Project Description

• Amazon has bought 33.5 acres of land at Severnside Distribution Land’s logistics development at Central Park, in Avonmouth.
• A deal on the build contract would be a coup for ISG as the Avonmouth scheme is the first the retailer has self-developed.
• The shed will give Amazon 16 ‘fulfilment’ centres, including new openings in Doncaster, Warrington and Tilbury.

Requirements

• Drillcut (UK) Limited were called upon to safely and securely remove a huge amount of concrete slab which needed to be strengthened for new machinery mezzanine level.
• The warehouse was live and fully enclosed so routes and machinery had to be planned by ISG site team and minimal vibration allowed.
• Drillcut (UK) Limited proposed the electric 3 phase floor sawing method to remove the slab in 1.5 x 2.0m pieces x 305mm deep reinforced concrete slab amounting to approx. 10,000 LM of floor sawing.
• No over cutting into the existing slab and a careful work around live LV panels which were located nearby

Solutions

• Drillcut (UK) Limited deployed 3nr. Electric floor saws from there Head office in Bristol fully equipped with x2 sets of diamond drilling teams
• Drillcut (UK) Limited invested in a state of the art water recycling unit to recycle the slurry concrete water into clean water and deposit the waste bricks into a general waste skip provided on site.
•  10,000 LM of electric floor saw was carried out in record time of 3 – 4 weeks of work
• 750nr. 150mm diameter core holes were drilled to a required depth of 305mm in total of (228.75LM of diamond core drilling through reinforced concrete slab
• LV panels where carefully cut and diamond core drilled with a combined method

Environmental

• SP8 Slurry fox was invested in by Drillcut (UK) Limited to recycle the slurry water used in the cutting and diamond drilling works and reproduced a clean supply into cubes of water for re use
• All slurry bricks were dried and cleared to skips provided on site using a tipping skip to reduce any manual handling.
• No drains where used for slurry water
• All operatives carried out the project where fully trained and certificated all nearby to the project
• Concrete slab was cleared by Kiernan construction group and recycled on site using a crusher and set to be re used

Financial

• Drillcut (UK) Limited knowledge and experience of the diamond drilling sector kept the project on a tight schedule of works and completed the works before the allotted time frame
• All equipment was owned by Drillcut (UK) Limited ensuring the project cost was kept to a minimum
• Tests were carried out on site prior to starting the project to ensure the correct diamond segment was used for the diamond drilling and the sawing by Drillcut (UK) Limited.

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