PROJECT: Liverpool Cruise Liner Berth
LOCATION: Liverpool
CLIENT: Balfour Beatty
VALUE: £1,750,000
PROJECT OVERVIEW: CMP were contracted to install 8nr +2m dia tubular steel mooring piles and 2nr +2m dia tubular steel dolphin piles to support Liverpool Cruise Liner berthing structure.

WORKS DESCRIPTION:

• Dismantle and dispose of old timber mooring structure
• Exploratory boreholes taken at pile positions using jack-up barge to establish ground conditions
• Jack-up barge with drilling rig towed into pile position
• 2.4m temporary pile casing lifted into position using crane barge and vibratory driven to refusal
• 2.3m rock socket drilled through temporary pile casing (deepest socket approx. 11m)   
• 40m+ tubular steel pile weighing 90-100 tonnes lifted into rock-socket and secured
• Grout poured between temporary pile casing and permanent pile
• Temporary pile casing removed over pile head