{"id":87159,"date":"2021-01-11T09:19:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=87159"},"modified":"2021-01-11T09:19:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T09:19:29","slug":"concrete-pour-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/concrete-pour-complete\/87159\/","title":{"rendered":"Concrete pour complete at radioactive waste site"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Work on Dounreay\u2019s newest radioactive waste store has reached a major milestone, with the completion of a 140m3 concrete pour<\/h2>\n<p>Dounreay is Scotland\u2019s largest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/dounreay-nuclear-decommissioning\/55890\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">nuclear decommissioning project<\/a> and is widely recognised as one of Europe\u2019s most complex nuclear closure programmes.<\/p>\n<p>The work is being delivered by DSRL, a company owned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnsrp.org.uk\/about-us\/cavendish-dounreay-partnership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cavendish Dounreay Partnership<\/a>, on behalf of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/nuclear-decommissioning-authority\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nuclear Decommissioning Authority<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The construction project was one of the first to re-start work on 22 June, following the easing of lockdown restrictions.<\/p>\n<p>The 60-strong team has had to learn <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/covid-19-construction-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Covid-19<\/a> compliant ways of working, sometimes in close proximity with each other, to keep themselves and their colleagues safe on site. Since then they have poured 1,500 tonnes of concrete and the building walls have now risen to above the first-floor level.<\/p>\n<h3>Biggest concrete pour of the project so far<\/h3>\n<p>The team embarked on the biggest concrete pour of the project so far, working for nine hours to lay the floor slab in the crane maintenance bay (CMB) on the first floor of the building, with 27 lorries delivering 425 tonnes of concrete.<\/p>\n<p>Work started in 2018 and is expected to take around three years to complete. It will hold drums of waste in safe long-term storage in accordance with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scottish Government<\/a> policy.<\/p>\n<p>Dounreay project manager, Dave Busby, said: &#8220;Casting the CMB floor slab was a significant construction milestone as it will allow the team to install the 170 tonne CMB shield door early next year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe team has overcome considerable obstacles this year, being Covid-19 compliant as they continue to work through the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work on Dounreay\u2019s newest radioactive waste store has reached a major milestone, with the completion of a 140m3 concrete pour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[811,676,997,276,579,639,780],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-concrete","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-government","11":"tag-infrastructure","12":"tag-procurement","13":"tag-collaboration"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Concrete pour complete at radioactive waste site<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Work on Dounreay\u2019s newest radioactive waste store has reached a major milestone, with the completion of a 140m3 concrete pour\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/concrete-pour-complete\/87159\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Concrete pour complete at radioactive waste site\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Work on Dounreay\u2019s newest radioactive waste store has reached a major milestone, with the completion of a 140m3 concrete pour\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/concrete-pour-complete\/87159\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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