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November 2020

BFS achieves Constructionline Gold verification.


November 2018

Bell Formwork & Civil Engineering Services Ltd are proud to announce, along with Tier 2 partners RG Carters & Claret Civil Engineering, won the Anglian Water Small to Medium Enterprise of the year at the recent Anglian Water Supplier award. This is a fantastic achievement and testament to the hard work put in by all our employees working on Anglian Water sites.


October 2016

We have been awarded 2 major projects this month. The first is for a new new client, RMP from Norwich, where we have been engaged to construct an elevated RC podium for a large development at St Anne’s Wharf in the centre of Norwich. The second is a biomass plant in Boston for Galliford Try. Both projects start shortly and are due to run into the New Year. Since our last news update we have been awarded and started a large civils project under our Tier 2 Civils Framework with Anglian Water. The scheme is a cake reception facility at Kings Lynn STW and involves a number of large RC foundations, drainage and ducting.


May 2016

We are pleased to announce that Scott Holmes will be joining our team from 3rd May 2016 as our Senior Quantity Surveyor, we wish Scott every success for the future.

In addition we can confirm that we have recently been awarded the following major projects;

Norwich NDR for Balfour Beatty which involves the construction of 8 bridges along with other associated structures over the next 2 years.

Lowestoft STW for Anglian Water @ONE Alliance which involves the full civil engineering scope to install a new circular 30m diameter precast final settlement tank.

Rugby Radio Station for Jackson Civil Engineering which involves the construction of a number of retaining walls to PC culverts associated with environmental enhancements on a new housing development.


April 2016

This year Bell Formwork will be supporting the Anglian Water Water Aid 2016 ball which is being held on Saturday 30th April 2016 in Milton Keynes. Bell Formwork are proud to be sponsoring this event and helping a very worthy charity in WaterAid.


December 2015

Large energy from waste plant for Interserve Derby
This picture is from our ongoing project in Derby, where we are constructing a large energy from waste plant for Interserve. The picture shows a pour on the Reception pit base slab which is formed 12m below ground level and contains over 1000m3 of concrete and more than 150t of reinforcement. The reception pit has 12m high insitu concrete walls and in the back ground you can see the RDF structure which also has insitu concrete walls being constructed at 12m high. The works are ongoing with completion of the main concrete structures expected in early 2016.


October 2015

We have been formally awarded the subcontract package to construct a new precast concrete service reservoir at Oswestry WTW on behalf of Carlow Precast. The project starts on Monday 19th October 2015 and will run for around 30 weeks. As part of our @ONE Alliance framework agreement we have been awarded schemes at Isleham WTW and we recently completed an Orthophosphoric dosing scheme at Kirby Cane WTW where we were involved in trialling a ‘Cemfree’ concrete mix for the dosing unit foundation slab.


September 2015

We are pleased to announce that we have formally been appointed as a Tier 2 Civil Engineering Framework Subcontractor for Anglian Water’s @ONE Alliance. This appointment gives us access to 5 years work for the @ONE Alliance and the agreement could be extended for upto 15 years. The framework is for all civil engineering related activities including excavation, underground pipework, ductwork, Manholes as well as formwork, rebar and concreting for major structures.


August 2015

August has been another busy month here at Bell Formwork and we have started on two new major projects in the Anglian Water Region. The first is the installation of, the insitu concrete elements, for a new service reservoir for JN Bentley at Grafham water and the second is a major civil engineering package to construct a new water treatmenet plant at Semer WTW. Our scope at Semer includes all the pressure/gravity underground pipework, ducts/dosing lines, duct chambers, manholes and a number of concrete foundations.