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 ...

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...

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...

Caunton is presently working on building facilities for Teva, a company which is among the top twenty pharmaceutical companies in the world, and undoubtedly the biggest in generic products.
Earlier this year, Teva announced plans to relocate its head office and logistics centre to a brand new, purpose built site near Castleford, West Yorkshire. The new building, including a 200,000ft² of wareho...

On 14th August Caunton Engineering was delighted to hear that the company had gained approval, from the awarding body EAL, to become an accredited training centre. EAL are Engineering and Marine Training Authority Awards Ltd, and in a practical sense this now means the company need no longer employ the services of external training providers. The NVQ’s will now be completed by internal assessors a...