Trio of GDL projects will help deliver around 200 new homes

The team at Ground Developments Ltd (GDL) has begun work on three new contracts to deliver soil modification and earthworks packages that will facilitate new-build housing for three major housebuilders to construct their new homes across Scotland.GDL said it has pioneered the use of soil modification techniques for use under new-build housing in Scotland over the last nine years.With projects now underway in Bearsden, Chryston and Bothwell to deliver around 200 new homes, GDL’s expertise continues to be highly sought-after by key players in the housebuilding industry. Combined, the projects will stabilise and modify over 100,000m” of site-won materials and they will make use of some of GDL’s key techniques including deep soil mixing, soil modification, and the creation of retaining walls.Soil modification is used as a fill-drying technique to reduce the moisture content of site-won soil, and this allows the materials to be re-compacted in accordance with specified requirements. By maximising the re-use of site-won materials, GDL can eliminate the requirement for the off-site disposal of surplus excavated materials and imported aggregates.This engineered solution often produces significant cost savings to developers; it also provides significant environmental benefits, which improves the overall sustainability of the development.For example, the project in Bothwell will see truck movements reduced by 9,000 when compared to a traditional ‘dig and dump’ approach, which provides environmental as well as cost benefits to this project.