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The Harlow Project

Posted on 19th July 2021

Soils Limited are pleased to announce that the “Harlow Project” with Essex Highways is now underway.

Headed up by Richard Biney, Soils Limited will supervise the site works which involve traffic management on busy ‘A’ roads and four-way roundabouts (typically during night works under strict time restrictions).

Site works will comprise:

Full utility clearance and surveying of locations and services

Boreholes using cable percussive rig and dynamic windowless sampling rig

Concrete coring locations

Dynamic cone penetrometer tests

Hand excavated slit trial pits to identify services

Logging of cable percussive &windowless sampler boreholes in accordance with BS5930:2015

Logging of road cores

Chemical Laboratory Analysis

Geotechnical Laboratory Analysis

Factual Reporting

Pavement investigation reporting

Soils Limited’s in-house surveying team is undertaking the full GPR survey and the utility mapping.

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Town Hall Annexe, Barking Road, London

The proposal involved converting the Town Hall Annexe building into block of apartments with two storey floor extension creating one, two and three-bed homes, with a total of 185 new homes

Plaistow Hub (London Road & Valetta Grove Sites)

A robust intrusive ground investigation, designed to obtain geological, geotechnical and geo-environmental data.

Beethoven Street, Queens Park, London

Additional Contamination Investigation Report to define the condition of materials in select areas across the site which is being redeveloped as a new school

A127/A130 Fairglen Interchange

A new ‘Southern Link Road’ linking the A130 southbound to a new signalised junction on the A1245.

A47 Improvements Programme – Wansford to Sutton Dualling Scheme

Upgrading the A47 single carriageway to a dual carriageway standard including access routes and a new bridge

White Hart, Machen, Caerphilly, Wales

The demolition of the existing derelict Public House (White Hart Inn) and the construction of eight 3-storey houses

West Hill, South Croydon

The proposed development was to comprise the construction of a block of flats with the superstructure comprising 4 (central and north-eastern portion) and 3 (south-western portion) storeys.

Cavendish Parade, Hounslow West

Redevelopment included hard landscaping such as access roads driveways and pavements and soft landscaping such as communal garden and public open space.

A27 – East of Lewes Improvements

The A27 - East of Lewes improvements worked involved the collection of 3500 plus geotechnical and geo-environmental samples from over 150 different locations

Chyvelah Road, Threemilestone, Truro

The project comprised the construction of six two-storey, semi-detached three-bedroom houses and the construction of a commercial CO-OP building in the northern section of the site.

RNLI Penlee

Soils Limited was commissioned to undertake a ground investigation by the RNLI for a proposed new lifeboat station at RNLI Penlee, The Strand, Newlyn

Noss-on-Dart Marina, Dartmouth, Devon

Redevelopment of the current Marina with the creation of over 200 berths; a dry stack a boatyard with a 75-tonne boat hoist servicing, commercial units, restaurants and passenger ferry link.