Press piling projects

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 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 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.

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.

VolkerGround Engineering was awarded a £0.9m contract by Modebest to undertake steel piling works at Park Royal, London.

In July 2018, VolkerGround Engineering commenced the installation of 9800m2 of sheet piles, to form a retaining wall to raise the flood defences in Strood, South East England.

VolkerGround Engineering was awarded a contract to support VolkerFitzpatrick’s enabling works on the Greenwich Peninsula Plot 19.05 project. The VolkerGround Engineering team designed and constructed a package for a temporary sheet pile wall.

VolkerStevin was appointed by the Welsh Government to complete flood prevention works, which were finished in April 2015.

VolkerGround Engineering was awarded the design and construct project by sister company VolkerFitzpatrick, to install retaining walls across a planned area of the Greenwich Peninsula; known to have extensive underground obstructions caused by a former power station.

VolkerGround Engineering was appointed by Morris Homes to design and install a permanent steel sheet pile wall to an existing residential project at Swans Reach, near to the village of Appley Bridge in Greater Manchester.

The Luton Town Centre Transport scheme aims to provide the missing link for the town's inner ring road system. A new link road has been constructed to provide an improved east to west route for vehicles. To facilitate this, retaining walls were required throughout the scheme to support adjacent embankments.

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