Nuclear Containment Building at Harwell – Trant

Blanchard Wells put up strong half-metre thick, seven metre high concrete walls for a new building at the Magnox nuclear decommissioning plant in Oxfordshire. A team of 12 completed the job in 30 weeks.

Sector
Nuclear

Value
£1m

Completed
30 weeks

Main Contractor : Trant Engineering
Package : 7m high 500mm thick walls
Location : Harwell
Engineer : Magnox
Architect : NA

Total concrete placed : 1,300m³
Total soffit formwork : NA
Total wall formwork : 4,200m²
Staircases : NA

Earlier engagement with the main contractor and design team has assisted the project stakeholders to achieving a product that is not only of high quality, built on time, incorporated service voids and penetrations, along with budget constraints. The Blanchard Wells team have developed an open communication process, which develops transparency and collaborative working. Blanchard Wells bring the added benefit of group strengths, groundwork and concrete frames, to deliver a programme that would have been hampered if packages had been split.

Geoff Pepper, Project Manager,
Galliford Try

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