• Project Title: Airdrie to Bathgate Rail Link Project, Scotland
  
  The Challenge: Provide High Containment Bridge Parapet and Safety Barrier systems for the construction of 20 new bridges and access roads linking the railway route between Glasgow and Edinburgh.
  
  The Solution: Emtek provided their Very High Containment H4a & N2 Protect 365 Steel Parapets to offer containment for the main structures, ensuring vehicles are safely re-directed away from the track. Our VT-100 Transitions provided the link from the parapets to our N2 Safety Barriers and Terminals, with our Contracts and Production teams working closely with the Network Rail and the principle contractor to ensure the scheme was delivered on schedule and on budget. The line will be the longest new mainline passenger railway with stations in Britain for over a century and will bring with it social, economic and environmental benefits for the local community, as well as providing an alternative to the already overcrowded M8.
  
  For further information contact our Highway Team: sales@emtek.co.uk
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November 2010

• Project Title: Ballygowan Housing Scheme, Co. Antrim
  
  The Challenge: Provide cost effective roofing solution to new multi-unit housing development outside Belfast.
  
  The Solution: Emtek provided a durable concrete roof tile, on a non breathable underlay. With dry fix ridge, hip and verge also being used on the scheme, this helped reduce future maintenance to the new home owners. As well as providing all the lead flashing work, a total of 40 No. houses were completed by our team in this first phase.
  
  For further information contact our Construction Team: sales@emtek.co.uk
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October 2010

• Project Title: Belfast City Hall
  
  The Challenge: Provide elegant telescopic bollards to control access to Belfast’s landmark City Hall building.
  
  The Solution: Emtek provided bespoke crafted City 02 bollards, manufactured from a robust steel core with a detailed city crest moulded to the outer sleeve. With major public events hosted within the grounds of this iconic building, the council required an elegant bollard solution. Our team worked closely with the council and designed, manufactured and installed the bollards to this brief. We also provide a routine maintenance service to ensure the locks and mechanisms are performing well.
  
  For further information contact our Urban Team: sales@emtek.co.uk
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September 2010

• Project Title: A71 Irvine Bridge, North Ayrshire
  
  The Challenge: Provide Parapets to landmark bridge.
  
  The Solution: Emtek provided their N2 Steel Parapets across the bespoke structure, protecting vehicles from striking the bridge supports. Our EN: 1317 approved system was then joined seamlessly to our approved transitions, providing the link to our N2 Safety Barriers and Terminals. Our Contracts and Production teams liaised closely with the principle contractor and consultants to ensure the road restraint systems harmonised with the overall scheme design.
  
  For further information contact our Highway Team: sales@emtek.co.uk
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August 2010

• Project Title: Wilson Country Food Factory, Co. Armagh
  
  The Challenge: Provide robust protection to cladding and loading bays of new factory and distribution centre.
  
  The Solution: Emtek provided their Industrial Safety Barrier’s throughout the potato warehouse, using surface mounted posts bolted to the concrete floor. This allowed quick installation to protecting the cladding, stanchions and loading areas of the building, whilst making it easy to replace future damage from any fork truck strikes. All our industrial components are manufactured under strict quality controlled environment and are hot dip galvanised to BS EN ISO 1461.
  
  For further information contact our Industrial Team: sales@emtek.co.uk
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July 2010

• Project Title: Lurgan & Portadown Public Realm Works
  
  The Challenge: Provide high quality streetscape materials for town centre’s urban regeneration scheme.
  
  The Solution: Emtek provided their BS: 7533 compliant Ultrascape cementitious materials after successfully completing trials to ensure suitability of the products with the paving sets. Supplied in convenient 25kg bags and also 20T silo’s, ensured the correct mix of pre-blended material was readily available. Being fully compliant with the required BS: 7533 (part 12), it was ideal for areas requiring rapid trafficking or weekend works. It is hoped that these two County Armagh market towns will see a new lease of life with the regeneration works as shoppers will be attracted back into the towns and encouraged to stay with new cafe style wide paving sections being constructed.
  
  For further information contact our Urban Team: sales@emtek.co.uk
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June 2010

• Project Title: North Lanarkshire Bridge Improvement Scheme
  
  The Challenge: Provide Very High Containment Bridge Parapet system to railway bridge in busy residential area.
  
  The Solution: Emtek provided their Very High Containment H4a & N2 Steel Parapets to protect local residential vehicles from straying onto the newly upgraded railway track below in the town of Airdrie, North Lanarkshire. Working closely with both the local council and Transport Scotland railway requirements, our team manufactured and installed the parapets to exacting standards and with minimal disruption to local residents.
  
  For further information contact our Highway Team: sales@emtek.co.uk
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May 2010

• Project Title: Stranmillis Wharf, Belfast
  
  The Challenge: Replacement roofing works to 5 storey high city centre apartment block.
  
  The Solution: Emtek provided a full roof tile investigation, project management, scaffold edge protection and re-roofing service to this five storey high apartment roof. The roof covering, comprising of damaged Cambrian Slates, were stripped from the roof and disposed of by our experienced team of roof slaters. The valley lay boards and lead were replaced, prior to the 2,000 new Cambrian Slates being fitted. The existing hip and ridge line were also replaced using Dry Fix products with all work completed to exacting specifications by the tile manufacturers. Emtek’s roofing division carries out remedial and new works contracts to multi-unit residential developments for both public and private sector clients.
  
  For further information contact our Construction Team: sales@emtek.co.uk
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April 2010

• Project Title: Girvan Community Hospital, Scotland
  
  The Challenge: Provide robust protection to service road within new state of the art NHS facility.
  
  The Solution: Emtek provided their Industrial Safety Barrier’s along the main service road to the rear of the modern eco-facility. Adjacent to a grass and sand based roadway, our barriers provide perimeter protection to NHS service vehicles and help minimise potential damage from strikes to the boundary fences. Manufactured from steel that can in the future be recycled, they also have a highly durable galvanised finish offering low maintenance for the facility managers.
  
  For further information contact our Industrial Team: sales@emtek.co.uk
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March 2010

• Project Title: Derry City Centre Public Realm Scheme
  
  The Challenge: Provide fast setting bedding concretes, mortars and grouts for 16,000m² of natural stone paving to busy city centre regeneration project, requiring rapid trafficking of urban precincts.
  
  The Solution: Emtek provided their Ultrascape cementitious materials, pre-blended in 20T silo’s and also in convenient 25kg bags. Being fully compliant with the required BS: 7533 (part 12), it was ideal for areas requiring rapid trafficking or weekend works. The historical walled city of Derry required the full complement of Emtek Ultrascape materials, from our Pro-Prime slurry primer and Pro-Bed HS bedding concrete, to our Flow-Point rapid setting flowable grout system. Our ability to provide technical site support and carry buffer stocks of materials at our warehouse proved invaluable during busy periods of high output paving.
  
  For further information contact our Urban Team:
  sales@emtek.co.uk
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February 2010

• Project Title: N52 Tullamore By-Pass, Co. Offaly
  
  The Challenge: Provide High Containment Bridge Parapet and Safety Barrier systems for the construction of a new 15 kilometre stretch of carriageway through the midlands region of Ireland.
  
  The Solution: Emtek provided their Very High Containment H4a & N2 Protect 365 Steel Parapets to offer containment for the main Dublin-Athlone Railway Line, across 6 structures. These were joined seamlessly to our VT-100 Transitions, providing the link to our N2 Safety Barriers and Terminals. Our Contracts and Production teams worked closely with the main contractor to ensure the scheme was delivered 10 months ahead of schedule and on budget. In total some 9 kilometres of Road Restraint Systems were manufactured and installed by Emtek.
  
  For further information contact our Highway Team: sales@emtek.co.uk
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January 2010

• Project Title: Carrigart Housing Scheme, Co. Armagh
  
  The Challenge: Provide cost effective roofing system to new housing development.
  
  The Solution: Emtek provided a durable concrete interlocking roof tile, on a non breathable underlay. With dry fix ridge, hip and verge also being used on the scheme, this eliminated the requirement for future mortar maintenance to these areas. Eave ventilation was also supplied and fitted by our experienced installers, as was the provision of all required Lead Flashings to the roofs. In total 7 No. houses were completed with this system and additional value added to the client as we also installed the Road Restraint Systems required on the site, highlighting our ability to provide integrated construction and infrastructure solutions.
  
  For further information contact our Construction Team: sales@emtek.co.uk
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