Project Description
Client: TATA Steel
Project Duration: 19 weeks
Project Scope
Demolition by means of controlled explosives of an 85m high x 51m diameter Morfa Coke Ovens in Port Talbot
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Project Constraints & Challenges:
- Extensive traffic management and logistics of heavy plant and machinery around a live operational site
- Potential of discovering asbestos containing materials in the debris
- Management of third parties including the HSE, Police, Local Authority
- Confidentiality of the information to ensure that the project was not disclosed to the media or local residents
Achievements
- Successful controlled collapse of the structure
- Robust communications strategy with the HSE, Police and the Local Authority
- Confidentiality information so the project was not disclosed to the media or to local residents
- Uninterrupted plant operations
