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Sheet Piling (UK) Ltd

Established for over 25 years, Sheet Piling (UK) Ltd is acknowledged as the United Kingdom's leading specialist driven sheet piling contractor. We pride ourselves in designing innovative value engineering solutions in-house, for both temporary and permanent works schemes, in partnership or close liaison with Clients and Principal Contractors. Our portfolio of projects range in value from £50,000 to £5 million and includes both permanent sheet piling and all forms of temporary sheet piling works.

We own and operate a fleet of modern, specialist piling equipment including silent piling vibration-less hydraulic pile-pressing equipment, versatile excavator piling rigs and telescopic leader rigs equipped with the very latest variable moment vibratory hammers and augering equipment.

Additionally, we are also the company behind the world’s first long-reach telescopic leader rig – an incredibly beneficial asset for principal contractors, in terms of cost-savings, project simplification and health and safety. With other associated benefits for the environment, this equipment is making its mark on projects across the UK.

We maintain a stock of steel sheet piles for sale at a level that typically total over 15,000 tonnes of both new and used steel sheet piles. This allows us to react promptly to any emergency situations and to also operate to reduced lead-in periods for even the largest of sheet piling projects.

Sheet Piling (UK) is highly experienced in delivering innovative sheet pile solutions across a wide range projects including: flood alleviation schemes; coastal erosion schemes; water treatment works; river walls; permanent cut-off walls; permanent retaining walls; temporary cofferdams and associated temporary and sacrificial piling works; quay walls, for ports and harbours; reservoir and dam repairs, remediation and upgrades.

Burnley WwTW Catchment Strategy (2025)

Achieving the necessary regulatory permits to improve the water quality of the River Calder and Pendle Water through an major integrated catchment solution

Burnley WwTW Catchment Strategy (2024)

Case study 4: Delivering river water quality improvements to Pendle Water and River Calder through an integrated catchment solution

Gouthwaite Reservoir (2024)

Delivering the successful design and construction of a large diameter emergency drawdown siphon at one of Yorkshire Water’s largest reservoirs

Holderness Flood Alleviation Scheme (2024)

Design and construction of new ‘online’ pumping station and flood storage aquagreen to improve resilience in the Humber region

Beckton STW (2023)

Beckton Sewage Treatment Works (STW) is the United Kingdom’s largest STW serving a population equivalent of over four million. The AMP7 project is a major £185m investment to increase the site’s treatment capacity for growth, by a population equivalent of 200,000, by extending the existing activated sludge plant (ASP). Beckton STW will receive stormwater from […]

Burnley WwTW Catchment Strategy (2023)

The Burnley integrated catchment scheme is one of United Utilities’ (UU) largest AMP7 projects with a value of £77m. The project is being delivered by UU’s construction delivery partner (CDP) framework by Advance-plus, a joint venture between MWH Treatment, J Murphy & Sons (JMS) and Stantec UK. The project commenced in 2020 and through two […]

King George V Reservoir (2023)

King George V Reservoir (KGV) is an operational raw water storage reservoir located in the Lea Valley at Walthamstow and is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) with restricted access. It is controlled by Thames Water’s Lea Valley/North London Abstraction Group based at Coppermills AWTW. Seepage through the clay core at the north-east of […]

Burnley WwTW Catchment Strategy (2022)

The Burnley Integrated Catchment Scheme is one of United Utilities largest AMP7 projects with a value of over £60m which commenced in 2020. The project is being delivered by Advance-plus, a joint venture between MWH Treatment, J Murphy & Sons and Stantec UK; United Utilities’ framework construction delivery partner (CDP). In UK Water Projects 2021 […]

Burnley WwTW Catchment Strategy (2021)

Burnley WwTW serves a domestic population equivalent (PE) of 107,115 plus trade load. The existing site processes include screening and grit removal, primary settlement, activated sludge plant (ASP) with final settlement, nitrifying filters, chemical dosing and storm storage tanks. The sludge treatment facilities include sludge thickening, THP, mesophilic anaerobic digestion (MAD), associated ancillaries and sludge […]

Dolwen Reservoir (2021)

Dolwen Reservoir is a Category A Large Raised Reservoir as defined under the Reservoirs Act 1975. It is located on a tributary of the River Elwy, 0.7km upstream and north of Plas Uchaf Reservoir, near Abergele, Conwy, Wales. It was constructed in 1905 and has a capacity of approximately 288,185m3. Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water commissioned […]

Kineton STW (2021)

The Kineton STW required investment in AMP7 due to the introduction of a 0.5mg/l total phosphorus effluent limit, which comes into force by the end of December 2021. The new works is designed to cater for flows from Kineton, Butlers Marston and Radway equating to a combined design horizon population equivalent of 3,946. The existing […]

Anchorsholme Long Sea Outfall (2019)

Anchorsholme Park is located on the coast 4 miles north of Blackpool Tower. The long sea outfall (LSO) project is the third of three phases contributing to improving bathing waters on the Fylde Coast. The objective of the overall scheme is to complete the AMP6 obligations on the Fylde Coast of the ‘moving towards three […]

Woolston WwT Scheme - Part 4 (2019)

Woolston WwTW uses a conventional activated sludge plant (ASP), built in 1966, treating sewage flows from part of the Southampton conurbation, serving a population of approximately 62,000 people. The site occupies an area of 1.26 hectares. The existing sewerage system which feeds into the WwTW collects both wastewater and stormwater from the Woolston catchment area. […]

Deephams STW - A630 Major Upgrade (2018)

Thames Water’s Deephams Sewage Treatment Works (STW) is located in Edmonton, North London and treats a 989,000 population. Three drainage catchment areas of Lea Valley, High Barnet and Tottenham flow to the works, the ninth largest plant in the UK. The original effluent treatment process was built between 1956-1966 and had been updated at various […]

Island Barn Reservoir Remedial Works (2018)

Island Barn Reservoir is located in West Molesey near Hampton Court on the Surrey/London border. The reservoir is a non-impounding reservoir and is retained by an earth fill embankment with puddle clay core approximately 10.8m high and 2,700m long. The reservoir has a stated capacity of 4,191,000m3 and a surface area of 489,700m2, when full […]

Bransholme Surface Water Pumping Station (2017)

Hull’s response to the 2007 flooding that affected thousands of homes in the Bransholme catchment is now complete and operational. This saw Yorkshire Water appoint Black & Veatch (now Binnies) to carry out a feasibility study followed by a design and build contract for a new pumping station. The new Bransholme Surface Water Pumping Station (SWPS), […]

Harrowside Long Sea Outfall (2015)

Harrowside Outfall is the first element of the Blackpool South Strategy to further improve the bathing water quality along the Fylde Coast which involves increasing the capacity of the existing sewer network, surface water and maintenance works to the Lennox Gate Pumping Station. The existing Harrowside outfall, built in 1938, has reached the end of […]

Temporary Sheet Pile Cofferdams for Chorley WwTW

Ridgegate Reservoir Dam Remediation

Rotherham Riverside Flood Alleviation Scheme

Sheet Pile Cofferdam at Ravensfleet Pumping Station

Quay Wall Replacement at Montgomery Wharf

Hybrid Sheet Piling Approach Benefits Flood Mitigation Project

Temporary Sheet Pile Cofferdams, Chipping WwTW

King George V Reservoir Remediation

Project Munio Flood Alleviation Scheme in Derby for JN Bentley

Chapel Haddlesey Flood Prevention Project

Temporary Sheet Pile Cofferdam for Waste Water Treatment Works

Embankment Core Sheet Pile Cut Off Wall Installation, Banbury Reservoir, Walthamstow

Sheet Piling Prevents Coastal Erosion at Clacton on Sea

Permanent Sheet Pile River Wall and Flood Alleviation Scheme

William Girling Reservoir Sheet Pile Cut Off Wall

Thames Water Eel Screen Environmental Protection Works

Thames Water Island Barn Reservoir

Permanent Sheet Pile Retaining Wall, Heathrow EBR

Huntington Water Treatment Works

Quay Wall Replacement at Montgomery Wharf

Swift Cofferdam Installation Works Waste No Time at STW

Sheet Piling (UK) Ltd has recently provided a sheet pile supply and cofferdam installation package that is part of a £300m investment in the Severn Trent-owned Wanlip Sewage Treatment Works (STW) in Leicestershire.

Sheet Piles Drive River Water Quality Improvements

Working on behalf of Ward & Burke Construction for United Utilities, Sheet Piling (UK) Ltd were contracted to install 212 (106 [No.] per cofferdam), 9.0m long GU16 steel sheet piles for two circular Detention Tank cofferdams to ultimately help improve river water quality. The site was located on land adjacent to Southlands High School in Chorley.

Ridgegate Reservoir Refurbishment

Nestling in Macclesfield Forest, on the edge of the Peak District, surrounded by a conifer plantation lies Ridgegate Reservoir. The woodland surrounding the reservoir is designated as a Site of Biological Importance, whilst another adjacent area is a Nature Reserve managed by the Cheshire Wildlife Trust.

What we do:

Accreditations: Achilles UVBD | Builders Profile | BuildingConfidence | CHAS | Constructionline | ISO

Construction Plant & Equipment: Cranes | Drilling Rigs

Contractors: Civils | Ground Engineering | Marine | Piling

Designers: Civils Design | Temporary Works Design

Flood Alleviation: Coastal Flood Alleviation | Contractors | Civil Engineering | Piling | Protection of Assets | Pumping Stations | River Flood Alleviation | Temporary Works

Reservoirs & Storage: Contractors | Civil Engineering | Piling

River Work: Civil Engineering | Eel Screens | River Restoration

Sewerage: Contractors | Long Sea Outfalls

Site Preparation: Cofferdams | Ground & Slope Stabilisation | Groundworks & Earthworks | Piling | Retaining Walls | Shoring | Soil Nailing

Stormwater Storage: Contractors

Wastewater Pumping Stations: Contractors

Water Mains: Contractors