 Cambuslang Investment Park, Phase 1
Client: Scottish Enterprise
Engineer: URS Corporation Ltd
Contract Value: £2,900,000
The Soil Engineering division successfully completed a £2.9m grouting contract at Cambuslang, located adjacent to London Road, Glasgow. This contract was undertaken on behalf of Scottish Enterprise Glasgow and supervised by URS Corporation Ltd.
The works included the formation of approximately 5000 rotary percussive boreholes (180km of drilling), the placement of approximately 20000 tonnes of grout across three seams of coal, and the treatment of 3 mineshafts. The workings were up to 50m deep and the site was overlaid by up to 35m of glacial fill.
The photograph shows a rotary percussive drilling rig set up above an 80m deep abandoned mineshaft. Treatment of this shaft involved drilling 4 No. boreholes and injecting c. 1700 tonnes of cement/pfa grout. To ensure the safety of the operation, 30m long steel beams span the shaft footprint to support the working platform.
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