The £2.7m contract is the first phase of a wider Environment Agency scheme to protect thousands of homes and businesses in Grimsby. It includes the creation of a 1300m pre-cast concrete wave wall, repairs to existing concrete defences and improvements to the shore-line earth embankment.
A 180-tonne crawler crane from Balfour Beatty’s plant hire business, BPH, is being used to place 20-tonne concrete blocks.
The scheme stretches from the Fish Docks to the western end of the Cleethorpes North Sea Wall and is due for completion in July 2014.
The works follow the completion of another flood defence scheme by Balfour Beatty in Redcar earlier this year, also for the Environment Agency, protecting a thousand homes from potential flooding.
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