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ENGINEERING YOUR SOLUTIONS HBPW LLP, 43 Bridgegate, Retford, Nottinghamshire, DN22 7UX Tel: 01777 869 896 Fax: 01777 862 491 ISSUE THIRTY Email: [email protected] www.hbpw.co.uk HBPWNEWS Just What The Doctor Ordered CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Welcome Experience Triumphs Client: Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust simply become a toothless Contractor: Faircloth Construction Client: Peel Ports Ltd – More Parking! tiger? Let’s hope not! In £100m Project Contractor: Graham Construction Ltd One of HBPW’s latest combined with the road widening foundations so as to avoid the So many of our European engineering design projects in Portsmouth Road, we believe it pipes and cables serving the counterparts have already is now playing a key role will make a significant contribution hospital. delivered on high speed rail in alleviating queuing at a towards easing congestion on and “By their nature hospitals are leading hospital in Surrey. around the site.” – Germany, Holland, Spain, technically complex environments France, to name but a few – but As part of a £2.5m scheme at Shaun said: “The new car so it wasn’t entirely a surprise. we seem to have the unenviable Frimley Park Hospital in Frimley, an park is a single storey car park We had to take as much care of reputation of stop start additional 134 car parking spots deck constructed in steel and the car park and its environs as infrastructure and simply ‘doing have been created for patients precast concrete deck units and the doctors probably do of their public enquiries to death’! and visitors, increasing capacity to effectively sits directly above patients!” around 275 vehicles. the existing car park. From an Research by the trust has shown We are a small island here in the engineering perspective it has And the project, which is being led that each car parking space at been challenging. Working on UK and, whenever a project is by HBPW design engineer Shaun Frimley Park is used on average a compact site that has a vast suggested or land is earmarked, Strugnell on behalf of contractor, three times each day. Paul Withers - Managing Partner system of underground drainage someone is affected and the Faircloth Construction, has also and electrical cables beneath It calculates that the extra capacity chorus of disapproval rings out. helped cut car waiting times. the car park, meant we have provided by the new deck will allow Forward planning by our The scheme, unanimously backed had to coordinate everything The East Midlands main line The huge storage silos of the new £100m biomass facility at the Port of Liverpool for around 450 extra vehicles in newsletter editor allows me to by Surrey Heath Borough Council carefully and position the new every 24-hour period. electrification scheme from say Happy Christmas and a planners as far back as last May, South Yorkshire to St Pancras, The joint experience of HBPW also land millions of tonnes sustainable low carbon fuel Happy New Year in the same was expected to reduce waiting for example, was cancelled and Graham Construction of biomass from around the source. breath so, whether you are working on the huge world, with Drax as the principal times for motorists eager to enter then it was back on. We need All of the wood pellets will also reading this missive at the end Immingham Renewable Fuels beneficiary. the car park from Portsmouth politicians with the guts to lead be sent to Drax at Selby by rail, Road where there have been of 2015 or the beginning of 2016 Terminal, was instrumental the country and that invariably “At the outset the project for ensuring there is no impact on historic tailbacks. (it does have a three month in winning it the contract to means making hard decisions. Peel Ports Ltd at Liverpool’s the road network. lifecycle!), be happy! complete the civil engineering Janet King, Director of HR and Gladstone Dock, got off to a design on Liverpool’s new The new terminal is set to create Corporate Services at Frimley For now, let’s hope that slow start due to the original Which brings me to my next £100m biomass facility. an additional 47 permanent jobs Health NHS Foundation Trust, said: common sense engineering contractor going through a at the Port of Liverpool, while point, the concept of planning! “We don’t think the extra capacity plays its part in bringing greater The new multi million pound steep learning curve in order to construction of the wider facility Have we become a country of will completely solve all the parking consistency in UK infrastructure terminal at the Port of Liverpool understand the basic principles and the supply chain will create and access issues. However, ‘planners’ skilled in the art of – the first stage of which opened of designing a biomass import and that Lord Adonis’ National up to a further 300. talking with very little action? in October - will handle up to facility. The new car park during development phase Infrastructure Commission It is being built as part of Peel Gone are the days, it would three million tonnes of wood plays a key role in making “HBPW had already cut its teeth Ports’ ambitious growth plans seem, of those pioneering pellets a year and will help on the Immingham project, as for the Port of Liverpool, with this happen. drive Drax Power Station’s British engineers who built our had Graham Construction, so it the company already investing rail network in the 19th century, decarbonisation programme in We continue to work on some became the logical conclusion £300m to create the UK’s most and put the Great in Britain. North Yorkshire. centrally located deep water great projects so please keep for Peel Ports to involve both container terminal, known as an eye on the HBPW blog to HBPW Managing Partner, Paul parties when they transferred So, it is with some trepidation Withers, who was instrumental procurement of the construction Liverpool2. see what we’ve been up to that I welcome the National in planning the original civil to Graham’s and their specialist (www.hbpw.co.uk). The first phase of the new Infrastructure Commission engineering direction for the team, which included us.” terminal opened in October with and its aim to determine the massive Immingham scheme Phase II coming online later this Meanwhile enjoy the read! There are three huge silos on behalf of Associated British summer. priorities for UK infrastructure. measuring 40 metres by 50 Ports, said experience had But, will it provide for longer metres high at Liverpool’s proved everything. term thinking or, with no power Gladstone Dock, capable of to force through major schemes, “The IRFT biomass facility, holding a combined total of PAUL WITHERS will this ‘recommending agent’ which features eight silos, in 100,000 tonnes of wood pellets. MANAGING PARTNER the same way that Liverpool’s They will provide the Selby- HBPW LLP CONTINUED ON BACK PAGE will have three larger ones, will based power station with a new, Frimley Park Hospital ENGINEERING YOUR SOLUTIONS Getting To The Nuts & Bolts Of The Matter! New Lease Sounds Like A Good Idea! The relatively unknown technique of sonic speed and quality of the sample recovered, Of Life For drilling came to the rescue in Cornwall and quite a crowd gathered because few when a speedy solution to recover good members of the project team had actually quality samples of weathered rock was seen the technique in action before,” Lowestoft Quay required. added Jay. A joint £4.5m project between HBPW and HBPW was working on behalf of Carillion Sonic drilling is able to cope with difficult Graham Construction has given Town Quay Civil Engineering as part of a £27m road ground conditions and its high speed – up to in Lowestoft a new lease of life. scheme which has seen the construction of twice as fast as conventional drilling – more two huge arches across the Red River Valley than compensates for the slightly higher ‘The project – given the green light by in Cornwall. costs when compared with other methods. Associated British Ports – was authorised after one section of the quay wall collapsed in 2012. Geoenvironmental “We will certainly A30 The Red River Valley engineer, Jay Fox, be using it again,” HBPW Managing Partner, Paul Withers, said: in Cornwall said: “We needed South Crofty Wilson Way said Jay. “Working with Graham’s, we designed a new rock samples Mine Roundabout The Camborne to retaining structure which comprised a combi but there had wall featuring 1520 tubular piles, each 19m Pool to Redruth been difficulties, Red River project, which long, with sheet piles running in between. previously, whilst Valley has already Inspection workers, circled - barely noticeable against the huge stand drilling at this site, “A significant proportion of the reinstated quay Carn Brea been under so the project Dolcoath Proposed alignment of wall was designed with a cantilever because Roundabout CPR Major Scheme development team decided to West Bromwich Albion’s Hawthorn Stadium Road, Halford Lane (West) and Millennium The Hawthorns’ corner infills between the main obstructions behind it prevented the use of for more than use a sonic drill from Geosonic of Falkirk in has been given the green light by HBPW’s (East) ends of the large structure, now officially four stands were also inspected as part of the dead man anchors. In addition we had to deal eight years, is being built by Carillion Civil Scotland. It operates at the speed of sound. engineers following a detailed ‘nuts capable of holding just over 27,000 since project. with the difficulty of reconstructing the wall Engineering on behalf of Cornwall Council.

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