RMD Kwikform helps deliver £6m water works - VIDEO

RMD Kwikform has provided ‘off the shelf’ formwork and falsework to help deliver a £6m water treatment plant in rural Shropshire.

Main contractor for the Severn Trent Water scheme was Interserve Project Services, who picked RMD Kwikform to provide both the falsework and formwork to construct three, six-metre high concrete holding tanks.

The new water treatment plant, situated in Nesscliffe just outside Oswestry in rural Shropshire, is a purpose built facility to guarantee security of supply to Oswestry and the surrounding area.

The facility itself is clearly visible in the surrounding Greenfield area, so a high-quality finish was of utmost importance, as the finished project is under the intense scrutiny of the public eye.

Rod Reeves, project manager at Interserve Project Services, said: “The most important thing when constructing these tanks is the quality of finish at the right price. That wasn’t easy to achieve and RMD Kwikform put a lot of work in here to win this particular project.”

RMD Kwikform showed the strength of its core product line using ‘off the shelf’ materials to meet the challenge head on.

Primarily comprising of Maxima Panels and Rapidshor shoring for the wall formwork, Superslim Soldiers were then used to provide beam side formwork when the soffit is poured. Ultraguard Barriers integrated into the design have been utilised to provide excellent edge support for onsite staff. 

Neil Pagett, sales representative at RMD Kwikform, said: “Thanks to the use of standard equipment we were able to provide Interserve with the most cost effective solution, enabling us to win the contract against some stiff competition.”

Despite making use of ‘off the shelf’ materials the project still had its inherent challenges to overcome, such as working on a flood plain with a high water table to install the equipment. Each concrete tank was built in two halves, meaning the same shutters had to be dismantled and moved to form both sides of the tank.

Through RMD Kwikform’s design and a thorough knowledge of its products key capabilities, the shutter work was able to be quickly dismantled and reused, providing both a solution to the problem and a cost saving to the project itself.

Reeves said: “RMD Kwikform provided all the plans and drawings for the shutter work on the tanks, the result and quality of the finish has been nothing short of outstanding.”

Pagett added: “It’s easy for people to forget, especially with some of the more recent large scale international projects we’ve worked on, that in the UK civil works such as the water treatment works in Nesscliffe are an important and continuing core competency for RMD Kwikform, it’s what we do every day.”

The concrete works have now been completed to schedule, and the project under the guidance of Interserve Project Services is now moving towards completion for November 2009.