TPA panels protect playing fields

31 October 2023

Trackway panels supplied by TPA Portable Roadways helped to avoid damage from heavy plant during recent work to install a new gas main on a sports complex in Nottinghamshire.

Utility and infrastructure services supplier Network Plus decided to use the heavy-duty aluminium Trax panels to access the remote site on Clifton Playing Fields where a new 450mm gas main was being directionally drilled and a 15in above-ground river crossing required removal.

The 3m wide panels were used singly and side-by-side to carry plant weighing up to 20 tonnes along a 250m footpath road and a 30m3 triangular turning circle to the west of the site, and the public were still able to use the remaining playing fields during the 12-week project. 

Installing the panels had to be undertaken between midnight and 5am over four nights because of vehicle access restrictions. 

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