Service
Public lighting civils
Civils for lighting column replacement on occupied streets. We break out around the old and new column positions, remove and install columns, lay the ducts, build the junction-box chambers and reinstate the footpath and road. Each column and duct run is recorded as its own job.
Scope
Work included
- Route walk and mark-out with the road authority and the main contractor
- Breakout of concrete, tarmac and paving at existing and new column positions
- Excavation for new columns and breakout of old column bases
- Removal of old columns and installation of new columns, with lorry-mounted crane lifts
- Trenching and ducting between columns and feeder pillars, including road crossings
- Junction-box chambers
- Backfill, compaction and temporary surfacing
- Reinstatement of concrete footpaths, kerbs, tactile paving, block paving and driveways
- Site clearance
Where customers use it
- Lighting upgrade programmes delivered street by street under road-opening licences.
- Residential estates and city streets with parked cars, driveways, trees and steady pedestrian traffic.
- Programmes that need each column’s civils measured and photographed.
Interfaces
Scope boundaries
- Electrical work stays with the electrical contractor: ESB Networks transfers, isolation, connection, and lantern and bracket work. We sequence our work around those visits.
- Column positions, column types and the duct layout come from the client’s design and the main contractor’s layout drawings.
Delivery
How we deliver it
Before a street starts, we walk it with the road authority and the main contractor. New column positions and reinstatement bays are marked on the ground and agreed.
We work to the road-opening licence: its permitted hours, road crossings at night or at weekends where it requires, and every opening reinstated or made safe before the working window closes.
Near existing cables, we locate services with a cable locator and signal generator and expose them by hand digging or vacuum excavation.
Quantities are measured on site and agreed with the main contractor from the records.
Handover
What you receive at completion
- A record for each column and duct run, with photographs before work, during excavation, at backfill and of the finished surface.
- Breakout and reinstatement areas measured by surface type.
- Duct lengths by surface type.
- Defects recorded against the location and closed out with photographs.
Evidence
Related work
Contact
Discuss a public lighting civils project
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