Wavin Aquacell Units
Everywhere you look these days construction companies are ripping up the grass, trees and natural landscape, only to replace them with large areas of concrete, tarmac and roofs. When it rains the water would soak into natural landscape and work its way to through the ground. With all the hard landscaping on housing projects and cap parks all this water can not soak in and runs off to the lowest point. To control this storm water drainage is designed to channel the water into pipework and outfall it into a watercourse. In built up areas this often mean adding to an already over capacity system.
To get round this problem the use of soak-away and attenuation systems are becoming more prolific in new builds;
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Posted: May 7th, 2009 by Chris
| Filed under Civils, Drainage
Sherwood Oaks, Mansfield
Today I started a new contract at Sherwood Oaks, Mansfield. We don’t often work so far away from our offices down in Telford, but as times are hard for all in the construction industry we are prepared to do almost anything.
I will have the pleasure of being part of the construction of a ‘Healthcare Village‘ for BAM Construction. We have already got some labour and heavy machinery on site to begin some earthworks before we get fully stuck in. The site will eventually consist of 3 multi-level buildings and car-parking with associated drainage and landscaping. We will have around 4 months to get all 3 buildings complete up to their concrete floor slab including all drainage works.
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Posted: March 24th, 2009 by Chris
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Aftermath of sling incident.
As you may have gathered I work in the construction industry. Statistics released by the Health and Safety Executive tell us there were 229 fatally injured workers in the year 2007/2008 and that this figure has been fairly stable for the last 5 years. We do not work dangerously in the construction industry but we do have to deal with potentially dangerous scenarios nearly every day. Thankfully we work to control and minimise these risks to ensure everyone gets to go home at the end of the day. Back in December 2008 I witnessed a potentially fatal incident at our job in Tile Hill, Coventry. Thankfully the worst injury was a couple of bruised knees and a few shocked people.
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Posted: February 12th, 2009 by Chris
| Filed under Civils, Drainage, Safety
Total Station on Tripod - Credit: flickr dandiffendale
This is the second of a 4-part series of blogs that will hopefully give some insight into what I do as a site-based Civil Engineer. The posts are broken down into the following subjects:
You can say that this post covers my primary role as a Civil Engineer. For any work to be carried out on a construction site the workforce must be told what to build and where to build it. It is my responsibility to do this and to ensure it is done swiftly and correctly. Essentially my job is to translate the construction drawings issued to us by the client and create offsets and other markings that the workforce can understand and follow.
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Posted: January 14th, 2009 by Chris
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