Case Studies

Client: Raploch Urban Regeneration.

Project: 50 Social Rented Units

Location: Raploch, Stirlingshire

Main Contractor: R3: Taylor Wimpey/Cruden Homes

Product Supplied: Design, Supply & Erect Structural Timberframe Solution

Completion Date: Ongoing

Challenge

• Provide good value, service, and sustainable units.
• Help improve disadvantaged area and the lives of those living there.
• Provide job training & employment opportunities to locals with the Training for Work programme.
• Highlight use of Investors in People ethos.
• Be part of the success of a pioneering regeneration project pilot for the Scottish Government.
• Work with other public and private sector contractors as well as local people to aid in regeneration.

Solution

Deeside Timberframe not only delivered the timber frames required, but much needed training and development for local unemployed people too.

"Our overriding aim is to ensure our customers’ expectations are exceeded; Deeside offered the right combination of quality, price, and production output to help us do just that."

"The Deeside people integrated well with all the other trades on site. Our team found them very good to work with."

"We like working with Deeside Timberframe; the company is pro-active with a desire to deliver quality products and services."
 - William Murphy, Cruden Homes East

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Client: Devanha Group.

Project: Affordable Housing consisting of 50 semi-detached houses and 36 flats at Brae Farm

Location: Kintore, Aberdeenshire

Main Contractor: Banchory Contractors Ltd, a Main Contractor Partner to Devanha

Product Supplied: Design, Supply and erect Structural Timberframe solution

Completion Date: 2010

Challenge

• A rigorous procurement process to challenge the traditional tendering process.
• Design  and manufactured timber frame packages to suit each individual development, with a mix of semi-detached houses, large and small apartment blocks.
• Provide sustainable, eco-friendly, rapid construction method.
• Provide efficiencies over floor systems with superior acoustic performance.
• Commitment to training and apprenticeships. A company  with a good track record for recruiting locally and delivering training for work programmes.

Solution

Deeside Timberframe offered the project a complete specialist service for timber frame construction, from design through manufacture to delivery and erection. Combined with the ability to supply other building elements and the company’s in-house value engineering expertise the company were able to improve efficiency and minimise costs.

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