Geocellular storage

GEOlight® geocellular storage from SDS was selected by the design team at AECOM for water attenuation at the 2017 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion. Sited on clay soil...

AquaCell Eco is a modular lightweight stormwater attenuation unit manufactured from specially reformulated, recycled material. It is specifically designed for use in shallow, non-trafficked areas such as domestic gardens and similar landscaped sites. BBA approved...

Stortford Fields is a large-scale, mixed-use development located on the northern fringes of Bishop’s Stortford, on the Hertfordshire and Essex border. On completion in 2027, the development will comprise approximately 2,200 new homes, a primary school with nursery, the relocation of an existing oversubscribed secondary school, a care home, 1,000m...

SDS Weholite wastewater storage tanks, manholes and conveyance piping have been installed at RAF Lossiemouth, to prepare and future-proof the base for the introduction of Boeing P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft. Located in Moray, north-east Scotland, this is one of two RAF Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) stations, whose aircraft and crews are on...

GEOlight® stormwater management units are suitable for use in sustainable drainage systems (SuDS) for stormwater attenuation or soakaway infiltration. The units are PVC modular honeycomb structures with high capacity, high compressive strength and low resistance to water flow. GEOlight® soakaways gradually release stored water into the drainage...

SDS supplied GEOlight® attenuation tanks for this mixed-use development site on the Hertfordshire / Essex border. The project represents the single largest surface water storage facility yet installed in the UK, with the tanks having a capacity to store up to 8000m3 - or 8 million litres - of water...

ACO StormBrixx is a unique and patented plastic geocellular stormwater management system for attenuation and soakaway (infiltration) usage. Its versatile design allows the system to be used in configurations and applications across all construction environments as a standalone solution, or as part of an integrated SuDS scheme...

StormHold™ precast pipe tank system is a stormwater attenuation system designed for underground installation. It uses precast concrete pipes to form storage tanks that manage stormwater. The system integrates with other FP McCann drainage products, including culverts and soakaways. StormHold™ supports both load-bearing and non-load bearing...

Working with Veolia Water, SDS implemented, over an extended period of several years, a series of surface water drainage systems, largely comprising of GEOlight® attenuation tanks and soakaways, for the MoD's Salisbury Plain encampment, which provides housing and facilities for approximately 4300 personnel ...

SDS was required to deliver a sustainable drainage system that ensures the 27-acre Wren’s Nest site at the Edlogan Wharf development, within the Afon Lwyd valley, remains flood risk free. This would also create new habitats for nature conservation, whilst still retaining the six existing streams and canal which traverse the site...

The original Westgate Centre was built between 1970 and 1972 by Taylor Woodrow; the redeveloped Centre opened in Autumn 2017 and represents the largest single development in Oxford’s history. It has 100 shops spread over three storeys, which include a flagship 142,000 ft2 John Lewis store, 25 restaurants and cafes, a five-screen cinema and 61...

The plant will generate circa 27.8MW of green electricity, sufficient to supply up to 50,000 homes, thereby reducing the region’s carbon footprint and reliance on imported fossil fuels. Any energy not used by the Park’s resident businesses and activities is sent to the electricity grid to power homes across the region. SDS was tasked to ensure the...

Spanning approximately 20 hectares, The Quarry site in Erith was originally mined for gravel and loam, subsequently used as a landfill site for bricks, masonry and other inert building materials and finally lay neglected to become overgrown with brambles and invasive Japanese knotweed. The site is designated a Grade One Site of Borough Importance...

The Edinburgh Airport Stands Development project will create 13 new aircraft stands as well as a new taxiway and an equipment area. SDS GEOlight® stormwater storage tanks were installed to ensure the new aircraft stands are free of any flood risk, and to effect the fast and efficient removal of surface water from the site, and its safe dispersal to natural water receptors...

Newlands residential development at Berewood is the largest of its type in the UK. SDS worked with consulting engineers Mayer Brown to establish the key design criteria for the site’s sustainable drainage systems. Surface water run-off is cleaned through ditches and swales before entering SDS's purpose-built attenuation tanks. Water is treated to a high quality before discharge into a...

In 2014 London Luton Airport Operations Ltd commissioned Veolia to develop a surface water management strategy which included the airport's extension plans. SDS GEOlight® attenuation tanks and Aqua-Swirl™ hydrodynamic vortex separators were used to treat and store water runoff from an extended car park. The system provided essential water quality control, flood mitigation and ease of installation...

SDS provided a sustainable drainage solution for a new train servicing facility near Bristol to protect the local watercourses and surrounding land from the risk of flooding and contamination. The GEOlight® SuDS installation comprises a network of attenuation tanks with capacity of approximately 7000m3, along with associated piping and flow control devices...

SDS was commissioned to provide a sustainable drainage system for the new Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) headquarters in Milton Keynes. SDS installed over 2500m2 of permeable block paving, two GEOlight® tanks, channel drainage and nine vortex flow controls. The system can handle surface water from a 1 in 100 year storm, with an additional allowance of 30% for climate change...

A three-house residential development in Bungay, Norfolk, needed a sustainable drainage solution to manage surface water and reduce flood risk. The development itself sits within Flood Zone 1, with surrounding village carrying a notable flood risk, which made it especially important to control rainwater close to where it falls. The local soil's...

Rainwater storage and infiltration system for trafficked surfaces. High storage volume per module at 383.2litres and 95.8% void ratio. High compressive strength suitable to SLW40 applications. Dual-crate structure supports inspection and flow...

Babraham Research Campus, located within Green Belt land to the south-east of Cambridge, is one of the United Kingdom's foremost locations for bioscience. The Campus forms part of the wider Cambridgeshire Life Sciences Cluster and sits within the Oxford-Cambridge-London 'Golden Triangle' of research, development and innovation. Established in...

SDS was appointed to design, supply and install a below-ground stormwater management system for Kestrel Park business park near Barnsley that would maintain current safe rates of surface stormwater dispersal. Surface water from the 1.77-hectare site is discharged at a controlled rate of up to 15 litres per second, maintaining pre-development runoff levels...

SDS was appointed to design and install a robust below-ground attenuation system to manage stormwater runoff from the extensive retail and car park areas at the new Cotswolds Designer Outlet as part of the site’s sustainable drainage strategy...

SDS designed, supplied and installed two GEOlight® attenuation tanks providing a combined 950m³ of below-ground stormwater storage as part of the works on the A320 improvement scheme in Surrey. Made from recycled post-consumer PVC waste, the tanks contributed to the project’s sustainability goals. The A320 is a major transport artery through...