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Investing in new waste infrastructure
With waste management an increasingly challenging issue for local authorities, Plymouth City Council has appointed May Gurney to construct new multi-million pound infrastructure to support its ongoing environmental investment programme.
May Gurney has been working with the city council for the past 15 years on a variety of waste-related projects that have included landfill remediation, leachate removal, leachate cut-off walls and capping works.
This latest commission is the construction of a new Refuse Transfer Station - a steel-clad, portal frame building with a split-level floor slab.
The floor area will extend to approximately 4,000m2 with reinforced concrete floor slabs and push walls to assist mechanical loading of deposited refuse. Foundations will comprise piles driven through deposited municipal waste material and alluvium, to total depths of up to 20m.
All associated mechanical and electrical equipment for dust control, lighting, access and CCTV - as well as a purpose built control building - are included in the contract, along with approximately 6,600m2 of external concrete hard-standing areas for parking and vehicle marshalling.
 Tim Read, May Gurney Utility Services' Managing Director, said: "Having carried out a number of schemes for this client over recent years, it's great to have been chosen to assist with the next phase of investment in sustainable waste management solutions in the region.
"Waste management is of growing concern in the UK as the capacity for landfill becomes depleted and costs of disposal rise sharply.
"Our skills - in both civil engineering and M&E specialist services - are bringing added value to clients wishing to rapidly mobilise the right resources to build waste recycling facilities in order to help hit government targets."
While the multi-million pound contract has been awarded, the date for work to begin is as yet uncertain as there are further planning issues to be resolved. However, it is anticipated that the project will be due for commissioning sometime in 2008.
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