January '09

Sees Foster Contracting driving forward in the market with the recruitment of our Northern Area Manager, Sean Gibb, who came to Foster’s from Leith’s Scotland Ltd with several years experience in the civils and resurfacing industry, but predominantly with a sound knowledge of airfield maintenance.

Foster Contracting will now be looking to strengthen their market north of Manchester throughout Scotland and Ireland in Geotextiles, Runway Rubber Removal and Road Retexturing.

For further information please contact sean@fostercontracting.co.uk or alternatively please call Sean on 07500 842826

December '08

Foster Contracting updates their website with video footage. Video has proved to be very successful to provide the necessary information to our clients. A brief visual outlook of how asphalt reinforcement is installed.

October '08

A video was taken of retexturing of a SMA surface to demonstrate the efficiency of the process. The contract was let by Essex CC and details of scrim tests before and after are available on request from ray@fostercontracting.co.uk  

August '08

FCL completes the contract at London City Airport, our two manned operation at LCYA. The addition of a supervisor provided them with a safety level which more than met their requirements.

April '08

Bardon Contracting awards FCL the order for supplying and laying some 70,000m² of Polyfelt PGM14 on Taxiways Delta, Victor and Whiskey on the Birmingham International Airport Major Maintenance Contract. FCL will be working closely with Bardon Contracting and Fitzpatrick on this project.

March '08

Lafarge use Polyfelt PGM-G200 in Gosberton, Lincolnshire. Both Lafarge and Lincolnshire Council were very impressed with FCL’s professionalism and speed of operation without any interference to the asphalting process.

February '08

Santa Pod have their annual rubber removal by FCL.  The rubber is carefully removed at a very controlled rate as the surface needs to retain a small amount of rubber for traction.
Osprey3000 makes its debut at our local airport, BAA Stansted. Osprey3000 impressed both Dyer and Butler and BAA with its efficiency and technology.

January '08

Ringway request Foster’s services for the supply and installation of 7,200m² of Polyfelt PGM-G100 in Latchmere Road, Wandsworth, London.

December '07

Foster Contracting Ltd worked closely with the consultants at Dalham Hall Stud to find a solution to the cracking of the asphalt at the main entrance.
Dalham Hall, known for its perfection in breeding and owned by HRH Sheik Mohamed (also renowned for his attention to detail), needed a more suitable solution to the reflective cracking that they had been suffering on the main entrance road. 
It was decided with the aid of Tensar that a suitable solution to retard the reflective cracking would be Glasstex P100.

November '07

FCL installs 10,000m² of Tensar’s Glasstex P100 for Dyer and Butler at Waterlooville Hampshire, not to mention the 800m² of GlasGrid CG100 supplied by Dyer and Butler.”

October '07

Manchester Airport request Foster’s services for their end of year rubber removal contract.
Fosters remain unequalled on their quality and outputs at Manchester Airport.

September '07

When the City of Derry Airport called FCL’s Ray Wicks he was only too happy to hop on a plane from London Stansted to see if Osprey3000 could be of any assistance. After liaising with Wally Walker of Airport Solutions Ltd, specialist in Airport Operations and Safety Management ( http://www.airportsol.com) it was decided that moss accumulation in the porous friction course seemed to be the cause of the low friction on the surface of the runway. The solution was a deep cleanse of the entire runway surface which brought the readings back to well above the acceptable level of friction.

August '07

Foster Contracting are called to the aid of East Midlands Airport, to carry out the Rubber Removal on their very busy runway. East Midlands Airport is the UK’s primary pure freight airport, supporting some of the UK’s biggest manufacturing and retail brands.