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Volkerview Page 3 MPT Install Two 580 Tonne Bridges Autumn 2013 Contents Page 2 VolkerWessels awarded solent submarine cabling contract VolkerView Page 3 MPT install two 580 tonne bridges Proud together Page 4 VolkerFitzpatrick awarded BREEAM ‘Excellent’ for Velocity Brooklands Page 5 VolkerInfra completes Western Power Distribution contract Page 6 VolkerLaser gains external wall insulation standard: PAS 2030 Page 7 VolkerRail completes rail system work at Hitchin Page 8 VolkerStevin protects Tay Road Bridge Page 9 Innovative new alliance starts VolkerFitzpatrick win Project work of the Year at the National Rail Page 10 VolkerFitzpatrick Colas JV Awards 2013 successfully diverts the A45 VolkerFitzpatrick has been awarded the 650 operatives and staff on site every coveted Project of the Year Award at the 24 hours. It was the first blockade of its Page 11 2013 National Rail Awards. kind in 20 years and involved 100,000 VolkerStevin brings new life to man hours and significant liaison with VolkerFitzpatrick received the award for other contractors, the train operator, the Port of Southampton work completed on the Balham Blockade the local council and local residents, as Project, which is part of the Multi Asset well as with client Network Rail. Framework Agreement Package 3 works Page 12 for Network Rail. The main focus of this project was on VolkerGroundEngineering invest extending platforms 1 and 2 at Balham in new Movax impact hammers This challenging project, which was Station, by approximately 42 metres carried out within a ten day blockade eastwards towards an existing bridge during the Christmas period in 2012, saw that crosses Bedford Hill. >cont. page 2 >cont. from page 1 To create sufficient space for this Richard Offord, managing director of environment and I am delighted they new island platform extension, VolkerFitzpatrick commented on the have received this recognition.” VolkerFitzpatrick had to re-align the award: “I’d like to congratulate the existing track through platform 1 onto team. The annual National Rail Awards an adjacent bridge structure. This meant recognise excellence and achievement that Bedford Hill Bridge also had to be “This was a truly fantastic example of within the rail industry. re-constructed. best in practice working in a rail Significant efforts went into consulting Bedford Hill with local residents and businesses Bridge before and throughout the works, resulting in strong support from the local council. An on site assessment management centre and regime was established that resulted in strong teamwork across the various disciplines. This aided the successful delivery of the project which had significant logistical and public “A well delivered, complex relations challenges. project, which had interface National Rail Awards judges commented: “A well delivered, complex with other major works taking project, which had interface with other place on the same route.” major works taking place on the same route.” VolkerWessels awarded Solent submarine cabling contract A specialist joint venture between phase is currently being undertaken and relationship between the VolkerWessels VolkerWessels sister companies will involve the installation of an 875 group of companies and SSE on this VolkerInfra and VSMC (Visser & Smit metre horizontal directional drill from important project.” Marine Contracting) has been awarded Thorness Bay, Isle of Wight, out into the a £13m contract by Southern Electric sea bed of the Solent. This project represents a significant Power Distribution (SEPD) to design, capital investment in the maintenance supply, install, connect and pre- The second phase will commence in April of the electricity infrastructure to the commission test approximately 5.7km of 2014, following manufacture of a single Isle of Wight by SEPD. 132kV, XLPE electricity submarine cable length of bespoke cable, which will be across the Solent. transported and installed between the Chandra Trikha, head of Capital Project two locations under the Solent using Delivery for SEPD explains more about This project, the first subsea electrical specialist divers and marine installation the background to the project: “We installation in this area for around 40 vessels. This phase also involves want to provide our customers with years, will replace one of the three excavations to install the cable on land the best possible service and the subsea cables which supplies residents and to pre-locate the existing fluid filled installation of this new cable will help and businesses on the Isle of Wight. The cables, which will be connected using us achieve this aim, as it will make the present cable, which sits on the seabed, fluid/XLPE transition joints. electricity network to Isle of Wight will be replaced with this new cable, more robust and less prone to external which will sit below the seabed. Jonathon Humphries, managing director damage by anchors and marine actions of VolkerInfra, said: “Calling on the very which, in turn, reduces the risk of power The project will involve laying the cable significant resources at our disposal cuts. from Lepe in Hampshire to Thorness within the VolkerWessels group our Bay on the Isle of Wight using a variety integrated project teams work together of installation techniques including on many projects to provide end to end This project represents a Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) on project management and delivery to our the island, specialist marine vessels and clients. significant capital investment equipment to cross the Solent and open in the maintenance of the cut techniques at Lepe. “This particular project has been in the planning stage for a considerable time electricity infrastructure to the The specialist marine team will complete and we look forward to the continuation the project in two phases, the first of the successful collaborative Isle of Wight. 2 First bridge being installed over the M60 MPT install two 580 tonne bridges After months of planning VolkerRail, From the start MPT’s design and The bridge was transported out into as part of the MPT joint venture at construction teams worked in close position using the SPMTs and placed Manchester Metrolink, has successfully liaison with Transport for Greater on the abutments during a full positioned two new 580 tonne bridges Manchester, the Highways Agency, motorway closure. over Manchester’s M60 and M56 local authorities and key stakeholders motorway. to ensure that all design and installation Both bridges were positioned eight issues were identified early and resolved hours ahead of schedule with the works These new bridges form part of the within good time. to install the bridge taking 14 hours £900m upgrade of the Manchester and the actual movement of the bridge Metrolink tram system, which will be the Both bridges were temporarily erected taking less than one hour. largest network of its type in the UK. adjacent to the motorway and bridge Installed over two separate weekends, abutments, in a staging area which Councillor Andrew Fender, chair of the new bridges will carry trams on the was prepared in advance. This in itself Transport for Greater Manchester’s Manchester Metrolink extension to involved earthworks movements of Transport Committee, said: “I’d like Wythenshawe and Manchester Airport. more than 2,000 cubic metres. The to congratulate all those involved bridge deck was then cast on temporary in this impressive construction feat, VolkerRail’s involvement in the bridge trestles and allowed to cure to gain particularly the VolkerRail and Laing installation included concept and design sufficient strength prior to the lift. O’Rourke teams for getting the work management, construction management done so quickly and smoothly.” and delivery of the work. One area of focus was in maintaining the temperature of the cast deck during Steve Cocliff, managing director of Christina Kelly, senior engineer at a period of cold weather leading up VolkerRail, commented on the bridge VolkerRail, headed the team involved to the installation. An on-site lab was installation: “An enormous amount with the first bridge installation over the involved in testing and monitoring the of planning clearly went into ensuring M60 motorway: “The first bridge, which temperature of the concrete to ensure the superstructures could be installed was designed to carry the twin track that the cold weather did not affect the with the least amount of inconvenience light rail Metrolink system over the M60 structure. Once the strength gain was to road users. The installation of the motorway, took 18 months to plan and achieved, two self-propelled modular bridge was a major step for the team minimising disruption to the public was transporters (SPMTs) were assembled and the project and I pass on my one of the team’s main focuses.” under the bridge and positioned at the congratulations to everyone involved.” pick-up points ahead of installation. 3 VolkerFitzpatrick awarded BREEAM ‘Excellent’ for Velocity Brooklands VolkerFitzpatrick’s building division has completed the design and build of Velocity Brooklands. The £15 million office development in Weybridge, Surrey, has been awarded a BREEAM rating of ‘Excellent’. The two, five storey buildings built for Rockspring UK and Exton Estates, span over 131,000sqft and stand out for their impressive architecture. Construction of both buildings began in September 2011. Piled foundations were required to make the building structurally sound along with a reinforced concrete frame from the ground floor up to the fourth floor and structural steelwork from the fourth floor to the roof, including the escape staircase structures. Velocity Brooklands The buildings façade is made up of clear The main ‘brise soleil’, a solar shading The buildings external landscaping and and fritted glazed curtain walling (a system, is made up of anodised lighting were designed to consider the glass which has had an enamel image aluminium and acts as the buildings distinctiveness of the site, the views glass fired into the surface for strength) visor, reducing glare and overheating by towards the race track and the historic and raking front elevations, which are reflecting light.
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