Greyhound Plant Services Contracting and Environmental Engineering: The following notes give an overview of the type of work carried out by Greyhound; from these it will be seen that we have vast experience in our field and use our knowledge and skill to produce quality work, on time and in budget.

Earthworks

As a main contractor we have established ourselves as a safe and quality focused business with major clients in the quarry and aggregates industries, as well as with individual developers. Greyhound Plant Services staff are active members of a number of institutions and industry bodies including: CECA; RICS; CIOB; CPA; FCMI; FIHT; CMIOSH; NEBOSH.
As a subcontractor we have an extensive catalogue of completed and current works in such diverse areas as flood alleviation works, river allignment schemes, reservoir strengthening works and more.

 

Landfill
We have established our position as a main contractor in the Landfill Engineering sector of business, with several major clients in the Waste Industry. Our scope of works include, creation of landfill cells, cap works, final restoration & landscaping works, provision of infrastructure and weighbridge construction and installation.
In addition we have carried out design and construct works on two compost facilities at landfill sites, incorporating access roads, compost pads and earth bunds. Greyhound Plant Services are active members of the I.W.M.

 

Land Reclamation and Stabilisation
Land Reclamation works (including, design & build), working with local authorities, the NRA and the Environment Agency all to current Environment Agency legislation is a key part of our developing workload. Greyhound have also, as part of their 'best value' engineering operation, been involved in schemes where lime and cement stabilisation processes have been required or specified. Greyhound have used their knowledge and experience to demonstrate that processing the materials on site can ensure substantial savings in disposal and import and that in other circumstances, where stabilisation has been specified, by carefully selecting and utilising exisiting materials, stabilisation is not required!

 

 

 

Restoration and Remediation
Currently a large percentage of our turnover is restoration work, either, of old industrial sites or, mineral workings. As a result we are in a position to provide not only a comprehensive service, but also the management who are fully familiar with the standards and methods required by our clients, DEFRA, the EA local authorities etc.
Greyhound have completed a number of landmark schemes including: Nar Ouse Regeneration for Norfolk County Council (with Birse Civils Ltd); Bumpers Lane, Chester for Chester City Council - the removal and treatment of contaminated land including the processing and disposal of a large stockpile of used tyres; Gibfield Park, Wigan for a private developer (with John Mowlem) the multi-million pound clean up of a former colliery and open cast site to provide land for housing and industrial development.

 

 

Roadworks and Drainage
We have undertaken improvement works from greenfield stage in the roadworks, drainage and car park sectors of the business, as main contractor and as subcontractor.

 

 

Emergency Work
Greyhound mobilised at short notice, as a main contractor to assist DEFRA in the control and eradication of foot and mouth during the 2001 outbreak. The scope included mobilising plant, equipment, mean and materials to establish burn sites and burial sites as well as farm cleaning works and disposal of carcases to rendering plants and landfills. Greyhound were able to use their knowledge, skill and contacts to mobilise and carry out over £30m of work in 6 months, safely and within all the restrictions which were in place.

Dredging
During the last few years we have undertaken several projects for the Environment Agency, and other authorities on dredging, flood defence and sea defence schemes. As a contracting team we have developed a clear understanding of the clients needs and engineers specification in this sector of business.

 

 

Opencast Works
We are increasingly involved in quarry works and open cast mining operations and have experience of sole supply with a national contractor, covering the whole of the western region. This has entailed the detailed forward planning of works and implementation of both these plans and short term, short notice requirements. We are currently negotiating the follow up project. Our plant holding is particularly suited to these type of operations.

Greyhound are strong advocates of communicating at all levels to ensure that projects run smoothly and to the benefit of all. Every effort is made to progress proactively to avoid problems and to increase the likelyhood of a successful out come to all projects. Greyhound operate an 'open book' policy with a well documented, auditable paper trail, which has been used on a number of schemes under the EC contract.

Subcontracting
Greyhound have developed strong links with a number of main contractors in the UK and have carried out work for them over much of Great Britain in the last few years. These links have developed through mutual trust and respect and have resulted in many successful projects. Greyhound's input at initial tender stage, has enabled the teams to develop confidence in pricing, planning and analysing schemes to the benefit of all; whether in Early Contractor Involvement (ECIs), tenders or enabling alternative tenders to be established. This cooperation extends through the actual site works and to settlement of final account.

 

Your contact for enquiries is Brian Goodacre: brian.goodacre@greyhoundplant.com