Formwork Scaffolding Engineering Issue 1 | 2012 GB
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Formwork Scaffolding Engineering Issue 1 | 2012 GB Successful construction with PERI A470 Cwmbach to Newbridge bypass scheme, Builth Wells Page 2 Rosyth Dockyard, Fife Page 4 Bradfield Close, Woking Page 8 Frodingham Viaduct, Scunthorpe Page 10 scope Brighton & Hove Waste Water Treatment Works, Brighton Page 12 Howick Place, London, SW1 Page 15

Dear Clients and Readers, The outlook for the UK construction industry yet again this year, can only be described as ‘challenging’. But, by continuing to work hard and making the right adjustments for market conditions in 2012, many of us will undoubtedly continue to succeed and to move forward. At PERI, we have adapted to circumstances – and this issue of PERI Scope reflects the changes that we, as a business, have made. For instance, the newly developed VARIOKIT parapet system, designed specifically for infrastructure projects, is proving very successful. On page 3, we give details of the...

New bypass bridged with VARIOKIT Parapet Front Cover PERI UP providing safe access at Bradfield Close, Woking. See more on page 8 A470 Cwmbach to Newbridge bypass scheme View from below the bridge deck showing the system components. Contractor Euro Construction Field Service PERI UK, Bristol Office The VARIOKIT modules provide safe access for the workforce to reach the parapet edge. 5.26 5.33 concrete bridge decks. The VARIOKIT brackets are suspended by a single diagonal anchor tie, and all adjustments, striking and removal of these anchors are carried out from above the bridge deck....

Dock entrance widened with PERI formwork Rosyth Dockyard, Fife At the Babcock-owned Rosyth site, contractor BAM Nuttall is part way through a project to widen the direct entrance from the Firth of Forth into the non-tidal basin. This is to allow large prefabricated sections of the Royal Navy’s next generation of aircraft carrier to be floated through for final completion. The gated entrance to the inner nontidal basin has to be widened by 4 m from 38.20 m to 42.10 m to accommodate the new carriers. This new sliding dock gate must be able to retract fully into its own chamber. To accommodate...

Iconic Sixth Form Centre built with PERI Phoenix High School, Bush, London A new £8.7m, 260 capacity sixth form centre is under construction at Phoenix High School. This Post-16 Centre is being constructed using in-situ concrete and incorporates an iconic design to integrate the building with the rest of the school. new in-situ concrete building and approached PERI to source their formwork and falsework requirements. SKYDECK aluminium slab formwork is being used for the floor slabs together with the high load aluminium MULTIPROP . The upper levels cantilever 24 m from the ground floor...

TRIO & DOMINO formwork constructs new renewable energy waste treatment plant Biffa Waste Services, Horsham Contractor JB Developments & Construction Ltd Field Service PERI UK, Brentwood Office Biffa Group has agreed a £1bn plus deal with M+W Group’s UK team to build a new MBT facility in West Sussex. The facility will be built as part of a 25-year contract between Biffa and West Sussex County Council to treat the county’s residual municipal waste. Over the lifetime of the contract it will save the council around £300 million with up to 80% of the waste being diverted from landfill. The...

State of the art college built with PERI expertise Bournville College, Birmingham RCS Rail Climbing System SKYDECK slab formwork VARIO wall formwork A new £66 million college is under construction in Longbridge, which when completed, the 4.2 acre campus which is prominently located on the junction of the A38 Bristol Road South and Longbridge Lane, will consolidate Bournville’s existing three campuses with capacity for over 15,000 students. For the multiple cores on the project O’Donnell Developments used PERI’s RCS (Rail Climbing System). The rail guided climbing formwork coupled with VARIO...

PERI UP providing safe access to new mixed use development 3.20 Bradfield Close, Woking A variety of PERI products were used on this development. Facade scaffold typical lower section. New Central, a development by Midgard Ltd, part of the JRL Group is well under way in its construction of 449 apartments. Based in the centre of Woking the mixeduse development is spread across ten blocks ranging from 1 to 21 storeys’ in height comprising studio; 1bed and 2 bed apartments. footprint which will provide parking spaces for up to 354 people. The ground floor podium is a mixture of private...

PERI UP facade scaffold to one of the blocks. Contractor Midgard Ltd. Field Service PERI UK, Leeds & Birmingham Office James Markham, Assistant Project Manager: “The speed, durability and safety of PERI formwork allowed good progress to be made on the project. The speed and ease of erection of PERI UP coupled with the adaptability of the system allowed changes to be made throughout the project without causing delays to the tight schedule.” 9

Busy railway stretch strengthened with PERI GRV Frodingham Viaduct, Scunthorpe The completed re-strengthened concrete lined arch. Contractor May Gurney Field Service PERI UK, Glasgow Office GRV articulated waler formwork in position ready for concreting, for strengthening works to underside of arch. Frodingham Viaduct was built in 1866, in 1912 the viaduct was in-filled to form an embankment with only two arches left open for access. The 84 span brick viaduct stretches for 21 miles and is the most used freight railway setion in England. Each span is 10.70 m between the centres of the piers,...

PERI construct new flagship library for University of Aberdeen University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen Construction of one of the most prestigious new buildings in Scotland, a flagship £ 57 million library for the University of Aberdeen nears completion. The 15,500 m² of floor-space will host over a quarter of a million books, maps and manuscripts, as well as 1,200 reader spaces in a variety of environments, where cutting edge technologies are available. The new library will be run by approximately 60 staff and serve a community of over 16,000 students. Standing at 10 storeys in height, the new...