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Renewal of Waste Reception site, Walbottle, Newburn
Client: Newcastle City Council | Value: £416,000 | Contract Date: 2003
Hellens Contracts were appointed as main contractor to construct a new waste reception centre on the site of the existing Walbottle waste reception site. The site adjoined a designated site of interest for nature conservation (SINC) which resulted in sensitive working practices being adopted relating to butterfly breeding seasons.
More specifically work involved:
Clearance of existing brick mess room, hard surfacing & boundary walls
Creation of new ramped access to the site with construction of appropriate retaining walls
Installation of new bitmac and concrete service areas and new highway crossovers
Installation of steel gantries to skips, boundary fencing and gates
General landscaping
Provision of utilities for the future construction of a new mess room and entrance Kiosk
Installation of floodlighting and provision of electrical supply to skip compactor | |
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