ENGINEERING OUR ENVIRONMENT
Contents • Company Background • Renew Group • Company Structure • Financial Information • Services • Typical Projects • Contact Details
Company Background • VHE was founded in 1979 in South Yorkshire, operating as a c ivil engineering specialist . • The company has expanded and diversified, providing contaminated land remediation and civil engineering services throughout the UK . • VHE now directly employs over 70 staff and has a turnover in the region of £20m per annum . • Offices in Barnsley and Cumbernauld .
Renew Group In December 2001, VHE was acquired by the Renew Holdings Group (£460 million turnover) .
Company Structure
Financial Information Turnover Operating Profit 2015 - £16,565,000 2015 - £620,000 2014 - £15,425,000 2014 - £579,000 2013 - £14,203,000 2013 - £529,000
Services Extensive experience across a variety of market sectors including: • Housing • Landfill • Commercial • Flood Defence • Infrastructure • Coastal Protection • Utilities • Nuclear & Radiological
Services VHE supply a wide range of land remediation and civil engineering solutions including: • Bioremediation • Bulk earthworks • Demolition • Highway construction • Groundwater treatment • Landfill cell construction • Soil Washing • Flood protection schemes • Soil Stabilisation • Drainage and utilities • Material recycling • Public Realm works
Services Our Technologies team support the site work through: • Pre-contract appraisal and site investigation work • Site monitoring to measure environmental affects • On-site testing • Full validation of contaminated land sites • Waste classification
Typical Projects
North Gawber Colliery, Barnsley Harworth Estates - £1.6 million • Redevelopment for up to 325 residential properties . • Significant earthworks, involving breaking out structures and the crushing of hard materials . • 300m x 6m high Reinforced earth wall . • Diversion of a watercourse . • Attenuation pond . • Construction of a road, footpath, footbridge and cycle-way forming part of the new site infrastructure .
Knowle Avenue, Ashton Under Lyme Kier Living - £55,000 • Phase 1 soil stabilisation / lime modification provided by our experienced in-house team . • Incorporated geotechnical improvement of the road formation for new housing areas .
Sighthill TRA Glasgow City Council - £11 million • Remediation of historical contamination both ex-situ and in-situ in particular Galligu . • It will also see demolition, ground engineering, deep grouting, drainage diversions and infrastructure works . • Design and build contract covering 50 hectares . • Almost 800 new homes are to be built including new roads and pedestrian bridges, amenity parkland, a new school and sports campus, student accommodation and more .
Shawfield Enabling Works Clyde Gateway Developments - £3.9 million • Key strategic site in advance of future development and pedestrian linkages for the 2014 Commonwealth Games . • Re-engineering to create development platforms, accesses and sustainable urban drainage systems . • Remediation of Hexavalent Chromium CrVI . • Innovative use of Calcium Polysulphide imported from Japan . • 8000 rods inserted and almost 150,000 injections . • Ground Engineering Awards - Highly Commended .
Luneside East Development Luneside East Ltd - £3.4 million • The 7Ha site on the south bank of the River Lune has a long history of industrial uses which led to contamination . • VHE helped secure £4 million from the Growing Places Fund for the mixed use development including housing . • A design and build scheme - VHE developed a remediation strategy for the site with WYG, which reduced the reliance on off- site disposal .
Rylands Garage, Birmingham Birmingham City Council - £0.2 million • Removal of redundant fuel tanks and interceptors, exploration for LNAPL contaminants and the removal of hydrocarbon material for Bioremediation . • Demolition of a public house and car park . • Concrete slabs and foundations, covering the whole site area, removed for crushing and subsequent reuse on site . • Below slab made ground re-engineered to a depth of circa 2m across the whole of the site to create the platform for planned development .
Commonwealth Games Athletes Village Glasgow City Council - £6.5 million • 33 hectare site . • Remediation of 112 contaminated hotspots . • Selective excavation of around 140,000m³ of contaminated soils and materials . • Approximately 100,000m³ of the material underwent soil washing . • Bio-remediation . • Invasive species treatment . • Service disconnections and diversion . • Demolition .
Otter Island, Leeds Strata Homes - £1.5 million • Site Clearance Works . • Turnover of the site including excavating cut to fill 30,000m3 of made ground including 5000m3 of hard materials which were processed for removal from site and recycled . • 1200 tonne of non-hazardous materials which were unsuitable for reuse were removed from site . • Extensive Vibration monitoring was employed to ensure that works were carried out in accordance with the agreed limits .
Trent Basin, Nottingham HCA / Blueprint - £0.8 million • The works involved the dredging of the basin inlet, concrete repairs to both the basin walls and those out on the River Trent and the remediation of the land adjacent to the basin . • VHE secured a second contract on a recommendation by the Homes and Communities Agency to replace 500m of basin and river walls .
Cudworth & West Green Bypass Barnsley MBC - £17 million • The Cudworth & West Green Bypass comprised the construction of 5.2km of single carriageway road . • Incorporating 5 roundabouts and associated ancillary works . • The road was constructed on embankments up to a maximum height of 10 metres and in cuttings to a maximum depth of 7 metres . • A 110 tonne rail bridge installed .
Millennium Town Park, St Helier The States of Jersey - £8 million • This challenging project involved a complex public realm scheme to remediate a 1.3Ha former town gasworks in the centre of St Helier . • A key feature of the remediation of the park was the reuse of existing site material as Jersey has no facility to treat contaminated material . • Some material was treated and transported to Europe by barge .
Scour protection and flood alleviation Network Rail, Environment Agency • Scour protection works to 17 rail structures throughout the UK . • Works involved a mixture of activities including installation of temporary dams, fish relocation, excavation of river silts and rubble, diversion of watercourses . • Permanent works involved installation of fibre reinforced concrete fabric mattresses, placement of rock armour/ gabion walls and brickwork repairs .
National Grid Remediation Framework National Grid Property Holdings • Since 1996 VHE has been retained by National Grid Property Holdings under their national term contract to undertake the remediation of former coal gas production and coking works sites . • In 2014 VHE were appointed to the National Grid Framework for Gas Holder demolition and have to date demolished eight holders with two more currently ongoing . • VHE are also on the Scottish Gas Network framework .
Neepsend Lane Gasworks (Sheffield) National Grid Property Holdings - £10 million • VHE has carried out five phases of work on the former Neepsend Gasworks in Sheffield between 2006 and 2012 . • Remedial works included screening the overlying construction and demolition wastes, selective excavation, treatment and disposal of contaminated soils . • A total of 17,000 tonnes of contaminated material was sentenced for treatment by bioremediatio n.
Ackworth, West Yorkshire Strata Homes - £4 million • VHE have undertaken three phases of works at Ackworth since 2008 on behalf of our client Strata Homes, creating over 800 new homes . • Works included turnkey solutions of demolition, remediation, ground engineering, reclamation, roads, sewers and storm water attenuation .
Contact Details • Phone – 01226 320150 • Email – enquiries@vhe.co.uk • Website – www.vhe.co.uk
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