Product category:
Ground Engineering
News Release from: Aarsleff Piling | Subject: Precast concrete foundation piles
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 26 May 2005
Aarsleff supports student accommodation
Aarsleff Piling, working for Mansfield based North Midland Building, installed over 340 precast concrete foundation piles at the University of Lincoln.
Recently completed developments and refurbishments and further planned expansion at the University of Lincoln is attracting an increasing number of students to the City Approximately GBP 70M has been invested in the University campus over the past eight years and student numbers were projected to increase to over 10,000 from the 9,000 in the 2003/2004 academic year
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 26 Feb 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
Related stories
Aarsleff selected for Welsh Assembly
Aarsleff Piling has been selected to install the precast concrete foundation piles to support the Welsh Assembly Government's new GBP20 million office in Aberystwyth.
Aarsleff piles into melt shop
Cementation Foundations Skanska and Aarsleff Piling complete piling for new steel manufacturing plant.
To cater for the increase in student numbers Nottingham based property developer Bournston is building two new purpose built pre let, fully managed blocks of student apartments and studios.
Bournston's main design and build contractor, North Midland Building , completed the first 'JunXion' nine storey University student accommodation in the centre of Lincoln in September 2004.
Complete with ground floor retail unit, the complex accommodates 569 students and was fully let in its first academic year.
Further reading
Aarsleff piles along silently in Lincoln
Aarsleff Piling is using a Tosa Still Worker silent hydraulic pile driver in Lincoln to install a cantilevered steel sheet piled retaining wall.
Aarsleff breaks into onshore wind turbine market
Aarsleff Piling has broken into the UK's onshore wind turbine market and has successfully completed, ahead of schedule, its first piling contract for an 85 m high wind energy converter.
Aarsleff drives into Leeds swimming pool
Aarsleff Piling overcome potential piling problems at the new Leeds Swimming Pool and Diving Centre.
North Midland Building recently started on the second City centre Pavilions village development, which will accommodate approximately 1000 University students.
The initial phase of The Pavilions is a nine story building of 28 apartments with 4 and 6 en-suite study bedrooms plus 36 studio apartments and will be available for letting from September 2005.
The specialist piling contractor Aarsleff Piling, working for Mansfield based North Midland Building, installed over 340 precast concrete foundation piles for the initial 'JunXion' project.
The company's success at JunXion prompted North Midland Building to negotiate directly with Aarsleff the approximate GBP150,000 supply, handle, pitch and drive service for The Pavilions.
"The first contract undertaken for us by Aarsleff Piling at the JunXion went very well," says North Midland managing director Mike Catlin.
"Of course being a brownfield site there were the inevitable problems caused by obstructions".
"But Aarsleff demonstrated a refreshing approach to these and simply relocated to an area where they could work whilst the matter was being dealt with".
"The result was that by working together the works were completed on programme and within budget".
"As a result of their performance on the JunXion, and also their specialist knowledge and experience of working in the Lincoln area, we contacted Aarsleff in the first instance with a mind to continue the good working relationship that had been built up previously." Aarsleff, using one of its own Banut 500 self erecting hydraulic drop hammer piling rigs, is installing over 1000 piles of 250 mm square section from 6 m to 13 m long supplied by Aarsleff's wholly owned subsidiary Centrum Pile .
The continuously reinforced piles are in clusters of two, three, four, six and eight, which are directly under the building's columns providing individual pile working loads of 400 kN.
The project is on the former site of the excavator manufacturer Ruston Bucyrus and Aarsleff is driving the piles through sand and gravel, overlying clay, overlying mudstone".
"Most of the piles are founded in the sand and gravel, but on some of the longer piles, where the sand and gravel is not thick enough to achieve the working load, we drive them to toe into the underlying clay," says Aarsleff contracts manager Steve Gilbank.
Piles are later independently dynamically tested by Precision Monitoring and Control.
• Aarsleff Piling: contact details and other news
• Email this article to a colleague
• Register for the free Buildingtalk email newsletter
• Buildingtalk Home Page
Search the Pro-Talk network of sites
