Bachy Soletanche Limited has recently completed a contiguous piled wall installation project for the Portobello Pumping Station in East Sussex. The project is part of Southern Water’s environmental improvement scheme to bring cleaner seas to the area.
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Leading geotechnical specialist, Bachy Soletanche, is working on a £1.2M project to strengthen the surrounding ground of the Thirlmere Aqueduct at Nab Scar near Grasmere in the Lake District. Working from a great height, the Bachy Soletanche team is conducting a two phase permeation grouting, mini-piling and tension pile project alongside a fast track four week outage. The stabilisation project is due for completion within the next few weeks.
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A tender winning design recently sent Bachy Soletanche to the large scale Rosyth Dock expansion project to install a piled retaining wall as part of the entrance extension. Awarded by main contractor Bam Nuttall, the geotechnical firm’s innovative solution used dowels to extend piles into the extremely strong rock as a more efficient and cost effective alternative to piling several metres deeper for the same effect.
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Bachy Soletanche Limited is working on the A34 Alderley Edge by-pass project to provide assistance on water table challenges found at the Welsh Row section on behalf of main contractor, Birse Civils. It is Bachy Soletanche’s experience in the construction of slurry cut-off walls – a system rarely used in Britain on road construction – that is benefiting this delicate section of the project and the sub-contractor will be on site until the end of September.
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Bachy Soletanche Limited is midway through a multi-million pound bearing pile and secant wall groundwork project at the retail and mixed use development, Parkway in Newbury.
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The £38 million diaphragm walling package for the tunnel portals of the Second Tyne Tunnel is nearing completion thanks to leading geotechnical specialist, Bachy Soletanche Limited. Appointed by design and build contractor, Bouygues Travaux Publics, the specialist contractor is conducting the cut and cover tunnelling works on behalf of TT2 and Tyne & Wear Passenger Transport Authority, using a variation of diaphragm walling techniques and CFA (continuous flight auger) piling.
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One of the UK’s largest ground engineering firms, Bachy Soletanche Limited, has cemented its plans to expand into the Yorkshire region by opening a regional office in Wakefield, West Yorkshire.
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With 20 locations, 28 structures and over two years on site, leading ground engineering experts, Bachy Soletanche Limited is nearing the end of one of its most varied and challenging projects to date; the East London Line Regeneration.
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The high traffic viaduct of the A34 Oxford Western by-pass is on the road to recovery with the aid of Bachy Soletanche Limited. The leading geotechnical specialist is conducting a staggered staged bearing pile contract for main contractor, Costain as part of the A34 Wolvercote Viaduct Replacement Scheme near Oxford which will take place while keeping the route open to traffic.
Read MoreLeading geotechnical specialist, Bachy Soletanche Limited has announced that it has purchased the northeast based piling contractor, Simplex Foundations Limited for an undisclosed sum. Bachy Soletanche has purchased the firm from Northwest Holst, gaining an increased rig fleet and its skilled, experienced engineers.
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Leading geotechnical specialist, Bachy Soletanche Limited has installed piles with geothermal piping at the Hauser Forum Development in Cambridge.
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