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Facelift Access Hire recently worked with Interroute Traffic Operations to assist in the trial use of access equipment to enable safe and accurate measurement of the company’s loose stockpiles (particularly road salt.)
Previously surveyors had to rely on ‘line of sight’ to gauge the quantity remaining but this didn’t provide accurate results and was known to be a difficult job.
However, success was achieved when a bespoke bracket was attached onto the cage of facelifts’ 17m Ascendant int... [more]
Facelift recently worked with offshore service company Oceanteam to help them survey a huge ‘A’ frame based on their multi-functional cable installation barge, the 92 metre CLB Explorer.
The barge is used for the laying of power cables on the seabed and also has a large cable burial plough on deck which is overboarded to the seabed to plough the cables to required depth for protection. The ‘A’ frame serves as the launch and recovery device for the plough.
Dave Burns, Equipment Superinte... [more]
Following customer requests, Facelift Access Hire are now offering a unique translation service to Polish clients attending their IPAF training courses.
The translator, Ella Dwornikowska is familiar with the industry and terms used in access hire, owns a PAL card and has previous experience in translating for the construction sector.
Operations Director Frank Page commented "Ella can provide valuable and practical language translation without compromising the quality of the training deliv... [more]
Forth Plant Hire was set up in 1994 with just one machine and now has 20 pieces of assorted plant, which are changed every three years. It also hires out small plant such as cement mixers, compaction plates, rotavators and much more.
Forth Plant Hire now operates a 100 per cent Kubota mini excavator fleet after buying a U25-3GL 2.54 tonne zero tail swing model. It replaces a Volvo machine and joins two KX36-3 1.5 tonne models and two U10-3 1.0 tonne zero tail swing machines in the company's ... [more]
A joint venture led by Foster Wheeler Energy Limited, part of the Global Engineering and Construction Group, with Korea's Hyundai Engineering and Construction Co., Ltd., has been awarded a turnkey engineering, procurement and construction contract by Saudi Aramco for the Khurais Gas Facility, part of the Khurais Central Processing Facility in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The Khurais Gas Facility is one of the main contract packages that make up the Khurais Crude Increment Program, which aims ... [more]
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