Nuneham Viaduct, near the town of Abingdon-on-Thames, was forced to close in April 2023 after it was flagged as unsafe. The steel structure was originally put in place in 1909 with the original viaduct built in the 1840s. The abutment had recently started to fail,...
The Govan Partick Bridge River Clyde project forms part of a £29.5 million development including the construction of a new pedestrian/cycle bridge over the River Clyde between Water Row in Govan and Pointhouse Quay in Partick. Our longstanding customer, Farrans, were...
Extreme weather across the UK resulted in a landslip on a section of a railway line running from London to Basingstoke. The heavy rain washed away a section of land leaving a stretch of track hanging in mid-air, resulting in two of the four tracks becoming impassable....
Watson & Hillhouse are delighted to have supplied a range of crane-suspended vibrators, hydraulic drop hammers and power packs to Red7Marine for this project. Read more here.
A get together was in order to celebrate our 50th year in business. Read more about how we decided to celebrate.
Watson & Hillhouse were delighted to welcome DR Daniel Poulter MP to our offices. Read all about it here.,
Our Movax MPL-300 fitted with a PA-50 pre-auger has recently been on site drilling with a 400mm auger to a maximum depth of 12 metres. The MPL-300, seen here mounted onto a Tru7 Group Volvo EC355EL in 6m effective bore depth set up, carried out a line of pre-augering...
We are always happy to work with our customers to solve any piling problems they may have. We recently worked with two customers to design and build bespoke dolly piles. One customer needed to install a combi wall made of 1220mm o/d king piles and AZ infill sheet...
The year has started with sales at a level not seen since 2008. In particular, our Movax and Kowan ranges of equipment have been very popular. Our Movax agency has been very active with Murphy Plant, Burnside Plant, AM-TEC, JLC Groundworks, J D Excavations, Akela...
Following a request from the end client, one of our customers recently requested acoustic shrouding be fitted to a hired PVE 40VM. Acoustics are more commonly seen on our hydraulic hammers but this is not the first time we have been asked to fit them to a crane...