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Newcastle’s Downing Plaza
Simplex Foundations are currently installing more than 300 bearing piles and a contiguous bored piled wall consisting of 190, 600mm and 750mm rotary auger piles founding into mudstone and siltstones for Phase 1 of the new £200m mixed use development by Downing, adjacent to the St James Park Stadium in Newcastle’s Gallowgate area.
Regent’s Canal Bridge
Westpile has installed two pairs of 750mm diameter rotary bored foundation piles, some of which cut through the existing canal walls, for the North and South abutments to the new Regent’s Canal Bridge to be constructed as part of King’s Cross Central’s Eastern Goods Yard Project in central London for which the main contractor is BAM Construction and the client Argent (Kings Cross) Limited.
Simplex piles for new Hilton hotel at Heathrow
Simplex Foundations is now installing foundation piles for a new Hilton Hotel being built in the vicinity of T5, Heathrow Airport, in a £300,000 contract for Main Contractor, John Sisk & Son Ltd.
New West London Residential Development
Simplex Foundations is currently installing rotary bored load bearing piles into a new architect designed residential development in Chelsea.
The site on the corner of Hortensia Road and Fulham Road is being developed by Manhattan Loft Corporation in collaboration with The Osborne Group and is being marketed as Chelsea Apartments.
Bridge Foundations, Peterborough
The Westpile division of Bachy Soletanche is carrying out installation of foundation piling for two bridge abutments at a new road bypass currently under construction in Stanground, Peterborough.
Tower Bridge Road Residential
Westpile is installing foundation piles for a new residential development by Sunlight Projects Limited at 157 Tower Bridge Road, Southwark.
Great Ormond Street Hospital
Westpile has completed piling installation on site in the first phase of the new 30,000 square metre Mittal Children’s Medical Centre, the extensive £321m redevelopment programme at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust (GOSH).
We have moved!
Simplex are now situated at their New Wakefield Office Calder Park, The M1 Business park, J39.
Calder Park’ location is second to none. Situated in a prominent position immediately adjacent to, and visible from, Junction 39 of the M1, with Wakefield city centre four miles away and Leeds and Sheffield just a few more, Calder Park is one of the North’s leading business destinations.
Wakefield Westgate Regeneration Project
Simplex Foundations has installed piling for the first part of the £11m Wakefield City Centre Regeneration Project currently being delivered by VINCI Construction UK Limited.
Simplex Installs M40 Road Bridge Piling
Simplex Foundations installs preliminary test piles and working bearing piles for the construction of a new road bridge spanning the M40 Motorway as part of the M40 Junction 15 (Longbridge) Bypass currently underway in Warwickshire.