Caunton Engineering were well represented at the recent Nottingham Trent University Civil Engineering Prize Evening. The company sponsors the Caunton Engineering Prize for Outstanding Student on the MSc Structural Engineering Suite. The photograph shows Caunton’s Technical Director Robert Weeden MI Struct E presenting the coveted award to Joshua Ward. Major Caunton success followed that evening ...

As reported in Caunton’s web site news on 12 May 2021, Caunton Engineering had constructed a blast box for warhead testing at The University of Illinois using the Steel Bricks™ modular system, which it developed in the UK with the Steel Construction Institute under license from Modular Walling Systems. The steelwork was shipped to the USA earlier this year. The blast box (internal dimensions 10...

Caunton Engineering are most pleased to have been awarded the contract for the steel-framing for structures within a new pioneering glass research and innovation facility in St Helens by main contractor Bowmer and Kirkland.
This state-of-the-art facility, a 160,000 sq. ft. Global Centre of Excellence, will be the world’s first openly accessible test and trial furnace operation. The press rep...

The Nov/Dec issue of New Steel Construction(NSC) argues strongly that despite misconceptions that steel price rises were different from those of other materials, steel remains the cost-effective framing material of first choice. Furthermore it reports client confidence remains high and new orders are flowing through steelwork contractors.
In the article in NSC, Executive Chairman of Caunton Engi...

Caunton Engineering is a company that recognizes and values engineering excellence and innovation, and are therefore very pleased to be sponsoring the 2021, University of Nottingham, ‘Engineering Excellence and Innovation Award’.

Nottingham University’s M. Eng. in Civil Engineering course includes a major design exercise in the fourth year of the students’ studies. This year the project is to d...

New Steel Construction magazine reports that the NHS and the construction industry are gearing up to deliver the biggest hospital investment programme for a generation. In a recent Sector Focus it argues steel construction will have a key role to play . One major benefit of steel is its flexibility in design. An in depth article in the Sector Focus describes a £40m private hospital, the Circle He...