| Specific skills for railway projects in heavy rail, light rail and metros are one of the specialist services provided by BLP.
These services include structure and tunnel inspection, assessment and design, earthworks examination and provision of railway widening solutions (involving retaining walls, reinforced earth walls, steepened slopes and soil nailing).
Major Rail projects which BLP have been involved in include the Metro North, (Dublin) and the Dunboyne and Kildare Rail Project in Ireland, East London Line Extension and the Sirt to Benzagi Rail Project (500Km) in Libya. BLP are Link-Up accredited in the UK.
Railway geotechnical services provided by BLP include:
- Structure inspection, assessment and design
- Earthwork slope inspection and assessment
- Soil and rock slope remediation
- Railway widening solutions
- CESS support systems
- Permanent way foundation design
- Track formation assessment
- Ground/track movement prediction and monitoring
- Safety statements for the Railway Safety Commission
- Independent checker
- Third party advisors for developments in proximity of railways
- Method Statement Preparation
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