BIS Industrial Services was engaged to examine all aspects of the siting of a new hazardous chemical rail loading facility on an existing chemical manufaturing site.

The scope of this work included assistance in driving customer business objectives in addition to the development of front-end feasibility and engineering definition.

In order to fully achieve our customer's objectives, we worked closely with a number of different parties including Project, Commercial and Sales teams, the Rail Operator and Local Authorities. The siting of the rail loading terminal was a multi-disciplinary task involving the design and installation of 2km of large bore pipework, a scheme for the siting of storage tanks of up to 1500 tonnes on heavily contaminated and unstable ground, and a secure structure with automated control systems. All these systems were required to link to existing ship and road loading facilities.

Government support grants were crucial to the financing strategy element of this project. Following a DTI evaluation of BIS-IS performance in delivering a fit for purpose design within cost parameters, the systems were shown to be robust, resulting in support grant monies being released to the project.