Soil Engineering, the specialist site investigation and grouting division of VINCI Construction UK Ltd, is to be transferred in April to the ownership of VINCI’s Soletanche Freyssinet UK geotechnical arm; Bachy Soletanche Group.
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From an engineer at Pigott Foundations in 1971 to Director of Plant at Bachy Soletanche 40 years later, John Tucker has seen the piling industry transform from one of lorry mounted piling rigs often assisted by operatives using wooden ladders and cloth caps, therefore without any health and safety legislation, to one led by technology and innovation. Here, he discusses the changes he has seen in technology and equipment over the last 40 years.
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Despite battling against the unforgiving Scottish weather, Bachy Soletanche has started piling at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) in Glasgow in preparation for a new Multi-Storey Car Park. Known to be a potentially problematic site due to the positioning over a former dock that was filled in with unknown matter during the 1950s, main contractor SCC, Design Build Contractor, has employed the piling and ground-engineering specialists to install the piles during the seven week £750k contract.
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