FK Lowry Piling have completed a CFA Piling Project at the Waterfont Hall in Belfast.

The new £29.5 million extension to the Waterfront Hall is underway and the new extension will more than double the event space to 7,000m2.

FK Lowry Piling was appointed by the main contractor, McLaughlin & Harvey, to install 253 No. 450 Diameter CFA Piles on the £200,000 scheme. A number of the pile positions had to be pre-bored to overcome the existing Made Ground/Fill and the existing Quay Wall of the adjacent River Lagan.

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FK Lowry Piling deployed its dual purpose Soilmec SR70 Rig to pre-bore through the obstructions and Made Ground with 700mm diameter Casing and 600mm diameter rotary tooling.

FK Lowry Piling's Contracts Engineer, Seamus Keane said: "The existing Fill & Made Ground was very compact in its nature and we relied upon the high torque of the SR70 Piling Rig, not only to penetrate through the Fill but, at certain locations to bore down through the existing Quay Wall. We were able to back-fill at these locations and followed on with conventional CFA Piles that passed down through the overburden unhindered."

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