Portfolio Category: <span>Paving</span>

Job Title

New Cemetery, Pease Pottage

Client

Crawley Borough Council

Description

Construction of new Cemetery at Pease Pottage. One section of the contract was to construct a new paved area adjacent to the memorial gardens. This was formed in Marshall’s La Linear paving laid on stone sub-base and sharp sand bedding grit. Laid in a grey stretcher bond the paving complimented the adjacent planting and gazebo also installed as part of the contract. The paving is laid by hand, cutting around features with diamond blade cutters to ensure a neat finish is achieved.

Construction Date

2016 – 2017

Job Title

Uckfield High Street, Uckfield

Client

Uckfield Town Council

Description

Paving Improvements to the High Street in Uckfield carried out as a Sub-Contractor to parent company C J Thorne & Co Ltd required the laying of 75mm thick Yorkstone paving on a mortar bed. The paving was supplied sawn on six sides and in random lengths by Marshalls to match the paving previously laid throughout the High Street. Closing off the area outside the shops, 100m2 of the old footway was excavated with a small 1½ tonne excavator and the spoil removed by a grab lorry early in the morning. The team rebuilt the existing steps and tidied the planters as part of the scheme, providing a new seating area and repainting the railings.

Construction Date

August 2018

Job Title

Uckfield Community Hospital, Framfield Road, Uckfield

Client

League of Friends

Description

Hobart Paving undertook the subcontract works from parent company CJ Thorne & Co Ltd to construct 24 new parking bays in the verge fronting the Uckfield Community Hospital. The new spaces were to provide additional parking facilities for the hospital staff.

We excavated the soil from the verge using the 8t excavator and formed the new porous block paving parking bays with granular sub-base overlaid with a grit bedding layer. Brindle Brett Omega flow porous paving blocks were laid with the parking bays picked out in grey.

Construction Date

2018

Job Title

Templewood Avenue Hampstead

Client

Durtnells of Brasted

Description

Sub-Contractor to the main contractor of a major house refurb in Templewood Avenue, Hampstead. We were appointed to carry out specialist paving to the drive and paths. Work included the reconstruction of the crossovers on to the highway.

Carried out in phases whilst the main contractor undertook a total refit of the internals, we striped and laid Porphyry sett paving to the outside. Ironwork was replaced with specially fabricated recess covers to ensure that they blended into the driveway. No fines jointing were used to enable the drive to comply with SUDs regulations.

Duration

26 Weeks

Job Title

Gateway Café, Peacehaven

Client

Peacehaven Town Council

Description

As part of an improvement package to the sports and leisure complex at the Centenary Park, the forecourt to the Gateway Café was replaced with new porous block paving. The old slab and tarmac surface was taken up and removed, with new brindle paving laid on SUDs type 3 sub-base.

Materials and plant accessed the site through the public car park and care was taken to manage the routes for construction traffic to ensure the safety of users of the park and sports centre.

Work was undertaken by our specialist block laying team during the winter months and when combined with the other surfacing and line marking works that we carried out in the park completed a facelift to the public areas.

Duration

3 Weeks

Job Title

Block Paving Repairs, Crawley

Client

Dualit

Description

Dualit’s office in County Oak Crawley was originally laid to block paving which over the years has suffered wear and tear from intensive use. We were contracted to carry out a repairs programme of lift and relay along with lift and replace according to the state of the existing blocks in order to minimise the cost to the client.

The warehouse and yard were in constant use, so with effective communication and liaison with the on-site staff, we were able to plan our works to avoid disruption to customers, deliveries and employees.

Duration

1 Week

Job Title

Gatwick Diamond Development, Manor Royal Crawley

Client

Willmott Dixon

Description

Willmott Dixon appointed as the main contractor to develop a large parcel of land on the Manor Royal Industrial Estate for the building of a prestigious office block appointed appointed us as the specialist block laying contractor to supply and lay 7500m2 Marshall Priora porous block paving to the car park and access roads together with 1420m2 400×400 St George slab paving tp the footways.

Parking bays were laid in buff with delineation in white, access roads in charcoal all laid in 90° herringbone pattern on porous macadam base.

Our staff worked in 3 and 4 man teams to complete laying and cutting operations in a phased programme maintaining access for Willmott’s building and trades subcontractors to continue work on the office build throughout.

Duration

20 Weeks