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Job Title

Centenary Court, Basingstoke

Client

Kier

Description

Construction of new car park for redevelopment of Centenary Court in Basingstoke. The work included demolition and reconfiguration of the existing site and forming a new car park with associated drainage for 110 cars. Our construction teams completed the groundworks and used over 500t of sub-base recycled from the demolition of the old structures on site. New drainage soakaways were constructed beneath the new parking areas and the verges and islands were planted up with shrubs.

A paving machine was used to lay the tarmacadam base and binder courses over two days, finally topping off with the surface course in one visit laying 220t of 10mm DBM macadam. The line marking with all bays individually numbered took place before the car park opened.

Construction Date

July 2018

Job Title

Acton Park Estate, The Vale W3 London

Client

SEGRO

Description

As part of a scheme to improve safety on a busy west London trading estate, we were contracted by SEGRO to undertake resurfacing works in the main entrance to the estate.

The specification called for planning out the existing failing surface course and replacing with a reinforced heavy duty macadam stone mastic surface course. In order to avoid disruption to the businesses on the estate the work was carried out at night. Closing the main gate, we used a 2m tracked planer to remove the old surface directly into tippers lorries, we spray applied tack coat emulsion along with fixing the reinforcing mesh to the planned surface before machine laying 120t of heavy duty SMA surface course. Work was completed in the early hours ready for the first vehicles the next day. The following evening line markings, zebra crossings and speed humps were fixed.

Construction Date

2018

Job Title

Mike Hawthorne Drive, Farnham

Client

Waverley Borough Council

Description

Surfacing improvements at the end of Mike Hawthorne Road, Farnham, where it accessed an existing car park.

The gradient of the road was too steep and vehicles were grounding as they travelled up the slope. The remit was to remove the kerbs, excavate the old carriageway and reconstruct the road to highway standards.

Using a 5t excavator,  half the width of the road was dug out, removing 8 loads of spoil. recycled stone sub-base was imported, compacting with a twin drum Bomag120 roller before hand laying the base, binder and surface course macadams. Each side being completed before opening up to traffic.

The yellow no parking lines finished the job.

Construction

July 2018

Job Title

Riverside Car Park, Farnham

Client

Waverley Borough Council

Description

Resurfacing of the aisles in Riverside car park. Budget restraints meant that the parking spaces were to be left un-surfaced so we had to carefully plane and saw cut the edges of the existing bays. The aisle was planed with a 1m road planer, removing the top of the existing tarmac ready to receive the new surface course macadam.  A paving machine was used to lay the new 10mm DBM macadam. The line marking gang followed behind to refresh the bays and mark out new disabled spaces.

 Construction Date

April 2018

Job Title

Salvation Place, Leatherhead

Client

Surrey County Council

Description

As part of the redevelopment at Salvation Place caravan park, we under took the construction of a new site plot, excavating for the new parking area with 360° excavators in a restricted location. The spoil was removed by a grab lorry which also delivered the stone sub-base. Our team worked at the rear of a live site, taking care to cause minimal disruption to the residents, with the movement of plant and lorries carefully managed. The plot was constructed to Surrey County Council standards, the concrete kerbs and edgings laid on a concrete bed.

The surfacing, in DBM macadam was carried out by our own surfacing gang using our Bobcat skid steer and Bomag 80 Roller.

Value

April 2018

Job Title

Breakspear Park, Hemel Hempstead

Client

Workman

Description

Breakspear Park, Hemel Hempstead is an impressive business centre on a 16-acre landscaped site close to the M25 with many businesses on campus. We were contracted to extend the parking facilities through Workman, the management company employed to oversee the management of the estate. The project required the excavation and shaping of the adjacent land to form a tarmac and grass block construction car park extension to the existing parking layout. Much of the earthworks were carried out by ourselves with hired in excavators and construction plant. Imported materials formed the road construction with reduced fines sub-base going below the grass blocks which were subsequently filled with soil and seeded.

Duration

10 Weeks