32 PROJECT REPORT
CONSTRUCTION CONSTRAINTS One of the reasons such a linear development, building on a single side of an existing through road, is unusual for Cameron Homes, are the challenges it places for the construction process itself, including for planned movements and traffic movements. e basically created a haulage road at the front of the site,” says Paul, “and tried to access everything from within the site until we got down to the last few plots, where we worked off the side of the road effectively. ust-in- time materials management was needed, which, says Paul, so that the team only had material on site when they needed it. However this in itself was particularly difficult given that the scheme took place “at the tail end of Covid.” He laughs: “I remember my
construction manager at the time looking at it and saying ‘thanks’!” Paul says that while there weren’t any major S278 highways works on this project, they had to create 20 dropped kerbs, “so we ended up reconstructing all of the footpath and the drainage in the carriageway.” There had previously been localised flooding, and the ighways Authority asked the developers to improve and repair drainage as part of the project, which added extra time, as well as making the normal foul and stormwater connections to the mains for the new homes.
The demolition process was involved,
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partly because the team had to work at night, and weren’t allowed to begin until .am on the final hoppers and towers remaining on the site. Permissions were required from Network Rail, because the demolition staff were working at height adjacent to the track, albeit when trains weren’t running, and that was a “challenge in itself,” says Morrissey. Local residents enjoyed this nighttime spectacle: “Some were sitting out on the footpath with deckchairs and flasks, and there was a big cheer when the tower finally came down he whole process only took four hours using specialist machinery, and the team returned to cut up and remove the demolished structures the following week. t’s the first time in my career I’ve done that overnight,” says Morrissey.
Along with the buildings, there were a lot of “unkept and unmanaged” Poplar trees along the railway that needed “some substantial work,” and thereby entailed further co-operation with etwork ail including them taking a ‘watching brief’ over the developer’s work. Some of the trees were removed during the overnight demolition to maximise the potential of the machinery and manpower at that stage. “It was busy for four hours!” says Morrissey.
There was hydrocarbon contamination in the ground from decades of cement lorries leaking oil, and this was a challenge to address, preventing it
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