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Case study:
Multi-disciplinary Civil Engineering design (quarry)

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Class Materials

The design brief and maps can be seen in the Coursework Briefing Sheet which was available to students on a local Intranet. Introductory quarry photographs from Penmaenmawr and Llandulas quarries were also made available. Photographs from the field visits to Penmaenmawr and Llandulas quarries and the Rhos-on-Sea site are also available.
Penmaenmawr Quarry: field visit photographs
Llandulas Quarry and the Rhos-on-Sea site: field visit photographs

The teams made use of a surface mapping/processing software package, Surfer. This enabled a 3D view of the existing site to be made. A view was shown before quarrying (fig. 1) and after quarrying (fig. 2). Surfer was also used to provide a section (fig. 3) through the ground and to calculate the quarried stone volume (Appendix 2 - pdf file).

(Click on the images below to see larger versions of the images in pdf format.)

Fig. 1 A view of the existing Rhos-on-Sea landscape.

Fig. 2 A view of the Rhos-on-Sea landscape after quarrying.

Fig. 3 A section through the ground.

Project report

Section from the project report of one of the student teams is accessible (in pdf format) below.

Feasibility study, Proposed Limestone Super-Quarry, North Wales, December 2002

Chapter 1: Summary and lists
Chapter 2: Report Overview
Chapter 3: Quarry operation
Chapter 4: Marine transport
Chapter 5: Road and transport
Chapter 6: Health and safety
Chapter 7: The environment
Chapter 8: Conclusions

Appendices
1. Site location plans
2. Quarry lifetime plans
3. Plant specification data
4. Marine transport
5. Road transport
6. Health and safety
7. The environment
8. Correspondence

Last updated: June 24, 2003