ELITE PRECAST CONCRETE LIMITED
UNIT 0
HALESFIELD 9
TELFORD
SHROPSHIRE TF7 4QW
Tel: 01952 588885
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Suppliers of: interlocking concrete blocks, Retaining Walls
ELITE PRECAST CONCRETE LIMITED range of precast concrete products include standard products such as Concrete Ducts, Channels, Troughs, marker posts, interlocking concrete blocks, Concrete gully covers and slabs.
Elite Precast Concrete believes in securing people and our environment with its range of precast concrete products, that includes interlocking blocks, walling, ballast blocks, safety barriers, security blockades, electric vehicle infrastructure and protection, service protection, fencing, drainage and agricultural products.
Elite Precast is a people business, with over 200 years’ experience in the precasting arena, who love nothing more than talking concrete.
Servicing the needs for both national and independent builders’ merchants; civil engineering and building contractors and other precast manufacturers, Elite has become the go to place for high quality, cost-effective concrete products.
Interlocking Blocks
Available in Duo™ Blocks, Legato® Blocks, Vee™ Blocks and Vee-Rock™, Elite interlocking concrete blocks are manufactured to BS EN 1317 and available ex-stock.
Delivered within days of ordering, the multipurpose interlocking concrete blocks are approved for use within network rail protection, housing developments, road safety, sea walls, material bays, silage clamps, fire walls, retaining walls, bund walls, blast walls and flood defence walls.
Retaining Walls
Whether you are looking at retaining walls to protect and secure your development from landslips or utilising more land take or creating a more cohesive outdoor area, Elite has a solution for you.
With different sizes and finishes, Elite has Vee-Rock™, Verti-Crete and Retainer Rock walling offers you looks and strength – a winning combination.
Ballast Blocks
Elite concrete ballast blocks are designed as a non-invasive block that secures scaffolding, fencing, hoarding, marquees, façade retention or act as ballast for larger structures and various temporary works, which are regularly used for civil engineering, rail, highways and event applications.
Safety/Security Barriers
Unfortunately, the need to ensure both people and infrastructure are protected from harm is increasing. Elite concrete barriers are ideal for site security, edge protection, traffic management and areas requiring social distancing measures.
Manufactured from high quality concrete, Elite offer a choice of TVCBs (Temporary Vertical Concrete Barriers), Jersey Barriers, (TTPBs) Tank Trap Pyramid Barriers, Bollards, Security Blocks and Security Planters.
Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Protection
Precast concrete is a proven secure material within the electric vehicle (EV) industry, which is why we are able to provide EV containment protection walling, to help secure the storage of damaged electric vehicles, parking kerbs to protect both car and charging unit, EV charging bases that fit almost all UK EV chargers and parking bays for electric forklifts.
Service Protection
Elite Precast is committed to working with you to provide the best service protection products available. Whether it be channels, ducts, troughs, cable protection covers, indicator posts, marker blocks or utility protection slabs, secure concrete solutions are what they aim to provide.
Drainage
Elite Precast Concrete drainage products offer low maintenance and high-performance solutions for use within foul, storm, surface water and sustainable drainage solutions (SuDS), there include seating rings, adjusting units, corbel slabs, gully cover slabs, cover slabs, bespoke cover slabs, special access cover slabs and house inspection chambers (HICs).
Other products Elite can supply are:
- Cable Covers
- Precast Concrete Channels
- Temporary Vertical Concrete Barriers (TVCBs)
- Indicator Posts
- Marker Blocks
- Impact Protection Slabs
- Security Barriers
- Security Blocks
- Bollards
- Seating Rings / Adjusting Units
- Gully Raisers
- Dam Spillway Blocks
- Counterweight Blocks
- Sea Anchor Blocks
- Kentledge Blocks
- Manhole Covers
- Gully Covers & Raisers
Further Technical Information is available to download from the BPi Download Library or from the Manufacturer’s own website.
Legato® blocks installed for maximum space
When main contractors, Winvic needed to install a large retaining wall, as part of their development of a multi-million 310,000ft² Prologis distribution centre in Dunstable, it was Elite Precast Concrete they turned too.
The project consisted of over a thousand 2,400kg Legato® interlocking concrete blocks installed to create a 220m-long by 5m-high retaining wall at the new facility and the Elite block system was chosen as they provided a quicker, space saving and overall better value solution than the gabion baskets that had originally been specified.
Sub-contractors, PNR Construction took delivery of the Legato® blocks, prepared the groundworks and built the wall over a 10-day period.
Scott McDermott at Winvic commented, “The construction project was particularly time sensitive and the Legato blocks were the perfect option, not least because they could be delivered and installed within a very short period of time.”
He went on to say “Due to the speed of the build, the site excavation was only accessible for a limited time frame, so the easy installation of the blocks was a huge safety advantage. The streamline collaboration between Elite Precast Concrete and PNR Construction was a huge benefit.”
Legato® blocks
Elite’s Sales and Marketing Director explained “We were delighted to support both Winvic and PNR with this project and that we were able to offer a suitable solution to aid the project’s fast turnaround requirement.”
“Our blocks are all stock items, ensuring an instant response and a quick and hassle-free installation. The Legato blocks are ideal for constructing retaining walls and incorporate their own cast-in lifting pin which means they are extremely quick and safe to install.”
To find out more about Legato Blocks, please visit www.eliteprecast.co.uk/interlocking-blocks/legato-interlocking-concrete-blocks or to view the project visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMdo4Xdb9Dk
Legato blocks help to secure sea defence scheme and keep the RNLI safe
When an existing sea defence wall began to fail, which had been constructed in the 1970’s, North Ayrshire Council instructed principal designer and coasted marine engineers, PRS Group to find a solution to protect the town of Largs, in North Ayrshire as well as keeping members of the RNLI safe with a new access ramp.
Civil Engineers and Building Contractors, RJ McLeod were instructed to undertake the £4 million sea wall on the north end of Largs, which will provide protection and support against wave activity and coastal erosion.
As part of the 300-metre-long sea wall, a Legato interlocking concrete block tide protection wall was constructed during low tide to allow for safe working, whilst the wave wall was built.
Marine, engineering and construction company, Alchemy Plant & Contracting were tasked with building a new dedicated RNLI ramp at the head of the beach, to allow the lifeboat safe access to and from water at low tide.
Historically, the lifeboat has launched from the North Ayrshire Council slipway, next to the lifeboat station, using a tractor and trailer which has taken valuable time and was unsuitable for use at low water,
Elite Legato concrete blocks were used to build the new slip, which is owned entirely by the RNLI and was built to coincide with the 60th anniversary of RNLI in Largs, and the 200th anniversary of the RNLI as a whole.
The current slipway was previously used as a seaplane base, under the operation of Prestwick based Scottish Aviation Limited. Built in 1942, it was used in the Second World War as a flying boat reception facility, as well as serving as an overflow for a larger marine airfield located in Greenock, with visiting seaplanes towed up the slipway and across the A78 to rest.
Made from high strength (50N/mm²) concrete, the Legato blocks exhibit extreme levels of durability and are manufactured with a cast-in lifting pin, making installation easy onsite.
Owen Batham, Sales & Marketing Director for Elite Precast said “our concrete blocks have been successfully installed on many sea and water projects due to the speed of construction, as walls can be built within the tidal timeframe and our concrete performs well in the harsh environment conditions, experienced in marine and coastal applications.”
For more information on the Legato concrete blocks please visit www.eliteprecast.co.uk/interlocking-blocks/legato-interlocking-concrete-blocks or speak to a member of our team on 01952 588885.
