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Welcome to Titan Plant Hire
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The Oxford Dictionary defines a Titan as “a thing of very great strength”. Here at Titan Plant Hire, we subscribe to this philosophy at every level of our business. The physical strength of our machinery and the operational strength of our commitment to a positive working relationship with our clients.
We supply, service, hire and maintain plant and machinery for light and heavy construction, both off and on-road. We also supply specialist plant to the aviation ground handling industry. All plant and equipment can be provided with our in-house certified operators or drivers at your request.
Our plant performs in the most arduous and demanding of conditions. It won’t let you down when you need it most!
Case Study: Leeds-Bradford Airport (Gill Civil Engineering Limited)
Gill Civil Engineering in Birmingham, United Kingdom, has carved out a unique niche for their company over the years. The UK has several principal contractors operating in the aviation sector, and most aren’t equipped to handle the slipform concrete work on contracts. Gill Civil Engineering saw that need and offer their subcontractor services solely as slipform pavers specialising in mainline paving for highways, and runway and taxiway work at airports.
The company is constantly on the move, handling a variety of different projects and specifications. They needed a concrete paver that was easy to transport and could change widths quickly and easily. Supplied by Titan Plant Hire Limited, the GOMACO GHP-2800 four-track slipform paver fit the company criteria perfectly.
“We’ve always worked with GOMACO”, they said. “We chose the GHP-2800 because it’s so versatile and user-friendly. Everything is made simple to change from transport mode to paving mode and back again. It’s all made so simple, even changing the width of the frame is easy and that’s really one of the best selling points on the machine.”
A typical case study was the taxiway and runway project at the Leeds-Bradford Airport in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom. The airport called for 16,744 square yards (14,000 m2) of concrete and, according to Gill Civil Engineering, was one of their smallest projects.
“Basically, it was a taxiway that blended into a runway and it was a small job for us,” they said. “We tendered it because of the GHP-2800’s versatility and our ability to change widths with it very quickly and move it from site to site.”
The new taxiway/runway was built over the existing one that had already been planed. When the old structure was planed though, it was planed at variable depths. Gill’s paving runs would have to accommodate the inconsistency over the 79 feet (24 m) wide concrete paving.
“The variable depth was the tricky part,” they explained. “It was the reason the airport authorities wouldn’t let us go very wide with our paver.”
Paving was accomplished in five passes, 15.75 feet (4.8 m) wide. Slab depth varied between 12.2 to 18.1 inches (310 to 460 mm) thick. Each pass was approximately 1,722 feet (525 m) long.
Concrete on the project was supplied by Titan Plant Hire Limited batching plant. Titan currently owns several plants purchased from GOMACO International Ltd.
“Obviously, if you understand slipform paving, you want to get your concrete just right and having control of your batch plant allows you that,” they said. “We really are self-sufficient with control of our own batchers and transport - and then we slipform it, as well.”
Our batching plant has the capacity to produce an average of 157 cubic yards (120 m3) per hour. On this project, production averaged 1,236 cubic yards (945 m3) per day.
The Pavement Quality Concrete (PQC) is a C-40 mix design with 641 pounds per cubic yard (380 kg/m3) of cement. Slump averages 1.5 inches (38 mm).
Supplied by Titan, three BELL B25D articulated dump trucks capable of carrying an 11.8 cubic yard (9 m3) load delivered concrete to the site. A Titan-supplied wheeled excavator with bucket-mounted integrated vibrating pokers was used to level out the concrete in front of the GHP-2800 paver.
“The paver is a nice machine,” they said. “The lower engine and shroud gives a better view around it and it definitely is a lot quieter now. The G21 controller combined with the steering makes the paver more responsive.”
Behind the paver, the new slab has a bull-float finish followed by a brush-texture finish. Joints are wet saw cut 18 hours after the mainline paving during the winter months. Summer temperatures shorten that time down to six hours. Joints are cut every 16.4 feet (5 m) with crews cutting up to 105 joints per day in the new runway/ taxiway.
In addition to their GHP-2800 paver fleet, Titan also own several other GOMACO machines, including other pavers, texture curing machines, placers and spreaders. They certainly have the work for it with projects on several airports in England including the Birmingham Airport, the East Midlands Airport and the Manchester Airport.
Reproduced with permission from the GOMACO website www.gomaco.com
Facilities
All our plant is serviced and maintained at our dedicated headquarters in the West Midlands.
These modern and spacious premises are owned outright in-house, and are staffed by experienced and competent personnel.
We have full facilities to undertake the following:
- Abrasive blasting
- Collision repair
- Deep cleaning
- Electrical repair
- Formal statutory inspections
- Heavy engineering
- Hire counter
- Light engineering
- Re-spraying and re-painting
- Routine maintenance
- Sales counter
- Secure storage
- Tyre fitting
- Vehicle lifting
- VOSA management
- Windscreen repair
- Workshop equipment and machinery
Road Vehicles
Titan Plant Hire has a fleet of street sweepers for construction or industrial use. We can provide the sweepers operated or for the customer’s own use, and on ad-hoc or long term hire. Our street sweepers help to keep the surrounding roads clean, supporting the all-important public perception of the ‘Considerate Constructors’ scheme. They are also used within-site to keep internal traffic routes clear and preventing accidents or damage in part-constructed schemes.
Titan Plant Hire is able to offer lorries with integral HIAB mechanisms, for safe, easy and rapid loading and unloading of materials in the logistics, retail and construction industries. Our vehicles can be provided with HIAB-trained HGV licence-holder operatives on short or long term hire arrangements.
As well as specialist paving, construction and aviation plant, Titan Plant Hire also provide hire services for general commercial / support road vehicles. We can offer car-derived vans, conventional vans and minibuses. Contact us for a bespoke solution to your requirements – we will assist you in selecting the right vehicle for your needs.
This particular contract worked out very well for both our companies. I would have no hesitation in working with Titan Plant Hire again if the occasion arises.
Titan Plant Hire were a very good contractor. I would use them again.
Performed professionally throughout. Attention to detail excellent. Good safety culture.
Titan Plant Hire Limited are more than capable of delivering high quality and on time.
The tight layout of the site and the fast track programme required some careful planning. Titan Plant Hire Limited supplied the right equipment to carry out the job and provided the best solution to improve the speed of construction and limit disruption.
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