Case Studies Archive - Page 2 of 2

Blackberry Hill, Bristol

client: Vistry Partnerships

technique: Steel Cased Bottom Driven Bearing Piles

contract value: £20,000

Installation of steel cased bottom driven bearing piles using restricted access mini-rig.

Spire Hospital, Bristol

client: William Hare Ltd

technique: ODEX and CFA Bearing Piles

contract value: £58,649.02

Installation of 220mm diameter ODEX and 350mm diameter CFA bearing piles, socketing into the Clifton Down Limestone Formation.

Close of up GeMech employee with piling and foundation equipment

Bristol Beacon, Bristol

client: Wilmott Dixon

technique: Restricted Access ODEX Piling

contract value: £52,000.00

Installation of 435mm diameter ODEX piles, up to 8.0m within Redcliffe Sandstone bedrock. Accessing and working within restricted access constraints.

Quonians Lane, Lichfield

client: Living Heritage Ltd.

technique: CFA Bearing Piles

contract value: £74,000.00

Installation of 287no. 300mm dia. CFA piles up to 8.0m depth, in Sandstone for residential development.

Former salvation army building piling project

Former Salvation Army, Bedminster

client: Mase Construction Ltd.

technique: Restricted Access Steel Cased Bottom Driven Bearing Piles

contract value: £15,254

Installation of 220mm diameter driven piles within former Salvation Army building, using our Vermeer rig in ‘low headroom’ mode, with less than 2.0m access height.

Pixash Lane, Keynsham

client: Farrans

technique: Vibro Stone Columns, Ground Improvement

contract value: £233,000.00

Vibro replacement stone columns to multiple structures at a new build waste transfer site that required GeMechs ground improvement solutions.

A vibro stone column ground improvement solution alternative to the originally proposed traditional piling scheme, permitting the use of lightly reinforced shallow strip foundations to a new build care home.

Cricket ground drilling and driven piling

Somerset County Cricket Club, Taunton

client: Musco Lighting Europe

technique: Restricted Access SFA Bearing Piles

contract value: £52,000.00

Installation of 600mm diameter CFA Piles to form floodlight bases at multiple restricted locations. Required tracking our 14.0t restricted access rig across the cricket outfield.