Steel sheet piling projects

In March 2021, VolkerGround Engineering was awarded a contract by BAM Nuttal to support them with the construction of the new Thanet Parkway railway station, building platforms, overpass access and access roads in Cliffsend, Kent.

VolkerGround Engineering has demonstrated its extensive marine piling knowledge and experience, supporting VolkerStevin in West Sussex, where they are working to deliver the Arundel Tidal Defence (ATD) scheme.

In 2019 VolkerGround Engineering was awarded a contract by East West Rail (EWR) Alliance (AtkinsRéalis, Laing O’Rourke, Network Rail and VolkerRail), who have been working together to deliver the East West Rail Phase 2 project from Bicester to Bletchley. The works will enable the re-introduction of passenger services between Oxford and Bletchley via Milton Keynes.

In Summer 2021, VolkerGround Engineering was awarded a programme of works by Kier Highways, to provide temporary steel sheet piling, Continuous Flight Auger (CFA) and rotary bored piling. This work was done as part of the A585 Windy Harbour to Skippool Improvement project. 

With a value worth around £180m, the Southsea Coastal Scheme is the UK’s largest local authority-led coastal defence project, stretching for 4.5km from Old Portsmouth to Eastney. The scheme will help to reduce the risk of flooding to more than 10,000 homes and 700 businesses.

In April 2023, VolkerGround Engineering was contracted by Eurovia Infrastructure Ltd to design and construct Continuous Flight Auger (CFA) bearing piles and a King Post wall. This work was done as part of the wider IPort Bridges scheme, which includes the construction of a 16.2m clear span composite deck bridge, with integral reinforced concrete abutments and wingwalls.

VolkerGround Engineering has successfully completed a combination of steel sheet piling and Continuous Flight Auger (CFA) piling for WINVIC, in Birmingham, to enable the construction of a 25-storey student accommodation building.

In October 2022, VolkerGround Engineering was awarded a contract by new client Eric Wright to work with them on Lightbody Street, Liverpool, adjacent to the historic Stanley Dock Complex. Eric Wright are redeveloping a former industrial site, constructing a mix of 1, 2 and 3-bedroom apartments, townhouses and commercial space at this iconic location at the start of the Leeds to Liverpool canal.

In April 2021 VolkerGround Engineering embarked on its largest project to date, the cofferdams required for the construction of the Colne Valley Viaduct, on behalf of VolkerStevin, who were working with the main works civils contractor Align, a JV comprising Bouygues, VolkerFitzpatrick and Sir Robert McAlpine.

In June 2022, VolkerGround Engineering commenced works on the West Kirby Flood Alleviation Scheme, for client VolkerStevin who were working on behalf of the Environment Agency and Wirral Metropolitan Borough Council. The purpose of the project is to improve the flood defences and promenade area.

In December 2018, VolkerGround Engineering was awarded a contract to provide a combination of steel sheet piling and concrete mini piling, as part of a wider scheme to improve flood defences for the 3 Mills TV and Film Studios in East London.

In October 2020, VolkerGround Engineering was awarded a contract by Oliver Connell & Sons Ltd to design and install sheet piles at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge. The works were part of a wider scheme to construct a heart and lung research building at the hospital.

In August 2020, VolkerGround Engineering was awarded a contract to install 130 linear metres of permanent steel sheet piles, as part of emergency flood defence works in Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria. The project, to repair a failed clay bund banking which had previously received temporary sandbag repair to prevent flood damage to houses adjacent to the riverbank, is part of the Cumbria Flood Risk Management Scheme.

In April 2020, VolkerGround Engineering was awarded a contract by VBA, a joint venture between VolkerStevin, Boskalis Westminster and Atkins - an SNC Lavalin company, to install a 2,211.9m2 sheet piled retaining wall, as part of a multi-million-pound project to build new flood defences along the banks of the River Lune in Lancaster.

In December 2017, VolkerGround Engineering was awarded a c.£1m contract by VBA, a joint venture between VolkerStevin, Boskalis Westminster and SNC-Lavalin’s Atkins business, to install tubular and sheet piles as part of a coastal protection project along the Fylde coast.

In February 2020, VolkerGround Engineering was awarded a contract from VBA to install 478 linear metres of sheet piles in Egremont, Cumbria, as part of the Skirting Beck flood risk management scheme.

Lincolnshire Lakes is a strategic regeneration development in Scunthorpe which will include the development of 7,739 new homes and recreational facilities.

VolkerGround Engineering was awarded a contract by Kier Construction, to provide sheet piling works as part of a redevelopment project in the heart of Mayfair, London.

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