As part of the Barons Quay development, Balfour Beatty was required to install a temporary car park for Marks and Spencer. The allocated area housed a number of major utility supplies for Northwich town centre and the use of steel road pins was simply not an option to set out kerbs and to ensure that the car park was built to the correct level/ falls. The risk of causing an incident by driving pins into the ground was too high and this is why the subcontractor decided to use the Pinsafe system. The application of Pinsafe in this scenario meant that kerbing was completed and the road sub-base was correctly installed without excavating any deeper than the kerb brace. The risk of incident/ serious injury was eliminated and there were no time or quality implications on the task in hand. I have used the Pinsafe system before and it is certainly a product that I would use again.

I have used Pinsafe for the setting out of kerbs, edgings, block paving and linear drainage channels whilst employed by a leading North West groundworks contractor. I have found them to be well engineered and easy to use. I am now working as a Contracts Manager for Lancashire County Council Engineering Services on the City Deal capital highways improvement scheme. I have introduced the Lancashire County Council Highways team to Pinsafe, at first the site managers and kerb layers were sceptical, but after using Pinsafe for a short while all are very impressed with the product and it is now used for all our kerbing and edging works.