Birse Civils North East achieves a CEEQUAL Excellent Award
1 Feb 2010
CEEQUAL is the Civil Engineering Environmental Quality Assessment Scheme that
is improving sustainability on civil engineering projects. The Fryston and Wheldale
Remediation project achieved 83% on a whole project award basis. This considers
the Client, Design and Construction stages. The scheme now joins an elite list
of projects in the country who have attained acknowledgment for their environmental
credentials.Link to CEEQUAL website and overview of the Fryston and Wheldale scheme: http://www.ceequal.com/awards_057.htm
The main works included:
- excavation and burial of approximately 1,500 cubic metres of Japanese Knotweed within a specialist containment cell
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excavation and engineered fill of 100,000 cubic metres of material for a proposed 10-hectare housing platform -
remodelling of 150,000 cubic metres of material over the remaining 50 hectares of site -
formation of 8km of bridleways and footpaths -
incorporation of 50,000 cubic metres of amelioration material to provide a suitable growing medium -
planting of 30,000 saplings, grass seeding -
creation of a leisure area adjacent to an existing marina.
All these works were undertaken in close proximity to the existing village of
New Fryston, and close co-operation with the local community was required at all
times.
