Alderney

Erecting tensile fabric structures calls for a team highly specialised in working at height. Occasionally this means that the office receives those phone calls for work that are not for the faint hearted! This was one such case. The University of Plymouth had been tasked by the European Commission to design and build a unique recording system to measure the height and direction of storm waves, so they approached us to do the dangerous bit!

Granted, engineering the wave recording system was no mean feat for the Plymouth team, but our rope access specialists were deployed just seaward of one of Britain’s most exposed breakwaters on Alderney in the Channel Islands to install the equipment! Then, as if one visit to offshore breakwaters wasn't enough, we were asked to maintain the units throughout the duration of the project! It is not often that these jobs come along, but our teams of IRATA trained specialists are always on hand to do their bit in the fight against rogue waves.