Case Studies in Urban
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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…
DDK Machine Movers – X Ray machines on Mezzanine – U.K Airport
Augmented and heightened security requirements in border entry points such as ports and airports has subjected facilities maintenance crews and the infrastructure and buildings they look after to a host of new challenges. In this case, a high level pedestrian walkway had to be navigated with some relatively heavy X-Ray machines. The corrugated and perforated…
Switchroom – UCL London
Using: 1.25m x 1.25m x 6mm (4ft x 4ft x 1/4 inch) – Steel Deep within the bowels of any building of consequence is a switch room containing heavy but sensitive electrical panels. Unfortunately, being the bowels, they aren’t always the prettiest places to try and work in and can often be a bit of…
Police Station – London U.K
Using: Secure Site Store – 20ft x 8ft ISO/Container Lifting Lug (Preston Shoe) The price of London office/storage space meant our client used their imagination and opted to turn an otherwise wasted outdoor area into the site for a couple 20 foot ISO stores for some long term storage. Access to the chosen drop zone…
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…
Battersea Power Station
Client: Ronin Events, Battersea Power Station Using: 6m x 3m x 25mm – Steel C/W Bevelled Edge and SALLY 4m x 2m x 25mm – Steel C/W SALLY How do you make safe the long abandoned and derelict interior of the world famous Battersea power station safe and secure for thousands of visitors attending an…
Big Bang at Battersea
Using: Demolition Grade Plates A client needed something to prevent debris from being scattered when their pyrotechnics devices were being detonated at a publicity stunt at Battersea’s iconic power station. The results ? Fire fighters were called to Battersea Power Station after a TV stunt caused concerns the historic building was alight. Flames were projected…
Client: Modular Air Systems – Robin Hood School, Sutton
Using: POLYROADS Modular Air Systems had been dropped in it by another hire company at short notice and contacted us looking for a heavy duty solution to spread the load of an 80 tonne crane over a paved footway. Time was of the essence as Traffic Management/Road Closures had been organised and the works installing…
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,…