Britcon - Building, Civil Engineering & Structural Steelwork Contractors

Britcon is a leading building, civil engineering and structural steelwork contractor based within Scunthorpe, UK. Founded in 1990, Britcon remains family owned and run, combining traditional values with modern management and construction techniques.

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Watch Scunthorpe United from the Britcon Stand

After several years of involvement with Scunthorpe United, Britcon are delighted to be sponsors of the north stand for 2012/2013 season.

Britcon Wins Prestigious International Safety Award

Britcon has been recognised for its health and safety performance by winning a prestigious International Safety Award. The award was given by one of the world's leading advocates of workplace health and safety, the British Safety Council, and is supported by the Health and Safety Executive.

See Britcon at Hull & Humber Chamber Expo 2011

This year Britcon (Scunthorpe) Limited participated in the Humber region's largest annual business event, Chamber Expo 2011. The event was back for its fifteenth consecutive year and was held at The Bonus Arena, Walton Street, Hull. Once again all 100 Stands were occupied.

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Featured Projects

Vehicle Service Centre

Britcon have recently completed the construction of a Vehicle Service Centre for our client Salfina Limited of North Killingholme.

The project at on a greenfield site at Horsham, West Sussex comprised the construction of a portal framed building complete with an executive suite of offices , associated internal and external services, grounds and landscaping works. The structure was designed and built to accommodate an overhead crane. The wall and roof finishes comprised a profiled built-up cladding system achieving a high performance, lightweight, fast and simple method of construction.

The project, completed within a 30 week programme provides a vehicle customer service centre with office, workshop space and external washdown areas.

Westgate Skoda Dealership

Britcon have recently completed the construction of our second project for the Westgate Car Franchise in Grimsby.

The project comprised an Extension to existing building to form new Skoda dealership, incorporating all the associated external works, drainage and re-cladding of existing façade.

Undertaken as a 'Design and Build' project it was completed within an exceptionally tight timescale of 17 weeks. All works were undertaken in accordance with Skoda's corporate specification and included showroom and valeting areas together with welfare accommodation and a suite of offices.

Performing Arts Centre and Theatre

Britcon has recently completed the construction of a new £2.0million Performing Arts Centre at New College Pontefract. This state-of-the-art facility will be used by students studying AS and A level drama, music and dance.

New College Pontefract's vice-principal said: "It really is fantastic news for all young people interested in performing arts in the local area.

Britcon were delighted to have been awarded this prestigious scheme having worked at New College for a number of years. The contract included the demolition of the existing Block C, and the design and build of a part single part 3 storey building to accommodate a range of performing arts including music, drama, multi purpose performing space, dance studio, and music recording workshop .

The head of performing arts, said: "I think the new building will be a revelation for the college's performing arts department. Before we only had one drama theatre but now we will have the facilities to teach a variety of different courses to the highest standard in the country.

Renowned playwright John Godber made a visit to NEW College, Pontefract on Friday 05 October to open the brand new Performance Academy Building named after him.

Anaerobic Digestion Plant

Britcon were engaged as principal contractor to construct a state of the art anaerobic digestion facility capable of converting in excess of 45,000 tonnes of food waste into power generating methane gas to be used as a fuel source for the adjacent feed processing factory with excess power being fed back into the local electricity grid network, producing overall 2.8Mw of renewable electricity and heat, enough to power about 5,000 homes.

The anaerobic digestor takes 25-36 days to complete its cycle. As well as heat and electricity, it produces 43,000 tonnes of odourless organic fertiliser a year, which is sent to local farms.

Our client was Prosper de Mulder Ltd. in partnership with their European anaerobic digestion plant operators SARIA who have a number of similar installations on the continent.

PDM were keen to use local supply chains and as such invited local companies to tender for the project. Britcon were selected as principal contractor. On appointment, Britcon engaged in an intense process of value engineering to ensure 'best value' had been achieved throughout the entire project providing civil engineering infrastructure and construction of a new dedicated office and amenities block for the AD plant, which is highly energy efficient, in line with the rest of the project.

The initial phase was a relatively straight forward earthworks re-engineering of the top 2m of the existing brown field site to bring the formation to a suitable bearing capacity for the structures to be constructed but this did incorporate a major dewatering of the temporary works for the deep basement which was a considerable depth below the adjacent river level.

On completion of the earthworks and piling operations, the major structures which comprised multiple high rise post tensioned circular reinforced concrete digestion tanks, receiving tanks and gas storage tanks along with numerous process structures, extensive external works and administration office commenced.

The concrete tank structures were sub-contracted to a nominated Austrian specialist slip forming contractor utilising their own patented shutter / integrated rotating equipment.

Given that the administration office was to be used in conjunction with a green energy plant, the brief was to create an office facility that was as environmentally friendly as possible, using the latest sustainable methods of construction. With this in mind the materials were sourced to provide maximum recycleability over the whole life cycle of the building.

Thermal values of all elements of construction were closely considered, with the eventual building envelope far exceeding the requirements of the Building Regulations. Internal walls and the inner leaf of the external walls were formed with dense masonry to provide high thermal mass; to be used in conjunction with a night-time cooling strategy, fresh air is brought into the building overnight to cool the dense structure which slowly absorbs heat through the day. In winter the air is not extracted and thus stays warm.

Architects, John Hill Associates from Doncaster, managed the design and construction throughout the build process.

Ward Green Primary School

Britcon have recently completed a major project for Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council comprising the extension to form new key Stage 1 classroom block, extensions and alterations to the existing school classrooms to create Key Stage 2 classroom blocks and minor alterations to the remainder of the school including extension and alterations to the boiler house.

Works were carried out within four distinct phases utilising the JCT Standard Form of Contract

The four phase of the project generally comprised:

Office & Vehicle Testing

Office Accommodation and Vehicle Testing Station

Designed to achieve BREEAM excellent the new Headquarters and seven lane Goods Vehicle Testing Station currently under construction at Bristol is the Jewel in the Crown of the VOSA estate.

Bringing together all the expertise of a fully integrated construction team and best practice accrued from 13 previous projects the new development is due for completion in April of 2008.

Having commenced projects with VOSA utilizing the PPC2000 contract much of the framework was undertaken using the BeCollaborative. The Bristol project however has been undertaken utilizing the JCT CE (constructing excellence) contract with target cost and pain/gain mechanism.

National Comms Centre

National Call and Communications Centre

The project comprised the re-furbishment & internal alterations of the Ellipse Building at Swansea, which has now become VOSA's national call & communications centre.

The Ellipse building comprises 2 office buildings, a rectangular, 2 storey and an elliptical, 3 storey linked by a central communal area containing the main building central reception, lifts, staircases & toilet facilities with a floor area of 2800m2

Works undertaken included working within an existing & live office environment on 3 floors, the installation of a complete new Data & Telephone system & modifications to the existing fire alarm systems through out the building.

Goole Bridge

Goole Swing Bridge Reconstruction

Goole Swing Bridge is a six span bridge, situated between Goole and Saltmarsh carrying two tracks of the Gilberdyke to Goole line over the River Ouse.

Following a robust tender exercise in November 2009 Britcon was awarded a contract worth £1.8 million, from Network Rail Contractor Carillion, to carry out strengthening works to the 6 span Network Rail owned bridge. Works undertaken by Britcon comprised installation of 450 tonnes of new strengthening steelwork into the existing structure during a 6 week blockade commencing. The majority of this steelwork was secured utilising the existing rivet holes and required the removal and replacement, with specialist tension control bolts, of 45,000 rivets.

A10 Footbridge

A10 Footbridge & Cycleway

Britcon have recently completed the construction of a design and build footbridge and cycleway complete with upgraded infrastructure crossing the A10 dual carriageway in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. The construction has provided an additional crossing point from the east to the west sides of the busy A10 dual carriageway, which is one of the main arterial routes linking London with Cambridge. Specifically, it has linked the areas of Cheshunt and Waltham Cross to the east to the new St. Mary's High School to the west, being part of a Sustrans route providing an invaluable safe link for hundreds of school children on a daily basis.

The project consisted specifically of a 35m span, 3.5m wide bridge crossing the A10 dual carriageway in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire. At either side of the bridge, structural steel ramps totalling 200 m in length and weighing approximately 140 tonnes in total were fabricated and installed. This provided a Sustrans route as a footbridge and cycleway linking Cheshunt and Waltham Cross to the east with St. Mary's High School and the remainder of Cheshunt to the west. To the west, an additional 750 m of footway and bridleway, together with a bridge over the New River, were also installed as an additional contract which was won on the basis of our record and delivery of the initial project.

In addition to the main structure as detailed above, we also installed a 70m long, reinforced concrete structure to the east ramp linking the routes to the east back to that of the A10. This structure was finished with tarmacadam and brick clad to improve the aesthetics when viewed from the other side of the brook on Theobald's Lane.