Trench Right

News Bulletin

Local Highway Authorities do you URGENTLY require core sampling and testing services of existing roads to qualify for the Government Aid, which has been made available by the reduction in the HS2.

TRENCH RIGHT is currently working with some Local Authorities enabling them to complete their funding applications with the Government.

TRENCH RIGHT is UKAS accredited to take core samples from carriageways, carry out a full measurement of the layers of material, identifying the bituminous material size and type. A PAK UKAS accredited testing service is available from TRENCH RIGHT and material can be sent for PAH testing.

TRENCH RIGHT provides a professional, UKAS accredited testing laboratory No. 4642 to ISO/IEC 17025:2017 with over 10 years experience. All our staff are fully qualified for highway core sampling and laboratory testing. Our staff have Full Chapter 8 signing lighting and guarding qualifications to comply with Street Works and Road Works 1991 legislation.

TRENCH RIGHT has Constructionline Gold Membership, Acclaim Accreditation and a Constructionline Social Value award.

For full details of our services visit our website at www.trenchright.co.uk or contact Victoria Whiteley [email protected] or mobile: 07903 627945
Martin: 07971 581698

Views don't get much better than this when out site finding for a coring programme 🌊🍦☀️

We are currently looking for 2 coring operatives and 1 laboratory technician. Training will be provided to successful candidates.

Please get in touch today!

‼️ We’re hiring ‼️

Due to an increase in work load we are looking for a hardworking coring engineer to join our team…

• CSCS card holder
• CIS basis
• Pay dependent on experience

Please get in touch at your earliest convenience

‼️ We’re hiring ‼️

Due to an increase in work load we are looking for a hardworking coring engineer to join our team…

• CSCS card holder
• CIS basis
• Pay dependent on experience

Please get in touch at your earliest convenience

Concrete Flooring. Need to know the make-up and depth?
Look no further...

Trench Right have just carried out 9 core samples in a distribution warehouse where the company is proposing to install a mezzanine to create extra floor space. Therefore, the concrete must be suitable enough to support the steal beam structure.

We do not only sample and test Footway's & Carriageway's!

Busy couple of weeks here at Trench Right. We are coring in the East Midlands, Yorkshire and North West areas of the England for a Tier 1 contractor of telecoms and digital infrastructure.

We are a Nationwide UKAS accredited core sampling and testing laboratory. Please contact if you have any core sampling requirements.

Trench Right is extremely happy and proud to have achieved the renewal of our UKAS accreditation following our yearly assessment. In addition we have extended our scope to include;

• Taking and examining cores in concrete pavements BS 12504-1:2019

•Determination of the thickness of a concrete pavement BS EN 13863-3:2004

• PAH screening by PAK Marker in accordance with ADEPT Guidance Note 2019/8 Appendix D2.0 PAK Marker

💯 we are committed to providing our clients with the highest level of competence and compliance of core sampling and testing services bituminous and concrete materials.

www.ukas.com

❗️All about PAK Testing❗️
Extracting core samples from old carriageways can often have multiple layers of varying materials and ages. Below is an example, our client instructed us to carry out core sampling, depth measurement and air void testing of the surface course and a PAK test as part of a new housing development scheme.

About PAK testing:

The PAK test assists with the detection of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons which is a toxic material and when excavated there is a legal requirement for safety measures to protect workforce & the general public.

We use a PAK Marker Spray in a dark environment under UV lighting to indicate the presence of old coal tar in accordance with the ADEPT Guidance Note 2019/8 Appendix D2.0 PAK Marker.
Where Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons are detect the core sample will glow a bright yellow/green colour.
The PAK test is an indication not a measurement
The core sample can then have a further chemical analysis to allow for accurate hazard assessment under the Landfill waste acceptance criteria.
Contaminated materials are to be disposed of by a licensed waste disposal operator.

Our Coring team are doing an out of hours bespoke core sampling and testing of a supermarket shop floor this week prior to new drainage works.

We aim please and provide our services no matter what time of the day it it ⏰

📍We have been Bedfordshire bound this week
🏠 A house builder required samples to be taken along a stretch of road to determine:

1) Depth Measurement of cores and sub base
2) Material Types & aggregate size
3) Bulk density & Max density (Airvoid)
4) PAK test to detect polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in old coal tar.

We are delighted to have been approved onto the Balfour Beatty supply chain!

If your company or organisation has a requirement to carry out core sampling and testing - look no further! Please do not hesitate to contact us.

We are proud to announce that we are now officially Constructionline Gold Members 🎉

How refreshing it is to receive compliments for the work we do… sent today from a resident in East Riding of Yorkshire where we have been core sampling on behalf of the Council

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Would like to comment with regards to, the quality of work undertaken, and explanation from your team on the ground this morning, when taking a core sample from outside my bungalow this morning, the standard of workmanship, and customer care was exemplary.
In today’s world people are quick to criticise and complain, but not to congratulate, on a job well done.
I have to say, Dalton Senior and his Co worker are a credit to your organisation.
Well done.

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We are thrilled to be approved as a supplier for fibre company Svella Connect and we look forward to working with them - Svella is a provider of critical digital infrastructure.

Svella Connect is helping the UK hit its government-set target of full fibre coverage by 2033

If you have entered into a major contract with a broadband/telecommunications provider in most cases you are required to carry out core sampling of a percentage of the works…

🗣️ Let’s talk Micro-Trenching

• This is the most popular alternative to the traditional open trench excavation.
• it is a narrow trench in the road or footway to allow for fibre duct
• It is up to thirty times faster
• only 20% of the cost of traditional trenching
• minimal disruption to road users and local community

We offer two types of packages to test the reinstatements of a Micro-trench;

~ we carry out the core extraction using a 50mm diameter core barrel, measure the core sample to determine the depth and material used.

~ client carries out the core sampling and delivers them to our laboratory for a measure only test📏

❗️Should the client require the traditional method of trenching to be tested we can offer a full service. Core sampling using our diamond tipped 110mm barrels, depth measurement and air void testing.

📞 Please contact us for a quote 📧

WHY ARE REINSTATEMENTS CORE TESTED?🤔

To establish the layer depth of materials used, overall depth, material suitability and the air void content to determine durability of the reinstatement in the footways and carriageways and that the specific specifications have been complied with.

Core sampling and testing outcome and benefits;
Local Authorities:
~ Betterment of public footways and highways
~ Less exposure to future pothole roads
~ Helps identify defective work being carried out within their area
~ Helps identify poor workmanship from contractors working within their area.
~ Reduce expose to rise of future claims for trip hazard
~ Determine the durability of the councils asset

Main Contractors & Sub-contractors:
~ Do it right first time philosophy
~ Less exposure to defect charges, increase profits.
~ Reduce expose to rise of future claims from trip hazards
~ Enables main contractors to identify any sub-contractors who continually carry out poor workmanship.
~ Maintain a good reputation

*Does your contract require your work to be tested - choose us for experience and support in testing

*Existing customer*

Trench Right have been core sampling and testing for South Tyneside Council for over 5 years and have recently engaged Trench Right to carry out the full service to now include pre-site identification, 28 day notification to utilities. In addition to the service we already provide;

~ Core Sampling the reinstatement
~ Testing the core for • suitability • depth • air void
~ Comprehensive set of results sent electronically via our system
~ Providing technical understanding of the SROH v4