Helens FORS Practitioner Achievement

Congratulations to Helen Swarbick for successfully completing her FORS Practitioner standard in safe, clean and efficient fleet management! The FORS practitioner is a series of 15 highly informative and insightful modules that cover all aspects of fleet management. Completing the modules help demonstrate your own Continuing Professional Development as outlined in requirements D4, S5 and G5 of the […]

FORS Gold

The Fleet Operation Recognition Scheme (FORS Gold) accreditation is a voluntry scheme to promote saftey, efficiency and enviromental performance for fleet operators. Bronze, Silver, and Gold are the three FORS accreditation levels that are available for acquisition. Operators must fulfil progressively more challenging requirements to advance to the next level, which signifies a greater degree […]

Sweeper Safety Features

All of our sweepers are equipped with up-to-date safety measures ensuring that members of our team and members of the general public are kept safe These safety measures include: Warning lights –  All round beacons fitted, including wide beacon bars fitted to the cab roofs. A 4-way camera system fitted to the trucks. Footage is […]

Dungiven to Londonderry – A6 dualling project

Since February 2020, we’re proud to have been involved in the A6 dualling project from Dungiven to Londonderry with our largest rear suction ‘beam’ sweeper. To see the latest progress with this project, please visit the Wesley Johnston website here.  

Supporting Silverstone

Since 2020, we were very proud to be able to support Silverstone behind closed doors with their track cleaning needs. Our team support at the most prestigious F1 event. Our fleet of Beam Sweepers, running up to 7000 psi of cleaning power ensure the cars run on a safe clean track.  

Kelly Plant Hire runway extension

VOLKERFITZPATRICK – Birmingham Airport – Runway Extension

Main Contractor – Joint Venture Volka Colas Birmingham Airport is one of the UK’s busiest airports, handling over 9 million passengers a year.  The airport offers both domestic flights within the UK and international flights to Europe, North America and the Middle East. In 2012, a Colas joint venture began works to extend the airport’s […]

VOLKERFITZPATRICK – DIRFT PHASE 2

Construction of a one million sq ft Sainsbury’s Warehouse with intermodal rail terminal. Scheme included demolition, site remediation and ground improvements. Kelly Plant Hire involvement was the geotechnical trials on the ground compaction techniques, S278 works, groundwork’s including grasscrete, kerbing, road formation and footways.      

VOLKERFITZPATRICK & MORGAN SINDALL – Gatwick Runway Rehabilitation

The 3.3km main runway at Gatwick Airport handles over 53 hourly aircraft movements and is the world’s busiest single runway.  The key to the success of this project was delivering the rehabilitation works to the runway whilst maintaining Gatwick’s demanding flight schedule. The runway covers an impressive 400,000m². This required over 50,000 tonnes of Marshall […]

Kelly Plant Hire Equipment At Work

VOLKERFITZPATRICK – G-Park Access Road, Liverpool

The main scheme was £1.1million access road into a new warehouse unit and construction of a lorry park.  The project involved construction of a new drainage through running sand, kerbing, road and footway works. Kelly Plant Hire involvement was the construction of the earthworks, drainage, roads and preparation of carpark formation.

VOLKERFITZPATRICK – Blackpool Tram Depot

The main scheme was £21million. Demolition of existing structures, ground improvements and construction of a high specification tram depot on the seafront and associated rail works. Kelly Plant Hire involvement was the demolition of existing structures, earthworks, ground improvements by excavation and re-compaction and ducting work.