The Wolfson Tree Management Centre: An Update
Work is currently underway on what will become the new Wolfson Tree Management Centre. The new facility will provide all that Westonbirt’s expert tree team needs to manage the tree collection.
The foundations and floor slab are now complete for the new machinery store. The contractors have now started work on the drainage and completing the new yard.
This is a photo taken from the edge of the new yard marked out with a timber edge. Drainage channels form a boundary around the new building to protect it from heavy rainfall and to ensure any rainwater runs along the channels and pipes to a soakaway.
This is a photo of the first section of the new yard which has been finished. This area will become the tree team’s new vehicle wash down and fuel fill up point, their own a miniature fuelling station! The waste water and any potential spills of oil or diesel will drain along the new channel, where it is then filtered by a very large oil interceptor tank, see photo below. This tank holds any leaked oil and fuel which we can then remove safely.
The new yard and building floor slab have been created with a very high level of care and attention to detail although the brush finish across the site has been created by using just a brush and some rope!
