10/07/2014 – Following a successful onsite demonstration at their factory in Lostock Lane in Bolton, the Health and Safety team at Severfield have decided to use SafeStand® Access Systems as their preferred choice of low level access equipment in their Bolton factory.
The SafeStand® Access Equipment will predominantly be used for finishing and inspection works to large girder trusses being fabricated for new bridge installations throughout the UK.
28/05/2014 – Morgan Sindall has won the first phase, valued at £18m, of the £60m development to construct 86 residential units on the site of the former HMS Royal Arthur Navy Training College in Corsham, Wiltshire.
Morgan Sindall approached SafeStand® to aid in reducing the access costs while helping to deliver on an already tight programme. The SafeStand® 800 4 Board system is being used to construct all the internal blockwork walls.
HMS Royal Arthur was established as a training base in 1939. The site consisted of classrooms, offices, a parade ground and an assault course. Sailors were trained at the site before returning to sea. Between 1945 and 1947, the site was used as a Polish refugee camp before the Navy took it back under its control. The land has been vacant since 1995.
The village at Royal Arthur Park has been designed by London-concept architect, Pencil and Ink and will consist of clusters of courtyard apartments built around wellbeing and social facilities
On completion, Royal Arthur Park will have 221 residential units and benefit from a range of leisure facilities, including a restaurant, library and a wellness centre, complete with pool, sauna, and treatment rooms.
Morgan Sindall has been tasked with the construction of the first phase to build 86 residential units with handover due in November 2014.
09/05/2014 – SafeStand® Ltd has hit the milestone figure of 10,000 hires to customers in the United Kingdom. On 9th May 2014 we supplied BRYMOR Contractors Ltd with our SafeStand® 1200 system on their £2.9m Arqiva Crawley Data Centre contract in Winchester, Hampshire.
Arqiva are a communications infrastructure and media services company, operating at the heart of the broadcast, satellite and mobile communications markets.
BRYMOR Contractors Ltd have been using SafeStand® Access Systems for a number of years now and have found it to be a safe and cost effective low level access system.
08/05/2014 – Shepherd Construction secured the £16m job to build a new library for the University of Leeds.
Work started in August 2013 on the first city-fronting building that the University has commissioned for over 30 years. Cara Brickwork Ltd have won the blockwork package to construct the new undergraduate library and have chosen SafeStand as their preferred means of low level access to carry out the works.
The Library which is due to be complete at the beginning of 2015, is designed to provide flexible training rooms, community classrooms, 1 000 reader seats, space for 6 800 linear metres of shelving to accommodate core text books, 170 fixed PCs and a new café.
24/03/2014 Bishop Developments Ltd have begun work on the landmark 37-storey tower comprising 284 new homes, One The Elephant. The development is the latest step in the £1.5bn regeneration of Elephant & Castle, which is being delivered by Lend Lease in partnership with Southwark Council.
Bishop Developments Ltd have chosen to use SafeStand® Access Systems as their preferred choice for low level access systems. The development is set to provide around 3,000 new homes as well as shops, restaurants, community facilities and public spaces over the next 15 years. Lend Lease is delivering the regeneration using its integrated property model. As well as funding and developing the homes, it is also acting as the main contractor. The first new homes are scheduled for completion in autumn 2015. Lend Lease is also delivering the International Quarter, a new £2bn commercial district at Stratford City in the Olympic Park which will include 350 new homes.
20/02/2014 Robertson Construction (Eastern) Ltd have decided to use SafeStand® Access Systems on one of their projects at the new Balmoral Business Park in Aberdeen. Work is now underway at the new Nissan and MINI showrooms that are being developed for the John Clark Motor Group, while construction of a new speculative-build office development is well advanced. The combined value of the projects is more than £9 million pounds.
The new Nissan dealership, designed to be a flagship European dealership for Nissan, will extend to 15,074 square feet and is designed from the outset to cater for electric vehicles, with a specialist service bay and Nissan Leaf recharging points. Meanwhile, the 8,070-square-feet MINI dealership will have a 12-car showroom, plus a separate enclosed hand-over bay and four workshop bays. The deal to build the car showrooms is worth £3.5m. In a separate project, work to complete the £5.8m speculative office development is progressing well, with work due to complete in September 2014.
“The site developers, Balmoral Group, have a vision to create a first-class business park in this excellent location, which we are confident will soon become a reality.”
Located three miles from the city centre, Balmoral Business Park has excellent links to the city’s main road network. Facing onto the main access road, the A956, the main road linking to Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, the A90, is one mile southwest of the site. Meanwhile, the planned Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route will also be easily accessible. Balmoral Business Park also enjoys a regular bus service into the city centre and is a ten-minute drive from Aberdeen harbour and the city’s bus and train stations.
27.01.2014 Roberts Brothers Construction Ltd have been appointed by ISG Plc to start work on the New Theatre Royal in Portsmouth –a joint venture between the theatre and University of Portsmouth. The £16 million redevelopment of the New Theatre will see the reinstatement of a 30m fly tower at the rear, some 40 years after the stage house burned down and was subsequently demolished.
The transformation of the New Theatre Royal includes the extension of the original building to provide a range of new facilities that will support the theatre’s ambitions to create its own productions and become an important creative space for film, television and drama students from the university. ISG will deliver a new double-height studio theatre and television studio, each with its own control room, as well as flexible teaching space, music practice rooms and office areas. The project is scheduled for completion in summer 2014.
Roberts Brothers Construction Ltd continue their working relationship with ISG including further contracts at Bedfont Lake, Feltham and Bisham Abbey, Marlow.
17/01/2013 Buxton Building is back at London Zoo and Safestand Access Systems have once again been selected as the preferred method of access to carry out the works at the Zoo.
Buxton have begun work on the Regent Building, the works involve the construction of a new double storey extension, alterations to existing and a new mezzanine floor, this will create an exciting new restaurant. Once again Safestand Access Systems have been recognised as a cost effective and safe system to carry out works at height on the Regent Building.
This project follows previous successful projects at the Zoo including the Penguin Beach.
30/01/2012 – BAM Construction is currently underway with work on Phase Two of the £215 million Aston University student accommodation scheme. The high standard accommodation on campus is one of the biggest regeneration projects in the Midlands.
The Project incorporates the latest energy-effecient materials and systems and Safestand Access Systems has been used to carry works on both Phase one (constructed by Carillion) and now Phase two. The work consists of replacing the existing high-rise blocks with two new blocks of accommodation, varying between 4 and 18 storeys high. The accommodation will provide 1053 en-suite student bedrooms and shared facilities upon completion in 2013.
