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BOC Immingham Dissolved Acetylene Project Environmental Statement: Vol. 2 Main Text
� a new emergency access road from the south easterly corner of the one way loop road to
South Marsh Road;
� 2 m high earth embankments;
� four main buildings:
- Amenities Building (including toilets, mess room, office, communications room, boiler
room and store),
- Generator Building (including Safe Haven refuge areas on the first and second floors),
- Cylinder & Bundle Filling Building (also housing a room for compression and an Electrical
Switch Room), and
- Cylinder Examination Shop (including a Paint Shop);
� three Lime Storage Tanks and one or two Rotary Drum Filters;
� two Deluge Water Tanks and an attenuation lagoon for deluge water;
� areas for storage (cylinders, bundles (a number of cylinders manifolded together), materials,
liquid nitrogen, chemicals and wastes);
� areas for vehicle trailer filling, parking and turning;
� a drivers’ shelter;
� pipe racking; and
� a new 2.4 m high paladin (or equivalent) security fence.
3.119 The main building fabrication materials are likely to be metal, insulated panels. Due to the nature
of the development, material selection is limited and needs to be based on process requirements
(insulation, fire proofing, sound reduction etc.). The colour scheme and finish will be as per the
existing BOC site (i.e. greys with a low sheen finish). The bridge deck and all the road and hard
standings will be of concrete construction.
Access and Accessibility
3.120 The design assumed that site access is gained in the following ways:
� normal operational traffic will access through the existing BOC site and across a new bridge
over Middle Drain using a new short link road to the proposed site; and
� emergency access and construction vehicles will access the site via South Marsh Road.
3.121 During normal operation vehicular and pedestrian access and to the proposed site will be via the
existing site entrance (on Hobson Way) and the main gatehouse. A junction will be formed with
the existing site perimeter road to feed the new facility. A footway would run along the eastern
side of the new bridge over the Middle Drain connecting to the new facility via a pedestrian
crossing. A security barrier with intercom will be in place between the existing site gatehouse and
the proposed site.
3.122 Staff parking (including cycle and motor bike facilities) will be at the existing site car park, although
two parking places, one disabled, will be available at the proposed site. Following organic growth
in the existing site workforce BOC is planning to apply for consent to extend the existing car park
(this is project is separate from and independent of the Dissolved Acetylene Project).
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