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Project Value
£750,000
Client Name
Team Van Oord
Project Type
Civil Engineering, New Harbour Walls
Great Yarmouth – Wall 54
CPC Civils would undetake works to rebuild a failed section of Harbour Wall in Great Yarmouth, Suffolk.
CPC have been working on and around water since the mid Nineties and as such have gained a vastly experienced workforce.
Great Yarmouth Wall 54 – Project Overview
The works would consist of rebuilding a failed section of Harbour Wall in Great Yarmouth, Suffolk.
The Great Yarmouth Wall 54 Project would present many challenges. This was mainly due to the small size of the working area given the works being carried out. Close liaison with the local authorities and land owners would foster the building of good relationships. This would prove crucial in enabling negotiation and agreement of additional access and lay down areas.
The work would involve removing the old piled wall and installing new 23m long HZ and AZ piles on the line of the existing wall.
To ensure that further collapse of the structure did not occur when removing the existing piles, the team would construct a temporary cofferdam. This would be sited around the work area and filled with gravel before removing the piles.
The gravel would prevent the slippage of the existing ground while installing the new piles.
With install of the new piles complete the team would re-use the temporary gravel support as fill material below the new concrete apron. The team would construct the apron at the rear of the new wall.
A stone filled cofferdam was installed. This would prevent the existing harbour wall slipping whilst re – construction works took place. Then a new piled wall was installed on the original line.
With reconstruction works of the wall complete, the team would undertake the removal of the stone for use as a fill material. The material would be located beneath the new harbour apron slab
Savings were approx 1000t of imported road stone plus the disposal of an equivalent quantity of unsuitable materials upon completion. This would acheive a large saving in costs. It would also reduce environmental impact as there was 1000t of stone NOT quarried. Additionally, this also saved on transport.
Likewise for the disposal off site there would have been the environmental impact of taking the u/s materials to a recycling centre.
