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Roof Replacement – Asset Care

This project required Shepley Engineers to complete an overroof on a building that had been degrading over time, and due to the nature of the facility, it had to be repaired before the degradation caused any serious issues. The roof installed was Sika Decothane Ultra

Roof Replacement

The purpose of the refurbishment is to address the issue of standing water along the west elevation and also to address water ingress issues around the redundant roof light plinths. This project required us to clean and make-good the existing roof from water build-up, debris

North Wall Cladding

Following an inspection of the building, it was documented that large areas of the north elevation were suffering from severe degredation, with the fixings that support the external claddings to the secondary steelwork having been completely corroded. The concern was that further degredation would result

THORP Receipt and Storage Building Cladding

The THORP facility located on the Sellafield Nuclear Site in Cumbria opened in 1994. Since opening it has processed 9331 tonnes of used nuclear fuel from 30 customers in nine countries around the world. However, reprocessing operations came to end in November 2018 due to

Kings Cross Triplets Gasholder Restoration

Shepley Engineers undertook the restoration of the Grade 2 Listed Triplets Gas Holders, constructed from a combination of cast and wrought iron. The combined structures contained 123 cast iron columns each in excess of 10m long and weighing on average 10t each, this, coupled with

SWEF Flask Decontamination

Sellafield Ltd have a requirement for a second transport flask for sludge recovered from a pond during their desludging operations. In order to prevent the costly purchase of an additional flask, Sellafield decided to re-purpose an existing SWEF flask which has been in service for

Waste Vitrification Plant Line 3 Decontamination

Following a significant contamination event within Waste Vitrification Plant Line 3, the SDS teamwas brought in to assess the situation and to develop a decontamination strategy. Acting as arapid response to the issue as part of their Sellafield decontamination framework contract, theSDS team are the

MASFE Decontamination

The Thorp Medium Active Salt Free Evaporator (MASFE) requires its evaporator tubes to be cleaned to enable a thorough inspection of the tubes to take place. Shepley Decontamination Services were contracted by Sellafield Ltd to high pressure water jet clean the internal bores of the

Chemical Reagent Decontamination

Shepley Engineers specialists have been undertaking specialist chemical reagent decontamination tasks across the Sellafield site over the past 30 years. They are recognized as the Sellafield site specialist decontamination team and they have built a reputation as the go to decontamination experts. With roots in

Bowser Decontamination

Shepley Engineers were contacted by the National Nuclear Laboratory based on the Sellafield site to determine the viability of decontaminating a transport bowser which had been historically used for transporting radioactive liquors. The Bowser had a remnant heel of liquor which contained radioactive solid residues.