Bishopton - BAE Systems This former Royal Ordnance explosives factory was one of the largest of its kind in Europe where GLS have removed 20,000 tons of disused underground services to date, generating several million pounds in revenue for the client. I would add that through the course of completing this project, we were honoured in 2007 to receive a Chairman’s Bronze Award for “Generating Cash from Hidden Assets” because they recognised us as people whose ideas, actions and behaviours were making BAE Systems a better, more competitive company. Ministry of Defence USAF Greenham Common Greenham Common's long association with the USAF started in April 1951 when an extensive Airfield rebuilding programme was begun, with a 10,000 foot runway and fully serviced together with the infrastructure for the 97th air refuelling squadron. In 1980 the airfield's infrastructure was fully refurbished and part of the 1,000 acre site was chosen to be one of two sites in Britain where US cruise missiles were to be deployed. Greenham Common closed in 1989 following the signing of the INF Treaty. A decision was made to bring the site back to "common land" (which by now parts of it were designated as SSSI). This resulted in the necessity for Gilmerton Land Services to identify and remove all underground services, including a very elaborate underground fuel system, which had to be drained and cleaned before removal. Approximately 30 miles of underground services were removed, consisting of HV, LV, security, AFL, cables and pipelines, some of which dated back to the 1940's. All material was graded and marketed and all of the 16 electrical substations were decommissioned and removed by Gilmerton Land Services. Caerwent - MoD A former Royal Naval Explosives factory of some 1,600 acres and we successfully removed 6,000 tons of disused underground services, together with the decommissioning of 15 substations at no cost and bringing in a revenue for MoD of £50,000. BAE Systems (formally Royal Ordnance) RO Chorley The Royal Ordnance Factory at Chorley was opened by HM George VI on 31st March 1939 and until 1990 produced explosives and filled bombs. The factory was hailed the finest civil building construction in the World, employing 15,000 building workers to complete it and requiring 20 million bricks, 1 million cubic yards of concrete (which required the World's largest concrete mixer 120' high and turning out 5,000 tons of concrete in one day) , 50 miles of roads and 25 miles of railway tracks. In 1998 British Aerospace started a major decontamination and demolition programme. Gilmerton Land Services were chosen to specifically remove all disused underground services and decommission 14 major substations. GLS's requirement was to recover 100 miles of disused power cables and water mains within this programme and the necessity to identify and retain live services within the site was of utmost importance. GLS successfully carried this out, leaving the site infrastructually tidy under the ground. GLS segregated and marketed several thousand tons of recovered material.