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Millers of Longton Ltd, Hardstanding Expansion

Site Remediation

  • Millers Recovery (Millers of Longton) Value
  • £300,000
  • 8 weeks
Our operations require respect for the land, water and broader environment in which we work. We continuously strive to mitigate any adverse impacts our essential business may have on the environment, and we prioritise the safety, health, wellbeing and governance of not only our employees, but also the communities in which we live and work. Scope of Works Soil strip
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Northstone, Old Hall Road, Bromborough

Site Remediation

  • Northstone
  • £700k
  • 22 Weeks
Our operations require respect for the land, water and broader environment in which we work. We continuously strive to mitigate any adverse impacts our essential business may have on the environment, and we prioritise the safety, health, wellbeing and governance of not only our employees, but also the communities in which we live and work. Scope of Works Site clearance
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Northstone, Victoria Road, Horwich

Site Remediation

  • Northstone
  • £430k
  • 14 Weeks
Our operations require respect for the land, water and broader environment in which we work. We continuously strive to mitigate any adverse impacts our essential business may have on the environment, and we prioritise the safety, health, wellbeing and governance of not only our employees, but also the communities in which we live and work. Scope of Works Site strip
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M&J Evans, Hooten Lane, Leigh

Site Remediation

  • M&J Evans
  • £129k
  • 8 Weeks
Our operations require respect for the land, water and broader environment in which we work. We continuously strive to mitigate any adverse impacts our essential business may have on the environment, and we prioritise the safety, health, wellbeing and governance of not only our employees, but also the communities in which we live and work. Scope of Works Topsoil strip
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MWHT Waste Water Treatment Works, Dukinfield

Piling Mat Works | Site Remediation

  • MWHT Waste Water Treatment Works
  • £995k
  • 15 Weeks
Our operations require respect for the land, water and broader environment in which we work. We continuously strive to mitigate any adverse impacts our essential business may have on the environment, and we prioritise the safety, health, wellbeing and governance of not only our employees, but also the communities in which we live and work. Scope of Works Disposal off
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Bellway Homes, Pitsford Road, Manchester

Site Remediation

  • Bellway Homes
  • £1.64m
  • 20 weeks
Our operations require respect for the land, water and broader environment in which we work. We continuously strive to mitigate any adverse impacts our essential business may have on the environment, and we prioritise the safety, health, wellbeing and governance of not only our  employees, but also the communities in which we live and work. Scope of Works Tree Removal
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Gypsum Factory, Kirkby Thore, Penrith

Industrial Demolition | Decommissioning

  • Gypsum Factory
  • £137,000
  • 7 weeks
Removal of three ageing industrial burners Dismantling of associated ducting and steelwork Removal of a large conveyor drying unit Works delivered inside a live operational factory Controlled dismantling in areas with restricted headroom Safe management of asbestos-containing gaskets and textiles Set-up of a segregated dismantling and processing compound Continuous water suppression for dust control Transport of dismantled plant through active
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Shotton Mill, Deeside

  • John F Hunt
  • 6/7 weeks
We’re hard at work processing site-won material at Shotton Mill and making sure nothing goes to waste. Using our McCloskey S130 screener, we’re producing: – High-quality fill sand – 20mm pipe bedding – 40mm clean Not only that, we’re also crushing the oversize into a solid 6F2 aggregate, ready for reuse.
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Hope School, Wigan

Enabling Works | Asbestos | Demolition | Removal

  • Carefoot PLC
  • £320,000
  • 8 weeks
Our scope included asbestos removal works, removal of fixtures and fittings, demolish individual structures, breakout foundations and reinforced slabs, removal of metal gates, fencing and concrete posts, breakout of concrete kerbing and bollards, disposal of Tarmacadam paving and crushing of hard breakout for future reuse.
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Samlesbury Enterprise Zone, Lancashire

Bulk Earthworks | Enabling Works Runway Arisings

  • Lancashire County Council
  • £2.5m
  • 40 weeks
We excavated and disposed off-site existing runway and surrounding areas for the development of three units on the Samlesbury Enterprise Zone. Excavated material consisted of clean and contaminated arisings which were dispersed to applicable landfill sites which included Augean near Newcastle. We then imported clean aggregate to form the building platform for the new developments and undertook varied suites of
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Northstone, Horwich

Contracting

  • Northstone
  • £1.2m - Ongoing
  • 30 weeks - Ongoing
Remediation contract to facilitate construction of a new housing estate on an existing golf course site. Works included cut and fill within bed rock, crushing, forming roads and plot foundations and piling mats and the construction of a retaining wall.
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Mansion House, Scotia Road Stoke

Contracting

  • Mansion House
  • £1.65m - Phase 1
  • 16 weeks - Phase 2 to commence late 2025
Remediation of existing site in Stoke which was subject to mining activities. We undertook this through the winter months removing Japanese knot weed, contaminants and circa. 15,000 tonnes of surplus material off site. We provided foundations for 233 new units including a care home on programme and within clients budget.
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Brooke Hotel & Pub

Demolition | Crushing

  • Brooke Hotel & Pub
  • £320,000
Demolition/crushing of an old pub and bowling green to enable construction of new housing.
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Focus School Stockport

Demolition

  • Focus School Stockport
  • £100,000
Demolition of existing brick school and temporary wooden teaching units to allow construction of housing.
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M&Y Fleetwood

Demolition

  • M&Y Fleetwood
  • £100,000
Demolition of Existing houses, playground, basketball courts and associated infrastructure to enable the construction of new housing.
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Fleetwood Ship Demolition

Demolition

  • Fleetwood Ship
  • £52,500
Full Demolition and removal of two ships at Fleetwood Marina.
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Port Salford, Manchester Ship Canal

River Salteye Diversion

  • Sisk
  • £2.3m
  • 14 weeks
The scheme consisted of the construction of an access road and the realignment of 0.75km of the Salteye brook to facilitate construction of a port facility on the Manchester Canal. Over 250 thousand cubic meters of material was excavated from the new diversion and relocated locally for future processing. Tie in works included fish capture, temporary instalment of 60 sand
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Sale West, Greater Manchester

Site Preparation

  • Tyson Construction
  • £392k
  • 5 weeks
Works consisted of site prep ready for construction of a housing development including, site strip of vegetation, tree removal, removal of timber rail and concrete fencing, breakout and dispose of redundant infrastructure and reduce level excavation to formation levels in preparation of piling platforms and new infrastructure.
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George Cox, Heywood

Site Strip | Road Construction Including Capping Installation

  • George Cox
  • £238k
  • 13 weeks
Works consisted of a full site strip and relocation of topsoil into verges. Clay material was used in the cut and fill operation, any surplus material was taken off-site to a licensed facility. We then carried out the main carriageway excavation through the use of GPS-enabled machines, while simultaneously placing imported quarried materials, in order to form the carriageway to
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Rowland Homes, Richmond Point

Surcharge Placement | Road Construction & Pile Mat Installation

  • Rowland Homes
  • £6.2m
  • 2 years
Works consisted of importing graded aggregates to form a drainage layer due to the high water table on-site. Due to the site’s requirements an import of clean surcharge was required to act as a natural form of compaction, which was monitored by ourselves through installed monitoring pins and piezometers over the course of the project. Once the site had met
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Costain, M55

Reinstatement of farmland following on from the PWDR construction works

  • Costain
  • £870k
  • 19 weeks
Excavation of Costain main compound used for the Preston West Distributor Road construction. Works included the excavation of all imported aggregates and disposal off-site, break out of all hard standing for the welfare setup and on-site cut and fill works to re-profile the site by using GPS systems and earthworks softwares to reinstate the land to the original topography, utilising
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Fairhaven & Granny’s Bay Coastal Protection, Lytham

Bulk Earthworks | Civils | Enabling Works

  • BBA Joint Venture
  • £3.3m
  • 76 weeks
Breakout existing revetment and remove from site for recycling and re-importing recycled material for incorporation and shaping of new revetment. Construction of new revetment slope including concrete blinding. Construction of haul roads and crane mats to form new permanent road alignments. Reshaping of sand dunes, construction of concrete capping beam to enable placement of pre-cast concrete revetment unit. Earthworks to
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RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire

Bulk Earthworks

  • Lagan Aviation
  • £1.25m
  • 20 weeks
Breakout existing airport runway, utilising specialist guillotine and breaking equipment to a depth of up to 1 metre. Transport of arisings to the processing area, where they were crushed and screened to produce various sizes of aggregates for incorporation into the new runway construction. We undertook soft landscaping works as well as the crushing of 20,000m3 of plaining to be
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UBH, Burscough

Demolition | Remediation

  • Prospect Homes
  • £570k
  • 16 weeks
Demolition of existing industrial unit including removal of all asbestos sheeting, and waste materials from site which was heavily impacted with asbestos sheeting which had to be removed under controlled conditions utilising scissor lifts. The significant portal buildings were then taken down with large excavators which were fitted with shearing equipment to cut through the beams. All existing tabs were
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Henbury, Macclesfield

Remediation

  • Bellway Homes
  • £700k
  • 20 weeks
This site was heavily impacted by the presence of peat material which needed to be excavated and removed from site in part whilst some of the peat was placed under POS and garden areas. It was then necessary to provide enough engineered fill to meet the requirements of the contract, which was undertaken through a combination of soil inversions, relocation
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Jackswood AV, Ellesmere Port

Remediation

  • Northstone
  • £375k
  • 12 weeks
Initially, we undertook a cut and fill bulk earthworks exercise to appoint the site to the correct levels. This entailed breaking out existing roads which we crushed to produce usable aggregate which was placed and used within the new roads and as piling platforms. The surplus excavated material was hauled and placed in a large POS void adjacent to the
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