Roadbridge had secured, through a joint venture with Keating’s, the redevelopment of Dublin Port and had already successfully extended and upgraded several berths prior to TCL being invited to tender. The subsequent demise of Keating’s meant the JV partnership had been dissolved leaving large areas of the development plan still to be constructed. On the foot of successful combi-wall installations for other contractors using the ALPS hydraulic gate system, Roadbridge approached Trench Control to engage them as specialist piling contractors to install Berth-35 in the absence of JV partner Keating’s.