Osprey Group

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Osprey offers your team the complete engineering, planning, owner-operated equipment and support partnership for any bridge project. With our own heavy-lift equipment and one of the UK’s largest SPMT fleets, we’ve built a reputation for finding new ways to overcome age-old challenges. Lifting and installing 5,000 te bridges as single components, moving sections into or through locations with millimetre precision – delivering end-to-end project management with clients serving every aspect of bridge infrastructure installations. Our cross-sector QHSE expertise adds value to every project, and we deliver on budget and on time, every time. www.osprey.group

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Welcome to Osprey (2.76 MiB)

Osprey has been providing specialist logistics services to move some of the world’s most challenging critical infrastructure for 25 years. Every day, Osprey’s engineers and operators are collaborating with our partners on things like making rail and road-bridge installations more feasible, while reducing associated disruption to communities and commuters
Bridge Installation Services (3.81 MiB)

For us, specialist bridge logistics and installations, are all about finding the right approach - using our equipment and expertise to bring your project in safely, on time and on budget. Neil Hopkins, Commercial Director, Osprey.
Project Case Study: Innovative Network Rail Bridge Replacement at Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire (1.65 MiB)

Sometimes, the space restrictions of a working environment mean that a straight-forward move doesn’t actually involve moving straight forwards. This is where our team excels, using experience and equipment to find an innovative solution for this rail bridge project.
Project Case Study: Ambitious Bridge Installations on the M4, UK (0.87 MiB)

Osprey has been involved in one of the UK’s most significant highway infrastructure projects recently, involving 12 bridge structures being installed in less than a year. We were delighted to play a key role in this project, helping to develop new bridge installation techniques that significantly reduced those all-important possession times.
Project Case Study: Renewing major Network Rail Infrastructure at Bletchley Viaduct (812.84 KiB)

Railway logistics take timing and teamwork. Recently, we’ve been working in close collaboration with Network Rail, our client Volker Laser and, the EWR Alliance, to remove several complex, 60-year old Viaduct top sections and support piers from the Bletchley Flyover.
Project Case Study: Jacking, Moving and Installing a Cable-span Bridge for Jaguar Land Rover (2.92 MiB)

Early, collaborative planning delivers best-practice logistics. The Osprey team takes pride in supporting projects that deliver immense benefit to not only a local region but also the wider economy – such as Jaguar Land Rover’s (JLR) expansion plans.
Project Case Study : Lifting an 81-metre long bridge section at Manchester Airport (263.81 KiB)

When bridges need building, one of the biggest challenges for contractors is time: how to complete a job efficiently so that minimum disruption is caused to travellers, commuters, businesses, and bottom lines. In Manchester, we were able to help mitigate the impact of downtime and road closures when we helped to install a new, £6 million pedestrian and cycle bridge over the M56 motorway spur road at Airport City – linking two key parts of the Manchester Airport extension.

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OSPREY; NETWORK RAIL BRIDGE REPLACEMENT

OSPREY; NETWORK RAIL BRIDGE REPLACEMENT Our teams have moved all kinds of structures for the rail network, including replacing one of Network Rail’s 1900 bridges. This new type of installation – direct fix – has all the infrastructure in place, prior to installation. Less risk, more sustainable infrastructure and, crucially, an increased line speed through this part of the network.

OSPREY: NETWORK RAIL BRIDGE REPLACEMENT, BEWSEY STREET

OSPREY: NETWORK RAIL BRIDGE REPLACEMENT, BEWSEY STREET A great video from Network Rail, showing how we removed and installed a new rail bridge for our client, J. Murphy and Sons. It's not everyday you see a bridge being driven past your window.

OSPREY: BRIDGE INSTALLATION FOR JAGUAR LAND ROVER

OSPREY: BRIDGE INSTALLATION FOR JAGUAR LAND ROVER Early, collaborative planning delivers best-practice logistics. At the JLR site, our project was split into three phases: Jacking, moving and installing, using hydraulic climbing jacks, SPMT's and our LG1550 mobile crane.

OSPREY MOVES UK'S HEAVIEST BRIDGE

OSPREY MOVES ONE OF UK'S HEAVIEST SINGLE-SPAN BRIDGES Osprey has recently moved the UK’s heaviest single-span bridge. Weighing in at 5,200 tonnes, we transported the bridge in one piece using a 144-axle self-propelled modular transport (SPMT) with 576 wheels and an innovative arrangement of hydraulic jacks and longitudinal beams.

BRIDGE INSTALLATION - MANCHESTER AIRPORT

BRIDGE INSTALLATION - MANCHESTER AIRPORT We can make a difference with our approach to special logistics. When we installed this £6m footbridge at Manchester airport, we reduced the downtime greatly for commuters and businesses at the airport by closing the M56 and working right through the night, using our SPMTs.

M1 BRIDGE LOGISTICS

M1 BRIDGE LOGISTICS Osprey’s mission, over a Bank Holiday weekend, was to install a fully assembled bridge across the M1 – using Osprey’s proprietary bridge system.