The highly contentious project to demolish the Futurist theatre and adjoining buildings in Scarborough South Bay and carry out associated slope stabilisation works is underway.
Main Contractor, Willmott Dixon, is undertaking the project on behalf of Scarborough Borough Council.
Howard Civil Engineering have carried out an enabling package making alterations to the seafront highway to provide safe access and agress areas to the theatre for the main demolition works.
The stability of the cliff behind the Futurist is the number one priority for the council and Willmott Dixon. The demolition plan that has been adopted has been created following expert analysis of the risks in great detail and establishing methods to mitigate them.
Our next package of work is carrying out slope stability works inside the theatre, installing concrete ballast against the rear internal walls.
Following this a demolition subcontractor will take down the building in a controlled phased manner.
The provision of a new traffic signal controlled junction off the busy Bochum Parkway dual carriageway and associated increased capacity to an adjacent traffic signal controlled roundabout has reached a successful conclusion.
The works were to provide east bound and west bound access into the new St James Retail Park development and also to provide the extra vehicular capacity required for such a development. The retail park is being developed by St James Securities Limited, with GMI Construction as the Principal Contractor for the scheme.
The scheme was extremely challenging. All the works were carried out on the live carriageway on an extremely busy route into and out of Sheffield. The use of temporary traffic management was restricted to off peak times only, with some activities allowed only to take place at night. We worked to resequence our phasing to mitigate the effect of delayed service diversions to ensure that over Client’s handover date was met.
The presence of Meadowhead School adjacent to our works meant that over 1000 pupils crossed our works twice a day.
We rolled out a full community liaison scheme, a scheme successfully delivered on previous S278 Works likely to cause severe dsiruption to traffic and local residents. This included the delivery of an electronic newsletter every 2 weeks to local residents, businesses and service providers, providing up to date information about the road works and warnings of temporary traffic management likely to cause disruption and have a detrimental affect on travel times.
Editions of our newsletters can be found on our dedicated St James Retail Park/Bochum Parkway web page https://www.howardcivileng.co.uk/st-james-retail-park-bochum-parkway/
The fit out of the various stores which include M&S Food, TKMaxx, Greggs, Shoezone, will commence in April with the whole retail park up and running by this autumn.
The S278 Works have been very well recieved by our Client and by St James Securities. SCC praised us for the reduced number of complaints they received during the works.
Howard Civil Engineering commenced with a drainage package for Buckingham Group at York Community Stadium this week.
This long-awaited scheme plagued by delays was previously awarded to Main Contractor ISG
Once complete the new Community Stadium Leisure Complex will comprise of an 8,000 all-seat community sports stadium to host professional football and rugby league games. There will also be new leisure facilities incorporating a swimming pool, gym, dance studio, indoor and outdoor climbing facilities and a sports hall with spectator seating.
A commercial development on the stadium site will also feature a cinema complex, including an IMAX screen, five restaurants and up to three retail units. NHS outpatient services will be offered on site from a community hub and there will be a new Explore library and a York Against Cancer retail unit.
The new stadium, leisure facilities and the community hub will all open in 2019 along with the new cinema and commercial units.
Crews worked through the night during a cold week in January. Surfacing, road markings and slot cutting sub contractors worked together as per our delivery strategy to carry out the final planning and surfacing work at our challenging S278 Works Contract in Sheffield.
The images speak for themselves. A job well done.
Futureproofing against flooding is always a consideration when building in flood plagued York.
On a new site for Roomzzz, providers of serviced boutique apartments for short holiday and business breaks, Howard Civil Engineering are constructing a reinforced concrete undercroft parking structure at this river front location adjacent to the River Ouse.
Roomz will continue the build with a timber frame 4 storey building set upon our concrete slab elevated above ground level on short columns founded on pile caps.
A new flood wall at the rear the car park will improve flooding protection to the properties behind.
The serviced apartments are due for completion towards the end of 2018
Howard Civil Engineering is pleased to support Estimating Assisstant Sophie Henderson in her role as a STEM Ambassador in association with the WISE campaign.
WISE promotes the growth in numbers in women in science, technology and engineering as well as helping organisations to attract, retain, develop and progress female talent.
WISE offers training in the delivery of the revolutionary ‘People Like Me’ resources. ‘People Like Me’ is a revolutionary resource for teachers, STEM ambassadors, careers advisers and others working with young people to show girls that people just like them are happy and successful working in Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM). The training and resources provided are specifically designed to reach out to girls through the language and approach that is used.
Sophie about to commence her 2nd of 3 years at Leeds College of Building working towards an HND in Construction in the Built Environment.
After being approached by one of her tutors from Leeds College of Building Sophie attended training to equip her to visit secondary schools and talk to groups of female pupils about the importance of including a STEM subject within their education to maintain a board field of opportunity for many different careers and also talk about her experience in the Construction Industry.
She is looking forward to delivering her first workshop. We hope to reach out to many schools local to our sites.
Of course, we are biased towards the Construction Industry but if Sophie is able to inspire girls to choose to include maths, physics or computing within their GCSE options our daughters and our industry can not fail to benefit.
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