Recycled solutions

The buildings were needed on two sites to upgrade office accommodation and replace outdated facilities with purpose-designed office space and meeting rooms.  Completion was just 10 weeks after receipt of order.

At Gatewarth Industrial Estate in Warrington, a 22-module scheme is occupied by around 85 staff. Facilities include open plan offices, meeting rooms, managers’ offices, kitchen, toilets and customer service reception.  A smaller Foremans building is used as a purpose-built meeting room suite.

In St Helens, an 8-module building now provides 24/7 interim office accommodation for 17 staff and up to 30 shift workers while another site is redeveloped.

Each building was delivered to site around 70% complete, reducing disruption. Foremans also supplied folding partitions, roller security shutters, air conditioning, and fire and security alarms.

Commenting, Gary Collins, building surveyor at United Utilities, said, "Each of these three projects was delivered on time, as expected and to very high quality standards.  Foremans also gave us the opportunity to spec the buildings to our exact service needs.  Feedback from the users has been extremely positive and staff have been unable to tell these are not brand new buildings.”