ESB 4 Year OHL Framework Pole Asset Inventory Management (PIAM)

Reach Active Scope of Works includes:

  • Refurbishment overhead lines including: replacing decayed poles, correcting substandard ground clearances and clearing all building conflicts
  • PIAM Drogheda Planner Area : 10/20kV
  • PIAM Dundalk Planner Area : 10/20kV)
  • PIAM Dublin North Planner Area : 10/20kV
  • New Build Services Works Dundalk /Drogheda Planner Area :(10/20kV new build overheads and UGS to domestic dwellings also completion of line diversion for New and existing builds
  • Provide internal poling requirements with poling teams to support all these projects and internal resources for civils works on these projects (trenching ducting and reinstating

ESB 4 Year OHL Framework – LV to 400kV: Fibre Made Ready (FMR)

Reach Active Scope of Works included: This will involve working on Urban clusters including:

  • Refurbishment of LV networks to enable Fibre stringing in multiple urban areas: Skerries/Donabate/Rush/Lusk/Maynooth/Kilcock/Bally fermot/Celbridge/Monaghan/Carrickmacross /Dunleer/Duleek all to be completed Dec
  • Stringing fibre will be done on completed LV clusters Dunleer/Duleek, on-going on additional clusters
  • Provided internal poling requirements with their own poling teams to support all these projects and internal resources for civils works on these projects ( trenching ducting and reinstating)

East Meath-North Dublin Grid Upgrade

Belcamp 220kV substation is an existing substation in the Clonshaugh area of County Dublin around 7km from Dublin city centre. This substation is also of strategic importance in the electricity transmission grid, as it will accommodate further grid development projects in the coming years. This 220kV substation needs to be extended and a new 400kV substation needs to be built using the land beside the existing building. The works will improve power quality and support future renewable generation, including offshore renewables, and growing electricity demand in the north Dublin area.

Reach Active current cabling project associated with Belcamp substation.

  • Belcamp – Shellybanks 220 kV Phase 1 & 2 cabling.
  • Installation of 1,875m of 220kV infrastructure.
  • ERA scope included.
  • Scope included soil strip and access road construction; trenching & ducting including drain crossings; joint bay installation; duct roping and proving and road crossing.
  • Scope included supply of all materials; fulfilling the role of Project Supervisor for the Construction Stage (PSCS) for the works and all scope associated temporary works.

Work Environments included:

  • Private Agricultural land
  • IDA land
  • Crossing of Public Road

Installation of stockproof fencing on access corridor; topsoil strip and store for future reinstatement and construction of geogrid / stone access road to enable installation of permanent infrastructure.

Soil Strip & Access Roads:
Installation of stockproof fencing on access corridor; topsoil strip and store for future reinstatement and construction of geogrid / stone access road to enable installation of permanent infrastructure

Trenching & Ducting:
Installation of phase and communication ducting between joint bays and communication chambers

Temporary Cover Slabs:
Install and remove Temporary Cover Slabs on Joint Bays are required for various works phases (excavators fitted with Prolec Safe Load Indicator systems)

Road Crossing:

Duct Proving:
Roping and Proving of all installed ducting to ESB requirements.
3 x 1,875m of 200OD 220kV Phase Duct
2 x 1,875m 125OD Communication Duct

Whiteleys Queensway, London

The Whiteley was a redevelopment of an iconic London landmark to reimagine new life.Located in Bayswater, on Queensway. This included private residences, UK’s first Six Senses hotel and more. A vibrant mixed-use development, the new design incorporated a wide range of functions – retail, restaurants, leisure, hotel and residential.

Reach Active scope consisted of:

  • Invasive Investigatory works
  • Design and Construction of Temporary & permanent Substations
  • ICP delivery
  • HV contestable works – 11kV trenching and ducting installations across Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea- Circa 4 Km approx.
  • Full stakeholder management

One Leadenhall, City of London EC3

1 Leadenhall Street is an office development by Brookfield at the junction of Gracechurch Street and Leadenhall Street in the City of London EC3.

The 35-storey building resides next to the Grade II-listed Leadenhall Market, on the site of the ancient Roman Forum, an area home to several important City structures, including the Lloyd’s building and medieval churches St Michael Cornhill and St Peter upon Cornhill.

Reach Active scope consisted of:

  • Utility Mapping
  • C3 and C4 diversionary estimate collation
  • Trial Hole Investigations
  • Design consideration to excavate in the proximity of existing 33kV Extra High Voltage infrastructure
  • Utility diversion design to achieve a clear exclusion zone, allow future connections and facilitate Public Realm works.
  • Disconnection and diversion of existing utilities
  • Undertake Temporary and Permanent electricity
  • Connection works as an ICP
  • Survey and produce As Constructed Drawings
  • Full stakeholder management

Selfridges – Duke Street & Barrett St, London W1

As part of a significant 2 phase refurbishment and redevelopment of the flagship store in Oxford Street Reach Active undertook the multi-utility diversion works in Duke street. This facilitated the subsequent and substantial public realm and highways works to Duke Street which now provides an appropriate setting for the eastern end of the store.

Logistics and delivery created challenges and constraints whilst working in the immediate vicinity of the live store which remained operational at all.

Reach Active scope consisted of:

  • Buried services Surveys
  • Trial Hole investigations
  • Utility Design
  • Utility Management/Contracts/Negotiations
  • Utility Engineer liaison
  • Excavation and LA Licenses
  • Client/Site Construction Liaison
  • Delivery of Construction
  • Collaborative S278 working with FM Conway’s
  • Gas Diversions and Disconnections
  • Communications Network diversions – BT & Virgin Media
  • RA value engineered and negotiated a protection strategy for the following utilities; UKPN, Colt and Level 3
  • Resource and programme acceleration – 24 hour working teams to ensure works completion due to the sensitive location of works.

The Londoner Hotel Leicester Square – The Edwardian hotel Group

Located on the site of the former Odeon cinema in Leicester Square, the hotel has one of the deepest commercial basements in Europe and encompasses leisure facilities, two Odeon Luxe cinemas, ballroom, spa, and state-of-the-art conference facilities.

The central London location meant the utility enabling works were clogged with a spaghetti of telecoms, electric and gas cables and pipes, while Victorian brick sewers on the east and west sides needed diverting. The biggest problem was a 2m-diameter UK Power Networks tunnel carrying high voltage electrical supply for the West End 14m below ground on the north-western corner.

Reach Active scope consisted of:

  • Consultancy works in providing pre-construction advice on the feasibility, technical, programme and costs of the services diversions.
  • Liaised with the City of Westminster to obtain consent for diversions and new incoming utility connections.
  • Intrusive surveys – slit trenches excavated to confirm the location and depth of the existing services to ascertain diversion route corridors.
  • Design and diversion of UKPN HV power and construction of temporary substations – 4 MVA
  • Design and build of new Thames Water sewers in St Martins Street and Whitcomb Street by open cut and tunnel solution.
  • Disconnection of various services connections to the existing property including gas, water, power and telecommunications.
  • The provision of new services infrastructure to accommodate the new services required for the development including gas, water, power, drainage connections and telecommunications.
  • Removal of the existing Westminster toilet in Whitcomb Street.

BBC Television Centre – Stanhope

The Television Centre is a unique site with its famous listed Helios building, along with the courtyard and atomic dot wall . The redevelopment of Television Centre is led by developers Stanhope.

There was an active BBC presence on site throughout the construction phase, the project team had to remove 50 years of television cabling and utilities infrastructure without taking services “off air”.

Reach Active scope consisted of:

  • Consultancy works in providing pre-construction advice on the feasibility, technical programme and costs for multi-utility diversions and new utility installation
  • Intrusive surveys – trial hole investigations to establish route for new incoming services.
  • Liaised with Hammersmith and Fulham Local Authority to agree licensing for new incoming services.
  • Design and build solutions for new incoming HV, LV, Gas, Telecoms, Thames Water deep drainage/sewers and potable water. Including design and build solution for deep petrol chemical interceptors.

Rapid response crews for diversion of existing fragile utilities, example:

  • Old PVC water mains
  • Construction of new footpaths and roads.
  • Site Infrastructure works
  • Deep Drainage Works Including Foul And Surface Water

Infrastructure works included:

  • Heading and Pumping Station
  • Water Main Offsite And Onsite Connections
  • Gas Main Offsite And Onsite Connections
  • Telecoms Installation To BT LN550 Specifications
  • HV/LV Ducts Installation To UKPN Specification
  • Associated Road Construction
  • Construction of petrol interceptor

UCLH Queen Square Institute of Neurology

  • Hospital multi-utility diversion route works to enable the construction of new buildings.
  • Stakeholder Management.
  • Trial holes/investigations.
  • Street works licensing and electronic noticing.
  • Design and Diversion of all utilities, HV, LV, National
  • Grid Gas, BT and Thames Water, Foul water, 7 European telecom networks and BOC piped oxygen.
  • Design and construction of temporary substations.

Design and build for new incoming HV Power Supplies (ICP connection) comprising of approx. 3 km of 11kV trenching and ducting. Load capacity ranging from
1MVA to 6.2MVA.

The Hillingdon Hospital Foundation Trust

The current Hillingdon Hospital is an old building with parts of the estate built in the 1930s as emergency wartime accommodation. The scheme comprises the rebuild of Hillingdon Hospital to replace the ageing estate

Reach Active scope consisted of:

  • Invasive Investigatory works.
  • Full feasibility.
  • ICP delivery
  • Design and Construction of Temporary & permanent
  • Substations.
  • HV contestable works – 11kV trenching and ducting installations within the London Borough of Hillingdon
  • Collaborative Multi utility Diversions & Utility
  • Abandonment.
  • Full stakeholder management
Phase 3 – UCLH Macmillan Cancer – 4 MVA
Phase 4 – UCLH Proton Beam Cancer Hospital – 6 MVA
Phase 5 – UCLH Royal Ear Hospital – 2 MVA