Underground services present a high level risk with construction works.
For traditional VRS installations, posts have to be either driven or have concrete foundations excavated at depths of 500mm to 1.5 meters.
These excavations often conflict with underground services that are competing for the same verge space area.
This presents not only safety risks, but time delays and cost increases to find alternative design solutions to mitigate the risk of conflict with these cables and services.
Smartraft®is an off-site pre-fabricated, modular concrete foundation designed to overcome service conflicts, enabling a safe, quick, efficient barrier installation with one simple solution.
The foundation depth required for installation of Smartraft® is just 200mm, a significant reduction to the current depths required for the installation of VRS systems.
With its modular construction any future access to the shared verge assets above or below the ground, are easily accessible allowing for efficient maintenance and future upgrades of these assets.
This greatly reduces the risk of excavation operations, or can remove the requirement for excavation completely. This also results in dramatically reduced risk for site teams and provides programme and cost certainty to all involved in the project.
Smartraft® can be designed and safely installed in and around underground services.
The presence of the underground services and apparatus can be incorporated into the pre-construction design allowing Smartraft® to be installed and incorporate access chambers, if required.
Smartraft® also allows for any future access to the apparatus present underneath through the standard perforations or by simply removing the Smartraft® section and replacing it after access works have been completed.
Smartraft® Case Studies
A320 Surrey Project
Client | Surrey City Council |
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Project Cost | £900,000.00 |
Services | Supply & Installation of Smartraft® and VRS |
Location | A320, Surrey |
Army & Navy Junction Smartraft® Case Study
Client | Henderson & Taylor, Essex Highways |
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Services | Smartraft®, VRS |
Start Date | 29th March 2021 |
End Date | 25th May 2021 |
Location | Army & Navy Junction, Chelmsford Essex |
A14 Jct 36 Entry Slip Road Smartraft® Repair
Client | Ringway |
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Services | Smartraft®, VRS |
Start Date | 5th July 2021 |
End Date | 5th July 2021 |
Location | A14 Jct 36 Slip Road |
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