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National Trench Safety UK

SHORING & TEMPORARY WORKS SPECIALISTS. At National Trench Safety (NTS UK), we specialise in the hire and sale of all your trench support and excavation requirements.

We pride ourselves on having unique solutions from simple to complex projects. We are dedicated to bringing both standard and bespoke solutions to the civil engineering, infrastructure and construction sectors.

NTS UK are proud of their reputation for providing the highest quality products, the most complete hire fleet mix and unparalleled levels of service. With hundreds of years of combined industry experience, we have assembled one of the most experienced groups of hire professionals in the country.

Our mission statement is simple, “our customers get what they want when they want it.” All of us at NTS UK believe our job is to ensure our customers’ complete satisfaction and we promise to diligently work to build and keep your trust and confidence. As well as a comprehensive stock of trench boxes, trench sheets and hydraulic bracing products, we are also able to offer the UK our unique (SBH) Slide Rail shoring system.

DEDICATED TEMPORARY WORKS SUPPORT: INDUSTRY SPECIALISTS WITH UNRIVALLED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE

NTS UK is happy to provide you with specialist design support for all your shoring requirements to ensure your project is performed safely and to programme.

Our experienced temporary works engineers provide a comprehensive design service to complement our suite of hire and sale products. Using the latest software, your engineered solution is compliant with the current industry standards and recommended guidance.

Our engineering team are happy to provide on site support for all your project needs and will endeavour to exceed your expectations when it comes to both the solution and service provided.

Strut removal as part of NTS UK's tie-back installation - Courtesy of NTS UK Ltd

(left) First tank being lifted into the open excavation and (right) twin tank Slide Rail excavation 20m x 15m x 4.5m - Courtesy of NTS UK Ltd

Project Pipeline - County Durham & Tees Valley (2024)

Update on construction of a large diameter strategic water main including a challenging crossing of the River Tees

Witches Oak WTW: Green Recovery - Decarbonising Water Resources (2024)

The challenges of designing and constructing the Witches Oak programme of works on multiple sites to a condensed timescale

Seedy Mill WTW (2023)

Seedy Mill WTW treats surface water from the Blithfield Reservoir. The existing supply to the works is gravity-fed up to a maximum of 85 MLD. Additional yield could be provided by utilising three in-line booster pumps located at Nethertown. In addition, there are two individual borehole contributions at Seedy Mill and Trent Valley, which can […]

St Augustines Road Flood Alleviation (2023)

St Augustines Road is a busy thoroughfare in Chesterfield linking the town to Matlock and the south-eastern edge of the Peak District. Lying within the Yorkshire Water (YW) waste catchment area, the road is steep in its nature with gradients often exceeding 7%. Due to the local hydraulic catchment and topography, during heavy rainfall events […]

Tees & Central Strategic Pipeline: Phases 1 & 2 (2023)

With approximately 60km of new 800/900mm pipeline required to replace the existing potable water mains, some of which are over 150 years old, the Tees and Central Strategic Pipeline will directly improve water quality, network resilience and operability within the Tees Network. The pipeline will serve approximately 50,000 properties and link a number of strategic […]

Witches Oak WTW: Green Recovery - Decarbonising Water Resources (2023)

In the summer of 2020, the water industry was set a challenge by its regulators to identify ways to support the country’s green economic recovery from Covid-19. Severn Trent responded with a number of proposed programmes, including Decarbonising Water Resources (DWR), the subject of this paper. The objective of the DWR programme was to provide […]

Anglian Water’s Strategic Pipeline Alliance (2022)

While the east of England is attracting people like no other part of the UK, it is also the driest area of the country – a threat to its success that Anglian Water is determined to overcome. The Strategic Pipeline Alliance (SPA) comprises, Farrans, Mott MacDonald Bentley, Costain and Jacobs, who are delivering one of […]

Cownwy & Marchnant WFD Project (2021)

The River Marchnant and River Cownwy lie within the valley of Lake Vyrnwy, Powys. The purpose of this project is to provide environmental flow releases below the Cownwy and Marchnant diversion intakes that supply Vyrnwy Reservoir. The scheme will amend the existing structures to enable a 25/75% proportional flow split, including a Q99 hands-off flow. […]

Hull WwTW - Project Update (2021)

Located in Saltend, Yorkshire Water’s Hull WwTW provides sewage treatment for a population equivalent of over 1 million people, covering an area from the west of Hull to Hedon in the east. This case study follows on from an initial paper in 2020 and details the progress of the new inlet works and the refurbishment […]

BRP - Treated Water Project - Birmingham Resilience Project (2020)

Raw water has been collected in reservoirs in the Elan Valley in Wales and transferred 118km under gravity through an aqueduct to the water treatment works (WTW) in Birmingham for treatment and distribution to the city’s residents and industries since the beginning of the 20th century. The original infrastructure was constructed over 100 years ago, […]

Zouch S101a - First Time Sewerage Scheme (2020)

Zouch is a small hamlet situated along the A6006 on the border of Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire and consists of 43 properties that had no access to public sewerage. Due to the canalisation of the River Soar, the hamlet is entirely surrounded by water with the main River Soar to the South and the navigable Zouch […]

Church Wilne WTW (2020)

Situated on the Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire border, Church Wilne WTW serves 600,000 Severn Trent (ST) customers in the East Midlands. Built in 1967 to extract and treat 27 ML/day from the River Derwent, the works has been extended twice to 135 ML/day meeting the needs of both a growing population and increased water quality standards. However, the […]

Hull WwTW (2020)

Hull WwTW located at Saltend, east of Hull, provides sewage treatment for a population equivalent of over 1 million people, covering an area from the west of Hull to Hedon in the east. The existing treatment works was built over 20 years ago and required some specific upgrading and refurbishment. The primary drivers for the […]

BRP - Treated Water Project - Birmingham Resilience Project (2019)

Since the beginning of the 20th century, raw water has been conveyed 118km from the Elan Valley in Wales, under gravity by aqueduct, to the water treatment works (WTW) in Birmingham for treatment and supply to the population of the city. The aqueduct has been in continuous service for over 100 years and requires some […]

BRP - Treated Water Project - Birmingham Resilience Project (2018)

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Elan Valley Aqueduct (EVA) has conveyed raw water 118km from the Elan Valley in Wales under gravity to Frankley Water Treatment Works (WTW) in Birmingham. The treatment works was inaugurated at the same time as the EVA and has treated water, to supply the residents and industries […]

Slide Rail Installation Animation

Slide Rail - East Bridgford

Slide Rail - East Barking (1)

Slide Rail - East Barking (2)

Twin Puller & Beam

Beam & Plate

Double Slide Rail Installation at SmartParc Development, Derby

TSL Ltd utilise the slide rail temporary works shoring system from National Trench Safety to achieve rapid progress on the groundworks and civils package

What we do:

Civil Engineering: Temporary Works

Plant & Equipment: Shoring & Excavation Support