February 13, 2024

Steve Vick International's Contract Services team recently completed a challenging project in Aberdare, Wales, commissioned by Wales & West Utilities and Transport for Wales. The project involved grout filling a recently decommissioned gas main, covering 150 metres of 300mm steel pipe, located beneath a newly laid railway track. Deploying two grout rigs, the team employed a quick pumped...

November 13, 2023

Steve Vick International, a renowned expert in innovative engineering for trenchless renovation and decommissioning of pipes on a global scale, is proud to announce their recent collaboration with industry leader Balfour Beatty on a substantial project at the M25, A3 Junction 10, commissioned by Highways England. The project involved diverting a gas main to facilitate road widening, a complex...

October 10, 2023

In the ongoing journey of Europe's most extensive infrastructure project, Steve Vick International (SVI) once again played a crucial role in ensuring the success of Anglian Water's visionary project. As part of the final and most challenging phase of this project, JN Bentley appointed SVI to provide a grout filling operation that showcased the adaptability and versatility of our...

June 6, 2023

Steve Vick International (SVI) recently carried out a project for JN Bentley on behalf of Yorkshire Water. The project involved filling with cementitious grout a 180-metre length of 300mm diameter abandoned sewer pipes. SVI's Contract Service teams are known for providing on-site solutions to a wide variety of pipe decommissioning and renewal problems, and the project for Yorkshire Water was no...

March 6, 2023

The Steve Vick International Contract Services team recently assisted Anglian Water, through JN Bentley, in a project which involved building a new network of interconnecting water pipelines from Lincoln to Grantham. The 34 km section starts south of Lincoln, near Waddington, and ends near Harrowby, east of Grantham. This project is part of a bigger project with Anglian Water to create...

January 18, 2022

Steve Vick International’s Contract Service team were recently asked to assist in filling a section of decommissioned fuel pipeline.  The pipeline was situated beside a canal bridge in Staffordshire. W B Civil & Mechanical Ltd was carrying out a project which involved diverting a 10” diameter fuel line and decommissioning a section of it which was 380 metres in length.  The pipeline...

Steve Vick International’s (SVI) Contract Service team assisted Cadent with a Live Riser Transfer project at Shropshire House in North London. Following a survey of the high-rise block of flats, carried out by Cadent, severe corrosion was identified on the inlet supply at the base of the riser, just above ground level.  Cadent immediately started planning the best method of remedying to...

October 4, 2021

Steve Vick International assisted JDT Utilities in decommissioning a 180m stretch of 18” intermediate pressure steel gas pipeline (running at 7Bar pressure). The abandoned main, prior to diversion and decommissioning, supplied the whole of Surrey Quays. Part of a larger fifteen-year regeneration project, of a five acre site, the pipe was required to be decommissioned following commission of...

September 23, 2021

Contract Service teams from Steve Vick International recently carried out a project for a gas distribution company which involved filling with cementitious grout a 115 metre length of 36” diameter medium pressure gas main. The decommissioned main in Beddington Lane, Croydon, had been inserted with 630mm PE as part of the gas distribution network’s mains replacement programme in the area....

February 9, 2021

Steve Vick International’s ground-breaking FOAMBAG Operation on Stubs (FBOS) technique, is the long awaited solution for fully decommissioning mains of engineering difficulty, such as stranded, one way fed, stubs or those found on mains replacement schemes. The FBOS technique fully decommissions mains right up to the last transition joint on mains of 4”-6” in diameter. These sections of...

August 4, 2020

The Steve Vick International Contract Service team recently assisted gas distribution company SGN on a project to divert a gas main across the Caledonian Canal near Loch Ness. The project required the new gas reinforcement main to be laid under the Caledonian Canal at Torvean, Inverness. This project, due to the complexity of the canal crossing, had been delayed while other options were...

July 7, 2020

Laing O’Rourke has recently recruited Steve Vick International’s (SVI) Contract Service team to carry out crucial time saving cutting operations using the Keel Cutter as part of a major project to develop three wastewater treatment works in Lancashire. The improvements at United Utilities Waste Water Treatment Works at Blackburn, Darwen and Nab’s Head, collectively known as the Blackburn...