PCE’s flexibility attracts new customers
PCE’s ability to develop the best solutions for a variety of construction challenges has attracted four new customers over recent weeks.
The company’s flexible approach to precast design and build, its ability to develop bespoke solutions and plan everything from concept to completion is helping to bring in new business.
The new patented PCE GT Slab car parking system is off the mark after scooping a design brief for supermarket giant Morrisons.
The system has been selected for a new car park at the company’s Edgbaston store, where we hope to design and build a 329-space car park on behalf of ISG.
The system offers a reduced structure weight of 3.5 tonnes per car parking space, requires reduced foundations and achieves a quality finish with no need for screeding. System details »
PCE will use three manufacturers to supply precast units for the system. Construction is scheduled to begin next March.
Bouygues UK has contracted PCE for the new build element of a scheme to redevelop an existing school for the London Borough of Tower Hamlets’ Building Schools for the Future programme.
PCE will erect a new six-storey structural precast frame and floors from a reinforced in-situ concrete transfer deck. The overall project will provide seven storeys of classroom, training, staff space and support facilities for the education of children with educational special needs.
Galliford Try has appointed PCE to design, manufacture and construct a new seven storey ETAP hotel in Manchester. PCE’s in house design team has started work on the project and construction will begin in early 2012, bringing together a number of suppliers and building methods to provide the client with the optimum precast structure.
The solution combines the benefits of prestressed floors with solid bedroom floors and a blend of solid walls and twinwalls, whilst meeting the brief for both cost and quality – all walls and floors soffits to each room will be capable of direct decoration.
Finally, PCE will work on behalf of Wates Construction on the design, supply and build of the two-storey Lansdowne Secure Unit in Hailsham, East Sussex, which will house up to ten teenagers. The design phase of the scheme for East Sussex County Council Social Services Department has begun, construction starting next spring. The crosswall design will feature 79 external panels, over 100 internal panels and a combination of solid and hollowcore flooring.
