Projects
New Vehicle Crossover, Hardwick, Case Study
Objective
We were approached our customer in Hardwick, Cambs, for a sewer connection for a new build, which we completed. We were then asked to quote for a vehicle crossover, which the customer had permission to do as part of the planning application.
About the project
The crossover was a bit involved as it was on a 40mph road, and it was too busy to close the footpath. We had to put up a pedestrian walkway in the road, to safely divert the pedestrians. We excavated the area, which was quite large for a crossover, and was adjacent to a ‘bellmouth’ of a small shopping precinct next door.
We also had a very heavy manhole cover on a surface water catchpit, which had to be lowered. To do this, we had to reduce the ‘corbled masonry’ and fit a modern ‘biscuit’ on top of the catchpit. We re-fitted the original manhole cover as there was nothing wrong with it.
We laid new edging kerbs at the boundary with the new property. At the road we laid new ‘radius’ kerbs to from the entrance onto the crossover. Stone was laid in layers and compacted with a 120mm roller. Tarmac was laid in two stages, with the base course going down in the morning and 6mm tarmac to finish, in the afternoon.
The traffic management was kept up overnight to give the material time to cool down completely. The next day we returned to lay topsoil and grass seed either side of the new crossover, and cleared the site.
Timeline
Timeline
Time taken to quote for the works: 1 week
Time taken to obtain Section 184 Licence: 3 weeks
Leadtime to use Licence: 3 weeks
Time taken to do the work: Less than 1 weeks
Total time: 2 months
Testimonial
Our customer was kind enough to leave us a 5-star review on Google:
“Superb company to deal with.
Excellent communication throughout, most helpful in meeting and exceeding time frames all backed up by a great works team who were polite, helpful and supportive whilst on site.
Thank you all 👍👍”
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