12/03/2024 Groundforce Shorco has supplied a bespoke support system for a major excavation in Dublin. Contractor Bennett Construction is building a new eight-storey campus building in Dublin city centre for the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI). Two of the building’s eight storeys are below ground, which means the site is currently occupied by
24/07/2023 A complex shoring solution supplied by Groundforce Shorco for another Tideway excavation. Groundforce Shorco has provided specialist equipment to support a second Air Treatment Unit (ATU) excavation on the Thames Tideway Tunnel, London’s Super Sewer project. The project requires a number of ATUs to be installed along the route of the 25km tunnel, to
04/05/2023 Groundforce Shorco and sister division Piletec have come together to provide a turnkey ground support package on a mains water diversion project in the Midlands. The project involved re-routing the strategic water main under a new railway line, currently under construction, at Lavender Hall Farm at Berkswell, near Coventry. Contractor J Murphy & Sons
14/12/2022 Building and engineering contractors J & S McKee Ltd, who have undertaken a complete sub structure package of works on a prominent new 12-storey student accommodation development in Belfast, appointed Groundforce to provide a ground retention solution during the sub structure phases. Called ‘Nelson Street’ and located on Belfast’s Westlink road corridor, this new
17/10/2022 Fairbridge Way groundworks by O’Keefe Construction (Byrne Group) will set off partnership deal between ilke Homes and Places for People. O’Keefe Construction (Byrne Group) has won a £12 million contract to prepare a remediated sewage treatment plant in Burgess Hill, Mid Sussex, for a pioneering two-development project for the UK’s leading modular house builder
08/08/2022 Groundforce are using KTC Safety, a long established, independent training centre, as a base in Ireland to offer their accredited EUSR training courses. The Irish centre for Groundforce Training will be based at Kearney Training & Consultancy (KTC Safety) in Ballydavis, Portlaoise, Co Laois. KTC is one of the largest Health and Safety training