Foundation work for A465 Heads of the Valleys

Running across the Heads of the South Wales valleys, the A465 trunk road provides a fast east-west connection between Pembroke Dock, Fishguard and Swansea, to the Midlands and beyond. Main contractor Future Valleys (FVC), on behalf of main client Welsh Assembly Government, appointed the team of Bauer Technologies, to undertake piling work for the project. We started work on site late October 2021 and was sub-contracted to install a total of 109 no. piles, with diameters including 900 mm, 1180 mm, and 1350 mm, which equated to 1973 linear metres and 2495 m³ concrete. All works conducted were done so from restricted, narrow platforms, which were constructed in such a way that traffic on the A465 was not interrupted.