Queenborough & Rushenden – Twyford Demolition and Enabling Works

Tender description

Queenborough and Rushenden is a major development site within the HCA’s Economic Assets Programme and a key component of the Kent and Medway Stewardship Plan. The HCA have also acquired the Klondyke site, and together with the Twyfords site represents a total of 20 hectares to be brought forward for mixed-use regeneration. In conjunction with the Caradon site to the south, these sites will provide 2,000 new homes and circa 180,000m2 of employment space on the Isle of Sheppey in North Kent. Tenders are being sought from specialist Contractors to undertake the following works on the Twyford site: Core Works • Site set up and welfare facilities. • Demolition of The Gateway building and adjacent building down to ground slab and removal / disposal of all asbestos, including approximately 200m3 of asbestos contaminated soils to the rear of The Gateway. • Disconnection / termination of private utilities to site boundary. • Ecological supervision to monitor for nesting birds in buildings to be demolished. • Facilitate and maintain access for material haulage to Invicta Merchant Bar site. Additional Works • Remediation of remaining hotspot of contamination on ‘SLR2’ in accordance with the agreed Hydrock Remediation Strategy and CampbellReith Remediation Specification. • Ground slab removal, crushing and ground obstruction removal of ‘UKPN HV cable corridor’ (cable already diverted) and ‘SLR2’ area. • Reuse of site-won concrete to form a drainage blanket and piling mat.