Brownfield clearance paves the way for £20m regeneration project
INDEPENDENT building group Construction Partnership UK has completed work clearing a disused steelworks site in Wolverhampton, paving the way for a £20m regeneration project.
The £1.5m clean-up at Pantheon Park was undertaken by the West Lancashire-based group’s specialist CPUK Civils & Remediation division.
It has made the site, a disused portion of the existing Acenta steelworks at Willenhall, suitable for future “cost-effective” commercial development.
The contract included demolishing existing buildings and undertaking extensive remediation work and ground levelling on the Wednesfield Way site, which is next to Bentley Bridge Retail Park.
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The 18-acre site has detailed planning permission for 412,000 sq ft of manufacturing, warehouse and distribution space with 24/7 operations.
The development is a joint venture between Stoford and Bridges Ventures.
The work, which took 24 weeks to complete, involved dismantling two large steel frame portal sheds, previously used in steel fabrication, which contained significant asbestos materials along with three smaller buildings, several reinforced concrete structures and a defunct 40 metre tall steel water tower that was removed by “deliberate controlled collapse” as a least-risk option.
All reinforced concrete floor slabs, service channels and foundations were also removed, along with disused service feeds. 100% of site-won fill materials have been processed on site to allow them to be reused in the general site remediation work.
Jack Rowley, managing director, CPUK Civils & Remediation, said: “The undeveloped section of the site contained areas of contamination and needed to be treated and geotechnically re-engineered with bio remediation soil stabilisation and modification to provide a surface suitable for redevelopment.”
The Wolverhampton project is the latest in a series of contracts being delivered by the firm, which enjoyed first year turnover of £4.6m.
The company is now working on projects across the North West and the Midlands as it looks to grow its order book over the next 12 months.
