Shaft Work

Part of SES, our Special Projects team provides specialist shaft work services for major industry and engineering projects.  We are proud to partner firms like Wessex Water, BAM Ritchie, Wardell Armstrong, GCA, Amey and Laing O’Rourke, all relying on our shaft expertise. Special Projects has an excellent reputation and proven capabilities delivering tailor-made shaft solutions to Britain's utilities, transport networks and extractive industries. Our Special Projects team is so respected that even the Ministry of Defence relies on our cutting-edge skills.

With SES' Special Projects team we believe that expertise is nothing without flexibility, giving you exactly what you need, even if we have to invent a completely new solution. That's why we offer unmatched contractual flexibility in pioneering, comprehensive shaft services and innovative shaft techniques and technologies. From initial ground surveys to turn-key solutions and shaft decommissioning - our Special Projects team does it all.

With some of Britain's most experienced shaft engineers in-house, industry leaders choose our Special Projects team for end-to-end delivery and we're just as helpful with one-off services. SES' Special Projects team's shaft team are able to anticipate your needs because they’ve worked hard to shape their industry. Over thirty years, they have made us the UK's market-leader. They're not just the safe choice for shaft work: they're the better choice.

SES' Special Projects Team - Shaft Work Specialisation:

• Shaft life-cycle capabilities: consultancy & advisory, structural analysis, planning, sinking, lining, treatment and maintenance

• Shaft Sinking and drill-blast

• Shaft concrete lining including continuous, reinforced and block

• Shaft steel-liners including sandwich, permeable and hydrostatic

• Expertise in conveyances & clearances

• Shaft Maintenance and Remedial Works

• Shaft man-way compartments and ventilation ducts

• Shaft De-Commissioning and Filling

• Construction and Maintenance of High Capacity Storage Bunkers

• Individual Engineers & Managers with 30 years+ experience of shaft work

• Member of the British Tunnelling Society; Member of HSE Engineering Liaison Committee; Site Supervisors trained in IOSH & SMSTS, MASHAM & SMIM.