More Players For The Hammers - Or Just Bigger Crowds?
Ground conditions are always the biggest hazard on any job we start. This Volka Grant Rail contract to put 4 guided augur bore UTX`s in at Stephenson’s Bridge (as part of a station expansion and new platform build at West Ham) was the most difficult we’ve faced for a while.
With 3 x 610’s and 1x 711 (running 35 metres) we were extremely nervous at the start – particularly since a previous stage of this job had been so difficult (with utilities all over the place and almost impossible to avoid) that we had been forced to abandon it. The first time that’s happened for a long, long time. Working from a shaft that was originaly designed for two crossings, the client asked if we could possilbly squeese in two more steel sleeves, we did and it was a squeese
We’ll let Stephen Evans of Volka Grant Rail sum it up for us “CTB are very professional and I was very impressed. They’ll always try every which way to solve any difficulty – very few go the extra mile like they do.”