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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
Trencherfield Mill, Wigan
The historic Trencherfiled Mill is a Grade II listed building in the heart of Wigan. SUKR acted as the principal contractor responsible for the restoration of the mill facade. The building has now been transformed into luxury waterside apartments by Stewart Milne Homes. Working closely with local conservation officers & architects, SUKR sympathetically restored and […]
Little Salkeld Viaduct, Cumbria
Little Salkeld Viaduct, also know as Dodds Mill Viaduct, is to be found in the Eden district of Cumbria, a few miles to the North-East of Penrith. The Viaduct consists of 7 arches, is 60 feet in height, and 134 yards long. As part of Network Rails Asset Management strategy, the London North West route […]
County Bridge, Sowerby Bridge, River Calder & Ryburn Junction
The Grade II Listed County Bridge, Sowerby Bridge forms part of the busy, vital link from the Sadddleworth M62 junction to Halifax. The stone and steel bridge structure stretches over the river Calder in a three span formation. The bridge was in need of emergency structural repairs due to its age and also the vast […]
Bran Sands ETW, Middlesborough
Specialist UK Restorations were appointed by BAM Nuttall to address a number of issues affecting the existing reinforced concrete Final Settlement Tanks (FST’s) at Bran Sands Effluent Treatment Works, for Northumbrian Water Limited. Vertical cracks were present through the full section of the FST launder channel walls at regular intervals, and these cracks in conjunction […]
