ROF Bishopton, Dargavel Village, Glasgow

Location: Bishopton Village, Nr Glasgow
Value:  £20m (as at 2018)
Role:  Alliance Partnering

Major Development Project:

One of the largest brownfield sites in Europe, this 15-year project involves the regeneration of a 2000-acre former Royal Ordnance Factory site in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, Scotland, and the creation of a new sustainable community of Dargavel Village. Located in a high quality landscape, the Village will provide a master planned community that will accommodate 2,500 homes, a business park and associated infrastructure, including new link roads from the A8 and new Bishopton junction from the M8 motorway. 
Our dedication, commitment, and mutual respect between Client and Contractor resulted in repeat and ongoing work on the project:
  • provide a remediated site in sections
  • demolition, remediation and bulk earthworks compliant with the terms of the appropriate planning consents
  • marking out and protection of live underground High Voltage, water, gas and telecoms services
  • reprofiling of the site to the specification including conformity testing 
  • construction and maintenance of temporary soils storage areas for segregated storage of potentially contaminated soils
  • setting out of all works
  • undertaking OGL survey and interim/final surveys as required  
  • provision of ‘as built’ information to BAE Site wide hot spot remediation 
  • excavation and retrieval of identified contaminated soils 
  • onward transportation to either on-site landfill or soils storage hub or soils treatment area(s)
  • excavation and removal of all drains, services, transporting selected arising to onsite landfill or to soils storage hub
  • backfilling trenches and pits with selected excavated and site won material 
  • backfilling hot spot excavations with site won materials after release by BAE following soils verification testing
  • removal of surface hardstanding areas, building and structure foundations, and sub structures below ground level
  • processing concrete arisings to a certified 6F2 specification by crushing arisings from foundation and substructure removal  
  • processed material left in managed stockpiles in areas designated by BAE for future use
  • stockpiles measured and used as the basis of payment for the removal of substructure concrete 
  • stockpiling brick arisings separately in areas designated by BAE for future use
  • metals e.g. rebar, arising from substructures, building foundation removal etc. is separated from other arisings and size reduced for easy skip loading and stockpiled for recycling
  • excavation of hardstandings, roads and tracks and recycling of materials arising via stockpiling and sorting
  • construction (and removal) of temporary haul roads to access soil storage hub areas and works areas as required
  • provision of a design for these roads taking into account appropriate protection of the water environment
  • backfilling of excavations formed by building foundation and sub-structure removal with selected site won materials
  • onward movement of soils and materials from stockpile areas, to either the on-site landfill, or other parts of the site for re-use in parts of the works following BAE Systems site sampling and testing to characterise the material
  • managing the clay borrow pit. The pit is one of the key sources for engineering grade fill material is used for backfill, upfill etc. as required in different parts of the site
  • provision of a detailed plan on how the major development project is achieved  
  • managing the site landfill as required

Our Involvement as Principal Contractor:

D Morgan was originally awarded Phase 1, and on successful completion, Phase 2 was awarded, together with the Design and Build contract for the leachate Treatment Plant; the earthworks for 1.5km North Access road to the development site; and Phase 3a Strategic Drainage works. Phase 3a was completed in 2017. We have now commenced Phase 3b and have been an integral part of this development for the past 7 years. Under a separate contract for Morgan Sindall, D Morgan is currently constructing the new M8 junction.