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An off-site construction specialist based in East Yorkshire has won a multi-million pound contract to support the building of the HS2 line, Business Live reports. Premier Modular will supply prefab structures to provide project offices and welfare facilities for 15 locations along the first phase of the high-speed line from London to Birmingham.
500 bespoke modules will be manufactured at the firm’s Brandesburton site in East Riding, Yorkshire. Facilities including meeting rooms, open plan offices, showers, drying rooms, toilets, break-out spaces, first aid rooms, and canteens will amount to over 15,000sq m of buildings.
David Harris, Premier’s managing director, said: “We are delighted to be contributing to this important infrastructure project. As a Yorkshire business we know just how critical HS2 is to rail projects in the North and how it will help to rebalance the UK economy.”
Harris added: “We have invested £12 million in our hire fleet in the last 12 months and have expanded our workforce with an additional 100 people in the same period to meet the rising demand for our building services. The scale of the HS2 projects for Premier is a significant factor in that investment.”
Once the modular units have been manufactured, they will be transported south for deployment at the southern terminus near Euston Station. The buildings are expected to be in operation for five years, and have been designed with high sustainability and energy efficiency standards, including low energy lighting and rainwater harvesting.
The project was awarded by the Skanska Costain Strabag (SCS) joint venture. Skanska were part of the National Grid team that recently completed the world-leading gas pipeline under the River Humber, Business Live reports. The £100m project involved inserting steel infrastructure 30m below the busiest estuary in Britain.
The 5km tunnel took 18 months to construct, and was completed last year. Since then, eight separate 620m sections of pipe have been hydraulically pushed into place. The pipeline is the world’s longest hydraulically inserted pipe. The 3.65m diameter tunnel was flooded with 50,000 cubic metres of purified water, which had to be specially treated to protect the steel.
The pipeline will now be connected to the national gas grid, and will be linked with the reception and processing facilities at Easington, where it will carry up to 25 per cent of Britain’s gas. A team of 40 engineers worked round the clock on the project, which involved excavating 160,000 tonnes of material, which was re-used to restore a former quarry.
A 160-metre tunnel boring machine from Germany named Mary was used to complete the work, and afterwards the device, which is the length of 11 double decker buses, had to be dismantled and lifted out of the ground in sections.
Once the boring machine was removed, eight huge 610-metre long and 850 tonne sections of pipes on rollers where carefully pushed into place by two hydraulic thrust machines from the south side. The machines worked at a rate of 1 metre per minute, and the tunnel was flooded with water to make the process easier.
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