BOTTOM DRIVEN PILES

Bottom Driven Piles : Greyfriars Bridge, Hereford, In the bottom driven piling contract worth over £50,000, Branlows have upgraded the foundations of an existing bridge over the River Wye in the centre of Hereford, allowing traffic to pass safely on the A49.  We were chosen by main contractor Ringway Highway Services Ltd for our ability to respond quickly with specialist equipment for emergency repair work to the bridge —there was a critical completion deadline of two weeks.  We constructed l00 No 220mm diameter piles to depths of up to 10m, working on both sides of the river the piling contract was carried out under very difficult conditions and restricted headroom.

Canary Riverside, Docklands, London, On behalf of Canary Riverside, we have been working in the Docklands area of London on a contract worth £32,000  the site is a mix of commercial, retail and residential development immediately adjacent to West Ferry Circus.  The project involved extension work to the grand staircase and we installed piles around the staircase to allow for improvements to the lifts and escalators either side of the stairway.  Eighty piles of 220mm diameter were bottom driven into the terrace gravels, to depths of upto 12m.  The technique was chosen as the most applicable to the ground conditions, as no temporary casings or bentonite was required to support the pile shaft.  The contract was undertaken within a very tight time schedule of ten days. 

Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, Branlows have recently been involved in a delicate project worth £25,000 for Christiani & Nielsen for piling work to the central reservation barriers on the tight time schedule of ten days.  Western Relief Road around Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales.  We installed over 100 No piles to depths of up to 3m, the piles being 300mm diameter steel cased concrete cast in situ.  As with most of our work, the project had extremely limited access and very stringent health and safety restrictions due to the proximity of the work to live carriageways.  

Marks and Spencers, Glasgow, Appointed by Laing Ltd in a contract worth £50,000, we aided the construction of sign gantries for the new out of town shopping complex, in difficult working conditions adjacent to the River Clyde.  We installed a mix of cased and auger bored 300 mm diameter piles together with 220 mm diameter permanently steel cased driven piles to a depth of 18m.  

A&B Nutrition, Fife, Piles were constructed for the extension of a cattle feed storage silo area.  

Whitefriars Crescent, Perth, Piles were installed to depths of 5m to form the foundations for a new office block. 

Wellington Place, Edinburgh, piles were constructed through core holes in the existing column bases in order to upgrade the foundations for refurbishment on this commercial development.