RGF Technical Services were employed in February 2014 to go to Quebec in Canada and act as technical advisor to a client who were installing 14 no. pre-assembled conveyor sections onto offshore pile caps.

Two weeks were spent in the client's office in the UK, finalising the installation scheme and producing strength and stability calculations, before travelling to northern Quebec for a total of 9 weeks to over see the work.

Self Propelled Modular Trailers (SPMTs) were used to move each module from the assembly area along the bridge built on one side of the pile cap. Once adjacent to the foundations the modules were unloaded then skidded sideways over the foundation before being jacked down some 2 metres onto the pile cap.

Extremes of temperature and wind were just some of the problems faced on a daily basis on site.

RGF Technical Services was tasked with visiting a UK port where a heavy duty forklift had accidently collided at speed with a rail mounted hopper badly deforming some of the structure, and then implementing repairs.

Reinforcing was welded into the structure, and spreader beam sections used as temporary supports to allow the damaged sections to be removed, all supported by strength calculations.

With the supports in place weight was applied to them by jacking up and packing out with timber packing.

The damaged sections were next removed, new replacements made up on site and fitted, just in time to meet the clients deadline of an expected ship needing unloading.

RGF Technical Services produced all the calculations, drawings, Method Statements and Risk Assessments and was on site to project manage the repairs, and keep the client updated on progress.

RGF Technical Services was contracted with carrying out a mechanical and structural inspection of a coal stacker/reclaimer at a UK power station.

The inspection was carried out over a 3 day period on site, and the findings and recommendations presented in a full written and illustrated report.

RGF Technical Services was tasked with designing a 4 belt lift conveyor, that lifts up between the rollers of a normal roller conveyor to move product sideways.

The 4 belts are mounted on a frame which moves parallel to the roller conveyor via a series of linkages and is powered by a pneumatic actuator. The belts are driven by a drum motor. The whole assembly is suspended from the structure of the roller conveyor.

The design was produced using the latest 3D design technology to ensure fitment of bought out items and clearances with the existing roller conveyor. A full set of manufacturing and assembly drawings was produced to facilitate manufacture.

RGF Technical Services was tasked with making a structural and mechanical inspection of 3 no. ash handling grab gantry cranes at a UK power station.

The site inspection works were carried out over a three day period, and the findings and recommendations presented in a full written and illustrated report.