Hinkley

Miles Macadam selected to work on Hinkley Point C Project

North West based specialist surfacing company, Miles Macadam, has been selected to undertake work on Britain’s newest nuclear power station Hinkley Point C, in Somerset. Miles Macadam’s reputation as a market leader in the manufacture and installation of Grouted Macadam systems has resulted in its recent contract award to work

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Premier Modular Secures 1,000 Module Hinkley Job

East Yorkshire off-site specialist firm Premier Modular has bagged a 1,000 module Hinkley site office job. The company has confirmed an order for 1,000 site office modules for the Hinkley Point C construction scheme. The order is the largest placed for modular offices and site welfare facilities in the UK

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Issue 325 : Feb 2025

Hinkley

Miles Macadam selected to work on Hinkley Point C Project

North West based specialist surfacing company, Miles Macadam, has been selected to undertake work on Britain’s newest nuclear power station Hinkley Point C, in Somerset. Miles Macadam’s reputation as a market leader in the manufacture and installation of Grouted Macadam systems has resulted in its recent contract award to work on the construction of Hinkley Point C, the first new nuclear power station in a generation. 20,000m2 of Hardipave™, Miles Macadam’s own BBA certified Grouted Macadam, has been chosen for the surfacing of the North Plaza, an area to be used as a bus terminal during the construction phase of the power station. Hardipave™ was specified as a  fuel resistant surface course with a high tolerance to deformation, heat and abrasion, making it an ideal choice for the proposed scheme. The use of Hardipave™ also provided a ‘value engineering’ solution with a cost saving of over £200k when compared to the originally specified concrete design. The flagship product has been used extensively throughout the UK on transport infrastructure hubs, including many bus terminals, industrial facilities and other areas of intense traffic loading. Notable examples include  the Crossrail bus depot at Paddington Bus Station and Wembley Coach Park (the only  multi-storey coach park in Europe). Led by EDF Energy, Hinkley Point C is the first new nuclear power station to be built in the UK for over 20 years. The power plant will provide safe, secure low-carbon electricity for around 6 million homes and marks a significant milestone in the revitalisation of the UK’s nuclear power industry, making a major contribution to reaching net-zero emissions.* The project has already created thousands of jobs, hundreds of apprenticeships and spent over £1 billion with local businesses, bringing lasting benefits to the UK economy. Ben Shaw, Director of Miles Macadam, comments: “It’s a huge achievement for us to be selected to work on the Hinkley Point C project and to assist with the incredible progress being made on-site. “It’s great to work on such a prestigious  project that will ensure low carbon energy for the future and benefits for the wider economy. “Thanks to a great team effort and our highly skilled operatives we will deliver  20,000m2 of Hardipave™ which will provide   a durable and effective  surface course, for years to come.

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British Steel have Revealed that 2016 has Been a Lucrative and Profitable Year

Members of steel company British Steel have revealed this very day that the year 2016 has been a lucrative and rather profitable year for them. Since the firm’s inception on the first day of June 2016, British Steel has never looked better and has made considerable developments showing that it will emerge into 2017 as a lucrative and highly capable business enterprise. Its ability to have secured a large deal of transactions has loaded British Steel with endless opportunities to develop itself into a thriving business community as the months progress. With contractual deals involving Hinkley Point and Italy’s RFI (Rete Ferroviaria Italiana), British Steel is set forward to be busier than ever in its commitment to providing services to professional clients all over Europe and the rest of the world. To cope with this significant expansion, it was equally necessary that more employment opportunities were created by the company. Since June, British Steel has accrued an impressive extra 350 individuals in employment with the company, and has also been the attractive target of many members of the younger generation of university and college graduates. Indeed, more than 3,400 of these applied to work for British Steel in a variety of different capacities, and now British Steel has declared that 114 individuals will be taken on by the company, either on placements or to learn more about the trade itself and take on the various different apprenticeship opportunities that British Steel has to offer. To add further to these improvements and exciting new developments, Mister Roland Junck adds that the last seven months have been very good and informative to the prospects that British Steel can expect. Mister Junck emphasizes that the company’s combined commitment to developments great and small all over the country and the rest of Europe can only be a good thing and will ensure that the business continues to thrive and expand.

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Premier Modular Secures 1,000 Module Hinkley Job

East Yorkshire off-site specialist firm Premier Modular has bagged a 1,000 module Hinkley site office job. The company has confirmed an order for 1,000 site office modules for the Hinkley Point C construction scheme. The order is the largest placed for modular offices and site welfare facilities in the UK and will take just 16 months to make. All the technical and management personnel will be housed in the 400,000 sq ft site office complex during the construction stage of the nuclear power plant. Then, part of the buildings will be converted after the construction cycle to stay ad high quality offices for the permanent site. The steel framed modules will be made off site at Premier’s manufacturing facility in East Yorkshire, before it is transported to the Hinkley Point C site for fitting out and final assembly. Divisional Director at Premier, David Harris, commented: “This project is one of the most significant modular projects in history and will really put modular construction on the map. “We foresee that this project is not only important for Premier but will also be of significant benefit to the local economies in Yorkshire and Somerset in terms of both subcontractor and supplier opportunities required to support this major construction project.” It is also Premier’s intention to contract work, where practical, to companies local to the Hinkley Point C site, where it is anticipated that approximately 35% of the work will be completed. Meanwhile, the chief executive of EDF Energy has vowed that the £24bn Hinkley Point C nuclear power plant will be built by 2025 and will not result in extra costs to UK taxpayers. In evidence before the House of Lords economic affairs select committee, Vincent de Rivaz dismissed parallels with two nuclear plants EDF is building in France and Finland, which have suffered delays and cost overruns.

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