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The installation of 20 sheet piles a day for four weeks helped keep traffic flowing while three-storeys were added to Douglas town centre, Cork.
Trench Control, the Naas-based piling contractor announced the completion last month of the sheet piling contract for The Shipton Group’s re-development of Douglas Town Centre in Cork.
The development consists of a multi-storey shopping centre, with Tesco as the anchor unit. It also includes a three-storey office block and car park, all to be integrated into the existing building whilst keeping it open for business throughout the construction period. The site is located in Douglas Village, Cork and the overall project value is approximately e80 million and is due for completion in 2009. The piling works enabled the movement of an existing underground culvert to make way for an additional inter-connector road between the two main streets in Douglas to solve the town’s long-term traffic congestion issues.
Trench Control was engaged as the main subcontractor for all piling and anchoring works. As part of the service, Trench Control provided detailed designs to cover all aspects of the piling and anchoring to ensure the centre and overpass could remain open while the works were completed. The solution consisted of the installation of 356 x 14 metre sheet piles, to act as a permanent retention wall. These sheet piles were provided fromTrench Control’s stock of over e1 million worth of sheet piles, enabling works to start immediately. The programme required a target of 20 sheet piles per day to be installed with overall time frame of four weeks. In addition, it also required anchoring into the existing motorway overpass using 32mm Gewi pre-stressed steel bar with an ultimate strength value of 826Kn.
The Douglas project has been one of a number of new projects Trench Control has won in the Munster region, also completing works at the Tyndall Institute; Hotel Europe Killarney, Millipore Ireland, and Lancaster Quay development. With its original base in Naas, the group has also additional premises in Cork and Belfast, serving the whole of Ireland. This expansion into the Munster region had been made possible by the opening of a new office and distribution centre close to Cork city that ensures customers are guaranteed piling and anchoring capability as they need it. In business since 1980 for all excavation requirements, Trench Control moved to provide sheet piling contracting solutions to the industry in the late 1990s and then added the ability to provide concrete CFA Secant & Contiguous Piling and Anchoring to its portfolio.
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