About Us

Albion Drilling Group Ltd was established in 1986 and has grown in the intervening period to become one of the UK’s largest independent drilling and ground engineering contractors. From our head office in Stirling and our regional office in Uckfield we operate contracts throughout the UK and Ireland and have successfully completed over 5,000 projects during this period. On an international front, we have also carried out contracts in Malawi, Georgia, France, Qatar, The Falklands and New Caledonia.

We are part of the Van Elle Group, the UK’s leading ground engineering contractor, established in 1984.

With over 35 years operating in the drilling industry Albion Drilling Group have a huge range of experience and expertise and can offer advice and design input to your project from the earliest stage of development to ensure you find the most appropriate and cost effective solution to your needs.

We are committed to continuous improvement and have a fleet of over 40 drilling rigs ranging from mini rigs which can pass through doorways to 25 tonne production drilling rigs. We also have a range of ancillary plant for grouting, installation, stressing and testing. Our workforce, who are all directly employed, have vast experience allied to a can-do attitude which ensures that our contracts are completed on time and within budget. All our personnel have continual training and are certified to NVQ standard.

Specialist drilling, anchoring, blasting, and slope stabilisation services.

OUR SERVICES

Drilling Services

Drilling and Blasting

  • Large scale drilling and blasting for civil engineering projects (including highways) and housing developments.
  • Close proximity and smaller scale blasting including low vibration blasting and monitoring.
  • Marine blasting for harbours and ports.
  • Non explosive blasting and hydraulic rock bursting.

Large Diameter Drilling

  • Large diameter rock drilling and casing up to 600mm used for rock sockets and piling.

King Posts

  • Design and build of king post walls.

Deep Bore Holes

  • Borehole drilling for piezometers and cathodic protection.

Geotechnical

Soil Nailing

  • Large scale soil nailing projects for highways, rail and housing developments.

Slope Stabilisation

  • Design and build slope stabilisation projects.
  • Blasting and rock face stabilisation, including design, rock anchoring, netting, soil nailing and facings.
  • Sprayed concrete and rigid faces for excavation works and slope stability.
  • Specialist soft and rigid facings for soil nailing and ground anchoring schemes.
  • Difficult access works including long reach drilling and abseiling.

Ground Anchoring

  • High capacity ground anchors – including hollow bar anchors and design.
  • Temporary works ground anchors.
  • Tie back anchors for piled walls – temporary or permanent.
  • Marine anchoring for dolphin piles.

Retaining Structures

  • Specialist grouting of structures including harbour walls.
  • Structural anchoring for bridges, buildings, canal walls and retaining walls.
  • Retaining structures including gabions and reinforced earthed walls.
  • Structural anchoring of listed and heritage structures.

Rock Bolting

  • Rock stabilisation, rock bolts, rock anchoring and rock netting schemes including design.

Soil Nail Walls

  • Design and build of soil nailing walls.

Tension Piles

  • Tension piles for uplift.  High and low capacity.

Micropiles

  • Micropiling and cased mini piling.
  • Odex Piling.

We measure our success by the success of our clients, who include:

Balfour Beatty, AWPR, Ferrovial, Lagan, Galliford Try, Farrans, Kier