Traffic Management

ESO Sports handled the delivery of UCI Mountain Bike World Championships events which were held at Glentress Forest, Peebles, Scotland. For this cycling event Sunbelt Rentals provided and installed a vast range of equipment across several different product areas to ensure a sustainable solution for the customer.

The 2022 New Year’s Eve celebrations in London marked the biggest ever fireworks display in the capital. Organised on behalf of the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, over 12,000 fireworks were blasted into the night sky on the stroke of midnight. More than 100,000 tickets were sold for the celebration along the bank of the River Thames with millions more watching it online and on TV. 

Lee Victory Festival is a 3-day event to commemorate and celebrate the 75^th & 76^th anniversary of both VE & VJ days. With a Spitfire display, military parade, musical performances and more this family event is held to remember the enormous sacrifice, courage and determination of people both at home and abroad and to celebrate the end of WWII.

A major scheme is being carried out to replace ageing gas mains in Wednesbury. Undertaken by Balfour Beatty on behalf of Cadent Gas, the scheme is to replace 160 metres of cast iron pipes which will last at least 80 years as part of a £65 million investment in new gas pipes in the West Midlands.

A large scale traffic management scheme was required for the 12 week duration of the project, which was to commence on 14^th December 2020 and to be completed on 15^th March 2021. Walsall Street needed to be closed northbound for all traffic travelling towards Junction 9 of the M6. Multiple diversion routes also needed to be implemented for local and through traffic, including HGV diversions due to a 7.5 tonne environmental weight restriction on side roads in the vicinity of the works.

Instalcom engaged Sunbelt Rentals to implement, maintain and manage traffic management on a complex, prominent contract in South London to assist local traffic whilst a new trunk main asset was installed for Thames Water. The traffic management covered carriageways such as; A205 South Circular Rd/Norwood High St which are managed by both Transport for London (TfL) and Lambeth Council, London.

HS2 is a high-speed 345-mile railway track under construction which, once complete, will connect London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds. Currently one of the largest infrastructure projects in the UK, phase one is valued at £106 billion and will link London and Birmingham by 2028-2031. Phase two will run from the West Midlands to Manchester in the west and Leeds in the east completing the network by 2035-2040. HS2 is expected to carry over 300,000 passengers a day - around 100 million a year, when fully operational.

We have worked with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) since 2013, providing essential plant, tool and equipment hire services.

Passenger demand for train services has doubled in Britain over the last 20 years and more frequent services mean tracks need to be renewed more often. Network Rail’s High Output (HO) operations keep the railway running, carrying out 70% of Britain’s track renewal work.

Each night, HO teams replace up to a mile of ballast and renew rails and sleepers over three quarters of a mile, ensuring less disruption to train services. Around 1,200 people work in HO on the tracks, at Network Rail’s York and Birmingham offices, seven operations bases and at five delivery depots.

We have worked with Network Rail for several years supplying an extensive range of rail equipment and services for the HO contract, including:

• Hand tools
• Battery tools
• Petrol and diesel tools
• On-site lighting
• Welfare units
• Portable toilets
• Traffic management
• CCTV
• Generators
• Rail plant fitters and plant operators.