Earthworks
Our commercial earthworks division covers all aspects of minor and major earthworks. Our highly skilled team are both experienced and well qualified and have worked on a wide variety of projects in a variety of sectors. Complex projects are a particular specialty as the Company has a large skilled in-house workforce and modern plant fleet. We also have our own in-house engineering service, which means that we can offer surveys, full setting out from electronic formats and an as-built drawing service.
• An excellent example of Dowhigh performing substantial earthworks would be the St Helens Cemetery Extension, off Rainford Road, St Helens, valued at £1.25m, the works included:• Reprofiling of the existing former farm land
• Importation of over 50,000m3 of class C2 material, treated materials that had been removed from the Echo Arena and Convention Centre in Liverpool
• 600m of drainage in both clayware and concrete pipe was used to reroute the existing public sewer system
• Tree planting
• Weedkilling
• Landscaping
• Footways including 2000tonnes of recycled MOT
Other examples of sites including muck shift and deep drainage include:
• Echo Arena, Liverpool 2007 – muck shifting, hard scaping, drainage, waterproofing etc
• Pool Lane, Allport Road, Bromborough Link Road between A41 and Dock Road South 1999
• Cottage Loaf, Thurstaston Roundabout 2009
• Saughall Massey Road, Saughall Massey 2004 – green field carriageway reconstruction
• Caldbeck Road Bromborough 2005 – link road through a new industrial estate
• Kitchen Street Liverpool 1999 – sewer diversion and road reconstruction
• Formby Bypass (phase two) 2010 – renewal of the existing surface water drainage system
The company relishes the opportunity to work on both brown and green field sites where by a new highway can be constructed from muck shift to drainage to kerbing and final installation of the surface course. Dowhigh have accumulated an efficient plant department boasting a range of equipment including:
• 1 x 20t CAT excavator
• 3 x 14t Hitachi excavators
• 4 x JCB 3CX
• 1 x 2.5t JCB mini excavator
• 1 x 1.5t JCB mini excavator
• 1 x 17t CAT Loading Shovel
To compliment this element of the company, Dowhigh introduced a recycling facility currently turning over 25,000t a year of inert waste and producing certificated MOT, pipe bedding, dusts, and our very own Dowfoam.
