On a new brown field building site nobody can start work until access off the public highway has been surfaced appropriately.
Nobody except Booth Tarmacadam of course.
We are often the team called in across Norfolk and Suffolk to create the all-important site entrance and adjacent pedestrian access, so that lorries and low-loaders full of excavating equipment can get on site safely.
It is hugely important for our work to dovetail perfectly with site timings and that’s something which is immediately understood by all the Booth Tarmacadam team.
With over 50 years working in contract surfacing, we know that every second counts within major construction projects and that easy site access is key to keeping developments to meeting tight delivery timescales .
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This Norfolk contract surfacing job tells the story perfectly. Being able to start just two days before the site for 400 homes was due to open, there were strict deadlines to adhere to.
As with many building site entrance surfacing jobs the ‘window’ for the work was in part dictated by the highways permission to allow two specific days of traffic management. Barriers and temporary traffic lights allowed the Booth team to crack on hardly affecting the general public.
For this entranceway extension to the Batemans ground works site in Norfolk, Paul Booth’s son, Ryan, took the lead as Foreman with Rollerman Zak and our brilliant barrowing boys, Dean and Damion making up our very own enviable Gang of 4.
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The Booth Tarmacadam team worked typically hard to deliver 278 sqm of road within the 48 hour window before site traffic arrived.
The job specification was :
• Road base 100mm layer of dense bituminous macadam (DBM) - a perfect close-grade premix preparation to support heavy commercial vehicles
• Topped with 60mm layer of AC20 binder course.
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