Lancaster WwTW

United Utilities

Value: £3,300,000 Design and Construction of wastewater utility works providing enhanced screening and additional storm storage (19,500m3) located at Lancaster WwTW. The project scope included construction of two 40m diameter x 8m high above ground reinforced concrete circular tanks incorporating all associated underground 700mm diameter pressure pipework, reinforced concrete collection an…

Stanley Way Waste Transfer Station

Lancashire County Council

Value: £2,560,000 Design and construction of Waste Transfer facilities incorporating weighbridges an associated office and external ancillary works. Works included site preparation and clearance, earthworks, abandonment of mine-workings, foul and surface water drainage works including gullies, manholes and ducting and all mechanical and electrical design and installation. Incorporating th…

Widnes Future Flower

Halton Borough Council

Value: £125,000 Construction of a 14m high wind-powered Flower on the banks of the River Mersey. The Widnes Future Flower rests on a reinforced in-situ concrete base, it has 120 metallic petals that flutter in the wind and become illuminated by 60 low-powered LEDs in various shades of red, with their intensity varying depending on the wind's strength and direction. The…

Kiveton Colliery

Renaissance South Yorkshire

Value: £7,000,000 The former 67.4 hectares (166.5 acres) colliery site required reclamation to provide an open landform that includes a fishing pond, a recreation arena, construction of paths and tracks, bird scrapes, extensive planting of trees and redistribution of excavated material. The Design and Construct contract work scope included clearance of a former sewerage treatment works, co…

Dream

St.Helens Council

Value: £1,300,000 Erection of an artistic 20m high concrete structure on top of the former Sutton Manor Colliery in St.Helens, located close to Junction 7 of the M62. The concept of Dream, which takes the form of a girl’s head with her eyes closed seemingly in a dream-like state, was developed by renowned artist Jaume Plensa and aims to promote thoughts of the future of St Helens as …

Doncaster Lakeside

Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council

Value: £8,700,000 The transformation of a municipal landfill site to a thriving business, residential and leisure area. This project was carried out in phases spread over a period of several years. CHC was involved in the majority of the enabling and infrastructure works including: Airport Tip Reclamation - Reclamation of a former landfill site required the excavation of 750,000m3 of iner…

Barrowford Business Park

Peel Developments

Value: £1,300,000 Construction of a new service road into a new industrial park. Works included site clearance and earthworks to clear excess material from site, lime stabilisation of the existing material under the road, foul and surface water drainage (adopted by UU and the local council) with a  Sustainable Drainage System providing surface water attenuation ponds together with roa…

Burscough WwTW

United Utilities

Value: £5,100,000 Design and construction of utility works providing additional storm storage (13,500m3) and modifications to the existing inlet works all located at Burscough WwTW. The project scope includes excavation and construction of an underground reinforced concrete storage tank 70m x 60m x 3.75m deep incorporating the installation of 225nr x 11m long CFA tension piles. Major RC m…

Pleasley Colliery

East Midlands Development Agency

Value: £1,060,000 Reclamation in preparation for subsequent development at the former colliery site. Works involved the remediation of isolated contaminated hot spots, including an area of high combustibility, removal of buried foundations and crushing them for re-use as a track/path sub base. The infrastructure was upgraded and an extension added to the existing adopted highway for Derbys…

Ribble Link HA Pipeline

United Utilities

Value: £13,300,000 13km of 600dia ductile iron pipes were laid between Laundwood PS and the Haweswater Aqueduct and between Clitheroe Rd, Waddington and Lowcocks Service Reservoir. Both civil and MEICA modifications  were made at Laundwood Pumping Station and Lowcocks Service Reservoir, along with the construction of chemical dosing building and equipment and connections to existing d…