Page 14 - John F Hunt Group Newsletter - SEP 2023

Ironbridge, Harworth Bubble Curtain Award Win!...
Group...
Work started at the former Ironbridge
Power Station in January and is due to
be completed in the next few weeks.
The team have been preparing a
development platform on the site
January 2023
where the cooling towers once stood,
including the breaking out of large
relic structures and remediation of
contaminated ground.
Once complete, this scheme will
provide 1,000 new homes. The project is
the first for Harworth Group and has been
an exemple of technical excellence, so
we are hopeful of more work with them
in the future.
Shotton Mill...
Demolition of the first phase is complete
and the earthwork package continues.
We are expecting to start the next
phase of work soon, working for Enka.
This is a large and complex scheme
and we have garnered a really positive
relationship with Enka; one of the world’s
largest construction and engineering
services businesses, operating in 30
countries.
SPARK Walsall...
This large and complex remediation
and ground engineering project has
made great progress. Alex Clifford
joined the business in April and oversees
this scheme alongside the existing
team. Works have progressed from the
copper works phase into the Alumwell
landfill. Here is a video of Alex discussing
the progress made - click here!
New Projects! We have won two dismantling and demolition projects on
military/aviation sites for well-known blue-chip companies. We are required not
to name them, but we are extremely pleased to have won these works. Other
new projects include: Barking Power Station, Hackney Wick and Salmesbury!
14
We are using a bubble curtain at our site
in Holborn to protect migrating salmon in
the River Tyne. Regeneration was the first
company to use this innovative product
to control noise from piling operations.
Our partners, Frog Environmental,
designed and installed the bubble
curtain for us. Consequently, they won
the Innovative Technology in the Marine
Environment Award at the European
Commercial Marine Awards 2023! Find
out more here
Water Technology
Our Water Technology business continues to grow, with Bachy Soletanche and The
Coal Authority both increasing their spending!
It’s been an incredibly busy period for all parts of the Water Technology business. In
June, we started commissioning work on a new site for The Coal Authority; Gwyndra
is about 10 miles from our existing site at Wheal Jane and is the first of a new form of
treatment process that may be rolled out across the UK to treat mine water pollution
on dozens of rivers.
Pumping Technologies... Pumping Technologies has highly
Pumping Technologies is going from skilled installation engineers, which
strength to strength – their work on HS2 presents an opportunity internally.
via Bachy Soletanche continues to
increase, with more equipment being One engineer in particular, Richard
installed and hired every month. As a Burns, has been working for various
result, we have made several hires to projects across the business. His
support the businesses’ growth. skills include: certified electrical
installation, electrical repairs and
In June, Bachy Soletanche visited PAT testing.
our headquarters to get a better
understanding of the Group, with a view If you have any need for this service,
to growing closer ties between the two give Wayne Sides a call or an email
businesses. – he and Richard would be happy
to provide a competitive price.
A deal to distribute Dragflow pumps and
dredging systems has been agreed;
Dragflow, an Italian company, are
leaders in this sector and have some
class-leading technology that should
prove popular in the UK!
15