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Success Builds and Builds for Space Contracts Team
substantial surge in orders that’s with Stena, Premier Oil, Marathon, throughout the project and the
seen it exceed its annual sales Taqa, BG Group and Petrofac. security of a guaranteed cost.
targets within four months. A series Mark said while Space Solutions’ “This has been a particularly
of major contract wins, fuelled by excellent reputation and potent tool for us. Clients are
the success of the division’s commitment to deliver projects on welcoming the opportunity to know
specialist procurement services, time were key, he believes the major exactly how and where their money
has seen the 13-man team pull in factor behind the success is their is being spent. In these challenging
£6.3 million worth of business. innovative approach to budgeting times, where every penny is a
The bumper order book means the and work planning. prisoner, this is clearly a major
Contracts Division is already He said, “Before the recession factor. As well as our open-book
£1.5 million ahead of its annual took hold, the main concern from tender approach, the one-stop-shop
budget forecast after the first four clients was timescales, mainly to offering is of significant benefit to
months of its financial year, with that ask questions on how long it would our clients. Having an in-house
figure expected to grow as further take to complete a job. design team, we can offer design,
new contracts are secured over the Now, although this is still very contracting and relocation services,
remainder of the year. important, the emphasis has very providing one point of contact for
The division, lead by Contracts much moved to focus closely on the project delivery. This means we
Director Mark Wilson and including cost considerations. We have can start work on-site before the
The Aberdeen-based contracts a team of quantity surveyors and adapted to this change by final designs are completed,
division of Space Solutions, one of project managers, has won a raft of implementing an ‘open-book’ reducing lead-in times and
Scotland’s leading workplace work with leading North East of tender approach. It means that therefore reducing the overall
design specialist, is celebrating a Scotland clients, including projects clients get total transparency project duration.”
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Rapid Response to Bridge Flood Misery
Following November 21's flood used in many applications including 20 m was required. After the beam assembly.
destruction of the town's bridges permanent and temporary bridge bridge is assembled, the platform “The designed load-bearing
over the River Derwent in abutments as an alternative to piling supports 95 tons in load as the performance is 85 kN/m2, and the
Workington, Cumbria, Army Royal and other techniques. Apart from bridge is cantilevered out over structure is designed to last at least
Engineers have used Tensar the speed of construction, rollers across the river, using a six months. The MOD has used
International's TriAxT geogrid to one important advantage is that the special army vehicle, until it rests on Tensar geogrid solutions in the past
help construct new bridge geogrid construction is loadbearing the abutments on the far bank. for infrastructure projects with
abutments for a 40 ton temporary immediately, there is no delay The platform must minimise excellent results.”
footbridge. Connecting the north caused by waiting for concrete to settlement due to the load, Tensar's unique TriAxT geogrid is
and south of the town, the actual cure. The bridge deck can be otherwise the bridge may not have a stiff polymer geogrid based on an
bridge will take a week to assemble, installed as soon as it is ready, sufficient height to reach the equilateral triangle structure,
and is expected to be in place for and the advantages of speed are opposite landing rollers which interlocks with the aggregate
Monday 6th's morning school run. obvious in a crisis. and abutments. fill particles to form a stiff,
“We were contacted on the 26th “Use of geogrid reinforced soil Captain Caroline Graham-Brown, mechanically stabilised layer.
to assist with design of the structures is very well established in Royal Engineer in the project team Load full-scale bearing capacity
abutments and the assembly civil engineering, but its unique explained, "Normally the bridge testing carried out by the Building
platform, the TriAxT geogrid was advantages of speed and simplicity would be built on existing Research Establishment (BRE)
delivered on the next morning so are very relevant to emergency abutments, or temporary abutments (amongst other third parties) shows
that installation could start the same response situations. Tensar have on a river bank. In this case, the that its increased stiffness and
day,” commented David Cashman, also offered assistance in the repair saturated topsoil was stripped down confinement results in an even
Commercial Marketing Manager for and re-instatement of bridges, to the sandy clay below, and the greater load distribution ability
Tensar International. “We were very roads, embankments, slopes and platform was built up using the compared with Tensar
pleased to play our part in the other structures in the TriAxT geogrid. biaxial geogrids.
operation and help restore a Cumbria area.” Over a geotextile separator at the
semblance of normality to the The river banks of the Derwent in base, a 6.1 m by 1.2 m platform was
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town's infrastructure.” Workington consist of sandy clay built with four
“Tensar responded very quickly soil with poor load-bearing layers of
to our requirements,” confirmed properties, necessitating careful geogrid and at
Major Phillip Curtis, MOD design for the Footbridge least 600 mm
spokesman. “Both in contributing foundations. By constructing the of DoT Type 1
to the design and specification and abutment bank seat supports sub-base
getting the geogrid to us within a using TriAxT geogrid layered with aggregate,
day of our call were magnificent. angular aggregate, the need for then capped
Helping us to assist the people and extensive piling and foundation with 1 m
council of Workington has been work was avoided. concrete and
very worthwhile.” In addition, to allow assembly on a steel
David Cashman continued, site and rapid installation of the grillage plate
“Foundations mechanically bridge in one piece, a temporary and an SHS
stabilised with geogrids are widely TriAxT platform of about 75 m by ground
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