Two British businesses are celebrating a landmark partnership which has seen them create the floors for 50 major UK construction projects in just three years.
The UK’s leading independent concrete supplier, Hope Construction Materials Ltd, and the country’s leading concrete flooring innovator Stanford Industrial Concrete Flooring Ltd are marking the 50-project landmark…with another two significant flooring contracts!
The first – the biggest of the partnership so far – sees Hope supply Stanford with 26,000m3 of concrete for a new Jaguar Land Rover engine manufacturing centre in Wolverhampton. The second is a 3,000m3 contract to construct the floor slabs of a new industrial warehouse space at Navigation Park in Enfield, North London.
The Jaguar Land Rover build is a £2 million four-month project that demands up to 400m3 of ready-mixed concrete a day. The site currently employs 700 people and this is expected to double after completion of the project. The two-month Enfield project will see 10,000 new homes built in the area and will grow the town’s population to 310,000.
The concrete for the Jaguar Land Rover project is being supplied by Hope’s new state-of-the-art readymix plant in Walsall, where the company brings in cement and aggregates by rail. The concrete for the Enfield project again uses high quality stone from Derbyshire, again brought into London by rail.
Both projects boast a lower carbon footprint thanks to Hope’s strategy to maximise use of the railway network wherever possible – a move that makes both economic and environmental sense.
Hope is supplying Stanford with concrete for Jaguar Land Rover’s new Wolverhampton plant
Hope is supplying Stanford with concrete for a wind turbine rotors factory in Hull
Operating nationwide, Hope and Stanford have worked together on more than 350 flooring pours, totalling nearly 120,000m3 of concrete. Recent projects have included a £160 million factory in Hull for the manufacture of wind turbine rotors, a distribution centre for a major food retailer in Grangemouth, and a new store for a major wholesaler in Sunbury, West London.
Kevin Louch, MD of Stanford Flooring, says: ‘Hope are excellent at understanding exactly what we want and what our priorities are for each project. They always act to ensure deadlines are met and everything runs smoothly.
‘It is for this reason that we have worked with Hope on so many projects and will continue to do so moving forward. They are trustworthy and flexible and we have a common interest in delivering high quality products.’
Tom Waddington, Regional Commercial Manager at Hope Construction Materials, says: ‘Stanford Flooring have proved to be an invaluable customer to us over the past three years, with Stanford being our number one customer in 2015, ordering a total of 60,000m3 concrete.
‘We share the same values as Stanford and have developed a great relationship built on trust to deliver quality product on time.’