a half decent HIAB, even when they’ve been loaded up with…
Filling station curtilage – Making an excavation safe
Using: ALLOY PLATE 3.0 X 1.5 X 40mm An underground feeder line in a long standing petrol station site suffered a breach due to the concrete above being overloaded over a period of many years. The engineers sent to site were to isolate the problem and stem the leak, but in locating it a large…
S.E Area Gas main replacement – SGN/SSE
Using: Low Pros It is often said that the home is one of the most hazardous job-sites there is. So when a team of gas engineers turns up in a residential street, literally right outside your front door, bodies like SGN/SSE demand the absolute pinnacle of safety related hardware available. That’s why whenever they are…
Mains water re-routing – The Shard, London
Using: Modular GRP Plates Like a lot of the bigger developments in urban job sites of recent years, The Shard was no exception when it came to pushing the boundaries. Even relatively simple tasks like installing roadplates to protect services or open trenches was complicated by the sheer complexity of the existing underground infrastructure and…
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…
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…