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Case Studies
Arctic HIAB in a tight space
Our Artic-HIAB service proved invaluable again today. Two single piece end frames were collected from the factory at 05.00 hrs and transported to site for just after 07.00 hrs, thus avoiding disruption on the A27 even with a 3.50 metre wide ‘Abload’. Once a few site issues were dealt with, the versatile 36 tonne per…
Client: Hailsham Structures/Austin Divall – Former Brewery Yard, Lewes
Ground break and first sections go into site. We will be keeping you up to date with this ambitious project in the heart of historic Lewes, East Sussex.
Client: RK Civils – Road deck repairs, Liberty Bridge Rd, E20 1AS
A regular client, RK Civil Engineers, has finished their road deck & reinstatement works at Liberty Bridge, adjacent to the Stratford International Rail Station & railway line. In order to keep costs under control we sent a low loader and our capable of carrying the 11 tonne excavator, 8 tonne excavator and 6 tonne dumper….
Bridge refurbishment site – Walton on Thames
Client ‘Driver…can you put that steel beam over there please ?’ Our driver ‘Over where?’ Client ‘Over there, see that pile of bricks?’ Our driver ‘Yup….’ Client ‘See that stack of beams the other side of them?’ Our driver ‘I do…’ Client ‘And beyond that is a hole, just beside that tree, about 20 metres…
Client: Littlehampton Welding Ltd – Facebook offices, London U.K
Client: Littlehampton Welding Ltd – Facebook offices, London U.K LHW had another one of their interesting little jobs… some medium weight fabrications had been built off-site and had to be trucked up to site, into a general cargo/service drop off, and craned into position. All without interrupting the FB buzz just 18 inches above the…
Adenstar Construction – London Heathrow
During a period of exceptionally high winds, the relatively complete version of Concorde on the apron at LHR was actually trying to take off! Having had the mighty Olympus engines and a good deal of the engineering kit removed, it was now extremely light. This, coupled with its breath takingly efficient fuselage and flight surfaces…
Client: J T Mackley – Molesey Weir B
This suite of works was being worked out of 3 sites along the banks of the Thames. as well as a lot of different types of equipment being required, the access varied enormously, resulting in the requirement to split loads. Some of the machinery was to be loaded directly onto barges, meaning some far reaching…
Client: Weald & Downland Museum – John Smiths timber yard crane
If you go down to the woods today… Last Autumn we went up into the Downs behind the Singleton open air museum to dismantle a 150 year old timber framed crane. And we’ve been looking forward to putting it back up ever since! Over the winter the old rotten timber sections were carefully removed from…
BNP Paribas/NHS Shrewsbury & Telford- Shrewsbury Hospital
This was another mission from the roadplatehire team. A maintenance crew had a substantial schedule of works to perform on half a kilometre of subterranean pipework. The lines in question, were in fact inside a network of sectional reinforced tunnels, directly under the access roads for the busy staff car park zones. Health and safety…
Austin Divall, Central London
Client: Austin Divall, central London How do you get a 5 metre steel beam through a hole about half a metre square? In short, with skill, care and early in the morning. With access via a car park entrance only, a manhole access was enlarged only as far as structural integrity would allow. Through this…