With more complex and substantial machining demands for projects, Ekspan now operate a state-of-the-art Hurco DCX3226i CNC machine, an essential addition to their in-house manufacturing facilities.
USL Ekspan is the UK's largest quality bearing supplier and installer to meet demands both in the UK and worldwide.
USL Ekspan install an extensive range of mechanical and elastomeric expansion joints and seal joints to CD358 standards.
Bridge jacking and temporary works are an essential part of most bearing replacement and refurbishment operations, ensuring works are carried out safely and efficiently without affecting the integrity of the structure.
The importance of carrying out bearing and expansion joint inspections by proficient and competent engineers who understand their functionality can often be key to maximising a structure’s lifespan and avoiding major, unexpected, emergency repair costs.
USL Ekspan have carried out a number of projects for swing bridges and foot bridges. From design, fabrication of all structural components, to trial erection and final installation. Details of these type of bridge installations can be supplied on request.
The bridge is in a highly congested location outside Paddington Train Station in London. This meant that the replacement works would have to be undertaken with strict time constraints to minimise disruption. The existing footway plates had also lost all of their anti-slip coating, causing a potential slip hazard for the members of the public who walk over them.
Above: Briflex BEJ expansion joint system complete with anti-slip cover plates in the footpath
USL Ekspan was chosen as the contractor to undertake the replacement works. The existing expansion joint was replaced in 4-night shifts with 22m of Briflex BEJ 10 expansion joint and footway cover plates.
The Briflex BEJ system utilises the Briflex resin, a hot applied system that is extremely hard wearing while retaining some inbuilt flexibility to accept heavy traffic loading without breaking up. USL Ekspan also measured and fabricated new footway cover plates that incorporated a durbar anti-slip pattern that will last much longer than an anti-slip coating.
For more information, email: info@uslekspan.com or call +44(0)191 416 1530