Major building work is underway at the UK’s largest grain terminal at the Port of Tilbury following a fire in 2020 which damaged its grain silos. CSP became involved from the Silo explosion 3^rd July 2020 being Appointed Civil and Structural Engineering’s Consultants undertaking structural damage and potential repair evaluation, continuing to full design of the civil and structural engineering replacement of Silo Bin 4

David Clark, Managing Director of CSP said: CSP are delighted, to have assisted the Port of Tilbury in evaluation of damage to the 1969 Silo Bin 4 and the Civil/ Structural design of new Silo Bin 4 at the Grain Terminal extending our involvement in the Port since 1994 on over 40 different projects. CSP are pleased to be once again to be working with TH White Projects in providing full design of replacement steel Silo Bin 3 and reconstruction of reinforced concrete Silo Bin 4.

During these works there will be no interruption to customer service as the terminal remains fully open for import and exports. Once complete, the terminal will be restored to its full storage capacity of 135,000 m/t and continue to benefit from the full multimodal services at the port including river barge transportation into central London.

The Tilbury Grain terminal is the key strategic facility in the South East of the UK for the grain import and export markets handling grain from around the world supporting the flour and ingredient market for the southeast, London and up to the Midlands. Its riverside berths have space to host post-panamax vessels – greater than 40,000 tonnes – but can also handle a range of coaster vessels on its inner, outer and coaster berths.

About CSP

Established in 1987, CSP is dedicated to providing high quality, value for money services. We are a privately owned, independent firm of Consulting Civil & Structural Engineers and a member firm of the Association for Consulting Engineers (ACE), employing highly experienced and professionally qualified staff utilising state of the art analysis and 3D CAD programmes. This enables us to provide a “tailored” solution to any project, throughout the UK, from our office in London.

Demolition of the damaged concrete silos is underway and, at the same time, construction of phase one of metal silos is underway with the first three new silos having been constructed. The new silos, both phase one and phase two which will see the reconstruction of the concrete silos, will come online in stages. Phase one is expected to return 20,000 metric tonnes of capacity in early 2022 and the remaining 34,000 m/t of storage will be restored in 2023. These will all be constructed to the highest health and safety standards and will be industry leading.

CSP are delighted to have been appointed by main contractor, T H WHITE Projects, as Consulting Civil and Structural Engineers for the design of Europe’s largest and most efficient oat processing facility in Northamptonshire.

T H White Projects, formarket leaders Camgrain, Frontier Agriculture and Anglia Maltings Holdings who formed a joint venture which brought together different yet complementary areas of expertise for this exciting development. Each participating enterprise also benefits from reputable longstanding relationships in their respective supply chains and market activities. This project is being built on land alongside the Camgrain APC in a prime arable region between Corby and Kettering, Northamptonshire.

Following full planning permission, the green light to proceed enabled extensive ground preparation to commence for construction of the processing building and associated services, followed by the main fit-out. Works on site are now well underway.

The site had a number of challenges in the design of the sub-structures due to depth of made ground. Dynamic ground improvement was selected to achieve an excellent stable platform for construction. The main building is steel framed, being in part portal framed for the 9m to eaves warehouse and braced for the pelletising, flaking and Mill Tower, which rise up to 28.5m with 6 intermediate floors. Main building footprint extends up to 32m wide by 203m long.

T H WHITE Projects appointed as Principal Designer and Principal Contractor, is working with the client to select a series of accredited sub-contractors and suppliers. On-time delivery of the project will be a primary focus for the team as it addresses the complex and challenging programme of works across the civil, mechanical and electrical components.

The site, which benefits from excellent transport links just off the busy A14 corridor, is discreetly located, hidden by the topography and vegetation which will be further enhanced by the additional planting of 6,500 new trees and shrubs.

This exciting new hi-tech facility is scheduled for completion, commissioning and hand over to Navara Oat Milling Limited during 2023. Once fully operational it will have the capacity to serve the current and growing demand for oat ingredients associated with healthy products in the food and drink sectors.

This project further extends CSP’s working relationship with T H White Projects, which has developed on 20,000 tonne steel silo farm and 35,000 tonne concrete silo bin facilities at Port of Tilbury Grain Terminal and in the refurbishment and repair of dock loading crane at Southampton Dock Grain Terminal.

PROJECT ; Phase 1 of 3 Pelican Way Rochester for TBH Holdings Industrial and Retail Park

PROJECT NUMBER : HAD01

Client: TBH HOLDINGS

Phased construction of mixed Industrial and Retail Park development situated on top of a steep embankment between Rochester Way and the M2 Motorway requiring substantial site modelling to maximise site development area.

Phase 1 and 2 extends to circa 2.5 Ha’s providing 21,000 ft² to Phase 1 and proposed further circa 17,000ft² in Phase 2, Phase 3 in design for site preparation.

PROJECT : LIGHT INDUSTRIAL UNITS BOUNDS GREEN

PROJECT NUMBER; FAR 156,162&163

Client: WORKSPACE

Architect:

M&E Consultant

Interior Designer:

Contractor:

Redevelopment and new build industrial units on Workspace site of small to medium size industrial units next to the main London to Scotland railway line and the A406.
Negotiations with Network rail were required to construct the units in close proximity to the railway