Lyndon SGB is pleased to have been chosen to provide an enormous, challenging and complex set of access and scaffolding solutions on the M5 Oldbury Viaduct project for BAM Nuttall / Morgan Sindall / Volker Fitzpatrick acting as a Joint Venture (BMV JV) for client Highways England.
BMV JV is delivering the largest concrete repair project (by value) ever carried out in the UK on the M5 Oldbury Viaduct scheme for Highways England and ultimately for the benefit of the entire UK population – as anyone travelling on the M5 recently cannot have failed to have noticed.
Lyndon SGB is pleased to have been chosen to provide an enormous, challenging and complex set of access and scaffolding solutions on the M5 Oldbury Viaduct project for BAM Nuttall / Morgan Sindall / Volker Fitzpatrick acting as a Joint Venture (BMV JV) for client Highways England.
BMV JV is delivering the largest concrete repair project (by value) ever carried out in the UK on the M5 Oldbury Viaduct scheme for Highways England and ultimately for the benefit of the entire UK population – as anyone travelling on the M5 recently cannot have failed to have noticed.
This well-known, elevated section of motorway cuts through the mixed industrial and residential Sandwell conurbation – with up to 320,000 residents and thousands of businesses all relying on the Strategic Road Network for economic success.
BMV JV is working on replacing the waterproofing system to the 3km length of the elevated M5 Motorway between Junctions 1 and 2, which was originally built in the late 1960s. The refurbishment works is being carried out 24:7:365 and includes: concrete repairs, removal of asbestos from concrete joints, and installation of new drainage, lighting and signage systems, technology and communication systems and central reserve concrete safety barriers.
Access to working areas beneath the viaduct structure has been provided by tube and fitting scaffolding and multiple HAKI Scaffolding staircases, with all scaffolding works undertaken by Lyndon SGB – including more complex birdcage, hanging, beamed and cantilever scaffolding structures – and all designed in-house by Lyndon SGB engineers.
This well-known, elevated section of motorway cuts through the mixed industrial and residential Sandwell conurbation – with up to 320,000 residents and thousands of businesses all relying on the Strategic Road Network for economic success.
BMV JV is working on replacing the waterproofing system to the 3km length of the elevated M5 Motorway between Junctions 1 and 2, which was originally built in the late 1960s. The refurbishment works is being carried out 24:7:365 and includes: concrete repairs, removal of asbestos from concrete joints, and installation of new drainage, lighting and signage systems, technology and communication systems and central reserve concrete safety barriers.
Access to working areas beneath the viaduct structure has been provided by tube and fitting scaffolding and multiple HAKI Scaffolding staircases, with all scaffolding works undertaken by Lyndon SGB – including more complex birdcage, hanging, beamed and cantilever scaffolding structures – and all designed in-house by Lyndon SGB engineers.
To give some context to the size of the project; there will be 500,000 scaffold fittings, 400 miles of scaffold tube, 80,000 scaffold boards which is enough to carpet eight football pitches, enough staircase will have been erected to get all the way to the top of Ben Nevis and Snowdon and all that bridging requires 4,000 aluminium beams. All totals to around 7,000 tonnes or 500 lorry loads of scaffolding.
Lyndon SGB MD Rob Lynch said: “It has been and continues to be a phenomenal and incredibly large-scale scaffolding project with complex design. And one key element of the success of the temporary works is Lyndon SGB’s in-depth knowledge of the elevated motorway network around the Midlands, which has been built up by our in-house design team over the past 30 years.
“Marrying this local knowledge to our operational and logistical expertise has been the key to the success of the project from a scaffolding point of view. It’s an utterly massive infrastructural project we are very proud of here at Lyndon SGB.”
To give some context to the size of the project; there will be 500,000 scaffold fittings, 400 miles of scaffold tube, 80,000 scaffold boards which is enough to carpet eight football pitches, enough staircase will have been erected to get all the way to the top of Ben Nevis and Snowdon and all that bridging requires 4,000 aluminium beams. All totals to around 7,000 tonnes or 500 lorry loads of scaffolding.
Lyndon SGB MD Rob Lynch said: “It has been and continues to be a phenomenal and incredibly large-scale scaffolding project with complex design. And one key element of the success of the temporary works is Lyndon SGB’s in-depth knowledge of the elevated motorway network around the Midlands, which has been built up by our in-house design team over the past 30 years.
“Marrying this local knowledge to our operational and logistical expertise has been the key to the success of the project from a scaffolding point of view. It’s an utterly massive infrastructural project we are very proud of here at Lyndon SGB.”
