Case Studies in Transport & Distribution
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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…
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…
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…