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Clare 18th December 2012
18 December 2012 The Hebron oil field is located offshore Newfoundland and Labrador in the Jeanne d’Arc Basin 350 kilometres southeast of St. John’s. The field was first discovered in 1980, and is estimated to contain 660-1055 million barrels of…
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Clare 3rd December 2012
Freyssinet have been awarded the Award for Innovation and its Adoption at this years Construct Awards. The award is for our ongoing works at Hammersmith Flyover in London. The innovation relates to the use of Ultra High Performance Fibre Reinforced…
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Clare 27th July 2012
Freyssinet’s team at the R159 Rayhall Viaduct, alongside framework contractors Amey and Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering, has recently been awarded the Phil Stanton Award for recognition of their exceptional performance on site. Teams were to submit evidence of ways in…
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Clare 26th June 2012
Galglass are design and build specialists for concrete and steel storage tanks. As the market leading specialist contractor in the design and construction of cylindrical post-tensioned (PT) in-situ reinforced concrete sludge digester tanks in the UK, Galglass first appointed Freyssinet…
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Clare 20th June 2012
Freyssinet is an acknowledged leader in specialized civil engineering and introduced post-tensioned concrete building floor slabs to the UK in the early 1980’s. Since that time we have championed this technology and contributed to its acceptance as a standard technology…
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Clare 20th June 2012
Hammersmith Flyover is an elevated roadway in west London which carries the A4 dual carriageway over the central Hammersmith gyratory system. Completed in 1961, it is one of the first examples of an elevated road constructed using reinforced post-tensioned concrete….
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Clare 20th June 2012
In 2011, Freyssinet Limited recognised potential in the market to add value to their range of specialist products and services by the addition of their own in-house hydrodemolition teams. Aquaforce was set up, and has continued to expand to become…
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Clare 19th June 2012
Designed by Russian company Mostovik, and built by Russian general contractor USK Most, who subcontracted the construction to its subsidiary SK Most and Mostovik, the Russky Island Bridge will have a total length of 1,872 metres. It is made up…
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Clare 19th June 2012
The Leadenhall Building is a 47 storey, 225 metre (737 ft) tall skyscraper, designed by Richard Rogers, which is currently under construction in London. With its distinctive wedge-shaped profile, it is informally referred to as the Cheese Grater and is…
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Clare 19th June 2012
In early 2010 Freyssinet Makers, the Northern structural repair division of Freyssinet Ltd, was appointed by Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering to complete refurbishment works on the Forth Road Bridge. This included bridge bearing replacement, concrete repairs and the installation of…
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