Sean McCann, Eric Davis, Andrew Renshaw
NW201 - New Barn Lane, Rochdale
Sean and his team started the year in April 2006 ensuring the safe and reliable supply of gas to 20’000 residents in the Rochdale Area. A new IP/MP regulator was installed 1500m from the existing feed at Rochdale Station. Following the smooth transition of transferring the load from the existing regulator to the newly installed regulator, Sean took 1500m of 18” CI off Risk without the need to replace it. The route of the existing 18” CI main followed the A58 through Rochdale that was consequently left un-interrupted.
In addition to the above Sean had to continually work in the vicinity of HP and IP lines, complying with T/SP/SSW/22 and working closely with the pipeline inspectors.
NW2023 – Church Street, Westhoughton
This scheme began in June 2006 with a gapping window of 6 months to complete 5000m. Using a sub contractor to install 1500m of open cut. Sean and his team inserted 3500m of 15” CI with 355mm PE Profuse on schedule while negotiating very busy road junctions, carrying out complex District governor transfers and appeasing a very demanding local Authority. The R.I.M. value of this scheme was 1.9 million.
NW2004 – Glenfield Close, Blackburn
Sean was tasked with replacing 800m of 15” CI with 355mm PE Profuse. The route followed a train line through land of varying levels, passed through a memorial garden (in memory of 2 local children who had died) and finally crossed under the railway line through a former road that had been in-filled. This resulted in the 15” CI main being approximately 10m deep.
Having made light work of installing the new gas pipe to the memorial Garden, Sean and his team worked with the local residents to ensure the memorial garden was left un-disturbed. The final task of installing the new gas pipe under the railway line proved to be a great engineering difficulty, Sean discovered a void between the infill and the roof of the former bridge. Working alongside Networkrail, Sean inserted a sleeve through the void, filled the void with concrete and finally completed the scheme by inserting the new main through the sleeve.
This scheme had provided many difficulties that Sean and his team resolved in a very professional and skilful manner.
