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News Release from: Hepworth Building Products | Subject: Clay drainage systems
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 03 November 2004
Clay Drainage Durability Wins 'SLAM'
Approval
Clay drainage systems from Hepworth have been specified for the first 16 of the Ministry of Defence's Single Living Accommodation Modernisation (SLAM) developments.
The SLAM programme is initially set to provide some 10,000 predominantly single en suite bedrooms over a five year build programme for members of the Armed Forces Some 50 locations in England and Wales are involved
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 21 Sep 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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Further phases will increase the total project timescale to 10 years, the total number of upgraded bed spaces to 35,000 and the overall project value to £1 billion.
Project SLAM is a Defence Estates Prime Contracting Initiative.
Principal contractors are Debut Services Ltd, a consortium of Bovis Lend Lease and Babcock Support Services.
Galliford Try is the designated drainage contractor.
In most cases existing accommodation is being demolished and rebuilt to provide new facilities.
A 60 year design life is a key requirement for the new properties and all aspects of associated services.
Clay pipe systems are a highly attractive choice for the below ground drainage installations in view of their 100 year design life - and long proven ability to function effectively considerably beyond this.
Hepworth Drainage's SuperSleve system, which combines high performance clay pipes with flexible joints, has been chosen by contractor Galliford Try for all of the initial developments.
The first projects focused primarily on the North East, South East and South West, with the programme now rolling out elsewhere around the country.
Current projects to which Hepworth is supplying pipe include those at Gamecock Barracks, Nuneaton; Vimy and Helles Barracks at Catterick; RAF Culdrose in Cornwall; Blandord Forum, Dorset and St David's Barracks at Bicester.
The improved quality of life that SLAM will deliver is expected to make a significant contribution to forces recruitment and retention.
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