Key Information
Owner: Translink
Engineer: Doran Consulting
General contractor: Henry Brothers
Period of works: July 2017 – September 2017
Project description
The development is for the construction of a workshop and associated hard standing for the transport maintenance depot to support Belfast’s new dynamic public transport scheme. Once opened the facility will service and maintain the city’s new fleet of state-of the-art articulated buses. The site was previously of historic industrial use- located on the docks not far from where the Titanic was constructed!
Ground conditions
Soils typically comprised of 1.0m – 3.5m of made ground overlying soft clays and loose sands to a depth of to 5.7m – 11.3m where medium dense sands and gravels were encountered.
Solution
Main Figures
Bi-modulus Columns
2316no. 23,623lin.m
6no. CMC Load Tests
28no. BMC Load Tests