Kyleakin Marine Works

Client: Marine Harvest Scotland Ltd

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The works, to encase and extend the existing finger pier, consisted of the following: combi piling and dredging, transit and installation of two number caisson onto prepared bed at -10m Chart Datum, construction of 10,200m2 insitu concrete deck, laydown area and slipway and placement of 8,000m3 of rock armour imported by sea.

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Principal Elements

• Infill works 120,000 tons

• Rock armour 22,500 tons

• Combi piling walls 214m

• Sheet piling walls 240m

• Bearing piles 20 no.

• Concrete 7,500m3

• Rebar 700 tons

• Fenders 12 no.

• Dredging 85,000m3

• Sea bed armour 1,500m3

• Underwater concrete 200m3

• Caisson foundations 2,000m3

• Drainage 400m

• Slipway construction 900m2

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Points of Interest

• Caissons (2 no., each 30m long x 20m wide x 15m high) constructed at Corpach and towed to Kyleakin by tug

• Marine Mammal Observation and Passive Acoustic Monitoring works for marine mammal protection

• Completed within a marine protected area