Project Update!!!
Our project for Muntons Plc in Stowmarket consists of a new boosted water supply system and pipework to enable the removal of the gravity-fed water supply system currently located on a brick-built tower.
The tower construction is a steel frame incorporated within a 9” brickwork skin. The steel has corroded over the years, resulting in the brickwork becoming damaged and in a very poor and dangerous condition.
The current high-level water tank is being removed, and the tower is being demolished brick-by-brick to 1.5m off the flat roof level.
Once the demolition is complete, a new flat roof will be constructed off the remaining brickwork.
The tower houses a former lift shaft, and the vast, extremely heavy metal cogs which were part of the lift mechanism are being cut away for ease of removal.
Access to the very restricted area is via scaffolding designed specifically for this purpose, allowing work to be carried out without penetrating or disturbing the adjacent Chrysotile roof sheets.
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