PaSCoE has worked with Eric Wright Civil Engineering to completed a £4.8m project to improve the Holden Wood and Ogden reservoirs at Grane Valley, Rossendale, Lancashire. The main purpose of the project was to improve the overflow and spillway facilities at Holden Wood and Ogden Reservoirs allowing PMF flows to… ∞
11th June 2014After 7 happy years at the seaside, 2014 saw PaSCoE move premises to the vibrant city of Preston. We are now situated in a 4 storey Grade II listed Georgian building in Winckley Square, just a few minutes’ walk from the city centre and Preston train station. The Square was… ∞
11th June 2014The Thameslink Programme is a £6 billion project to upgrade and expand the Thameslink rail network to provide new and longer trains between a wider range of stations to the north and to the south of London. Work includes platform lengthening, station remodelling, new railway infrastructure, and additional rolling stock…. ∞
11th June 2014The Temporary Works Forum has released their latest guidance note on the stability of reinforcement prior to concreting. This follows the well received hoarding good practice guide published in October 2012. PaSCoE are proud to be members of the Temporary Works Forum and continue to support the Forum to engage… ∞
11th June 2014As historic signal boxes up and down the country are destroyed, the unique 38-lever signal box at Hednesford Station has been successfully relocated to Hednesford Park ready for a new chapter in its life. It is due to open to the public for educational purposes later this year after being… ∞
11th June 2014Crossrail is amongst the most significant infrastructure projects ever undertaken in the UK – from improving journey times across London, to easing congestion and offering better connections. Crossrail will deliver a high frequency, high capacity service to 40 stations linking Reading and Heathrow in the west, to Shenfield and Abbey… ∞
11th June 2014The new £50 million 70-acre business park is one of the most exciting developments in the North West and will create 1,400 new and sustainable jobs. Offering high quality, flexible accommodation with footprints from 2,000 sq ft to 700,000 sq ft, Burnley Bridge Business Park is planned across four zones…. ∞
11th June 2014The Ground Engineering Award 2014 has been awarded to the United Utlilities Piethorne & Wickenhall Water Treatment Works Access Road Stabilisation project. PaSCoE provided the Geotechncial Design for the scheme with Eric Wright Civil Engineering Ltd providing the construction services. An existing access road to the Piethorne Water Treatment Works… ∞
11th June 2014The Ground Engineering Award 2012 has been won by PaSCoE in conjunction with Geotechncis Ltd and WM Longreach for the stabilisation and reconstruction of a landslip to the rear of Foxbank, Bewdley. Following rain storms in Worcestershire movement occurred in retaining walls and steep garden slopes rising above and behind… ∞
11th June 2014In order to protect the proposed Preston Waste Transfer Station from a 1 in 200 year flood from the adjacent River Ribble the level of the site had to be raised by up to 3m. The increased loading from the 3m high platform was predicted to result in unacceptably large… ∞
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