Safety and Environmental considerations when building Large New Facilities

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Safety and Environmental considerations when
building Large New Facilities
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Planning and Consents

• Issues to resolve when applying for planning
  permission
• Visual impact to area
• Type of materials used
• Local residents views, usually not favourable
• Preservation orders archaeological area

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Planning and Consents

• Requirements
• Archaeological surveys old skeleton and Roman
  cremation site (pottery etc) found in excavations
  for new car park
• Environmental impact assessment a legal
  requirement
• how are you affecting the existing environment
  in terms of waste lighting water management etc.

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Planning Requirements

• For Diamond Light Source and ISIS Target Station
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• Non light polluting lighting
• Mounds and banks to shield site from local
  residents (Diamond)
• Very large earthworks to shield from view from
  historic site i.e. the Ridgeway (TS2), this
  involved the movement of 330,000 cubic metres of
  chalk and earth to reshape the existing mounds

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The ISIS Facility at RAL
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Other issues

• Rare plants
• In this case Bee Orchids, this required topsoil
  to be removed and replaced when the project is
  finished
• Dust
• Complaint from employees and local residents
  about dust caused by excavation.
• Damping down not really any use as each digger
  bucket load was ten tons

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Ground Water

• The local ground water aquafer must not be
  penetrated by piling and drilling deep holes
• There must be no water pollution of the aquafer
  or any other ground water during the build stage
• All rainwater from the finished project must be
  contained on site not discharged to drains. This
  requires very large soaks away or ponds to be
  built

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Previous Use of LandRAF

• RAL built on old RAF Airfield
• An old Mustard Gas storage area was found,
  luckily empty
• Munitions bullets and bombs also found mostly
  practice bombs and shells!!??
• This problem required munitions experts to be on
  site for long periods of time and closure of
  areas for controlled explosions

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Previous Use of LandUKAEA

• Asbestos Sheets this required a clean up of the
  area by specialist contractors
• Old cables Wiring for who knows what, in almost
  all cases not used and dead. Each one requires
  checking to confirm this

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Build Stage

• A means to separate employees from the building
  site and building site workforce
• Fencing round the whole site with entry control
  (notional factory)
• A bridge over RAL access road for building site
  personnel
• Traffic control for contractors vehicles at
  contact points e.g. traffic lights (Diamond)
• More difficult to separate when there is no other
  means of access for trucks and personnel than
  through RAL itself. (TS2)

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Control of Contractors

• Full induction training by main contractor
• Strict enforcement of site rule contractors
  removed from site if found in breach of the rules
• Proof of training required before allowed to work
• Accident reporting to and by main contractor

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Interactions between existing site and building
site

• Connection of services e.g. water, electricity
  and gas may cause disruption to existing site.
• This may be caused by holes or trenches in road
  or grounds
• Trip or slip hazards with water, cables or
  equipment

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Possible solutions to the problems

• Plan well ahead, try to foresee the problems
• Good communications between all parties
• Know the correct person to speak to about your
  respective problem, a list of contacts helps here
• Visit the site regularly to maintain good
  contacts.