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Great Yarmouths wave wall completed
The final precast units supplied by Macrete, the specialist Northern Ireland based precast concrete engineers, have been lowered into place recently for the 1,000m wave wall being constructed by BAM Nuttall Ltd (which was known as Edmund Nuttall until October of this year) for the new deep water harbour being engineered in Great Yarmouth.
A total of 408 identical precast units, which were manufactured to extremely close tolerances in order to maintain the correct jointing and alignment of the wall, have been shipped by Macrete from The Port of Belfast directly to Great Yarmouth.
Two walls have been constructed in this way, a northern and a southern arm stretching out into the sea, with an outer rock armour breakwater which creates the outer framework for the harbour within which the combi-piled quay wall will be installed, to be followed by dredging.
The new Great Yarmouth Outer Harbour will be operated by Eastport UK wholly owned by International Port Holdings and will offer a range of facilities including a new container terminal capable of accommodating deep water vessels up to 210m long.
Main contractors for the new harbour are a joint venture of Van Oord (for the marine breakwater and land reclamation works) and Edmund Nuttall (for the construction of the harbour and quay wall). The value of Macrete’s precast unit supply is £950,000.
Construction of the harbour by the main contractors is ongoing.
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