Case Study: Former Boots Factory, Airdrie, Scotland Client: Consulting Engineer: Services Provided: Location: Value: Year: www.van-elle.co.uk 01773 580580 info@van-elle.co.uk The huge 60,000sqm site used to be the home of the Boots fac- tory and is now earmarked for a large-scale residential develop- ment. The site is a joint venture between Bellway and George Wimpey. Following on from the site investigation Van Elle carried out two years ago it had determined the site needed a full-scale land remediation programme due to mine workings. The design was a blanket grid of drilled holes spaced at 4.5m across the whole site which would then be injected with a mixed fluid grout. There were also mineshafts on site which had to be stabilis

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