Projects

Below are just some of the projects we have worked on...

	Camblesforth Solar Farm Camblesforth Solar Farm is developing a 68MWp solar farm with a co-located 10MW/24MWh battery energy storage system at Camblesforth Hall Farm, Selby, West Yorkshire. OCU Group was appointed to design, construct and commission the new grid connection to provide the sole electric supply for the solar farm.
Pitkevy (Fife, Scotland) 40MW BESS Project Our teams delivered the Civil and Electrical works associated with a new 40MW Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). This included the construction of a new access road, platform, drainage, Distribution Network Operator (DNO) and customer switchroom buildings, 33kV cabling and the installation of MV transformers and BESS units.
	Axford Pipeline Thames Water We were appointed to deliver the Axford Pipeline scheme for Thames Water. The project involved constructing a 17.6km clean water pipeline, building a new booster station at Dorcan, and modifying facilities at Whitefield Reservoir.
Vodafone Fibre Call-Out OCU Group is contracted by Vodafone to deliver fibre and civils call-out services on a 24/7/365 basis throughout England and Wales. We serve both road and rail networks, using our various locations in London, the North, South West and South East England, and Wales.
	Street Works UK Material Classification We faced the challenge of rapidly embedding a new set of environmentally-critical workflows across our street works operations. The protocol required all excavations to undergo desk-based and on-site assessments, enforce waste segregation from the point of excavation, and link decisions to street manager permits for full traceability.
Hawton 132kV Cable Diversions We delivered the diversion of existing 132kV overhead line infrastructure at Hawton, Nottinghamshire, replacing eight spans of overhead line with a new underground cable system. The works formed part of a wider residential housing and relief road development scheme.
	Cork Harbour Horizontal Directional Drilling OCU Group was contracted to design and install twin 1,025-metre lengths of 500mm diameter SDR-9 PE100 foul main under Cork Harbour using Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD). A discharge chamber was constructed on the west shore, with tie-in works to connect to the existing network.