C J Pryor has continued its modernisation programme with an order for ten new machines from Volvo Construction Equipment (UK) Ltd.

This order consists of six new Volvo A30D Articulated Dump Trucks, an EC140BLC and two EC210CLC Excavators, and an L120F Loading Shovel. 

We are pleased to announce that C J Pryor (Contracts) Ltd has been awarded the contract to carry out works at Elsenham Landfill, Stansted.

The works comprises of some 170,000m3 of overburden excavation, 20,000m2 of capping, 40,000m3 of sideliner fill, restoration and gas collection infrastructure. Work will commence on 12th March 2007 for approximately 20 weeks.

We are pleased to announce that C J Pryor (Contracts) Ltd has been awarded the contract to create a temporary car park at Basildon Hospital. The car park will be used whilst a new multi-storey car park is built on an existing car park within the hospital.

The work involves stripping topsoil, construction of an environmental bund and ditch around the perimeter, import and infill of crushed concrete and type 1 to form parking bays. The works commence on 7th February for approximately 5 weeks.

C J Pryor (Plant) Ltd is to increase its fleet of eight wheel tippers with the purchase of two new Hino 700 series trucks on 07 plates.

Fitted with a digital tachograph system, and also BT Transcomm's tracking system these vehicles will add to the fleet of up to date trucks operated by Pryors that can be easily deployed to a customer using modern technology.

The vehicles will join the C J Pryor truck fleet  early in March.

Work has now commenced on the contract awarded to C J Pryor (Contracts) Ltd at the end of October to fill in an existing lake with imported materials. The site will be used as future development land for commercial office buildings.

All of the fish from this lake have been moved to another lake on the site, prior to the lake being drained.

The work involves site clearance, excavating silt, lime drying of silt and the importation of 16000m3 of clay. The works will last for approximately 8 weeks.     

PryorMourik Ltd has been formed in partnership with the Dutch Company Mourik Groot Amers (Mourik) to secure work in the UK to remediate contaminated land for development. Mourik has 20 years experience in working in Europe employing a number of sophisticated techniques depending on the nature of contamination. They manufacture the plant to perform these processes themselves. We believe that with Pryor’s expertise in civils and earthmoving this partnership has great potential.

The Pryor contracting and plant hire businesses will continue to operate in their own right as usual where remediation processing is not an element.

We are please to announce that PryorMourik has secured its first contract to render safe this vacated petrol filling station that will take up to 3 years to complete. The majority of work is to extract hydrocarbons by a vacuum process from boreholes.

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This project was added to the Targeted Programme of Improvements in 1998 after the Trunk Road Review, and set the following objective:-

A14 Rookery Crossroads - The improvement will increase road safety by provision of a two-level junction, carriageway re-allignment and closure of the central reserve gaps.

Reason for the works

• The current section has substandard horizontal and vertical alignments, resulting in poor visibility and inadequate sight stopping distances.
• There are three central reserve gaps permitting traffic to turn across the flow of traffic, each in locations where visibility is dangerously low.
• There are numerous private means of access directly onto the A14.
• To reduce the effects of severance and promote accessibility, particularly across the A14.

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As the successful contractor on the above project we are pleased to inform you that the Application for Planning Permission has been submitted encompassing the adjustments that have been agreed in our consultation with interested parties.

Further information can be found by visiting the London Borough of Ealing website at :-

www.ealing.gov.uk/services/

C J Pryor (Contracts) is pleased to announce that they have secured a new 44 week contract near Sittingbourne in North Kent for a new client Geoffrey Osbourne Ltd.

Our £750,000 contract involves undertaking all earthworks in the construction of a new embankment and access road to a large paper mill. Work starts early in 2004.  

The Pryor Group takes pride in the fact that it has a safety culture that grows with the rest of the organisation.  This has only been possible by personnel at all levels taking part and realising the benefits of such a culture.  It is to the credit of all these people that the Group has received two RoSPA (Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents) Silver Awards (2001 and 2002) for health and safety.

Photograph:- Kevin Symons (Health & Safety Manager) and Gary Holmes (Training & Development Manager) display the award at the annual RoSPA award dinner.