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New FRP Footbridge Delivered at Portishead Yacht Club
We replaced the timber footbridge at Portishead Yacht & Boat Club with a new FRP bridge for North Somerset Council, following previous completed installations.
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Vacuum Excavation Brought In-House: Our New T-VAC 2
We have brought vacuum excavation in-house with our own unit, the T-VAC 2, giving the contractors we work with safe digging around live services on demand.
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Marine Lake Featured on BBC Points West
BBC Points West filmed our Marine Lake improvement scheme for North Somerset Council on the Weston-super-Mare seafront, reopened for summer 2026.
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EJ McGrath Hosts VR Working with Plant & Buried Services Training with Galliford Try
Our crews trained with Galliford Try in virtual-reality spill scenarios, spotting, containing and responding to fuel and chemical incidents on live sites.
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Contract Award – Marine Lake, Weston-super-Mare
North Somerset Council has appointed us main contractor to transform Weston's Marine Lake, resurfacing, a new slipway and renovated waterfront facilities.
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Bristol City Hall: Entrance Ramp Repairs and Waterproofing
We repaired and waterproofed the entrance ramps at Bristol City Hall for Bristol City Council, stopping water ingress to the plant rooms below.
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Two New Footbridges Delivered for North Somerset Council – Clevedon & Yatton
We delivered a two-site footbridge replacement for North Somerset Council, new pedestrian bridges at Clevedon and Yatton, demolition through to finish.
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EJ McGrath win Pedestrian Environment award
Our granite paving and groundworks at Weston's Italian Gardens won a second national LABC Pedestrian Environment award.
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Bristol City Centre Groundworks Complete
Two years of groundworks through Bristol city centre for North Midland Construction, over 8,000m² of paving, setts and cobbles laid.
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EJM Complete on schedule for Remembrance Sunday
We finished our Metrobus works around Bristol's Cenotaph on schedule, letting the city's Remembrance Sunday service return to its traditional home.
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EJ McGrath Meet the Royles
Royle Family actors Craig Cash and Ralf Little stopped to praise Weston's transformed seafront, our completed promenade works, on a location scout.
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LABC Finalists for Best Public Service Building
Our work on the Vision North Somerset project reached the finals for Best Public Service Building at the 2015 LABC West of England awards.
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Princess Anne visits our new Square
Princess Anne unveiled a plaque at our newly completed £3.9m Weston seafront square, named Princess Royal Square in her honour, praising the standard of workmanship.
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