by Patrick McGowan | 12 February 2020
Siltbuster has designed and mobilised one of the UK’s largest ever temporary modular water treatment solutions, in just two weeks, to assist JN Bentley during essential maintenance work on the Castell Nos Reservoir infrastructure in South Wales, as part of a...
by Patrick McGowan | 6 February 2020
By attending one of the GEOTEX specialist ground and environmental seminars around the UK you have acquired new knowledge on the latest innovations and techniques in the industry. With anywhere between eight and ten presenters at any GEOTEX seminar you automatically...
by Patrick McGowan | 6 February 2020
The Cobham Motorway Service Area (MSA) is located at J10 of the M25 motorway. The site opened in 2012 and is a single site used by traffic in both directions. The service area currently contains a customer service building with restaurants and refreshment areas,...
by Patrick McGowan | 6 February 2020
Exclusively at GEOTEX Manchester – 19th February 2020. Dr Stephen Thomas presents how significant cost, time and environmental benefits can be achieved by lowering the pore-water pressure in soft saturated unstable ground prior to excavation. The resulting...
by Patrick McGowan | 24 January 2020
Mariscal Sucre International Airport Access, Quito – Ecuador ProjectSteep cuts along the newly constructed access road to the airport required surface protection against deep erosion and shallow surface sliding. Traditional shotcrete methods were used on much of...
by Patrick McGowan | 24 January 2020
LECA® LWA was used for regulating layers between the tyre bales and also for the shallow sections of the embankment where tyre bales could not be used. The embankment carries a realigned side road to the A421 in Bedfordshire. This is the first time that tyre bales...
by Patrick McGowan | 24 January 2020
The Reinforced Earth retaining walls forming the north of the underpass, on the A465 Heads of the Valley road at Carno, are up to 33m high making it the highest structure of its type constructed in the UK. The design of the three-tier 33m high Reinforced Earth...
by Patrick McGowan | 24 January 2020
Concrete Canvas® GCCM* (CC) was used to line a channel in Angus, Scotland, UK. A combination of surface water and silt run-off from adjacent fields had caused a landslip onto a section of the East Coast Rail line in Angus. In addition to line closures and significant...
by Patrick McGowan | 4 January 2020
Background Battersea Power Station A was built in the 1930s, with Battersea B Power Station to the east in the 1950s. The two stations were built to a nearly identical design, providing the long-recognized four-chimney layout. The station ceased generating electricity...
by Patrick McGowan | 4 January 2020
Aldi UK Headquarters in Atherstone needed to expand their car parking area to facilitate the growing business and its increasing workforce. They had a large area of land with a gradual embankment which they needed to increase the footprint area and create a two story...
by Patrick McGowan | 4 January 2020
The A1 Autostrada is a north-south motorway that runs 568km through central Poland from Gdansk, on the Baltic Sea. As part of the upgrade a new section of motorway was constructed between Piekary and Maciejów which required an anchoring solution to secure all of the...
by Patrick McGowan | 18 December 2019
Concrete Canvas® (CC) was specified as a solution for slope protection for slopes adjacent to the new reinforced earth wall at the Newmont Ghana Gold Limited (NGGL) site in Ahafo, Ghana. In addition to this CC was also used for the protection of earth wall footings...
