Bethell Construction

Townside Fields, Bury

Bethell were awarded the £2.5m groundworks and substructure reinforced concrete works packages on the Bury Townside Fieds project. The construction works focused on the following new buildings:

Bury Metropolitan Borough Council (BMBC) office block: Works undertaken included pile cap and ground beam construction, Installation of a gas membrane system, internal drainage and service ducts, Construction of a 956m2 reinforced concrete ground slab, costruction of a 5m high retaining wall and the construction of a reinforced concrete substation including retaining walls.

Primary Care Trust Building (PCT): Works undertaken included construction of reinforced concrete pilecaps and groundbeams, installation of a gas membrane system, internal drainage and service ducts as well as construction of a 767m2 groundfloor slab.

Multi Storey Car Park (MSCP): Works included the construction of 2 waler beams on a CFA wall and the construction of a capping beam along the length of the aformentioned CFA piled wall. A bulk excavtion was also undertaken in which 20000m3 of material was excavated and either used on site or disposed off site to landfill.

Subway extension: The existing reinforced concrete subway under Angolume way was also extended to allow pedestrian access into the development was complete.

Extensive lengths of new drainage pipe ranging from 675mm Dia. to 150 Dia. was installed along with a 100m3 Attenuation tank.