07.04.2009

SGB books $4 million

SGB has scooped $4 million worth of new scaffold rental orders in the UK/Ireland. The orders are all scheduled to begin within the next two months.

The orders include a nearly $1 million, two-year industrial maintenance contract to provide rental scaffolding and erection and dismantling (E&D) services to support ongoing facility maintenance at the Dublin Bay Power Station, a modern gas turbine and steam boiler plant that supplies nearly 10 percent of Ireland’s peak electricity demand.

Other new orders include the supply of rental scaffolding and E&D services to a large public sector refurbishment project in Glasgow. The project involves the upgrading of four blocks of housing towers, each about 20 stories (60 metres) in height. More opportunities are expected, as a further 24 blocks are planned to be upgraded over the next few years.

SGB has also been selected to support the construction of a new retirement village in Gloucester and a new multi-building city center campus for the University of Wales and it will erect a scaffold-supported temporary roof structure over the two-year restoration of Tyntesfield House, the Victorian estate outside Bristol recently acquired by the National Trust. Engineering specifications require the scaffolding to be designed and erected without touching any portion of the building.