Heat and Power Facility,
Standardkessel Baumgarte

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Our team has delivered a comprehensive enabling works package to deliver an energy from waste combined heat and power facility in Dundee. The team also established a piling mat within the main site as well as a compound and laydown area.

PROJECT CHALLENGES

Our team was challenged to re-use contaminated materials with the site works in order to achieve a more environmentally-friendly and overall cost-effective project outcome for the client.

WHAT MEASURES / SOLUTIONS DID GDL IMPLEMENT TO OVERCOME THE PROJECT CHALLENGES?

In order to overcome the project challenges set by the client, our team:

• Re-engineered on-site materials that were intended to go to landfill and be replaced with imported aggregates.
• Combined our technical and stabilisation capabilities to provide a combined stabilised and stone Piling Mat, which allows us to achieve the required bearing pressures with a reduction in imported stone aggregate.
• Remediated formation by the use of cement stabilisation over an area of 4,000m2 proposed for use as a laydown area, removing the need for material removal from site and replacement with imported aggregates.

PROJECT BENEFITS FOR CLIENT

Working with GDL offered a number of benefits for Standardkessel Baumgarte which includes

• 1,500 truck movements saved
• Cost efficiencies through savings made on the reduction of the export of contaminated materials and the reduced need to import stone for the Piling Platform.
• Volume saved from landfill: 5,500m3
• Volumes of materials recycled/re-deployed on the site: 5,500m3