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Range refurbishment at Bulford contd.
Following on from our post on 12th March, here’s a few more pictures of our range works at Bulford, just northeast of Amesbury.
The project was to remove contaminated sand and replace with new sand, free of lead and heavy metals. The range is now open and in use.
We had recently won a contract to strip from site 450 tons of hazardous and contaminated sand used as a stop butt on a military firing range. After stopping bullets for years it was time to be replaced with new, along with some timber repairs while we were there.
All done while the ranges either side were live and active!
Following a long tender process with Landmarc Ltd, on behalf of Defence Infrastructure Organisation (DIO), we won the contract for the refurbishment to Bulford Firing Range “C” to bring it up to modern compliance specification. DIO is part of the Ministry of Defence.
The project required the old tarmac and timber range floor to be removed and the firing trenches replaced with pre-fabricated concrete structures made off-site. We then fitted recycled plastic edging and then covered the whole site in a soft-pour surface.
We completed the project within the month, due to strict time constraints. Although the range we were working on was closed for the works to be carried out, neighbouring ranges were kept in use with live firing on a daily basis. This is the first firing range on Salisbury Plain with this finish.
Landmarc/DIO now have a safer range with no ricochet hazard; one that is maintenance free and hard wearing.
See our Case Study here. Firing Range at Bulford June 2018 e
See some of our other work here which doesn’t fall neatly into our trees/fencing/weeds categories!
Roadside tree works over the highway for the last few days at Bulford. The trees were approx 20m high and a mix of ash, sycamore and oak.
Further details of our tree work may be found here and our tree survey work here