A cold December weekend saw Caunton Engineering’s production and erection departments successfully trial-erect a 22 metre long section of the Leicester Tigers King Truss within the Caunton Car Park. It is certainly not every day Caunton have two 50te capacity cranes on their “front step” erecting at times a weighty 9.5te section of truss.

The whole section will eventually form part of the 104 ...

Pupils of Kimberley School certainly chose a sunny day when they visited Moorgreen recently, as the photo shows. Jacquie Swinn had invited teacher Paul Abbott (both in photograph with Geoffrey Taylor and the pupils) to visit our works and offices, and he had selected those pupils who had done particularly well in their studies to accompany him.

Such is the demand for the visit nowadays, that m...

Newcastle upon Tyne has been described in the press as ‘the UK’s newest urban powerhouse’ and Caunton’s latest office contract Regent Point is located in the city’s bustling suburb of Gosforth. Caunton Engineering designed, supplied and erected over 600 tonnes of beam and column structural steelwork for the four storey office complex earlier this year. This is yet another prestige building contrac...

Caunton Engineering recently welcomed a record number of 38 students from Nottingham University’s Civil Engineering department on their annual visit to the company’s office and works. The BSc and MSc civil engineering students visited Caunton to acquaint themselves with the engineering and manufacturing process of structural steelwork. Pictured here is Dr Walid Tizani an Associate Professor and Vi...

A group of six engineers from BDP (Building Design Partnership) recently visited Caunton’s office and works, in order to broaden their knowledge of the structural steelwork design process.

BDP (Building Design Partnership) are one of the largest architects and engineering practices in the UK. Founded in 1961 the company now employ more than 1,200 employees across15 locations in the UK, France, ...

Caunton has won its first Academy contract, and will mean over 800te of fabrication for the works. What’s more it is for a new local establishment, The Bulwell Academy. We have been very busy over the past four years building the frameworks for so many schools – Sheffield, Derby, Doncaster, Oldham, Northampton, to name but a few of them, but this is the first academy. What is the difference? An ac...