Groundworks & Shoring
Discover HERMEQ’s Groundworks solutions, expertly designed to provide the foundation for your construction projects. Our extensive range of products ensures a solid base for any endeavour, whether it’s a residential building, commercial development, or infrastructure project. We offer high-quality materials and tools tailored for excavation, levelling, and stabilisation, including aggregates, geotextiles, and compacting equipment. Each product is engineered for durability and reliability, ensuring your groundwork is robust enough to support your construction goals. This wide range of products are ideal for specialist ground works contractors. We boast one of largest ranges of steel road plates in Ireland, including plain road plate, anti-skid road plate & our own specially designed anti-slip road plate. Alongside this, our ground protection mats, trench sheets and road forms are some of the most competitively priced you'll find anywhere. At HERMEQ, we prioritise efficiency and safety in every project. Our solutions are easy to work with, helping you streamline your workflow while adhering to industry standards. Explore our Groundworks offerings today and lay the groundwork for success with HERMEQ - your partner in building a solid future!
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Road Forms
HERMEQ supplies road forms, the concrete forms that shutter the edges of roads, footpaths, ground slabs, foundations and drives. The range covers rigid steel road forms with or without holes, flexible road forms for curved edges, custom forms made to a set height and rigidity, and road form stakes to pin each form to line.Alongside the forms, the range includes the accessories that make concrete shuttering easier on site: road form stillages for storing and transporting full-length forms, and a road form stake extractor for lifting stakes out after the pour. For internal floors laid in bays, the range also holds Combiform steel screed rails and the K-Form uPVC rail.
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Trench Covers & Road Plates
Trench covers and road plates let pedestrians and vehicles pass over open trenches and excavations while the work below carries on. The steel range spans gauges from 6mm to 25mm in four types of road plate: plain, anti-slip, anti-skid and Safe Plate. The steel plates have a lifting eye in each corner for handling by machine. Where a cover must be easy to see as well as carry a load, the LowPro trench covers and the driveway trench cover board are high-visibility composite boards that take foot traffic and vehicles over trenches on footpaths and driveways.
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Bog Mats
Bog mats are heavy hardwood mats laid on soft, wet or fragile ground to form long-term temporary access roads and working platforms on construction sites. They spread the weight of heavy machinery over a wide area, which limits lasting damage to the ground and the surrounding environment and keeps site traffic moving.Dense hardwood carries high loads and stands up to repeated passes. Ekki timber bog mats are the heaviest duty, with high electrical resistance and the acid and weather resistance for wet, windy conditions. Tropical hardwood bog mats from West Africa and South America suit any ground or location, and European oak and beech mats are the most cost effective of the three.
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Rebar & Steel Plate
HERMEQ supplies high tensile steel rebar for reinforced concrete work, and steel plate cut to shape. Concrete is strong in compression and weak in tension, so the reinforcing bar cast into a foundation, slab or wall carries the tensile load the concrete cannot take on its own.The range covers straight bar in a choice of lengths and diameters, and bent bar cut and shaped to the bar bending schedule. On the plate side, HERMEQ supplies plasma cut shapes in a range of sheet and plate gauges, cut to the buyer's drawing.
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Sheet Piles & Trench Sheets
HERMEQ supplies sheet piles and trench sheets for shoring excavations and groundworks: overlapping trench sheets, interlocking trench sheets and hot rolled U piles, with Z piles for heavier retaining work. Trench sheets and U piles hold back the sides of an excavation so that work can continue safely below ground level. The cold rolled trench sheets and sheet piles are designed to be handled and installed by an excavator, with the bucket driving each sheet vertically into the ground. Alongside them, HERMEQ supplies shoring equipment including trench boxes, manhole boxes and trench edge protection systems.
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Ground Protection Mats
Ground protection mats give vehicles, plant and pedestrians a stable running surface over soft ground and protect the ground beneath from ruts and churning. The range runs in duty classes, from light duty access mats for foot traffic and light vehicles, through medium and heavy duty plastic ground mats for site traffic and tracked plant, to roadway panels and hardwood bog mats for cranes and the heaviest machines.Medium and heavy duty mats join with connectors, so they can be laid as continuous haul roads, walkways and working platforms for construction and civils sites, events and temporary car parks.
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Gabion Baskets
HERMEQ supplies gabion baskets made from square mesh, welded at every intersection so that each basket holds its shape when it is filled, in a choice of wire diameters. Welded mesh gabions build free standing walls, cladding and other landscape structures in agricultural and commercial settings, and they are used for retaining walls, river control and erosion defence. The range also includes gabion rock rolls for erosion control along riverbanks and wetland edges.
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Concrete Skips
HERMEQ supplies concrete skips for placing concrete by crane, forklift, telehandler and excavator, from the professional column skip with its discharge hose to twinflow and coneflow concrete pouring skips. The range also includes a forklift skip and an excavator concrete pouring bucket, with capacities from 500 to 2000 litres across the range. Each type suits a different lifting machine and a different pour, from mass concrete in foundations and slabs to controlled placing into wall and column shuttering.
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Underground Cable Protection
The HERMEQ underground cable protection range marks, warns of and protects buried services, from electricity cables to water pipes and gas mains. Cable protection tiles in recycled plastic lie over the cable and take the blow from a spade or bucket during later digging, and their bright colour tells site staff what lies beneath. Concrete service marker blocks, printed with the service they mark, identify electric, high voltage, fibre optic, gas and water routes at ground level, and precast concrete marker posts locate hydrants and electric cables. Reinforced utility and pipe protection slabs spread the load of traffic above pipes, mains and power cables. For cables exposed in an open excavation, the range also holds hi-vis, cone-shaped cable covers.
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Groundworks Lifting Accessories
HERMEQ supplies groundworks lifting accessories for moving heavy and awkward materials around site with the plant already there. Mechanical well ring lifters and materials lifting cages move concrete rings and loose materials as single, controlled lifts. Bulk bag and sand bag carriers fit a forklift or telehandler, so full and part filled bags are lifted and placed by machine.Low profile jib attachments, in fixed and extending versions, give the same machines a lifting hook for awkward loads where working space is tight, with a choice of loading positions along the jib. Kerb stone handles and lifters, a magnetic lifter for steel road plates, a fork mounted magnet sweeper and trench access equipment complete the range.
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