VHE secures second major project for Commonwealth Games

VHE has secured another major remediation project for the Commonwealth Games.

The Barnsley-based business, which is the specialist engineering subsidiary of Leeds-based construction services company Renew Holdings, has secured a deal to remediate a key strategic site for Clyde Gateway in the Shawfield area of Glasgow to provide key pedestrian linkages for the 2014 Commonwealth Games and to prepare the site suitable for future development.

The project, its second for the Games, deals with ground contamination, principally in the form of Chromite Ore Processing Residue (COPR) from a former chemical works, which had historically been used to backfill disused clay pits.

This deal follows the Yorkshire firm’s contract for site preparation works for the Athletes’ Village at the 2014 Commonwealth Games site in Glasgow, which it was awarded in 2009.

VHE construction director, Gordon Wilson, said: “There has been a lot of interest in the project as the treatment of COPR is a challenge faced in many other countries throughout the world. We have many years’ experience in treating a wide range of industrial legacy ground conditions and are more than happy to help others facing similar challenges.

“We are also delighted to once again be carrying out yet another major remediation project in the Glasgow area and with Clyde Gateway.”

Following the demolition of buildings formerly occupying the site VHE will undertake excavation and removal of former structural foundations which will be processed for reuse on site which is bounded by Shawfield Road, Glasgow Road and the River Clyde.

Jim Clark, senior media manager for communications at Clyde Gateway, added: “This is the beginning of what will be a complete transformation of the old Industrial Estate over the next decade.”