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Weston Lock Bridge & Wharfwall

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Weston Lock Bridge & Wharfwall
  • Project Weston Lock Bridge & Wharfwall
  • Location Weston On Trent, East Staffordshire
  • Client Bristish Waterways / May Gurney
  • Value: £120,000.00
  • Date Feb - March 2010
  • Duration 7 Weeks
  • Accident Free Shifts 165

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Project Details

 

The initial project scope at Weston Lock was to close the road carried by bridge No. 8  for a period of 3 weeks whilst a new fibre reinforced saddle was installed complete with a full overhaul of the masonry from water level down below the bridge at lower pound level up via the soffit and up to the parapets and spandrel walls, etc. All masonry repairs consisted of full rake out and re-point using heritagemortar and techniques and removal and replacement using matching reclaimed bricks of all spalled brickwork. The adjacent wharf/ mooring wall was showing signs of collapse into the canal pound and this was causing instability in the associated hand rail and paraplegic/ pushchair ramp associated on the super structure. British Waterways instructed the demolition and reconstruction of the mooring/ wharf area and provided emergency repair drawings.
 
A brief synopsis of the project is as follows:-
 
  • Mobilise to site and establish all works.
  • Design and construct wheelchair and disabled access ramps and bridge over canal lock to allow closure of the bridge,
  • Design and construct full hanging scaffold to bridge No 8,
  • Rake out and repoint all bed and perp joints on bridge exterior surfaces including soffit and water line.
  • Carefully break out and replace individual damaged bricks with reclaimed replacements.

·    All works in accordance with heritage procedures using lime mortar and heritage tooling, lime mortar : sharp sand during winter working.

·    Excavate road surface symmetrically over the bridge, install edge shuttering and place fibre reinforced concrete  saddle.

·    Excavate and install completed type 1 stone, arrive and depart ramp sections to edges of new reinforced saddle.

·    Clear all scaffold and bridgeworks.

·    Mobilise waterborne craft some 4 miles down the canal at Shardlow wharf.

·    Excavate, breakout and dredge existing wharf/ mooring wall in failed concrete and masonry.

·    Install new sheet piled canal edge wall with tie back anchors and R.C edge beam supported on lost piles using waterborne craft and piling hammer.

·    Backfill area with pea gravel and construct new R.C. concrete edge beam over whole area.

·    Construct masonry wall to create new ramp area and backfill with type 1 fill to provide ramp structure.

·    Install new handrails, concrete surfacing, slope surfacing using granite set and corduroy safety inserts to complete works.

·    Clear site and de-mobilise.

 

 

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