| Project: | Derwent Care Home |
| Location: | Matlock, Derbyshire |
| Status: | Complete |
| Services: | Civils & Groundworks |
To facilitate the build of a new care home, Cawarden brings its expertise in Civils & Groundworks to the Derbyshire project.
Working on behalf of the main contractor, Cawarden was contracted to install a series of retaining structures around the new care home site as well as the delivery of all foundations and sub-structure work and block and beam flooring.
To enable the commencement of the foundation work, we installed a number of complex retaining walls across the site. The foundations could then be excavated with the arisings transported to a waste treatment facility.
The concrete for the foundations was placed using a concrete boom pump due to the restricted access on the site.
The sub-structure blockwork followed on from these works up to DPC level, including the installation of telescopic air vents.
All internal drainage was piped to the new SW sewers that were installed around the perimeter of the site and then connected to Severn Trent Water’s existing network under a S104 agreement.
Due to the level differences from the top of the site to the bottom, a number of the manholes installed were up to 5m deep. This required the use of specialist, proprietary ground shoring system to ensure the safety of our operatives at all times.
Groundwater also caused an added complexity on the site during the flooding of Matlock and Bakewell in February 2022, which closed the site for a period of time.
Once back on site, our team installed several large soakaways and pumped water out of the footprint of the building to be able to continue our works.
As always, collaboration with the client was the key to the successful delivery of the scope of works to ensure their procedures were followed at all times.