Southampton Road

Expanding resin shrinks repair time.

Southampton City Council, consultant Halcrow, and contractor Colas, opted to bring in Uretek UK to stabilise rocking slabs on 5000 sq m of carriageway on the approach to the city’s docks.

“About 1500 lorries use this road in a 24-hour period, so as you can imagine, it’s not the sort of thing you can shut down.” says Colas’ Vic Collier.

“If we’d had to rip out all the slabs, we’d have been looking at between eight and eleven months, and that’s without reconstruction of kerbs and a roundabout.”

Over a five week period, while Uretek completed the repair the road remained open, and there were no delays to traffic.

“With Uretek, we’ve taken seven months off the job, and the Port Authority haven’t had one complaint about how we’ve done it.” says Collier.