Scope of Works
A civil engineering contractor needed a floating platform to fix steel ducts to the underside of a bridge deck over a canal in Woking. The works were planned for a short window, with installation first thing on a Monday and removal at the end of the same week. Working on a canal meant the canal authority and the contractor’s own temporary works team both needed to approve the platform before it could go in, so the contractor needed supporting documentation as well as the pontoon: risk assessments and method statements, an installation design, and evidence of the pontoon’s buoyancy and stability.
The requirement also changed during the project. It started as a small platform, was resized to a 4m by 2m pontoon with edge protection all round, and then, partway through the week, the contractor asked for the pontoon to be built up by a further layer, with the edge protection adjusted to suit.
Solution
Floating Pontoon Hire supplied a 4m by 2m modular pontoon with edge protection on all sides, delivered and installed in one to two hours. Alongside the pontoon, we provided the paperwork the approvals needed: assembly and recovery RAMS, method statements for installation and breakdown, a scale drawing of the proposed pontoon, and a summary of an independent technical report covering the buoyancy of the system. This gave the canal authority and the contractor’s temporary works team what they needed without delaying the start.
When the contractor asked for the extra layer, we returned to build the pontoon up to a double-stacked configuration and adjust the edge protection to suit. We sent the same crew who had installed the original pontoon, which meant no new inductions and a quick turnaround. The breakdown was then rescheduled to follow the revised programme.
