Haulier bonus on 2000 site
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by Lee Kimber • Tipper operators, lowloader specialists and general hauliers are in line for a multi-million-pound bonanza as construction on the Millennium Commission's Greenwich project gets underway.
Erith Haulage has won the bulk of the delivery work for the project's lead construction company, Laing McAlpine, but contractor Coventry-based Keller Group—which is carrying out most of the preparation and foundation work at the south-east London site—says the 130acre site will generate more than 12,000 truck movements before the main construction work begins in the autumn.
Site clearance is expected to continue for several weeks with some 800 tipper movements. A similar number of general-haulage moves will be needed, but they will be dwarfed by the 1,700 preliminary concrete deliveries the site is expected to generate.
The true volume of work is likely to be much greater but so far it is impossible to calculate because the Millennium Commission has split the work into packages that will be handled by many different contractors.
Construction of the huge concrete dome that will dominate the site could create more work than Erith Haulage can handle, so demand for other drivers and hauliers is likely to soar.
The main construction work will not be completed until September 1998 when internal work will begin. Much of the haulage work remains to be tendered: the Millennium Commission says that the thousands of tonnes of aggregates needed at Greenwich will be delivered by Thames barges, but it has not decided whether to use trucks to haul the stone over the last few hundred metres to the site.