Maintaining key maritime infrastructures TMS Maritime has worked on two Whitby Piers and the Isle of Man Sea Terminal to ensure that they continue to deliver. Words: Peter Dunwell
T
he jobs for which clients use diving businesses and divers are many. Here are just a coupole of recent cases from the files of ADC member ‘TMS Maritime’.
WHITBY PIERS
In Collaboration with Balfour Beatty, TMS not only delivered but exceeded expectations for this six months, £2.5million project; completing repairs to East Pier and West Pier in the Yorkshire coast town of Whitby ahead of schedule for Scarborough Council. The scheme resulted in the upgrading of the aged piers’ structures to improve their condition. There were essentially two aspects to the works involved. Firstly, stabilising the external sandstone facing blocks of the piers, this involved drilling out damaged sandstone blocks then replacement from the original source quarry at Eskdale. These replacement blocks were skilfully dressed by the team to match the existing structure and, once placed, the voids behind were reinforced and concrete 14
PROFESSIONAL DIVER • SPRING 2020
