Skipton Building Society, Homeloan Management Limited, Skipton

Date: 01/10/2008

Location: South/West Yorkshire

Project value: £1,226,000.00

This project involves the construction of two buildings, plus a link block to create the new head quarters for the Homeloan Management Limited arm of Skipton Building Society.

Building 1 is three storeys high and Building 2 is four storeys. Both are braced frame structures with hipped roofs and stepped soffits. In addition to fabricating and erecting the steel frame, Billington Structures installed precast concrete planks and stairs, and provided edge protection.

Project Scope

Steel frame, precast concrete and edge protection

Client: Skipton Building Society
Main contractor: Wates Construction
Engineer: B S C P
Architect: Bowman Riley Architects
Weight of steel: 435 tonnes
Market sector: Commercial
Design type: Traditional
Frame type: Medium / high rise