| Mar 2008 |
Despite the many difficulties associated with working in a busy urban environment the Brunswick Wharf to Osborne Street Cable
Tunnel project was successfully completed.
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| Feb 2008 |
New for 2008 - a sonic drillling rig and our latest Cone Penetration Testing vehicle for geotechnical, geo-environmental and UXO projects
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| Mar 2008 |
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| Jan 2008 |
With the enthusiastic support of Fugro, a new MSc in Geotechnics is starting up in 2008 at the Department
of Civil Engineering, University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. Fugro and other industrial partners including
major consultancies and contractors are assisting the university to help them to closely align the course
with industry's needs.
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| Dec 2007 |
An unusually large number of ground investigations of exceptional size and difficulty were successfully completed
in 2007 by Fugro Engineering Services, reflecting the development of our resources and skills in specialist areas.
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July 2007
Press Release |
An extensive investigation of soil and rock geotechnical properties is nearing completion at the site of the proposed Edinburgh
Airport Rail Link (EARL). The project, being carried out by Fugro Engineering Services Ltd (FES) for tie limited includes drilling,
specialist cone penetration testing, sampling, dynamic probing and geophysical surveys.
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| March 2007 |
FES obtains UKAS accreditation to ISO/IEC17025:2005
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| January 2007 |
FES Quality Management System gains ISO9001:2000
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October 2006
Press Release |
In April 2006, a 2.5m diameter raw water tunnel (sitting at a depth of ~27.00m b.g.l.)
dramatically burst, creating a fifteen metre wide crater and ejected Terrace Gravel and
London Clay deposits to a distance of up to twenty five metres. Fugro Engineering Services
were invited to create a programme of works to determine the causative factors and to
assist the Thames Water Project Team with the remediation using a wide range of specialist
in-house techniques, including cable percussive boring, rotary drilling, pushed thin wall
sampling, CPT, geophysical surveys and geotechnical testing. The project was high profile
and time critical.
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| May 2005 |
The Highways Agency (HA) is proposing to widen the A2 to four lanes in each direction between the M25 and Bean,
a distance of approximately 2km, with extra free-flow link roads at the M25/A282 Junction 2. The work will also
involve a new soakaway pond to the north west of the A2 at Bean and balancing ponds by the M25.
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| April 2005 |
The Lynn and Inner Dowsing windfarm sites lie off the Lincolnshire coast, approximately 8km east of Skegness.
For this development of 60 wind driven turbines the resources of two Fugro companies, Fugro Engineering
Services (FES) and sister company Alluvial Mining Ltd, were employed by Offshore Windpower Ltd to determine
the ground conditions for the foundations of these wind turbine structures.
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| March 2005 |
For over 5 years Fugro has been carrying out UXO clearance services to the UK construction
industry. Fugro announces major improvements to it's service for the investigation of UXO
affected sites in UK and Europe – from 1st January 2005 we have been supplying a new
improved Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) site clearance service, from desk study, through
surface clearance and deep in situ investigation to managed disposal
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| October 2004 |
Fugro Engineering Services (FES) has carried out many site investigations including rotary drilling contracts
but none have been so challenging as the requirement to drill 350m deep holes in the highlands of Scotland.
Scottish and Southern Electricity's (SSE) site in Glendoe was so remote that FES could only access the work site
using off road vehicles or air.
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October 2004
Press Release |
A proposal by Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) to build the UK's first, large-scale hydro-electric scheme for 40 years,
mainly underground, is currently before the Scottish Executive. A dam and aqueduct on a 600m-high plateau will be linked
to an underground generation facility close to the shores of Loch Ness by a 4.5 metre diameter tunnel.
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| July 2004 |
Fugro Engineering Services Limited has recently taken delivery of a new multi purpose Cone
Penetration Testing rig. Fugro's new "put down" crawler cone penetrating testing (CPT) rig
has been 100% utilised since it arrived in the U.K.
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| July 2003 |
Fugro Engineering Services Limited have used the Static Cone Penetration Test (CPT) on a number of
tunnelling projects prior to tunnelling. The CPT results accurately and rapidly determine the variation
in the soils which the tunnel boring machine will bore through. If accurate soils data is not collected
then there is a great risk of the tunnel boring machine getting stuck below ground at the cost of
millions.
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