McCann demonstrates top quality drainage works in Yorkshire, England

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Nottingham-based Civil and Electrical Engineering firm, McCann, has successfully completed essential drainage maintenance work on the A64 at the Brambling Fields junction, North Yorkshire. The scheme, in conjunction with Highways England’s term contractor A-one+, was delivered by McCann, acting as the Principal Contractor, in a 7-week period between February and March 2017. The unstable drainage ditch was affecting the fields on one side and the main A64 trunk route on the other. The scheme was undertaken to prevent further erosion and subsequent disruption to the adjacent land. The Works included the re-profiling and a re-lining of a 400m length of ditch with mattress and gabions. The mattress and gabions are used widely within the industry, delivered as flat pack cages, engineered from double twisted hexagonal woven steel wire mesh, the cages are assembled and filled with stone to form shaped blocks. For this project, 1,125 tonnes of rock had to be imported from a local supplier, selected to minimize carbon emissions and promote the local economy.