Orford House

Refurbishment of Driveway, Orford House, Coulsdon

Job Title

Refurbishment of Driveway, Orford House, Coulsdon

Client

Friends of the Elderly

Description

Refurbishment of the driveway to a Grade II listed Georgian home which is used as a residential home run by registered charity, Friends of the Elderly.

Whilst keeping the access open we carried out the planning out of the old driveway surface, repaired the base in localised areas and resurfaced the drive with hand laid dense macadam surface course. The work included excavating and disposing of the old concrete edges and replacing with new concrete edgings and tidying the grass verges.

Duration

1 Week

Coastal repairs and renovation

Hove Deep Sea Anglers Concrete Retaining Wall & Car Park

Job Title

Hove Deep Sea Anglers Concrete Retaining Wall & Car Park

Client

HDSA Hove, East Sussex

Description

The car park at the Hove Anglers Club was in need of repair.  Following the winter storms retaining wall had been undermined and had caused damage to the reinforce structure. Voids had formed under the car park hard stand where the shingle beach had been washed away.

The project was to break out the concrete slabs and retaining wall over a length of 30m and reconstruct in new reinforced C30 concrete. Excavations were undertaken with 15 tonne excavators during low tides, a shingle berm was formed to keep the site dry in all but the highest tides. Formwork and concrete pours were carried out to complete the work.

Duration

4 Weeks

Gateway Cafe

Gateway Café, Centenary Park, Peacehaven

Job Title

Gateway Café, Peacehaven

Client

Peacehaven Town Council

Description

As part of an improvement package to the sports and leisure complex at the Centenary Park, the forecourt to the Gateway Café was replaced with new porous block paving. The old slab and tarmac surface was taken up and removed, with new brindle paving laid on SUDs type 3 sub-base.

Materials and plant accessed the site through the public car park and care was taken to manage the routes for construction traffic to ensure the safety of users of the park and sports centre.

Work was undertaken by our specialist block laying team during the winter months and when combined with the other surfacing and line marking works that we carried out in the park completed a facelift to the public areas.

Duration

3 Weeks

Dualit Offices

Dualit Offices, County Oak, Crawley

Job Title

Block Paving Repairs, Crawley

Client

Dualit

Description

Dualit’s office in County Oak Crawley was originally laid to block paving which over the years has suffered wear and tear from intensive use. We were contracted to carry out a repairs programme of lift and relay along with lift and replace according to the state of the existing blocks in order to minimise the cost to the client.

The warehouse and yard were in constant use, so with effective communication and liaison with the on-site staff, we were able to plan our works to avoid disruption to customers, deliveries and employees.

Duration

1 Week

Haslemere Car Park 1

High Street Car Park, Haslemere

Job Title

Haslemere High Street Car Park

Client

Waverley Borough Council

Description

Complete resurfacing of the town’s main car park adjacent to the busy supermarket, including base repairs, installation of new drainage gullies and reconfiguring the ticket machines and kerbing. On completion of the surfacing, the whole car park was line marked.

We machine laid 200tonnes of surfacing with a paving machine that was small enough to maintain access and had the advantage of being quicker than hand laying, keeping the project on track. Work required liaison with the super market and adjacent businesses management and security staff.

Safe access was maintained for pedestrians and traffic whilst keeping a minimum of one third of the car park open at all times. This was achieved through planning and effective communication with stakeholders and the use of night time working to reduce the disruption to shoppers and the public whilst the work was under way.

Duration

3 Weeks

De La Warre Car park

De La Warre Car Park, East Grinstead

Job Title

De La Warre Car Park, East Grinstead

Client

Mid Sussex District Council

Description

The resurfacing at De la Warre car park was carried out with the complete closure of the existing public car park at the rear of East Grinstead town centre. Signs were erected diverting the public to alternative adjacent parking facilities. Site access was through a single entrance at one end. Heras fencing was erected along one side to close off the works from pedestrians and vehicles.

A 1m planer was used to remove existing surfacing forming flush levels with the adjacent surfaces. Drainage covers, gullies, channels and ironwork were adjusted to suit the new levels, as the contract called for the overlay of the existing surface with a new machine laid dense macadam overlay.

Duration

3 Weeks

Cyprus Road Car Park, Burgess Hill

Job Title

Cyprus Road Car Park, Burgess Hill

Client

Mid Sussex District Council

Description

Extension and resurfacing of an existing public car park close to Burgess Hill town centre. Access was maintained through a single car park entrance at one end. Heras fencing was erected to safely keep pedestrians and vehicles from accessing the car park during a partial closure to enable the work to be completed.

A planer was used to remove existing surfacing to form flush levels with the adjacent surfaces. Drainage covers, gullies, channels and ironwork were adjusted to suit the new levels, the contract called for the overlay of the existing surface with a new machine laid dense macadam overlay.

Duration

8 Weeks

Gatwick Diamond Development Section 278

Job Title

Gatwick Diamond Development, Manor Royal Crawley

Client

Willmott Dixon

Description

Section 278 Works carried out on behalf of the Willmott Dixon development in Manor Royal Crawley required the construction of a bellmouth access into the site, the associated highway drainage, kerbing and surfacing. Hobart Paving liaised closely with WSCC arranging approvals of traffic management and road space bookings. The work included HRA and chipping surface course, antiskid friction surfacing in the bus lanes and the thermoplastic line marking.

We coordinated with statutory services for the lowering of services, connections to highway lighting and illuminated signage.

This work formed part of a larger contract including the SUDs paving of the carparking and slab paving surrounding the new office development.

Duration

20 Weeks

Gatwick Diamond Development Drainage

Job Title

Gatwick Diamond Development Drainage, Manor Royal Crawley

Client

Willmott Dixon

Description

Willmott Dixon appointed as the main contractor to develop a large parcel of land on the Manor Royal Industrial Estate for the building of a prestigious office block. Hobart Paving Company carried out the drainage connections for the highway surface water gullies into the existing system via backdrop manholes.

Our qualified confined spaces drainage gang working at a depth of 2½m, broke into the base of the manhole and formed the backdrop in VC pipework and reformed the granolithic benching. Other work on the site consisted of running connections to and forming the road gullies in the bellmouth, constructing precast concrete catchpits and kerb inlet Beany drains.

Duration

20 Weeks

Gatwick Diamond Car Park Construction

Gatwick Diamond Development

Job Title

Gatwick Diamond Development, Manor Royal Crawley

Client

Willmott Dixon

Description

Willmott Dixon appointed as the main contractor to develop a large parcel of land on the Manor Royal Industrial Estate for the building of a prestigious office block appointed appointed us as the specialist block laying contractor to supply and lay 7500m2 Marshall Priora porous block paving to the car park and access roads together with 1420m2 400×400 St George slab paving tp the footways.

Parking bays were laid in buff with delineation in white, access roads in charcoal all laid in 90° herringbone pattern on porous macadam base.

Our staff worked in 3 and 4 man teams to complete laying and cutting operations in a phased programme maintaining access for Willmott’s building and trades subcontractors to continue work on the office build throughout.

Duration

20 Weeks