Hope Construction Materials’ Industrial Director Ashley Bryan inside the 20,000 tonne capacity clinker store at Hope Works
A 20,000 tonne capacity clinker store designed by the HBPW engineering team, is now part of the ambitious scheme taking place at Hope Cement Works in the Derbyshire National Park on behalf of Hope Construction Materials Ltd.
Following a successful tender A.Torn Construction Ltd was commissioned to build the new structure and collaborated with HBPW to complete the project.
HBPW Managing Partner, Paul Withers, said: “The bulk storage shed, which will be used for storing cement clinker, was commissioned in August last year with the brief that it needed to be open and operational by the end of November, a tall order by any standard.
“However, we designed it very quickly and, working in close collaboration with A. Torn Construction, everything came together at double speed with an on-time, within budget outcome. All parties worked together brilliantly.”
The building, which features a reinforced concrete ground floor, also has 5m high perimeter concrete walls and a steel work building superstructure built off the top of its walls.
Hope’s New 20,000 tonne capacity clinker store
“Experience counts for everything,” added Paul. “This job was very familiar to us because HBPW has been producing similar engineering details for Associated British Ports’ storage sheds at Immingham, Grimsby, Hull and Ipswich for many years.”
The clinker store is part of Hope Construction Materials’ wider £14m investment in its East Midlands plant aimed at enhancing sustainability and the efficiency of operations.
Key projects also include the completion of a multi-million pound system to increase the amount of sustainable waste-derived fuels the operation can accommodate as well as an internal overhaul of the iconic Hope chimney.
“We are very excited to be involved in the largest investment programme on site for many years,” said Ed Cavanagh, Hope Works Operations Manager. “This works has operated for more than 85 years and directly employs nearly 200 people, making a massive contribution to the UK construction industry. It produced 1.5 million tonnes of cement in 2014 alone.
“Once this programme is complete, we will have an upgraded production plant, ready for the challenges of an increasingly busy time for building in the UK,” he added.