Contract Investor:
Network Rail - Kier Construction
Contract Location:
London, UK
We have provided roof gantries, associated walkways and stairs, in addition to successful temporary works access to Kings Cross Railway Station in London.
The station roof consisted of 2 dome shaped rail sheds 30m wide and 250m long. The domes were joined by a central gulley that acted as an access point.
We were tasked with the design manufacture and install of several elements of the project. A complex design period was undertaken.
The brief was to replace the existing roof walkways with new aluminium walkways. The existing walkways were to be removed and replaced and additional walkways added.
Access stairs were to be added at either end of domes for access over the roof into the sides and central gulley’s.
The roof cleaning and maintenance works were to be accessed from mobile roof gantries that spanned between the roof walkways.
Our design consisted of new steel support arms which were fixed to the roof trusses. Six metre long bespoke Aluminum beams then spanned between theses support arms.
The beams incorporated an unique track extrusion that would be used for the rollers of the mobile gantries. The beams were braced and covered with a GRP mesh floor finish. Handrails were added and the system complete.
Twelve mobile roof gantries were designed and manufactured at the old premises in Broughton, Flintshire.
Three types of Gantries were developed respective to the curve of the dome. The gantries moved on the unique track and trolleys system designed for this application.
A full size mock up of one side of a dome was replicated in the factory to trial the system before a representative of network rail attended our premises to approve the design.
