Soil Engineering, the specialist site investigation and grouting division of VINCI Construction UK Ltd, is to be transferred in April to the ownership of VINCI’s Soletanche Freyssinet UK geotechnical arm; Bachy Soletanche Group.

Picture Caption: Simplex Westpile is currently preparing the ground for the extension of Notting Hill and West Ealing High School. Work will include piling for a new sports hall and additional classrooms and involves the installation of 191 plan metres of 900mm diameter CFA secant piled retaining wall with excavation depths of up to 10.75m [...]

From an engineer at Pigott Foundations in 1971 to Director of Plant at Bachy Soletanche 40 years later, John Tucker has seen the piling industry transform from one of lorry mounted piling rigs often assisted by operatives using wooden ladders and cloth caps, therefore without any health and safety legislation, to one led by technology [...]

Despite battling against the unforgiving Scottish weather, Bachy Soletanche has started piling at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) in Glasgow in preparation for a new Multi-Storey Car Park. Known to be a potentially problematic site due to the positioning over a former dock that was filled in with unknown matter during the 1950s, [...]

Specialist geotechnical contractor, Bachy Soletanche, has finished work on the third phase of its piling contract in Reading, for BAM Nuttall working on behalf of Network Rail. Working to widen the railway line and construct three bridges to deliver rail track improvements for Reading Station, the developments at the heart of the huge commuter area [...]

Vibro Projects and Menard have joined forces with the formation of a new company, VibroMenard, which will target major ground improvement work in the UK. Its first project is the year long scheme, which sees Vibro compaction ground improvement works being carried out on the dredged granular fill at London Gateway Port in Essex, deposited [...]