by Kyle Molyneux | Tue 19 Nov 2019
Excavation Support Solutions
Sheet Piling (UK) Ltd, a sheet-piling contractor based in Lancashire, has launched Excavation Support Solutions - a new division dedicated to enhancing the operational efficiencies, project delivery and health and safety compliance of small and medium-sized earthwork support projects.
Excavation Support Solutions (ESS) aims to support contractors requiring temporary earthworks, wherever they operate across the UK. Rather than having to source separate packages for design works, material and equipment hire, followed by undertaking the site works themselves with operatives unfamiliar with the latest best practice techniques, contractors can ask ESS to bring everything together for them. This includes design, project management, pre-construction activities, installation and extraction of light to heavy-duty sheet piles, as well as associated bracing works, and health and safety compliance.
The design of temporary works design is undertaken by ESS' qualified in-house engineers, ensuring compliance with statutory legislation in respect of management of temporary works procedures and the CDM Regulations 2015. From a quality control perspective, all steel sheet piles and structural steelwork are supplied with relevant Mill Test Certificates (MTC) and CE marking (where applicable), thus ensuring an additional layer of quality control and health and safety protection can be put in place.
ESS can assist with groundwork structures including temporary cofferdams, trench support and sheet piling for both temporary and permanent excavation support. “We can basically supply and install any excavation bracing system, using either fabricated structural steelwork, or proprietary hydraulic bracing systems,” says Richard Pattison, who is now heading up Sheet Piling (UK) Limited’s new ESS division.
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