Groundworks Looe, Cornwall

We have recently carried out the first phase of groundworks for a eco house in the woods In Looe, Cornwall.

Everything had to be brought up to the site via our 3-tonne dumper roughly 900 meters away as the grab lorry couldn’t get close enough with the tight Cornish lanes.

Our Groundworks package consisted of a reduced dig, soakaway system, trenching for 32mm water pipe, kerbs/edgers, type 1 stone and tarmac surfacing phase 1 enabled access to the site.

Phase 2 of this eco house consisted of constructing a piling mat for the piling rig to work from, 41 odex piles were drilled into the ground at various depths, and we then formed the steelwork and formwork to be able to pump concrete in excess of 100+ meters for pile caps which the house will sit on.

This job has been very challenging due to very tight access but as you can see once on the site you have plenty of room.

Architect – Robert Rowett robrowettarchitecturalservices.co.uk/project/eco-house-looe