ABOUT
US
The Rothen Group has over 25 years extensive experience maintaining inland waterways, especially for the Canal & River Trust and Environment Agency. We specialise in advising and undertaking marine, civil and environmental engineering Nationwide. Our services include dredging, sheet piling and bank protection through to bridge inspections, reed clearance and general maintenance.
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We have a large fleet of vessels and plant for hire. These range in size and application and can be fitted with specialist equipment enabling them to be tailored for the client’s individual needs. We pride ourselves on being able to supply equipment to undertake works in difficult site conditions with restricted access. Our custom built pontoons can be; specialist machine transporters, operating platforms or fitted with a hiab crane. Being modular, these pontoons can easily be transported via a hiab lorry for quick, efficient delivery.
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Our well trained professional staff deliver a high quality of work helping us achieve good term client relationships. Our extensive experience of inland waterways is readily available to clients and our proactive approach at the planning stage has helped our clients deliver more cost effective and time efficient projects.
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All staff are RYA Helmsman, CSCS and NPORS accredited.
The Rothen Group has one of the largest fleet of specialist narrow beam floating plant in the country. Our range of boats include pontoons, pusher and powered tugs, hoppers, crane boats, workboats and punts/flat boats that can be used in a variety of applications. If depth is a consideration, we have shallow draught boats both powered and unpowered or if materials need to be transported we have both insulated and large materials hoppers. We also hire welfare and survey/inspection craft.
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Our broad array of specialist machine transporter and operating platform pontoons are capable of transporting a 1.5 tonne to 8 tonne machine to awkward access sites, where the machine can either be tracked off the pontoon to work or it can operate from the pontoon itself, with the stability legs down. The machine can be tracked up and down the pontoon to work with no danger of the boat capsizing. In addition, we have a variety of cranes for lock gate replacement works or piling operations. The pontoons are highly adaptable, with side stability tanks which swing round to enable them to fit through narrow bridges and locks.
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The crane boats and grab barges available offer a bespoke option for your project. Whether you are replacing lock gates, piling, post driving or needing to lift materials we have a crane boat for you.
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The boats can be hired with or without an operator. We have designed our fleet to be predominantly transportable by hiab lorry making delivery cheaper and quicker.
CONTRACT SERVICES
The Rothen Group has extensive experience in carrying out all types of contracting and civil engineering on inland waterways across the country. Our advice and approach will be pragmatic and result in the best solution for your specific project, whether it be bank protection, dredging, marina works or waterway restoration on canals, rivers or lakes.
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Our bank protection experience includes both hard and soft bank protection. We have undertaken a range of piling contracts (hard bank protection) where we consider both depth and marine conditions as well as usage and wear/damage.
This will ensure the sheet piling is suited to the site and your needs. Knowledge of which piles or bank stabilisation technique to use for each site can save you considerable sums and we are confident in assessing whether steel sheet piles, timber piles, plastic piles, nicospan (soft bank protection) or even gabion baskets are appropriate.
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