FP McCann Supplies Drainage Solutions For Major UK Development

Northern Ireland firm FP McCann has been selected to help support drainage works on a major Cambridgeshire development.

The phased project in Wintringham will see the delivery of 2,800 new homes, community facilities, schools and commercial properties.

Breheny Civil Engineering, who is completing the first 300 homes, selected FP McCann to supply solutions for the site's drainage network.

FP McCann is delivering the full package of standard spigot and socket pipes, manhole chamber rings and the proprietary pre-formed manhole base unit, Easi-Base™ from its Ellistown factory. Large stocks of pipes and manhole chambers are already in place and over the coming months, with a constant flow of deliveries from FP McCann, the Breheny team will ensure productivity levels are maintained over the expansive area.


To date, FP McCann has delivered pipes ranging from DN300 up to DN1200 diameter and the Easi-Base™ wide wall manhole chamber system from DN1200 up to DN1800. Additionally, DN2100 and DN2400 standard chamber rings and cover slabs from DN1200 to DN2400 have been supplied. The sealed sump DN1200 catchpit unit is also being utilised on site.

Breheny is employing the mechanical pipe lifting system to unload and manoeuvre pipes around the site, as well as to place them in trenches. The system, which can be quickly hitched to any 360 excavator, is a very safe and efficient means of off-loading and installing precast concrete pipes, thereby reducing the time operatives have to spend below ground level. Productivity of pipe laying is increased by as much as 30% as a result of using such equipment.

Phase one of the project is being managed by one of the land owners and development partners Urban&Civic.

(CM/JG)