Latest news about ongoing PCE projects
Dakota Hotel Manchester
Dakota Hotel 11 – the first sandwich panels for the final level
Manchester hotel project is nearing completion The first sandwich panels for the final level were recently installed at the nine storey five star deluxe hotel for the Dakota Boutique hotel chain which is being built on [...]
Kingston University Town House
Kingston University update 11 – construction of the colonnade underway
Offsite fabricated hybrid solution for the concrete frame Kingston University appointed RIBA award winning Grafton Architects for their new landmark teaching building for their Penrhyn Road campus in Kingston Upon Thames. The six storey building [...]
Paradise, Birmingham
Paradise update 15 – combined lift and stair cores
Offsite engineered precast concrete modular units PCE Ltd are currently working on the 17 acre Paradise redevelopment project with a contract value approaching £5 million to design and build a two storey Hybrid structural frame at [...]
Chapel Wharf, Manchester
Chapel Wharf update 11 – 3,400 offsite engineered precast units in 37 weeks
33% of the precast concrete units installed for residential construction project PCE’s offsite Hybrid engineered approach to construction (HybriDfma) requires a reduced on-site workforce, provides enhanced Health and Safety, and ensures speed of construction and a [...]
Royal Holloway, London
Royal Holloway update 3 – precast and insitu concrete with structural steelwork
Collaboration is the key for successful project outcome The Hybrid construction approach adopted by PCE Ltd is very much in evidence during the latest construction phases the future home of the Royal Holloway University of London [...]
Bolton Interchange
Bolton interchange update 2 – £48 million bus station podium
Precast concrete units arrive on site The new interchange has been developed by Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) and Bolton Council and will include a new bus station opposite the current train station in Trinity Street according to [...]
Mersey Gateway
Mersey Gateway update 4 – assembling the precast concrete stairways
Clifton Road Bridge stairways manufactured offsite PCE Ltd were appointed by VolkerLaser to replace six old large precast concrete staircase units at the Clifton Road Bridge in Runcorn and have supplied and installed their normally reinforced precast concrete replacements, which [...]
CEF, Durham
CEF Durham update 3 – GT flooring units provide structural frame solution
Programme savings and reduced floor thicknesses result The lift and stair cores are of CEF's new data, IT and marketing centre in Durham are being constructed with PCE Ltd’s Prefastcore system, which provides a safe, fast and dimensionally [...]
University of Lincoln
Offsite techniques enable construction when space is at a premium
Three blocks of precast student accommodation The site of the most recent student accommodation project in Lincoln would present a real challenge with more "traditional" construction methods. The site is a particularly tight one, being [...]
Wrexham Police HQ
Wrexham Police HQ 2 – erection of the hybrid structural frame
A variety of structural precast components being utilised Erection of the hybrid structural frame has now commenced on site by PCE Ltd at Wrexham following their in-house design which led to a variety of structural precast [...]
Birmingham East Side
Birmingham East Side update 3 – high speed offsite construction
Precast concrete solution for student accommodation The Birmingham East Side Locks high rise student accommodation project is progressing at an impressive pace by utilising the offsite engineering solutions that have been constructed by PCE Ltd. East [...]