Airport Prefabricated Vehicle Pits

Company Premier Pits
Date 10.09.2014

The project: Installing a pit into an existing workshop floor for a commercial vehicle dealership in the South West. The reinforced concrete floor being suspended on piles over contaminated, made up, ground.

 
Pit specification: Petrol regulation, Zone1 flame proof pit 20 metres long; 1.0 metre wide by 1.350 metres deep.
 
The problem: To fit the pit into the existing reinforcement and maintain structural integrity.
 
Solution: Constructed a purpose built cage using 20 mm diameter reinforcing bar. Then exposed the existing slab reinforcement and tied the cage into it thereby forming an integrated whole.
 
Outcome: A load bearing pit able to take 42 tonne vehicles, just like any built on solid ground.

Contact

Premier Pits
Town Drove
Quadring
Spalding
Lincolnshire
United Kingdom
PE11 4PU
  • 01775 821222