PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: Cambridge University Location: Cambridge Architect: Porphyries Associates Contractor: Morgan Sindall Value: £220,000 Programme: 24 Week Materials: Lead, Terne Coated Stainless Steel, Handmade Plain Tiles The co-ordination of the works was a key factor to bring the highest quality of finishes together and ensure the impressive design was finished equally impressively
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: The Minster School Southwell Location: Southwell, Notts Architect: Penoyre & Prasad Architects Contractor: Galliford Try Value: £130,000 Programme: 26 Weeks Materials: Ugine Terne Coated Stainless Steel The angular nature of the design called for engineering quality of measurement and detailed layouts to achieve a sympathetic covering in this testing material. […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: O & H Hampton Location: Hampton Hargate, Peterborough Architect: Ruddle Wilkinson Materials: 3,000m2 of VM Zinc and 30,000m of softwood boarding. The carbon-friendly and zero maintenance qualities of zinc made it the preferred choice for the roof of this new build school at the giant Hampton Hargate […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Location: Rapier Street, Ipswich, Suffolk Materials: Forty tons of zinc sheeting. Forty tons of environmentally friendly and visually attractive zinc was applied to the facade of this striking quayside development as The CEL Group followed the vision and brief of the architects. Rapier Street is a […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: PCC Of All Saints Church, Moulton Location: Moulton, Lincolnshire Architect: Marshall Sisson Architect, Huntingdon Contractor: CEL Value: £540,000 Programme: 9 Months Materials: Sixty tons of sandcast lead sheet; three tons of stone and 30 cubic metres of oak. When an act of God – a tornado – struck in August […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: British Government Location: Stormont Castle, Belfast, N Ireland Contractor: Henry Brothers Value: £675,000 Programme: 2 years 4 Months Materials: Sandcast Lead, Stainless Steel When Stormont Castle, the powerhouse of Irish reform, needed a new lease of life for the next 100 years, The CEL Group was called in for […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Location: Ickworth House, Suffolk Materials: Five tons of sandcast lead sheet. Description: Refurbishing the oval skylight and timber substructure of the 150 foot high dome, then laying lead around skylight as tapered bays. The CEL Group solved the problem of getting 5 tons of lead sheet onto […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: Donald Insall Associates/Cambridge City Council Location: Barnwell Priory, Cambridge Architect: Mark Wilkinson of Donald Insall Associates Value: £35,000 Programme: 8 Weeks Materials: Masonry, Heli Bar system Working under the auspices of Mark Wilkinson of Donald Insall Associates, The CEL Group’s brief was to undertake the conservation and consolidation of […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Client: Liverpool City Council Location: St. George’s Hall, Liverpool Architect: Purcell Miller Tritton Contractor: Mowlem Value: £1 Million Programme: 18 Month Materials: 300 tons of sandcast lead up to 5.5mm thick and 5 metres long During the refurbishment of this magnificent neo-classical building, The CEL Group took the original lead to […]
PROJECT OVERVIEW Location: Clare College, Cambridge Architect: Purcell Miller Tritton, Cambridge Value: £90,000 Programme: 7 Weeks Materials: Collyweston slate, sandcast lead, timber. Working within the constraints of this famous college’s academic programme and access restrictions, The CEL Group successfully laid the foundations of a major internal refurbishment. This first stage of […]