Caunton had the pleasure of contributing to the construction of EDF Energy’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power station in Somerset. The company was awarded the contract to provide a structural frame for a factory building at Avonmouth Docks, Bristol, which is now used to manufacture precast concrete tunnel segments.

Caunton supplied and erected the structural steelwork for a new Dry Fuel store at Sizewell B Nuclear Power station. The steelwork itself was fabricated at the company’s Moorgreen Works. The project managed by main contractor Vinci Construction UK commenced in January 2014. The Dry Fuel Store is required for spent nuclear fuel. The existing Spent Fuel Pool which stores spent fuel under water was pr...

As part of Magnox’s decommissioning programme, Interserve, the international support services and construction group, was appointed as the sole Tier 2 contractor to design and build highly-engineered industrial grade interim storage facilities (ISF) to offer protection for Intermediate Level Waste (ILW) containers until the geological disposal facility is available. This involved the development o...