M5 Central Reserve Upgrade – Vehicle Restraint Systems

Case study: Highway VRS

The REBLOC RB84XEAL_8 permanent precast concrete vehicle restraint system (VRS) was installed along the 6.5km stretch, protecting road users from barrier breakthroughs along the busy route.

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Barriers ensure maximum safety in city bridge reconstruction project

Case study: Concrete & steel VRS

The A64(M) Regent Street flyover, in Leeds city centre, underwent a £30m upgrade programme, scheduled for completion in spring 2022. As a leading UK manufacturer and supplier of vehicle…

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Hill and Smith praised for its part in major bridge upgrade

Case Study: Rebloc VRS

Hardstaff Barriers supplied new permanent REBLOC and Maxibloc high containment concrete barriers to protect bridge columns on the M8 at Junction 3, Livingston, for BEAR Scotland. The project concluded…

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M6 Junction 21a Manchester Zoneguard and Rebloc

Case study: Temporary VRS

Zoneguard and Rebloc barriers protecting road workers and the passing public on the M6 by Junction 21a Manchester.

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Associated British Ports (ABP) Immingham Port Safety Barriers

Case study: Immingham Port Safety Barriers

The Port of Immingham, on the Humber is the UK’s busiest trading estuary. It connects businesses across the UK and the world. It is the UK’s largest port by…

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M74 High Risk Pier Protection

Case Study: Rebloc VRS

As part of Transport Scotland’s strategic trunk road maintenance programme, Scotland TranServ delivered the second phase of a £1.8m programme of protection works to the M74 bridge piers.

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Hinkley Point C – Nuclear Power Station

Case study: Hinkley Point C Nuclear Power Station

Hinkley Point C, in Somerset is the first nuclear power station to be built in the UK in over 20 years, to provide low-carbon electricity for around 6 million…

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Stansted Airport

Case study: BlastDefender barrier

As a trusted supplier of temporary airside barriers and protection products, Hardstaff was appointed by VolkerFitzpatrick to install a BlastDefender fencing system around the construction site to protect the workforce behind…

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Bath Christmas Market

Case study: Pitagone HVM barriers

Bath Christmas Market is one of the UK’s most popular festive events, featuring food and gift stalls across the city’s pretty Georgian streets. The award-winning event, which took place…

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Multibloc TVCB Hinkley Point

Case study: Multibloc barriers

The Hinkley Point C Park and Ride facilities at Bridgwater, Junction 24 on the M5, include parking for 620 cars and bus parking facilities. It also offers a freight…

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Birmingham Christmas Market 2019

Case study: Event HVM

Birmingham’s annual Christmas Market is the largest authentic German market outside of Germany and Austria and is the pride of Birmingham’s annual event calendar. Having started in November 2001,…

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Eastbourne Air Show 2019

Case study: Surface Guard HVM

The Eastbourne Air Show is the UK’s largest, free air show. The event takes place across 4 days every August and includes Battle of Britain memorial flights as well…

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A14 Huntingdon – Temporary Vehicle Restraint System

Case study: Temporary VRS

The Asset VRS’s range of barriers was used extensively across the scheme; in some weeks the project utilised almost every temporary barrier product within the range, from the Zoneguard…

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Multibloc TVCB M6 J16-19

Case study: Multibloc TVCBs

Multibloc TVCBs provide a new method of access and egress delineation into the central reserve.

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Zoneguard Vehicle Restraint System – M6 J16-19 Smart Motorway

Case study: Temporary VRS

The narrow 700mm foot of the barrier enables a wider working area for construction staff, plant and vehicles operating behind the steel barrier. This additional work area width is…

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Varioguard Severn Bridge Suspension Cable Inspection – Vehicle Restraint System

Case study: Temporary VRS

The Asset Vehicle Restraint System (VRS) is tested to BS EN 1317-2:1998 containment level H2. Galvanised steel elements lock together to make a rigid, energy-absorbing barrier where errant vehicles…

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Varioguard Heysham to M6 Link Project

Case study: Temporary VRS

Asset’s Varioguard vehicle restraint system is an important traffic management safety product adopted by Costain and regularly used on highway contracts as part of their supply chain agreement.

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MASS Barrier Worcester Ringway

Case study: MASS barrier traffic management

Ringway’s highway division was awarded the contract to install a new roundabout system to improve traffic flow close to Worcester’s historic cathedral. The roundabout being installed following a major…

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MASS Barrier Manchester Metrolink 2

Case study: MASS barrier traffic management

The Victoria Station sections phases I.II and IIICC is the fifth section of the multi-billion pound Manchester Metrolink that MASS has been used to provide carriage and footway safety…

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MASS Barrier Manchester Metrolink 1

Case study: MASS barrier traffic management

As part of the temporary traffic management for the Manchester Metrolink Phase 3 extensions, Laing O’Rourke used MASS barrier to delineate the works, and to segregate and protect both…

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