Perco’s acquisition of WJ Drilling marks a major expansion of the company’s directional drilling operations. WJ Drilling is a well known player in the directional drilling market and brings a wealth of expertise to the Perco team.
When a 250 metre section of a 600mm ID pumping main on the route of the new Rugby Western Bypass needed to be rehabilitated, a close fit liner was chosen by Severn Trent’s consulting engineers, Pick Everard.
Back in May, our auger boring team took a BM400 rig to Commins Bach, near Machynlleth, Powys on the Cambrian Railway to install an under track crossing for Carillion Rail.
A culvert carrying a beck under the west coast main line at Grayrigg in Cumbria had been replaced with three no. 600mm ID steel pipes.
In Spring 2010, we were called in by the MVM Joint Venture, the main contractor working on the widening of the M1 from three to four lanes close to Junction 26, near Nottingham.
Every once in a while an unusual project comes our way and this one is a good example. A reservoir, a salmon hatchery and spring in the North West Highlands gave us a set of challenges that don’t often appear in the same job. Here’s the story...
As part of major sewer upgrade and flood prevention works in Blackpool, Perco was asked by United Utilities’ contractor Birse Coastal to carry out localised renovation works on gravity storm water outfalls below Blackpool’s central promenade.
Back in June, Deena Johnson, our adminstration assistant, completed three modules of her course in Business Administration and IT. The course is run by Northampton based training company Starting Off.
The new tunnelling team is led by Alex Menhinick and specialises in microtunnelling, pipe jacking, segmental tunnelling and large diameter segmental shafts.
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Alex Menhinick, who has joined Perco in November to strengthen the company’s tunnelling and shaft sinking services.
Just after the Spring 2009 edition of Undercover went to press we completed a major sewer upsizing project for Network Rail in the Ann Street tunnel in Glasgow.
A disused brick culvert under a railway near Scunthorpe had been used for moving cattle from one side of the line to the other. It fell into disuse and was filled in many years ago. Build ups of water were washing away the backfill, making the ground
The existing 25” cast iron rising main carries sewage from the south side of the city of York to Yorkshire Water’s sewage treatment works at Naburn, some three miles to the south of the city. A risk of leakage was found in a section of the pipeline w
The new Rolls Building, at 110 New Fetter Lane in the city of london, will house the chancery, commercial and TCC jurisdictions of the High Court. The 11 storey building provides 31 courtrooms, 11 hearing rooms and 67,000 sq. ft. of high quality offi
The new leisure centre at Darwen in Lancashire is being built by Galliford Try for Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council. The Centre is due to open in January 2010 and will provide high quality sports and leisure facilities, including a 25 metre swim
As part of the development of the new Park Way Retail Development project, we were commissioned by Ashridge Construction to provide new sewer connections for the development. Ashridge Construction won a contract from main contractor Costain to provid
When Southern Water discovered a problem with collapsed sewers in Tonbridge, Kent, their term contractor, Clancy Docwra called us in to investigate and recommend a trenchless solution.
The Howfield to Chilham Water Main Project will carry water from extraction boreholes at Howfield to Chilham as part of a scheme to provide potable water to thousands of homes in the mid Kent area.
A section of rising main carrying dirty water from one of Northumbria Water’s pumping stations to the waste water treatment works at Ferryhill, County Durham was found to be leaking under the main east coast railway line.
We are delighted to announce our sponsorship of Grange Park Rangers Under Nines team, who play in the Northampton & District Youth Alliance League.
We had a fund raising day in the office on October 30th to raise money for Breast Cancer’s Wear It Pink Day on October 30th.
Now culverts, sewers, pipes and ducts in the remotest of locations can be rehabilitated by EcoCIPP lining.
From rod pulling in Romania to Expandit in Egypt, Perco’s international interests have continued to grow in recent months.
Perco has expanded its service portfolio by adding microtunnelling - with a twist!
Japan, Korea, India, Egypt, Romania, Spain – the list of countries taking up the Expandit pipe bursting system outside the UK is growing rapidly. Egypt is one of the latest locations where Perco is providing training.
Centre stage at No-Dig Live 2008
Stoneleigh Park, near Coventry, 23-25 September
Be sure to visit us on Stand 202. We will be easy to find - right opposite Registration, central to the entrance doors.
Linking up with our parent company, O
A new phase in Perco’s development starts as we become part of Onsite Central Ltd, a division of South Staffordshire Plc.
The need to avoid traffic chaos on the A1055 Ridgeway in Enfield, North London meant that conventional methods for connecting the development’s new sewers were not acceptable. Fortunately our engineers were able solve the problem using the traditiona
Our EcoCIPP lining team has been busy across the UK installing EcOcIPP UV cured GRP liners in numerous gravity sewer rehabilitation projects. Here is a small selection of lining projects undertaken in 2007.
Flooding had been affecting houses and a school in Oldham’s Rounthorn Road. Our BM500 fitted with a 600mm extension arm was used to install 156 metres of 600mm Naylor Denlok clayware pipe. The 600mm extension arm and BM500 combination is unique in th
Perco’s new Pressurised CIPP liner, PressureCIPP widens the options for renovating non potable pumping mains.
Two members of our intrepid admin team took part in this year’s Race For Life at Campbell Park in Milton Keynes.
A major flooding problem affecting housing in a cul-de-sac at Gosport, Hampshire had been causing problems for residents and attracting news coverage in the local press and on TV.
In May Nick Sheehan and the Expandit Training Team spent two weeks in Mumbai with our licenced Expandit partner, Shriram, training them in Expandit pipe bursting techniques.
When asbestos cement cable ducts at RAF Valley in Anglesey needed upgrading we were called in by main contractor, Carillion.
As part of this turnkey package for the new Marlborough Business Park we installed 60 metres of 300mm ID lost steel casing which was then sliplined with 225mm ID segmental HDPE pipe.
After the successful sliplining of an old culvert draining redundant mine workings under the new Porth Relief Road in 2006, main contractor Costain invited us back to upsize two storm drains using our Expandit pipe bursting system.
Flooding problems in the Granville Road area of Blackburn meant that United Utilities’ main contractor, Balfour Beatty Utilities had to install a new overflow system to reduce local flooding.
When Veolia Environmental needed to increase the flow in their pumped effluent pipe running under a park and wildlife area, we were called in to advise on a solution.
Main contractor Sir Robert McAlpine built Arsenal Football Club’s new 60,000 seat Emirates Stadium in Islington, London and Perco connected the stadium’s sewers to the main sewer network.
Another first for the UK by market leaders Perco as they deploy a Bohrtec BM150DT to install 2 x 225 mm sewer connections WITHIN a 1200mm dia. tunnel
Our UV-cured relining system, EcoCIPP, proved the best solution to a sewer upgrading problem, on a busy Heathrow perimeter road.
Our vehicle fleet is adopting the new Perco symbol. This will not affect our standards of service on site but it means we will look a lot better on the way there...
We are always enthusiastic about technology that reduces environmental impact.
Flood prevention measures in Sussex required the installation of a 450mm polyethylene pipe over a distance of 315m.
The latest addition to the EcoCIPP relining fleet is a custom-built, mobile control centre, or 'truck', as we prefer to call it
Perco install sewers for Portsmouth housing development.
Perco uses trenchless technology to install a 60m plastic pipeline through cliffs at Harlech, North Wales.
Pipebursting is in demand as a consequence of Government pressure to increase housing density in developed areas.
he new BM500 is the only Bohrtec rig in the UK which can install upto 1 m diameter pipes.
Using Expandit, Clay pipes can be installed, when other systems rely on polyethelene.
A range of state-of-the-art pipebursting methods means that clients can always get the best solution for the job. Gary Houghton outlines Perco's choice of firepower against decayed drains.
Trains on the Oxford-Worcester (OWW) line kept running in safety, as Perco renewed an under-track, brick lined culvert by rod pulling, in July.
Perco teams up with Japanese tunnelling specialists to export Expandit pipebursting technology.
Relationships built in Korea to export Expandit pipebursting technology.
No-dig is better for the environment, right? Nick Sheehan answers the question and argues for even greener trenchless techniques.
One of Perco's trenchless pipe installation techniques was used to avoid disrupting a site of special scientific interest, in May, as part of Severn Trent Water's extensive flood alleviation measures in Kenilworth, Warwickshire.
When a 250 metre section of a 600mm ID pumping mai...
Our engineers used the gentle touch to upsize an 8...
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