VINCI Building reaches significant milestone at Sheffield Forgemasters

VINCI Building has reached a major milestone at Sheffield Forgemasters with the first concrete base pour completed for its new 13,000 tonne forging line.

The base works for a Top-Hat-Furnace Quench-Tank involved an excavation of circa 1,000m3 to a depth of four metres below existing ground level and required installation of over 90 tonnes of reinforcement and pouring of 460m3 of structural concrete.

Concrete mixes have been specified with GGBS (Ground Granulated Blast-furnace Slag), an environmentally friendly, sustainable cement substitute, enhancing durability and saving approximately 30 per cent on all concrete carbon emissions.

As the main civils works now start to gain momentum, pouring of up to 4,500m3 of concrete per month will commence to complete the main press pit, furnace bases and ancillary structures.

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VINCI Building was been appointed as delivery partner for the UK’s largest open-die forging construction.

The contract, valued at £138 million, will support construction of a 13,800 sqm building to house the UK’s largest open-die forging facility at Sheffield Forgemasters’ Brightside Lane site, as the MoD-owned company drives its substantial recapitalisation programme forward.

VINCI Building will deliver the project to provide foundations, a 40-metre-high superstructure and building service solutions for the facility, alongside teams of subcontractors and supply chain partners.