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Saving time and reducing waste on site with precast bespoke cover slabs

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Precast special access cover slabs, manufactured offsite, within quality controlled environments, reduces the stress on resources at building and construction sites, according to Paul Cartwright, Business Development Director at Elite Precast Concrete, here’s how:

Precision Manufacturing

  • Exact Fit: Precast cover slabs are tailored to previse project specifications, minimising the need for adjustments, specialised materials and skilled labour on site.
  • Controlled Environment: Manufacturing in a factory setting ensures accurate material calculations, reducing excess and defects.
  • Quality Assurance: Rigorous quality control reduces errors compared to on-site casting, leading to less material waste.

Elimination of on-site modifications

  • By designing cover slabs to exact dimensions, the need for cutting or trimming on-site is eliminated, reducing waste materials.
  • Minimises the risk of ordering surplus materials as a contingency.

Optimised Design

  • Efficient use of materials: customer designs allow for optimised slab thickness and reinforcement placement, avoiding unnecessary use of concrete and steel.

Reduced Formwork Waste

  • Precast cover slabs eliminate the need for temporary formwork, which is often discarded after use, thereby reducing construction waste and vehicle movements.

Material Recovery

  • Any waste, generated during manufacturing can be recycled or reused within the factory, unlike on-site waste that is harder to manage

Extended Lifespan

  • Designed for durability, these bespoke slabs can last over 100 years, under normal conditions. This longevity reduces the need for replacements, further minimising long-term material waste.

By integrating precision engineering, optimised design, and offsite manufacturing with modern methods of construction, special access cover slabs offer a sustainable solution to reduce material waste in construction projects, increase the health and safety on site and make the lives of designers, specifiers, buyers and installers easier.

Call 01952 588885 to find out more or visit www.eliteprecast.co.uk/drainage-products/large-diameter-cover-slabs/

Elite links up with new logistics partner

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One of the UK’s leading manufacturers of precast concrete has teamed up with a new logistics provider.

Elite Precast-Shropshire Express Deliveries 8Elite Precast Concrete will work in partnership with flatbed haulage specialists Shropshire Express Deliveries to ensure its nationwide delivery operation runs like clockwork.

The exclusive relationship will create a transport solution tailor-made for the precast concrete industry and underline Elite’s ethos of providing the highest levels of customer service.

Owen Batham 1Owen Batham, Sales and Marketing Director of Elite Precast, said: “Our logistics operation is very important to us, so it was vital to find the right partners.

“We wanted to build a long-term relationship with a company we can fully rely on and, in Shropshire Express Deliveries, I’m confident we’ve found just that.

 
Elite Precast-Shropshire Express Deliveries (2)“They’ll provide a really cost-effective service carried out by experienced drivers in the highest standard of delivery vehicles.

“But they also place great value on top-quality customer care and that’s something we’re absolutely passionate about.”

Elite also works in partnership with logistics specialists Hallett Silbermann, based in Hertfordshire. The relationship enables the company to provide deliveries that are FORS Gold, Silver and Bronze compliant and that are approved for HS2, Crossrail, CLOCS and Tideway projects in London and the South East.

The business, which operates from two factories in Telford, focuses on providing the best possible value within the precast industry.

A uniquely lean business model enables it to drive down costs and pass savings directly on to customers.

The company manufactures a vast range of semi-dry and wet-cast products for every sector of UK industry and a portfolio that includes interlocking blocks, ballast blocks, safety/security barriers, service protection and drainage products.

Elite Precast-Shropshire Express Deliveries 3The deal will also have significant implications for Shropshire Express Deliveries, according to owner/director Neil Bennett.

The company, also based in Telford, has taken on a string of new drivers as well as office staff as a direct result of the new partnership.

It has brought in five new 44-tonne tractor units, together with trailers featuring side protection, to supplement its fleet of fully Euro 6 compliant vehicles.

And it has installed a state-of-the-art booking and tracking system that enables the company to pick up Elite orders automatically.

He said: “The new partnership is fantastic news for the company and a big step forward for us.

“It’s the biggest contract we’ve won since we launched the business six years ago and it’s a real vindication of how we operate.

“We’re very much focused on quality of service and that was crucial to Elite, which insists on putting customers first.”

Cost effective coastal erosion prevention

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In December 2018 Elite Precast Concrete were contacted by Richard Roseveare, owner of specialist groundwork and civil engineering company C-Shore Ltd to discuss what might be the quickest, easiest and most cost effective method of stopping further coastal erosion at a site in Cornwall.

C Shore ProjectsA 45m stretch of the coast line was gradually being eroded by the sea which was in turn threatening to wash away sections of three back gardens above the cliff line.

The base of the cliff was only accessible from the beach at low tide so a solution that was both quick to install as well as being incredibly durable and able to withstand the harshest of stormy Cornish winter weather was needed.

Richard chose Elite’s largest range of high strength interlocking blocks (which have a design life of over 100 years) for the job and having settled on the design he and Elite set about planning the work.

Such was the remote nature of the construction site the blocks had to be delivered to a nearby holding area from where Richard could take them one by one to the foot of the cliff. So having cast the steel reinforced foundation slab using ‘no-fines’ concrete Richard set about installing the blocks.

Working quickly to avoid the incoming tides C-Shore were able to lay the blocks in a matter of days and of course without the need for shuttering, formwork, steel fixers and pumping large volumes of ready-mixed concrete.

The result is three very relieved and happy home owners who are safe in the knowledge that their gardens have been protected for many years to come by Richard’s ingenuity and Elite’s high strength Legato blocks.

For more information on C-shore’s specialist coastal erosion prevention services email Richard at c.shoreprojects@gmail.com or Elite Precast Concrete sales@eliteprecast.co.uk