03/10/07Consolidate projects help West of Scotland Housing Association deliver benefits

Ground engineering specialist Consolidate is currently engaged in a near £1m integrated works programme for the West of Scotland Housing Association.

The Association owns and manages over 2,500 homes for single people, families and sheltered/amenity homes for the elderly and disabled.

It is currently engaged in a regeneration programme for a number of its properties and development sites in North Lanarkshire and Glasgow. Certain of these development sites were found to be underlain by old mine workings resulting in Consolidate being called in for specialist ground consolidation treatment works.

The initial projects in Airdrie and at Camlachie, Glasgow, are being undertaken in association with Consulting Engineers SBA and JWH Ross Ltd. Another Glasgow project in David Street is being undertaken in conjunction with consulting engineer, Woolgar Hunter and main Contractor, the Campbell Construction Group. 

The first consolidation project at Old Union Street in Airdrie has been completed and involved the drilling of a calculated pattern of bore holes for the pressure injection of a cement/grout mixture to infill the mine workings. Existing homes on this ground had been demolished to make way for 27 new homes, including sheltered and amenity housing.

Work is currently underway on the two Glasgow sites. At David Street in the Gallowgate, Consolidate is stabilising the ground for a development comprising 55 new homes, including one suitable for wheelchair use.

Whilst at Camlachie, Consolidate’s specialist consolidation teams are consolidating the ground for a development that will comprise 71 new homes, including several with wheelchair access. This stabilisation project continues the Housing Association’s ongoing regeneration of the Camlachie area.

Consolidate managing director Beaton Sutherland said: “We are delighted to be involved with the West of Scotland Housing Association and their ongoing work in the regeneration of these areas, a number of our own operatives are from this area of Glasgow and accessibility to affordable housing and the general improvement to the quality of their family life has been important to them and for the housing associations other tenants.”