jan17civilsspotlight2 4/12/70 5:58 am Page 6 06 JANUARY 2017 CIVILS SPOTLIGHT www.wateractive.co.uk Smart Sponge aids Design - the future environmental protection of civil engineering Snodland Railway Station now machine will also be installed. Sustainable Transport Fund gullies or as a retrofit unit. A new partnership with the dom to spark new ideas. on the Southeastern rail net- (LSTF) and the Railway There are two types of University of Derby is rein- Whether they discover the work in Kent, UK operated a ACCESSIBILITY Heritage Trust (£32,000). SGA available, the SGAP2 - forcing the commitment of next breakthrough in iron- full service from June 1856 Outside the station Other partners include Smart Gully Adapter for use Wrekin Products, manufac- work design, or they cleverly and continued until it stopped Southeastern is creating bet- Tonbridge and Malling with Plastic Gullies and the turer of intelligent products engineer marginal gains that selling train tickets in 1986. ter access for buses, cyclists Borough Council, Kent SGAC2 - Smart Gully Adapter for civil engineering, to further improve whole-of-life The station building has since and pedestrians and extending Community Rail Partnership for use with Concrete Gullies. explore the future of man- performance for customers, been used as an Indian take- the car park to 44 spaces from and Network Rail, with which Alternatively customers can hole covers, gully grates and we’re very exciting to see away outlet and taxi office 7 and from 1 accessible space Southeastern is working to quote a gully size and prefer- geosynthetics. the results.” with its nearby signal box now to 2 accessible parking spaces. improve facilities at stations ence to receive a complete Wrekin is sponsoring the The four design briefs are being a listed building. A new CCTV system and on the network. Smart Gully. The units can be Design Management module based around its core prod- In 2007 a PERTIS (Permit security lighting will also easily fitted in each available for students taking the B.A. ucts. This gives students the to Travel) ticket machine was improve passenger safety. ENVIRONMENTAL street gully and require no in Product Design and the chance to flex their design installed at the station, which Increased information PROTECTION additional design as they do lies adjacent to the River screens giving real-time details During construction tem- not affect the capacity of the Medway, just outside the on train services, seating in the porary parking bays were gully. entrance to the northbound booking hall, step-free access established along with a step- Maintenance of the Smart platform. More recently, in to the ticket office and an free path onto the platform. Gully is a very simple process response to increasing passen- accessible toilet will also Cycle stands were temporarily and is carried out alongside ger numbers using the station, improve the passenger experi- relocated to enable the trans- normal gully maintenance pro- Southeastern undertook a ence. David Statham, Managing port interchange to be built. cedures. It is designed not to £1.1 million refurbishment of Director at Southeastern, said: Given the expected interfere with a normal gully Snodland station, which is also “Since the introduction of high increase in traffic and the sucking operation and the top a listed building, to create a speed services the number of potential contaminated run-off of the unit is readily identifi- ‘transport interchange’ and passengers using Snodland sta- this might create, Naylor able by its reflective strips. extended car park, which will tion has grown significantly. Environmental Smart Sponge® Chris Lamb, Project see the ticket office reopen We wanted to give them a Smart Gully Adaptors were Manager with WSS for the first time since 1986. better station, with better installed in the road gullies to Construction Consultants Since the introduction of high access and facilities, to make protect the roadside soakaway said: “We needed to protect speed services from their journeys easier.” from harmful hydrocarbon the existing fauna and flora Maidstone to London via Work was completed by pollution from the car park, so surrounding the station and Snodland five years ago, pas- August 2016 having been preventing it entering the the Naylor Smart Sponge® senger numbers have jointly funded by the existing green space surround- Technology is the perfect solu- increased by around 30%. The Department for Transport ing the station as part of the tion for achieving the Water B.Sc. in Product Design muscles on issues ranging newly re-manned ticket office (DfT) with £600,000 from its Water Framework Directive. Framework Directive with a Engineering. Throughout the from helping contractors will be staffed in the mornings National Station Improvement Naylor’s Smart Sponge® very simple installation in the autumn, students will work in with ironwork maintenance to make it easier and quicker Programme (NSIP), Kent absorbs any hydrocarbons that road gullies therefore utilising teams to carry out market to improving road safety for for passengers to buy tickets County Council with would normally pass directly the new infrastructure as part research and create concep- cyclists. and a new ticket vending £485,000 from its Local into the soakaway and solidi- of the treatment requirements tual designs on a series of The module ends with fies the liquid hydrocarbons and negating the need of challenges set by Wrekin. the teams submitting a Naylor SHEE Day into a safe manageable recy- installing and maintaining oil “This is an exciting time report and presentation on Every two years, construction materials manufacturer clable solid waste, whilst separator tanks.” for the civil engineering sec- their work. As well as con- Naylor Industries holds a Safety, Health, Energy and allowing stormwater to pass For Naylor Environmental tor, with huge infrastructure tributing to the students’ Environment (SHEE) Day, with training sessions on topics as directly into the soakaway as a Barry Marshall commented: projects in the pipeline that final grades, Wrekin will also diverse as manual handling and fire prevention and aimed at clean natural resource. “The use of Smart Sponge® will be built using a range of be judging the results and spreading best practice across the Naylor group.The 2016 SHEE and the Smart Sponge® Smart innovative new products. It will reward a prize to the Day was held at Naylor’s new site at Wombwell, with enthusias- SMART GULLY Gully Adaptors on the is important that highway winning team. tic participation from all attendees including representatives The Naylor Environmental Snodland station refurbish- ironwork and geosynthetics Samantha Evans, from each of Naylor’s 6 manufacturing sites.To coincide with the Smart Gully range utilises the ment project not only provid- evolve to meet the chal- Industrial Design Engineer at SHEE day introduced here, a group of Naylor’s most creative unique properties of Naylor’s ed a cost effective solution to lenges of the future,” says Wrekin was a graduate of penned - and had a load of fun- recording a musical accompani- Smart Sponge® to filter out a potential pollution problem Simon Gibson, Technical the University of Derby and ment, which you can now see here on You-tube. hydrocarbons at street level for the station surroundings Director at Wrekin Products. it was her idea to put Wrekin before discharge into the sew- but also highlights very effec- “Wrekin has invested sig- and the University together. Official opening ers or the surrounding envi- tively what can be achieved nificantly in innovation in “I took the Design Construction material manufacturer Naylor have moved to ronment via soakaways. using simple but very effective recent years, with major ini- Management module, which a new head office at Wombwell?, near Barnsley.The building was Available as a Smart Gully products.That between us we tiatives such as our in-house was a brilliant chance to formerly a distribution warehouse for electronic retailer Maplin Adapter (SGA) the units have were able to provide such a Industrial Design team and apply everything I learned in which was modernised and modified during an extensive 18 been designed for both con- cost effective and environmen- customer training centre. the classroom to a practical, month refurbishment programme. The opening ceremony was crete and plastic street gullies tally sound solution to the “Now we’re asking stu- real-world example. It’s fan- held on Thursday 22 September, with the Mayor of Barnsley, and attach within the rodding project is a testament to the dents to help us by bringing tastic to be able to come Councillor L?inda Burgess cutting the ribbon. eye thus not interfering with Naylor Environmental team fresh insights to product back to help inspire today’s flow or maintenance proce- and the foresight of design. Our design chal- Product Design students by dures. The SGA’s can be sup- Southeastern Rail and its con- lenges for the University of showing them some of the Naylor Directors in London’s Lord Mayor’s Show plied ready fitted within the tractor.” Derby allow a level of free- work that’s being done.” As a supplier to the builders’ merchant industry, Barnsley based clay and plastic pipe manufacturer Naylor Drainage has Tel: 01226 790591 Tel: 01543 440 440 close links with City Livery Company, the Worshipful Company ww.naylor.co.uk www.wrekinproducts.com of Builders’ Merchants. This year’s Lord Mayor’s show was held on Saturday 12 November, and included a float from the Livery Company which was sponsored by Naylor. Outstanding service rewarded The Show celebrates Lancashire based company strong emphasis on innovative of repair works, as well as adaptors of the Nova Siria the inauguration of a R2M Ltd has been supplying products and customer ser- opening up their workshop range of restraint fittings and new Lord Mayor and is the water industry with pipe, vice, so it was a proud and distribution facility out of have therefore recognised and one of the best-known valves and associated fittings moment for all at R2M when hours, to ensure our require- benefitted from the savings in and longest established since 2003.