Case Studies in Road Construction and Repair
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SGN-SSE Gas Main Replacements – South East London
Using: 2.5m x 1.25m x 12mm (8ft x 4ft x 1/2 inch) Anti Skid – Steel The gas main replacement schemes being carried out across the country at present are for many kilometres either 125 mm, 250 mm and 300 mm diameter pipe and therefore mainly involve trenches of less than 400 mm width. So…
SGN Gas Renewal Programme – Southdown Area
Using: 1.25m x 1.25m x 6mm (4ft x 4ft x 1/4 inch) Checker – Steel As part of SGN’s commitment to improve its infrastructure, teams of engineers have been working right across the country in some fairly challenging environments. One of their most important priorities is to ensure that customers never lose their gas supplies…
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…
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…