Reidsteel News2017-01-06T14:31:40+00:00

Driving force at Jaguar Land Rover

John Reid & Sons Ltd (REIDsteel) has provided an in-house value engineered and designed full structural steel frame and envelope – including design, fabrication and erection provision – for a prestigious Jaguar Land Rover dealership at Cribb’s Causeway in Bristol.

REIDsteel was engaged by Midas Construction for the development for the Sytner Group’s Guy Salmon dealership.

The overall contract included the main showroom, incorporating a customer drive though service centre, state-of-the-art 29-bay workshop and full complement of ancillary and servicing areas.

REIDsteel provided the steel frame, rainscreen façade and composite wall cladding, architectural mesh facades for the car park area; roof decking comprising car parking which was arranged with parking over two floors with […]

By |January 27th, 2021|News|Comments Off on Driving force at Jaguar Land Rover

 

Merry Christmas from all at REIDsteel

It’s been the kind of year when we all needed a ‘hard hat’ to go with the masks and hand sanitiser. But thanks to the fantastic support of our clients and suppliers we are looking forward to 2021.  Merry Christmas and happy and prosperous New Year to all.

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We’re hiring – new jobs at REIDsteel

REIDsteel creates new jobs

John Reid & Son Ltd (REIDsteel) is recruiting for a range of positions as its business continues to grow.

The jobs are being created in response to increased demand for its design, fabrication and erection services.

The new positions offer strong starting salaries and opportunities for career progression at one of the world’s leading structural steel companies.

 

The positions are:

  • Erection Manager
  • Project Manager
  • Tekla Draughtsperson
  • Cladding Draughtsperson
  • Fabricator/Welder Apprentice
  • Shotblast Operative
  • Steel Erector
  • Estimator/Bid Manager

REIDsteel is pleased to create the new jobs to boost company growth and support the local economy.

Thanks to its in-house capabilities and expertise, REIDsteel is regularly contracted to design, manufacture and supply complete steel structures including the cladding, glazing, louvres and staircases for projects anywhere in the UK, Europe […]

By |November 30th, 2020|News|Comments Off on We’re hiring – new jobs at REIDsteel

Bombardier hangar takes shape as roof goes up

The core structural steelwork for Bombardier Aviation’s new 250,000 sq. ft hangar at London Biggin Hill Airport is complete, with construction of the cantilever roof beginning in earnest.

Dorset-based structural steel firm John Reid &Sons Ltd (REIDsteel) and design and build specialist Civils Contracting Ltd (Civils) are building the Bombardier service centre together, with products sourced from British Steel.

On completion, it will be the largest cantilever roofed hangar to be built in the UK for more than 50 years.

The complex cantilever design allows the roofs to safely span the hangar without support from any internal columns, creating a vast floor space capable of housing up to 14 Global 7500s jets at any one time.

John Harrison, senior […]

By |September 29th, 2020|News|Comments Off on Bombardier hangar takes shape as roof goes up

REIDsteel firing on all cylinders

Structural steel company John Reid & Sons Ltd (REIDsteel) is back to pre-Covid productivity levels at its manufacturing facility in Dorset.

We have welcomed staff back into its workshops with social distancing, and have resumed operations on construction sites.

Now we are set to phase the return of office staff at our Christchurch headquarters, the majority of whom have been working remotely from home.

Managing director Simon Boyd said: “We have reached and are now exceeding pre-lockdown productivity levels in our manufacturing facility.

“Praise must go to all of our people who returned to work raring to go and embraced our new Covid-19 working practices.

“Our construction operations have also successfully resumed and we intend to introduce a phased return for our office staff.

“The commitment of our people has helped to place […]

By |August 25th, 2020|News|Comments Off on REIDsteel firing on all cylinders
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