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Green Road, Penistone, Barnsley
The Project:
The remediation of a 5.8Ha former steel works for residential development.
The Problem:
Urban Regen's site preparation strategy included:
The Project:
The remediation of a 5.8Ha former steel works for residential development.
The Problem:
- Hydrocarbon and asbestos contamination identified in the deeper areas of made ground.
- Critical topographic and geotechnical issues including an 8 metre high rock face, reinforced machine bases and underground impediments to the proposed development.
- Demolition of a radiographic NDT building with 2.5 metre thick reinforced walls and doors weighing in excess of 100 tonnes.
Urban Regen's site preparation strategy included:
- Removal of all man-made impediments, involving the excavation of reinforced concrete and significant deposits of slag to 7.5m below EGL.
- Removal and reprocessing for re-use within the works of 28,000m of concrete.
- Excavation and re-engineering of 70,000m2 of made ground and natural soils/rock.
- Changes to the topography to mitigate the costs of the follow on retaining structure to the weak rockface at the boundary.
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The Benefits:
- The Developer benefited from the surety of our fixed price package, which covered the removal of additional volumes of concrete and significant buried structures beneath the intended foundations.
- An increased amount of engineering materials were made available for the development stage.
- Urban Regen met challenging issues with numerous uncharted services, undertook considerable changes to the scope of works including an increase to final contours, all within the original programme.
- Through close liaison with the Developer and their Environmental Consultant, the project was achieved within the fixed price agreed.