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Helifix SockFix Anchors – Kay Street Bridge
Works have begun on Kay Street Bridge, a road bridge in Ramsbottom which is being widened to create a pedestrian footpath. Substantial stabilisation works are required to allow this extension of the bridge to be successful. Part of these stabilisation works involved the installation of Helifix SockFix Anchors. SUKR were appointed to undertake these works. […]
Carbon Fibre Plates – Manchester Airport
Following appointment by Manchester Airport Group (MAG), concrete repair and coating refurbishment works were undertaken by SUKR to return the affected parts of the structure at Manchester Airport’s Terminal 2 Carpark back to a condition factor of 1.0. Along with this, SUKR carried out structural strengthening to six of the supporting beams to M&G (Meet […]
Window Replacement Scheme
SUKR have been involved in a number of window replacement schemes for various companies. This particular example comes from a project we have been working on in Nottingham. Various properties in the area have been getting new windows and doors installed, as a result, lintels and cills have required repair and support. This is an […]
Remembrance Day Clean Up!
Granville Park Memorial in Aughton was in need of a clean up before the Remembrance Day services this November. Specialist UK Restorations arranged to undertake these works free of charge for Aughton Parish Council. Aughton is local to both of the company directors at Specialist UK, so they felt this was a good opportunity to […]
Case Studies
Stonework – Cumber Lane Bridge
Situated on the busy Liverpool-Manchester railway link, Cumber Lane bridge was highlighted for an overhaul due to Health and Safety reasons. Both parapet walls did not meet the new legislation relating to pedestrian trafficked bridges whereby the walls had be set at a height of 196cm. This meant that the top 2 layers of existing […]
Westborough Methodist Church, Helifix Sock Anchors
The present building of Westborough Methodist Church dates from 1862, and is a Grade II listed building in Scarborough with large ashlar front and a Tetrastyle Corinthian portico with heavy entablature and pediment.Certain stone blocks within the architrave of the entablature had shown considerable signs of movement over the years, due to differential/thermal movement and […]
Concrete Column Repair – Barrow Mill
SUKR were appointed by Jacobs Engineering to carry out remedial works to an existing load bearing reinforced concrete column at Kimberly-Clark’s Barrow Mill factory. The cracking was shown to pass through the column and was deemed a H&S risk in need of urgent repair. The first stage of the repair was to restore the structural […]
Hartley Close
As part of an on-going maintenance programme to Liverpool Mutual Homes housing stock, we were employed by Housing Maintenance Solutions to stabilise 18no. brick bin store annexes on various properties within the Anfield area of Liverpool. The existing raft foundations upon which the brick bin store annexes had been built were inadequate and had subsequently […]
