Outokumpu Steel Company, Sheffield
To resurface the site roads, scrap yard and areas surrounding the furnaces, it was clear that the products specified would need to be durable, demonstrate superior strength and be able to withstand extremely high temperatures.
Rock Salt Storage Facility
The large amount of rock salt required to treat the 225 miles of
road covered by the gritters presented the problem of safe
storage. As rock salt contains aggressive chlorides, it was vital
that suitable products, capable of chemical resistance, were used
within the store.
Northumbria Water Treatment Works External Paving
A renovation project to replace external paving at a water treatment works required a fortified material, without the constraints and logistical problems associated with using steel fabric reinforcements.
M5 Junctions 18-19 Avonmouth Bridge Strengthening
Costain Civil Engineering Ltd were awarded the contract to strengthen the Avonmouth Bridge, which carries the M5 Motorway over the River Avon. This was due to the increase in the gross weight of heavy goods vehicles from 38 up to 42 tonnes.
Underbridge 41 Corby Strengthening
Construction of a concrete saddle over existing masonry long arch to tie together bridge spandrels.
Ruislip Ballast Yard - London Underground Ballast Transfer Slab
The client wanted to replace their badly worn ballast transfer
facility at Ruislip, North East London.
The new slab was also to be trafficked at an early age to minimise
disruption to the client and to minimise program time..
Devonport and Torpoint Ferry Slipway Renewal
Project required a high strength flowing grout to be used to infill beneath pre-cast slabs, inclined on a 1 in 8 slipway. The grout was specified to contain a maximum aggregate size of 5mm and to achieve a compressive strength in excess of 30N/mm2 at 28 days.
Asda Harlow - First Floor Suspended Concrete Slab
Floor area of approximately 2000m2 of nominally 140 mm thick concrete slab on a permanent metal deck with a floated finish. Tarmac to provide concrete that can receive a resin topping in circa seven days significantly reducing contract programme duration.
Chew Magna Sewage Pumping Station
To cast a base, 1400mm deep, underwater at the bottom of a 10m deep tank. Diameter of tank - 7.5m approx. Concrete to resist washout during underwater placement as the water from tank was to be discharged, through a filtration system, into a watercourse.
Brighton Marina - Ovingdean Coastal Protection Scheme
Brighton & Hove Council contacted Tarmac Limited, as they wanted to maximize the abrasion resistance of the concrete to be used in their forthcoming Brighton-Ovingdean Coastal Protection Scheme.
A13 Pitsea Viaduct using Toproc
Tarmac National Contracting were instructed by their client Essex County Council to carry out both a geotechnical survey and to also conceive a design for the joint repairs on the A13 Pitsea
viaduct. .
Weston-super-Mare Seafront Enhancements - Phase 1 Marine Lake
By the time Phase 1 is complete, Tarmac will have supplied 2,500m3 of ready-mixed concrete to the foreshore area of the site from its ready-mixed concrete plant located in Weston-super-Mare. This includes 1200m3 of specialist Toproc UW microsilica concrete, which is designed specifically for underwater applications..
Blackpool Coastal Defence Scheme
The four-year contract will see the old structures replaced with 65,000 m3 of in situ concrete and 44,000m3 of precast concrete in grey, white and sand colours to blend in with the sea, beach and promenade.
MOD Otterburn Area Development
The major part of the project was the upgrading of 60km of blacktop roads to provide widened roads and strengthened carriageways with passing places and concrete road junctions.
