CIVIL APPLICATIONS Case Studies

Exeter City Council
Exeter City Council approached SMR Ltd in regard to the repair of their cycle track located off Sannerville Way, Exminster. The cycle track is primarily used as a cycling and walking route for a local school and is occasionally used by cars and tractors.

Due to the trafficking and inclement weather, subsidence and rutting had occurred on the cycle track. To deal with the rutting, quarried stone was imported to site and used to fill in the ruts and then level the subsiding ground. However, this was at best a temporary solution, as after the quarried stone was laid it was not long before additional trafficking and inclement weather caused more rutting and subsidence.

It became clear that a more permanent and environmentally friendly solution was required to remedy this problem and it was therefore decided that the cycle track would be stabilised using the SMR proprietary binder in-situ. Click here to find out more (690kb PDF)

Holford Gas Storage Project
This project involved the construction of a temporary haul road capable of withstanding the weight of HGV vehicles and heavy plant at the Holford Gas Storage Project near Middlewich for E.ON UK and Jacobs Engineering. The existing ground area within the brine fields was thick clay and slurry with no adequate drainage. The ground underneath was also mostly salt and
minerals left from oceans that had evaporated millions of years ago. This means that water just settles making the ground conditions as poor as it could possibly get.
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Dean and Dyball
Location: Gunwharf Keys, Portsmouth
Objective: Construction of a Piling Mat
Area: 550m squared x 0.9 meters in depth = 4950m cubed
Savings by using SMR: £750,000
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Lindum
Location: Simons Yard, off Allenby Estate.
Client: Speedy Space
Brief: Hardcore yard used for storage of site cabins had become a hazard and economic liability. The ground was unstable especially in the wet and represented a real hazard for the heavyweight forklift used to move the cabins; one unit had already tipped off the forks and been written off.
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WRAP Final Report: Recycled and stabilised materials
Annual trench arisings from gas and water asset renewals are in the order of 4.8 million tonnes per year. Recycling and the efficient use of materials can both minimise waste going to landfill and reduce demands on primary aggregate. This guidance covers the recovery and recycling of trench arisings (with or without hydraulic binders), and the use of recycled aggregates within trench reinstatement works. Click here to read more (754 KB PDF)