Slipform contractor PC Harrington required a quick and cost effective solution to the problem of retaining the side of an excavation adjacent an existing building. A particular requirement was the need to limit the width of the retention system because of close construction tolerances....
Situated at high level on a natural slope, this retaining wall to a public house was failing due to overturning. Owners, Greene King, retained Charterbuild to undertake an engineering survey and site investigation and the subsequent design and execution of the remedial scheme....
Differential settlement requiring partial underpinning followed by structural repair and specialist re-decoration....
The presence of a tree behind this retaining wall in North West London had created significant problems when root growth created lateral pressures...
Works required due to poor ground conditions and site situated next to a deep stream cutting....
The property suffered structural damage with critical cracking to external walls. The front and flank elevations masonry walls were showing signs of subsidence and structural movement....
The property was completely stripped out back to the beam and block floor structure and blockwork walls. The internal partition walls were removed and reconstructed....
Following impact by a car, we were called to the property to erect a temporary security screen, provide support to the structure....
A developer in North Kent required 3 no piled raft foundations to be formed, to act as foundation / structural floor slab for his 3 storey timber frame structures....