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Reidsteel Receives Queen's Award for Excellence in Export for Fourth Time
For the fourth time John Reid and Sons (Structsteel) Ltd. have won a Queen's Award for their export performance. REIDsteel design and make a wide variety of steel structures: wide span aircraft hangars and their electro-mechanical doors, grandstands, industrial buildings, warehouses, multi-storey buildings for hotels, offices and multi-storey car parks, road bridges, sports halls, defensive 'force protection' buildings and many other steel structures. REIDsteel offer a complete erection or erection supervisory service world-wide.
REIDsteel get involved in the details: as well as doing the structural design and making the steelwork, REIDsteel provide the cladding and insulation, also the doors, whether they be ordinary rolling type, lifting, roller shutter, aircraft hangar, manual or electro-mechanical. They also make all the aluminium windows needed in all their structures and are able to provide curtain walling and fire doors, insulation and ventilation, all from in-house.
Cranes, when required, are designed into the structures, provided and installed.
For grandstands REIDsteel design and make cantilever structures or king truss canopies, terraces, seating, vomitories, tunnels, gangways, concourses and stairs.
For mezzanines and multi-storey structures for commercial buildings, offices, apartments and hotels, REIDsteel include galvanised steel in-situ shuttering or provide for pre-cast concrete flooring. In process plant buildings galvanised steel floors, anti-skid or grillage, are available. REIDsteel also manufacture the stairs.
In multi-storey car parks, REIDsteel can design for all situations and vehicle types and sizes and make special layouts, split levels, with or without return ramps, or external ramps. They can provide for pre-cast concrete decking or steel shuttering (which does not need propping) for in-situ concrete pouring. They can make anti-skid steel floors which are permanent and/or demountable. Parking barriers are supplied and provision can be made for automatic systems.
REIDsteel do all the structural design to BS5950 and other British Standards (which are the finest in the world) within their price. In overseas markets, local standards can be used if required. The drawing office ensures the accurate detailing of the components of the steel structure as well as the cladding and accessories. The client avoids those expensive design fees which often make the structure more expensive than necessary; and as REIDsteel have designed virtually every type of steel framed building, in-house and cost-effectively, the Client benefits directly from their wide experience.
Very importantly, REIDsteel does the complete erection, cladding and fitting of the accessories, taking care to comply with Health and Safety and CDM Regulations, thus relieving the client of many major worries.
REIDsteel Directors and engineers visit their overseas markets frequently and specialise in understanding, first hand, the special needs of every customer in almost every country worldwide.
These are some of the reasons why REIDsteel are always busy and their engineers called upon daily to solve problems in far away places, (if necessary flying out at a moment's notice). Clients visit Reid's Offices and Works nearly as often to explain their needs and obtain instant solutions to their requirements, using Reid's in-house computer programmes and 89 years of concentrated experience. Because of the trust which has built up between Reidsteel and their customers, an impressive 80% of the value of REIDsteel's trade comes from existing customers.
Inauguration of Lufthansa Technik hangars in Malta - 4th April 2009
Saturday 4th April saw a big event in the restructuring of the Maltese Economy. Hit by World Wide Economic Downturn, and the killing of the tourism industry thanks to the adoption of the Euro, Malta rapidly needs to find new jobs: not just second rate textile and call centre jobs, but high tech, high value jobs that suit the Maltese worker's capabilities.
The new Lufthansa Technik's new facility could not be a better example of what is needed in the new economy. Immediately there is the creation of 400 high tech jobs, with training by one of the top names in Aviation. And the number of jobs will grow as training and workload makes this possible, in due course up to 700 new top quality jobs.
This made the hangar opening ceremony a major event for the Maltese people. The Prime Minister Hon Dr Lawrence Gonzi represented the Government of Malta, along with other ministers. The government was a big investor in the project. The Chairman of Lufthansa Technik Hamburg, Mr August W. Henningsen, represented the parent company, along with directors of many other branches of this top ranked international aircraft maintenance company. The Archbishop of Malta stood in for the highest Authority. Louis Giordimaina represented LTM, Lufthansa Technik Malta. In attendance were many of the management and employees of LTM; and numerous Philippino staff from Lufthansa Technik Philippines, here to spread their knowledge; and numerous Germans from LTH Hamburg. Peter Zammit, the project Engineer was there, with representatives from main contractors Polidano, steel erectors from Steel Structures and REIDsteel’s Technical Director Rollo Reid.
So how big are the hangars? Each one is 91m clear span inside. The two wide body hangars are each 90m clear length inside. And both of these are 26m clear height: easily qualifying both these hangars as A380 hangars. An A380 hangar has to be 85m by 80m by 24.5m as a minimum. But at present the Luqa runway is only designed for B747s, and we are told there are no plans for A380s - yet. An A330 of Lufthansa was in the hangar at the time of the ceremony, having just completed a D check, the first wide body of many to come.
For more information on this project, see http://www.reidsteel.aero/recent/lufthansa-technik.htm
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Hangar Exterior |
Aerial View of Hangars |
Commercial Entrance |
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Rear View of Hangars |
The Opening Ceremony |
REIDsteel Archspan steelwork |
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Steel Aircraft Hangar |
Docking System by PEG |
Inside the new Hangar |
Reid Steel wins Queen's Award for Excellence in Export in 2008
For the third time Reidsteel have had an excellent year, exporting more than 80% of their output to 40 or so countries - almost everywhere except North America and Continental Europe (where the 'level playing field' is slanted against British Exporters).
Most of these exports are designed to British Standards, by far the best Steelwork Standards available. They lead to quick economical designs. They are widely accepted in spite of the poisonous effects of the awful Eurocodes, which our government and the EU machine, for their own reasons, are trying to foist onto the world.
Reid steel buildings include the steel frames, the roofing, the wall cladding, the doors (including huge aircraft hangar doors), the windows, the ventilators, the cranes.
Very often our intrepid steel erection supervisors brave difficult circumstances to ensure a professional construction is erected.
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Rollo Reid, Technical Director, raises the Queeen's Award to the assembled clients, staff and suppliers. |
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160 loyal Reid steel workers, their clients and suppliers, listen to the address, which praised the 'splendid workforce' |
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Marilyn Porter reads the Queen's Award with the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset presiding. |
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The Lord Lieutenant hands the Award to Rollo. |
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Many Clients came from far away for the ceremony; here Hesketh Newton and colleagues from The British Virgins; Jerry Teck Yong and his wife, from JTec Mauritius, also made it across 2 oceans for the event. Frank Ellul, who is the engineer in supervising the Huge Lufthansa Technik Malta Hangar for us, made it here with his wife. |
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The Lord Lieutenant greets long time senior fabricators Pete Tonkiss, Derek Mudge, Steven Miles |
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Senior Sales Manager Mike Chappel and Senior Commercial Manager Tim Cook pick up the Dorset Business Award |
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The Contracts Director, Simon Boyd, and one of his long standing suppliers, meet the Lord Lieutenant. Simon and his staff organised the award party, a daunting task. |
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