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Rokbak Featured Story
Rokbak RA30 is helping
to bring surfing to
Scotland
The RA30 articulated hauler is able to take on challenging terrain in arduous weather conditions, in all seasons. It’s one of the reasons the truck has been integral to the groundwork at a disused quarry that will be home to Scotland’s new tourist beacon, Europe’s largest inland surfing destination, Lost Shore Surf Resort.
The Lost Shore Surf Resort is a gigantic £55million project set to change the landscape of Scottish tourism. A landmark construction venture near Edinburgh, Scotland, it is expected to deliver over 100 jobs and attract 180,000 visitors a year, as well as substantial sustainability and community benefits to help regenerate the area. It will soon be ready to make big waves and in no small part thanks to the performance of the Rokbak RA30 articulated hauler.
At the disused Craigpark Quarry in Ratho, the RA30 ADT is helping prepare the build of this unique leisure space. This leisure space’s jewel in the crown is a state-of-the-art ‘wave garden’ which, once completed, will allow people to surf pristine waves inland, a stone’s throw from Scotland’s capital as Europe’s largest inland surfing destination.
As a former quarry, the site is all manmade ground – where the original soil has been replaced or altered by the
introduction of materials such as concrete or crushed brick. The regeneration of a quarry can have positive environmental and economic effects and significantly improve community wellbeing.
However, without the correct monitoring and operation, it can pose structural and contamination problems if built upon. With a maximum payload of 28 tonne (30.9 US ton) and a heaped capacity of 17.5m3 (22.9yd3), the RA30 is moving hundreds of tonnes of material a day and ultimately helping to make the site suitable to construct on.
“It’s been far more economical to invest in a 30t truck for earthmoving, rather than take on several smaller vehicles to move our material,” says Connor McAlister, Senior Site Manager for civil works specialist WH Malcolm at the Lost Shore Surf Resort development.
www.hub-4.com Nov/Dec- Issue 83
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