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INDUSTRIAL AFFILIATES food bank or delivering medicines and
food supplies to vulnerable people who
are self-isolating.
Chief Executive Steve Fraser
CADENT RALLIES STAFF said: “We are a community-based
company with a strong track record
VOLUNTEERS TO AID NATIONAL of supporting vulnerable people. In
a time of national crisis we felt it was
right to step up that support for those
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE who most need our help.
“Our staff are doing a fantastic job,
keeping people warm and safe during
this difficult time. We know that many
want to help the most vulnerable
but, because of childcare or other
obligations, are not able to do it in
their own time.
“This is why we are offering staff
two days of paid volunteer leave each
month if they want to help out during
their working hours. If every member
of staff took up this offer that would be
8,000 volunteering days each month.”
Initially, the scheme will run during
April and May. The company will
review the scheme in May, based
on the latest government advice,
operational factors and the success of
the first two months.
The scheme is in addition to the new
statutory Employee Volunteering Leave
brought in by the Coronavirus Act 2020,
which is targeted at workers who have
suitable medical or social care skills
and experience and can support health
BRITAIN’S BIGGEST GAS distributor Cadent’s 4,000 employees are being and social care organisations.
Cadent is throwing its weight behind offered two days of paid volunteer
the national effort to help the most leave each month to support local Further information can be found on
vulnerable during the coronavirus crisis organisations during their working the company’s website at www.cadentgas.
by paying staff who volunteer. hours, whether that’s helping out at a com/coronavirus

ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL GROUT FILLING PROJECT ON THE A14

AS PART OF THE major Highways the A14 integrated delivery team (IDT) integrity of the road surface.
England scheme to improve the A14 decided to install several sleeves on The sleeves ranged from 10m-100m
between Cambridge and Huntingdon, the projects to mitigate any possible and SVI calculated the grout
Steve Vick International (SVI) was delays. requirements for each sleeve including
involved in the diversion of a section of Strategic parnership tRIIO laid the the amount of water required.
intermediate pressure gas mains. new 8in steel intermediate pressure The SVI contract service team
The work was undertaken by (IP) gas main through the previously arrived the day before the job to install
tRIIO and Morrison Utility Services installed 450mm concrete sleeves ENDSEALS at either end of the pipe
for Highways and their principal using spacers to suspend the pipe, so to be filled. The quick-cure grout
contractors (the A14 integrated that when the annulus was grouted the was mixed on site in a purpose-built
delivery team). mixture would completely surround machine and pumped into the sleeve
SVI Contract Services provided grout the installed steel pipe. via a fill tube in the seals.
filling operations to fill the annular A cementitious grout filler was used The mix and inject machine can
space between the concrete sleeve and in lieu of foam due to the size of the be sited up to 30m away, depending
the new gas main which ran under the sleeve and the area that needed to be on site conditions. As the grout is
busy dual carriageway at several sites, filled within the sleeves. This ensured gravity fed, rather than pumped
as well as beneath individual junctions the pipe’s strength and structure was under pressure, this helps safety
with B-roads and tracks. maintained, prevented the sleeve from compliance as there are no issues
During the delivery of the diversions, cracking in future and secured the with pressurisation. Filling the 100

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