Latest news about ongoing PCE projects
Dakota Hotel Manchester
Dakota Hotel update 9 – level completed in only 2 weeks!
Level three of Manchester hotel complete PCE Ltd is currently installing the offsite engineered flooring units for level four of the forthcoming luxury five star Dakota Boutique Hotel project in Manchester. The structural elements of level three have [...]
Kingston University Town House
Kingston University update 10 – last of 315 precast frame beams installed on level 6
6 double tees remaining to complete phase one The last of 315 pre-cast beams that make up the frame element has now been erected at Level 6 of the new Kingston University London Town House in London. 6 [...]
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 6 – PCE team scoops monthly safety award
Top of the safety league at Manchester construction project PCE Ltd's Team has won the monthly Chapel Wharf project Health & Safety Award for April 2018 - being the top of the league table with 61 [...]
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 [...]
Emirates Old Trafford Hotel
Emirates Old Trafford update 10 – Hilton Garden Inn nearing completion
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Precast concrete, structural steelwork and insitu concrete PCE Ltd have designed the Hilton Gardens Inn at Lancashire Cricket Club's Emirates Old Trafford Cricket Ground using precast concrete, structural steelwork and insitu concrete to ensure that all [...]
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 [...]
Blackpool Police HQ
Blackpool Police HQ update 2 – curved walls provide clear line of site
Precast reinforced concrete construction PCE Ltd are providing the custody suite for the new Police Headquarters for Lancashire Constabulary's West Division at Blackpool. PCE were appointed by Main Contractor Willmott Dixon as specialist contractor on [...]
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 [...]
Portswood Road, Southampton
Portswood Road, Southampton update 2 – 2,990 precast concrete elements
Student accommodation takes shape Sladen Estates and Peveril Securities have joined forces to develop the former B&Q site appointing Church Lukas as Architects and Bowmer and Kirkland as Main Contractor who in turn appointed F P McCann [...]
Babraham research facility, Cambridge
Babraham – volumetric box structural core system shows precast advantages
The Babraham Research Campus is acknowledged as a leading research and innovation campus for the UK and is home to both world-class academic research and commercial life-science companies. Additional campus buildings for this cutting edge [...]
Basingstoke Police Centre
Precast core solution for police investigation centre
MACE appointed PCE Ltd to provide the Custody Suite and 2 structural cores for the new Police Investigation Centre at Basingstoke for the Hampshire Police Authority. At Basingstoke a total of 36 custody cells are [...]