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Another Award for Pennine
Pennine have won more national recognition for our ability to provide innovative and costefficient ground improvement solutions.
Major client Kier North West named Pennine runner-up to subcontractor of the year in its 2004 Supplier and Subcontractor of the Year Awards, making us the only company to achieve both the overall title in 2001 and runner-up position.
Presenting the award at a prestigious dinner and ceremony in Manchester, Kier NW’s Mike Green said the selection had been made by gaining the views of directors and departmental managers who had worked throughout the year with the winners on various contracts.
He said Pennine had provided “solid and job winning ideas” to Kier NW over a number of years and he singled out recent work at Beswick and Congleton for particular praise.
“In both cases they provided solutions in the ground that gained key commercial advantage for us,” he said.
Accepting the award, Pennine Vibropiling’s managing director Arwel Williams, said Kier NW’s own approach was a key pre-requisite to good performance, involving subcontractors very early in the process and sticking to agreements made. He also praised the open way in which Kier NW constructs its contracts.
Overall winner of the Subcontractor of the Year award was Bennett Architectural Aluminium, who supply glazing and curtain walling.
New Appointment for Unstoppable Pennine
Pennine is expanding again with the appointment of a new senior piling engineer to our Gloucester office.
Anthony Coyle, 45, joins Pennine after spending the last 25 years working with specialist geotechnical & foundation engineering companies during which time he has worked extensively in the Middle East.
He was involved with the first East-West oil pipeline project – a 1,200 km, 48’’ pipeline across Saudi Arabia – and The Kingdom Tower Project involving foundation monitoring during a 24,000 cubic metre concrete pour for one of the tallest buildings in the capital city Riyadh.
More recently he was manager at the South West office of the Swindon-based Van Elle Group, where he gained considerable experience working with large-volume house builders, engineers and consultants particularly along the M4 corridor.
He said: “I’m obviously delighted about the appointment. Lots of companies talk about tailor-made solutions but Pennine really mean it, right down to designing and building new piling rigs if that’s what it takes – now that’s what I call bespoke.”
Coyle will work alongside ground improvement expert Graham Ellery at the Gloucester office, where he is available for advice about the application of Pennine’s diverse range of foundation solutions for all types of buildings and structures.
Email him at anthony.coyle@pennine-group.co.uk or phone the Gloucester office on 01452 500268 (fax: 01452 385075).
Record Results for Pennine
Outstanding innovation and expertise in ground improvement techniques are winning Pennine an international reputation – and record financial results.
Projected turnover to 31 March 2005 is £15.5m: a substantial 40 per cent increase on last year’s figures.
Having started with a team of four in 1989, we now employ a staff of 150.
“It’s been an incredible year for us so far,” said director Andy Russell. “Clients are beginning to realise that we are far more than simply a piling firm and that by bringing us in early in their projects, we can build the right equipment and design tailor-made solutions that actually save them time and money.
“We have made a niche for ourselves in tackling highly challenging ground improvements that many other companies shy away from.”
Recent projects abroad include highway construction schemes in northern Spain and Puerto Rico, plus the development of what will be Spain’s largest container port at Algeciras.
In the UK, our revolutionary solutions include a new way of building solid concrete and stone columns in soft marshy ground’ an environmentally safe way of redeveloping former landfill tips using a unique Rapid Impact Compaction method; and a £1m project to stabilise the earth under a section of the new M60 outer ring road at Manchester.
Our success in building and adapting our own piling rigs to suit each project has resulted a number of products being patented, including the highly successful Penpile® auger displacement piling system and we have created a new, more powerful rotary head for use with Penpile® on chalk and over consolidated clay ground.
New Adapted THW Rig Makes Millwall Debut
The latest addition to Pennine’s comprehensive fleet of specially adapted piling rigs has made its debut in a £35,000 contract putting in piles for the foundation of a new indoor football centre in Millwall.
The THW 4019D fully hydraulic piling rig – equipped to install Penpile®, Pencol® and soil mixing as well as CFA piles up to 900mm diameter – has been fitted with Pennine’s own rotary head with a high crowd force and very high torque, making it 30 per cent more powerful than other rigs of the same size.
It provided a fast and sure solution for putting in 102 piles – to a depth of 10m – in just one week, and in dealing with penetration issues presented by ground conditions that included medium dense sand and gravels through to chalk.
Peter Halliwell, engineering manager said: “By harnessing the power and adaptability of the THW, the team was able to keep its options open on piling methods, safe in the knowledge that the rig was equally suited to both CFA (continuous flight auger piling) and Penpile® operations.
“In the end we opted for our patented Penpile® auger displacement piling system, which is quicker than conventional piling, not least because it displaces the soil laterally as it penetrates, resulting in virtually no spoil being generated.”
Working against the clock, and within the limitations of a site bordered by Millwall football ground on one side and a main railway line on another, Pennine completed the seven-day project for Hertfordshire-basd TRAK Build Ltd on time and to budget.
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