Per Aarsleff
Per Aarsleff A/S is a Danish civil engineering and construction company. It is one of Europe's main civil engineering companies.
History
It was founded in 1947 by Per Aarsleff.
Structure
The company is based in the western part (Aabyhøj) of Aarhus in Denmark, near the Søren Frichs Vej road. Aarhus is a port on the east side of the main part of Denmark. The headquarters is near the site of the NorthSide Festival (Denmark).
Centrum Pæle, a subsidiary in Vejle, was founded in 1966, and manufactures precast concrete piles. The Aarsleff Group produces the most concrete piles in Europe.
It has around 6,500 staff worldwide.
United Kingdom
Per Aarsleff (UK) Ltd, known as Aarsleff Ground Engineering (previously Aarsleff Piling), is based in New Balderton in Newark-on-Trent. The UK site also contains Centrum Pile Ltd, and mainly makes concrete piles. The UK subsidiary was founded in 1991 and is the UK's leading supplier of precast concrete piles.
Products
The company has been asked to provide the concrete deep foundations for civil engineering projects, such as for bridges or wind farms. For windfarms, it has worked with Bilfinger Construction GmbH of Germany (now owned since 2014 by Implenia of Switzerland). Denmark is home to some important wind turbine manufacturing companies.
It provides:
- Steel sheet piles
- Precast concrete piles
- Bearing piles
- Timber piles
Projects
- Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link, Denmark
- High Speed 1
- Mersey Gateway Bridge in the UK (opening 2017)[1]
- Thames Tideway Scheme, London
See also
- Bachy Solétance
- British Geotechnical Association
- COWI A/S, tunnelling company of Denmark
- Federation of Piling Specialists
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