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Pre-cast piling speeds £115m Partington development.

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Foundations specialist Roger Bullivant has started piling work on the £115m Heath Farm Lane housing scheme in Partington.Vistry Partnerships and Trafford Housing Trust have formed Heath Farm Lane Joint Venture to build 600 new homes on the site in Partington, Greater Manchester.The JV has appointed Roger Bullivant to install more than 4400 linear metres of precast concrete RBeam foundations, together with more than a thousand driven precast concrete piles.Bullivant says that its precast RBeam system can decrease the time needed to construct foundations and reduces waste on site.Using its Quiet piling hammers, Roger Bullivant (RB) will install segmented piles to depths of up to 10 metres.RB says that its rigs are designed and purpose-built in-house to meet specific site requirements, in this case, reduced height and weight to suit the residential developments.