ag wilson civil engineering

For Rathin Island harbour, 18,000m3 of the inner and outer harbour had to be dredged to allow for the installation of a pontoon system and the installation of a new control building. And the new harbour. At Carnlough Harbour, AG Wilson’s restoration work had to be finished in a way that was sympathetic to the picturesque and historic harbour. Bertie Wilson designed circular steps as the centrepiece of the quay and it went on to become a centrepiece for Game of Thrones. However, much of AG Wilson’s specialist marine engineering goes largely unnoticed, since it has involved laying pipes under the sea bed, Pipe laying projects at Kilkeel, Ardglass and Ballymartin established the company’s credentials and led to larger projects, such as the laying of pipework between Stranraer and Portpatrick, some 700m out to sea. That project required working at depths of 15m. Similarly, installing water mains piping underneath the River Tweed (a famous salmon and trout river) required installing 500m of pipework 20m beneath the river bed, whilst working to strict environmental protection guidelines. Specialist marine engineering is not always possible with machines. When Port Muck harbour wall was falling, the underwater restoration work had to be done manually by divers working in tidal conditions.