Case Studies
For more than 35 years we have been operating throughout the United Kingdom and overseas to deliver a total solution to clients’ geotechnical and environmental problems against ever more demanding Standards and legislation. Examples of our work are provided in the following small selection of case studies:
Great Yarmouth, Third River Crossing Value: £40K The proposed Great Yarmouth Third River Crossing scheme will provide an additional route over the River Yare. This will involve the construction, operation and maintenance of a new … Read More |
AQIA, Cringleford, Norwich Value: £10K As part of the planning requirements for two proposed residential developments (650 houses over 6 phases) in Cringleford, Norfolk, Harrison Group was commissioned to carry out an Air … Read More |
Greenyard Frozen, King’s Lynn Value: £50K Greenyard Frozen, King’s Lynn, is an 80,000 tonnes/pa facility which processes, packages, and distributes a variety of vegetables including, peas, beans, brassicas and a variety of root vegetables. Read More |
Needham Market Quarry, Suffolk Value: £165K Harrison Group carried out the ground investigation for Hopkins Homes at Needham Market Quarry, where planning for 266 homes had been approved. Gavin Houghton, Head of Technical Services … Read More |
Fen Drayton Road Value: £13K Land developers, as part of their due diligence, need to check, before construction commences, for the presence of ground gas such as methane and carbon dioxide, which can … Read More |
Former Whittingham Hospital Value: £150K Whittingham Hospital, near Preston in Lancashire, treated thousands of psychiatric patients every year and had its own railway, brewery and sewage works. The main hospital closed in 1995, … Read More |
Antony Gormley Sculpture – Trinity College, Cambridge Value: £2,000 Harrison Group has carried out the ground investigation for installation of new Antony Gormley sculpture at Trinity College, Cambridge. Tim Waters, Capital Projects Manager at Trinity College: ‘I … Read More |
Great Yarmouth Value: £140K Great Yarmouth has a history of devastating floods, with major events in 1953 and most recently in 2013. Flood defences have been upgraded on a number of occasions, … Read More |
Solar Farm Investigations – Scotland Value: £30K “Having Harrison Group manage all six sites meant the entire investigation process was faster, simpler and more cost-effective, giving us more time to appraise the sites and to … Read More |
Olympic Park Site – London Value: £3.75M HARRISON GROUP ENVIRONMENTAL was appointed as one of three companies to carry out the geotechnical ground investigation on approximately 70No. sites across the 2012 Olympic Park area. We … Read More |
Stratford, East London Value: £260K Redevelopment plans for this 10 hectare site located in Stratford, East London, include for open streets with new shops, cafés, hotels, over 1,200 residential units and 58,000m2 of … Read More |
Crossrail – London Value: £130K Crossrail represents one of the largest infrastructure projects undertaken in the UK and runs 118 km from Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west, through new twin-bore 21km long … Read More |
Lincs OSWF – Lincolnshire Value: £140K The ‘Lincs’ Off-Shore Wind Farm (OSWF) project is just one of 5 wind farms projects which are in various stages of development in the Lincolnshire Wash. The Lincs … Read More |
Greenwich Peninsula – Bugsby’s Reach Value: £60K Bugsby’s Reach South is located on the Greenwich peninsula. The site was historically used as a power station, industrial estate/units and fabrication yard. As part of the Millennium … Read More |
Misurata, Libya Value: $260K In association with our Libyan partners, Harrison Group were contracted to undertake an offshore EIA and pre-seismic survey. Read More |
Olen – Belgium Value: £25K The site was originally occupied by a materials technology plant. Activities carried out there included production and extraction of precious metals products and catalysts. The waste contained some … Read More |
Salina Coast Road widening – Malta Value: £50K Harrison Group was engaged as KOSTA JV’s geotechnical engineer for the €53M Pembroke to Bugibba road improvement scheme. This is part of the EU’s TEN-T Scandinavian-Mediterranean Core Network … Read More |
Recovered Paper Mill, King’s Lynn, Norfolk Value: £300K Environmental Impact Assessment, Recovered Paper Mill – King’s Lynn, Norfolk Client: Palm Group THE PALM GROUP is the largest privately owned paper company in Germany. It specialises in … Read More |
