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BOC Immingham Dissolved Acetylene Project Environmental Statement: Vol. 2 Main Text
Construction Facilities
3.7 Contractors’ areas (workers facilities, lay-down area, temporary parking facilities etc.) will be
established within the red line boundary area shown on Figure 1.2.
Construction Activities
General
3.8 Construction activities will only take place within the area bounded in red on Figure 1.2. Other
than in the immediate vicinity of the bridge landings, there will be a 7 m maintenance strip along
the top of the bank of Middle Drain and no construction activities will occur within this zone. The
bridge landings will be at least 5 m from the top of the banks and construction activities will not
occur within 5 m of the top of the bank. Other than construction of the emergency access road, no
works will take place within the Anglian Water easement on the south eastern boundary of the
development area. Furthermore, with the exception of the area immediately around the new
bridge access road, construction works are not expected to result in the disturbance to field
margins or scattered scrub.
3.9 At this stage in the Project, a schedule of works and a detailed construction programme are not
available. However, activities associated with the construction phase are likely to be fairly
standard to any construction project for industrial facilities and activities are likely to include:
� site preparation and initial groundworks (for example, formation of temporary site access,
removal of topsoil and excavations);
� piling for buildings and construction of bridge (see following section for further details);
� construction of ground beams, pile caps and solid bases under external areas;
� laying of drainage pipes and creation of drainage infrastructure;
� laying of services from the existing site (across the bridge);
� establishment of site perimeter;
� steel frame erection to all buildings;
� formation of blast walls (Amenity Building only);
� completion of road formations;
� formation of building slabs;
� cladding of buildings;
� mechanical and electrical fit-out;
� installation of process infrastructure steelwork;
� installation of process equipment and ancillaries; and
� testing and commissioning.
Piling
3.10 The ground conditions on the site are not yet known in sufficient detail for the choice of piling
method to have been finalised; however, the current understanding suggests that the possible
options include:
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