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Underground plant room for the new aquariums

United Kingdom

Devon

Exeter is a historic city in Devon, England. The City is located on the River Exe about 65 miles northeast from Bristol. Exeter is one of England’s oldest towns with historical buildings like the Exeter Cathedral founded in the early 12th century.

The University of Exeter is one of the four main sites of the University of Plymouth with the worldwide known department, the school of Bioscience. The scientists had been planning to build new world-class laboratories in contemporary biosciences in Exeter. An aquarium that could be used for studies was also included into the new sections. The required plant room was designed to be built underground beside the main buildings.

The excavation works on this project started in spring 2009. A Launceston based company, AWCS, accomplished the piling and extraction works. AWCS is known as an expert in all kind of sheet piling works.

The cofferdam for the plant room was built with a length of 13 metres and a width of 12 metres. The lengths of the used Larssen profile sheet piles were between 6-and 8 metres. After excavation, the cofferdam was supported diagonal with H-beams. Piling of the sheet piles was conducted with Movax SPH-80, which was mounted on Hitachi 350 ZX. Movax SPH-80 was magnificent for piling in this sensitive urbanized area because of its low ground vibrations.