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Failure to install compliant highway ironwork could lead to costly rework and in the worst-case scenario, dangerous conditions on busy carriageways. Barry Turner, Technical Manager at Wrekin Products and chairman of the BSI BS EN 124 Standard committee, discusses the dangers of assuming highway ironwork meets HA104/09 and the best practice to guarantee that it does.  

Through recommending and supplying Biaxial E’GRID at a sewage treatment works, Wrekin Products helped reduce the resources required; not only cutting costs, but also minimising the contractor’s construction programme and overheads.

Residents being kept awake by rattling manhole covers outside their properties in Sunderland is becoming a thing of the past after the City Council took expert advice on an issue which generates reports nationwide.

The increasing population of the UK inevitably brings a demand for new housing developments. Given many new developments come into conflict with existing trees, the current landscape agenda revolves around the relationship between demands of the built environment and green spaces.

The importance of ensuring highway ironwork is “up to standard” cannot be underestimated.

Wrekin Products is pleased to announce having achieved its best ever levels in the Achilles Utilities Vendor Database (UVDB), scoring 100% in all three categories.

The UVDB is a list of organisations that have been independently assessed by Achilles in terms of Health & Safety, Environment and Quality.

Around 40 ductile double triangular gully grates were removed by thieves in a semi-rural area of Essex which incorporates Saffron Waldron, Bishop Stortford and Braintree, putting vehicles, drivers and pedestrians at risk from hazardous open gullies.

A West Midlands local authority has taken the decision to invest in the use of high-spec manhole covers and ironwork installation system from Wrekin Products to help keep the need for maintenance and replacement to a minimum.

Certified to BS EN124 and carrying the British Standards Institute (BSI) Kitemark, our BT approved access covers are ideal for use in Group 2 B125 class environments such as car parks, open air shopping precincts and pedestrianised town centre areas where occasional vehicular access is likely.