Bute Dry Dock Repairs
- Published
- 14 November 2025
- Estimated value
- £150,000
- Place of performance
- UKL
- Lots
- 1
- Notice number
- 073966-2025
- Reference
- ocds-h6vhtk-05d574
- Official source
- Official source
CPV codes
- 50246000Harbour equipment maintenance services
- 45248200Dry docks construction work
- 45241400Dock construction work
- 45262680Welding
- 92522100Preservation services of historical sites
Description
Bute Dock lies in Cardiff Bay and is a former operational dry dock, part of the extensive wider dockland that formed the largest coal exporting port in the world during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Constructed in 1884, it comprises a mass mortared stone dry basin and is connected to the larger Roath Basin/Roath Lock to the north. Water levels in the dock were controlled via a series of sluices, pumps and valves with a floatable steel caisson forming the dock gate, allowing ships to enter the dock when water levels were equalised and maintaining the water level difference between the two when the Bute Dock was emptied. Bute Dock has long since been disused, but the structure is largely intact and both the dock walls and the dock gate caisson are deemed to be of historic value and are consequently Grade II listed by Cadw. The dock is owned by the Welsh Government and is part of it’s wider land holding in the Cardiff Bay Area. Today, Bute Dock is hydraulically ‘open’ to the impounded Cardiff Bay and has a permanent similar water level. Although the dock gate caisson is an historic structure, it continues to form an important function by maintaining the higher water level in…
Official publications
- FTS · 073966-2025 · 14 November 2025
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