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News Release from: Milbury Systems | Subject: Special positioning detail
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 15 February 2007
Complex concrete fitting for highways
scheme
Milbury Systems designed a unique special positioning detail to successfully install 1,920 square metres of concrete cladding panels alongside the new A500 road at Stoke on Trent.
Concrete specialist, Milbury Systems, designed a unique special positioning detail to successfully install 1,920 square metres of concrete cladding panels alongside the new A500 road at Stoke on Trent Introduced by the Highways Agency as a "flagship scheme" by which all future ECI schemes will be judged, the new A500 Stoke Pathfinder Road was officially opened on 26 September 2006
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 13 Apr 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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In total Milbury designed, manufactured and installed four hundred and ninety two 160mm thick prestressed concrete panels alongside the road.
These were fitted underneath a capping beam and into a preformed channel over a total length of 725 metres.
The panels are cladding contiguous piles and Milbury designed a special positioning detail which allowed the units to be inclined at two degrees back under a capping beam without the need for access between the units and piles.
A stainless clip of Milbury's design was used between the panel and the capping beam to ensure the units remain securely in place.
The capping beam was positioned only 40mm above the top of the units which meant that the panels could not be lifted from above in the conventional manner.
To solve the problem Milbury cast lifting sockets into the units at predetermined points which enabled them to be lifted into place at the appropriate angle.
Despite the complexity of the fitting, installation went well and was completed to a tight schedule.
The concrete panels were manufactured at Milbury's concrete production plant sited at Lydney, Gloucester.
"Our manufacturing works allows us to supply the majority of our own precast concrete requirements so that we can offer our clients a more competitive and flexible full service from design right through to installation." said Simon Pearson, works director at Milbury Systems.
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