Case studies

Elite Precast Concrete manufactured eight bespoke Sea Anchor Blocks to moor decorative buoys and create a safe, clearly marked 2km open-water swimming route in Penzance.

After a heavy goods vehicle collision damaged Broad Bridge, a Grade II listed sandstone structure on the B4176, Temporary Vertical Concrete Barriers provided traffic management and protection throughout the 14-week repair.

Elite Precast's Retainer-Rock® walling system provided low-maintenance, attractive retaining walls on Yorkshire Water's £10m Dronfield Wastewater Treatment Works upgrade, commissioned on time in December 2024.

Shropshire Homes needed a robust, safe and reusable foundation for the mortar silos on its Mytton Oak Manor site in Shrewsbury. Elite Precast Concrete's Silo Foundation Base Slabs delivered an instant, portable platform that saved time and cost over traditional in-situ bases.

Penn Golf Club in Wolverhampton suffered repeated unauthorised vehicle access damaging its course. Elite's freestanding Minion-Bollards® were installed in hours and have since stopped all incursions.

Elite Precast's Legato® interlocking blocks replaced failing steel columns and wooden sleeper walls at IMERYS' Furzebrook ball clay facility, delivering a stronger, safer and more efficient storage solution.

After a January 2025 landslip halted the Severn Valley Railway at Mor Brook bridge, Elite Precast supplied over 100 Legato® interlocking blocks for the core of a new embankment structure, enabling a rapid and sustainable restoration.

Elite Precast supplied Legato® interlocking blocks to help build a fish and eel pass on the River Wharfe, forming a watertight dam that enabled safe, dry construction of a Larinier fish pass for Yorkshire Water.

Elite Precast supplied Legato® interlocking concrete blocks for the £28 million Holderness Flood Alleviation Scheme, providing rapid, durable flood defence infrastructure for the Environment Agency.

Jones Site Services & Installations used Elite Precast Legato® blocks to construct a strong, durable retaining bay wall for an Envirodome shelter, completing the project on time and on budget.

By combining Zappshelter's custom canopies with Elite Precast Concrete's Legato® blocks, Tarmac's Tunstead Quarry protected dry materials from harsh Peak District weather, boosting production capacity and environmental performance with two rapidly installed shelters.

Elite Precast supplied Legato® interlocking concrete blocks to build a ten-bay material storage structure at online retailer AO's state-of-the-art recycling centre in Telford.

After 18 of the village's 80 houses flooded, 55 Temporary Vertical Concrete Barriers were ordered and installed within a day to create a 600m defensive wall at South Hinksey.

After a landslip displaced up to 1,500 tons of material onto a Gloucestershire passenger line, Griffiths used 35 Elite Precast Legato® blocks to build a protective toe wall during emergency remedial works for Network Rail.

For SSE Renewables' South Littleton solar project in Evesham, Elite Precast supplied over 800 maintenance-free precast solar panel ballast beams within a tight 10-week deadline, helping deliver a farm designed to power around 10,000 homes a year.

On the £300m Cardiff Area Signalling Renewals project, an all-line possession wasn't possible. A 'real virtual wall' built from Elite Legato walling let work proceed safely and complete on programme.

Elite Precast supplied TVCB concrete safety barriers to AA Installations to secure a 10 metre ramp for artist Keith Harrison's Cannock Chase installation, in which a clay Rover 75 was crashed into the barriers before 500 spectators.

After a £1.6 million grant to expand its Materials Recycling Facility, Oadby and Wigston Council returned to Elite Precast Concrete for a second time — 170 Vee™ interlocking blocks formed two new segregation bays in four days.

Duo™ interlocking blocks were used to secure the polycarbonate panels of the Dichroic Maze art installation along Newcastle Quay, while doubling as seating for visitors.

Elite Precast supplied 500 high-strength Legato® blocks to the Environment Agency within days to form a temporary flood defence wall in North Lincolnshire, which proved successful when a storm hit days later.

Elite Precast manufactured 1,300 Legato® concrete blocks installed at Kishorn Port's dry dock to hold decommissioned North Sea oil rigs for demolishing, recycling and disposal.

Elite Precast's Legato® interlocking blocks replaced the originally specified Gabion baskets to build a 220m by 5m retaining wall at a Prologis distribution centre in Dunstable, completed in a 10-day period.

Elite Precast Concrete partnered with renewable energy specialists EnergyMyWay to supply sixty Kentledge blocks as counterweights for a ground-mounted solar PV array powering Oxford University's new book storage facility.

Elite Legato concrete blocks were used in the £4 million Largs sea wall to form a tide protection wall and to build a new RNLI slipway, providing the lifeboat with safe access to and from the water at low tide.

A local contractor at Woodfield Oaks, near Ombersley in Worcestershire, needed a retaining wall for his own home that was both secure and in keeping with the surrounding architecture. Elite Precast Concrete's Vee-Rock™ modular walling system proved the perfect choice.

Sandy Oaks, a residential park set in 35 acres of woodland near Sherwood Forest, needed a 2.5-metre retaining wall to protect homes and gardens from landslips. Elite Precast Concrete's Retainer-Rock® modular walling system delivered a strong, secure and aesthetically sympathetic solution.

Phase two of the 'Unlocking the Severn' fish pass project at Holt Weir was completed in March 2022. Over 900 Elite Legato interlocking blocks proved crucial on a remote, restricted-access site.

An RSG Structures client needed a 6–7m high covered bunker on an existing slab with many different levels. Elite's high-strength Legato blocks on a varying-height plinth provided a versatile, reconfigurable solution.

RSG Structures Ltd was asked to build a 120m long, 3.2m high perimeter push wall at an east London metal recycling facility. Elite's Legato interlocking blocks let two men complete it in four days, ready for immediate use.

Doocey Group used Elite's Legato interlocking blocks to build three new Zappshelter storage areas in three days, segregating recycled construction waste and supporting the roof systems.

Civil engineering firm DXI used Elite's Legato interlocking blocks with steel spill plates to quickly and cost-effectively replace damaged holding bay walls at an active Materials Recycling Facility in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire.

Elite supplied over 500 Legato blocks within days to the Environment Agency to build a temporary flood defence wall protecting North Lincolnshire properties ahead of late autumn storms.

Elite's high-strength Legato interlocking blocks lined the walls of the salt barn at Hilton Park Services, creating additional safe storage for the road salt held for winter gritting.

A West Midlands client's derelict warehouse had high, bowing brickwork that had become dangerous. Elite Legato blocks formed an internal retaining wall so the building could be safely taken down.