Our team of skilled craftsmen and estimators can advise on every aspect of a contract, which may be different or bespoke, to fit individual requirements or specifications and our clients have come to rely on and trust our expertise in these specialist areas.
As a result, over a period of sustained growth, the commercial contracts side of the business has vastly expanded. Our services range from complete carpentry and joinery for new hotels, leisure clubs and restaurants to student accommodation blocks, call centres, Police headquarters, refits for major retail stores, medical centres, hospitals and international manufacturing companies.
Two recent major reconstruction projects awarded to Ian Williams Carpentry are St David’s 2, a significant retail and office development in the heart of Cardiff’s retail district and the Cabot Circus development in Bristol City Centre.
BBC Cardiff Drama Village, South Wales
Project: BBC drama village development
Client: Vinci
Requirements: Specialist carpentry & joinery services
£10m drama village being built for BBC Wales in Cardiff's docklands. The development that will be the home of productions including Casualty, Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Pobol y Cwm, Sherlock and Upstairs, Downstairs.
Welsh College of Music & Drama
Project: Welsh College of Music & Drama
Client: Willmott Dixon
Requirements: Specialist carpentry & joinery services
An ambitious and exciting £22.5 million landmark development to build a suite of world-class training and performance
facilities for musicians, actors, theatre designers and stage managers, enabling the College to significantly raise the
quality and profile of its provision for Wales and the UK.
Rogiet Primary School, Monmouthshire
Project: School development
Client: Willmott Dixon
Requirements: Specialist carpentry & joinery services
Rogiet Primary School is a new-build project to replace an existing school on adjacent land in the village of Rogiet, Monmouthshire. The single-storey, timber-frame building accommodates 260 pupils and staff, and has landscaped grounds and external play and sports areas. Monmouthshire County Council set the BREEAM 'Excellent' objective in line with its targets and Welsh Assembly Government guidance on the sustainable development of public buildings.
Hartridge High School, Newport, South Wales
Project: New High School
Client: Leadbitter
Requirements: Specialist carpentry & joinery services
The Leadbitter Group has started construction of a new £29 million state-of-the-art building for Hartridge High School
in Newport, following its successful delivery of Newport High School in Bettws for Newport City Council. Both projects
are part of the Council's major secondary school redevelopment programme.
With its innovative design, which includes two teaching wings wrapped around a central atrium, the new school is
intended to offer the best possible environment for Hartridge's 1,450 pupils, raising education standards as well as
offering first-class community facilities and providing employment opportunities. The work is expected to be completed
by spring 2012.
Merthyr Health Park, South Wales
Project: New Health Park
Client: Laing O Rouke
Requirements: Specialist carpentry & joinery services
£25m new health park in Merthyr Tydfil.
The Learning Zone, Ebbw Vale
Project: New School
Client: Leadbitter
Requirements: Specialist carpentry & joinery services
The Learning Zone project at The Works in Ebbw Vale, worth £27.6 million.
The project is part of a £350 million scheme, known as The Works, launched by Blaenau Gwent County Borough
Council and the Welsh Assembly Government to provide new education facilities, as well as a leisure centre, low
carbon housing, general offices, Central Valley Wetland Park and an arts facility on the former steelworks site in Ebbw Vale.
Project: New School in Bristol by IWC
Client: Kier
Requirements: Specialist carpentry & joinery services from IWC (South Wales)
Design and Construction of the new BESD school.
The School is being built in Kingswood with the secondary department on the site of the former Falconride Primary
School (Mulberry Drive, Kingswood, BS15 4EA) and the primary department adjacent to a rebuilt Courtney Primary
School (Courtney Road, Kingswood, BS15 9RD).
Maggie's South West Wales Centre in Swansea, Wales
Project: South West Wales Cancer Centre
Client: Sir Robert McAlpine
Requirements: IWC Specialist carpentry &
joinery services in Wales
Situated next to the South West Wales Cancer Centre at Singleton Hospital, Maggie's will serve people living within the
South West Wales Cancer Network. Maggie's South West Wales is located at Singleton Hospital, Swansea.
Facilities will include a kitchen, library, dining area, relaxation and counselling spaces, stores and offices.
Two wings faced with precast concrete wall panels and covered by a curving zinc roof will wind into the centre of the
building which is formed around a large oval skylight.
Circle Reading Hospital, Reading, Uk
Project: New Hospital
Client: Vinci
Requirements: IWC Specialist carpentry &
joinery services in Wales
On completion in autumn 2012, the £50 million hospital will offer five operating theatres, 30 in-patient beds and
18 day patient beds providing a range of treatments in luxury surroundings. The hospital is being built by the
same award-winning design and build team as Circle hospital in Bath.
The University is currently building a new multi-million pound campus in Newport's city centre. The £35m campus is
situated on the banks of the River Usk and will be the first phase of an intended £50m development for the University.
Archbishop McGarth School
Project: School development
Client: Leadbitter
Requirements: Specialist carpentry & joinery services
Following a doubling of pupil numbers over the past 20 years and the gradual deterioration of the school buildings,
there has been a commitment to spend more than £20 million on a brand new school, to be located at a more
accessible site in Brackla.
A £30m PFI project to build, operate and finance Bristol's Hengrove Leisure Centre in Hengrove Park will boost
the quality of sports and swimming facilities in the south of the city. It will include a ten-lane 50-metre swimming
pool, a sports hall and a health and fitness suite.
In 2011 the doors will open on the Gwent Record Office's new home in Ebbw Vale, on the site of the old
steelworks. Part of the new Office will be in the Steelworks General Office, a Grade 2* listed building but
an integral part of the development will be a new extension to provide around 10km of shelves in the
controlled environment needed to ensure that the Collection is accessible now and hundreds of years
into the future.
The new Local General Hospital for the Caerphilly Borough - Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr will be located at the
Ystrad Fawr site in Ystrad Mynach and will give patients access to an increased range of services in a modern
health care environment and will be part of the Clinical Futures network of services.
Cabot House - Bristol
Project: Cabot House - Bristol
Client: Sir Robert McAlpine
Requirements: Specialist carpentry & joinery services
Occupying a prime spot in Bristol's civic quarter, the redevelopment of Cabot House is one of the city’s
key regeneration projects. The scheme comprises 6,600m2 corporate office space, 78 apartments,
a 2,500m2 speculative office block with more than 330 car parking and 125 bicycle parking spaces.
Mental Health Unit, Bridgend
Project: Mental health Unit (Bridgend Council/NHS)
Client: BAM
Requirements: Specialist carpentry & joinery services
Two multi-million pound developments to help care for those with mental health issues have been opened
in Bridgend. The Assisting Recovery in the Community (ARC) day project and Cefn Yr Afon community
rehabilitation unit are part of a £30m funding programme undertaken by the assembly government to
improve mental health services.
University of Glamorgan Student Accommodation
Project: New Student Accommodation
Client: Vinci Construction
Requirements: Specialist carpentry & joinery services
A £20 million investment in new halls of residence at the Treforest Campus to assist students in finding a place
to live that suits them. Students can choose to live in halls of residence at the Treforest Campus, or in private
sector accommodation in Treforest or Cardiff.
St. David's 2 in the city centre of Cardiff is now the eleventh largest shopping centre in the United Kingdom and is
the second phase of the original St David's Shopping Centre. The construction of the extension cost a total of £675m
and brought Cardiff within the top five shopping destinations in the United Kingdom with 20 million people visiting
the centre during the first six months after its opening. St David's was crowned the international shopping centre of
the year in 2010 by Global Retail Leisure International, beating contenders in Portugal and Singapore.
Birdwell Primary School and Childrens Centre
Project: Birdwell Primary School and Childrens Centre
Client: Willmott Dixon
Requirements: Specialist carpentry & joinery services
Commercial Developments
Carillion: Coleg Morgannwg // Swansea University
Alfred McAlpine: Swansea SA1
Sir Robert McAlpine: Cardiff Gate Business Park // Project Horizon, Pencoed // Cardiff Bay // Cabot Circus, Bristol
Stradform: Bro-Castle, Bridgend // Black Horse Building, Cardiff // North Road, Cardiff // Bute Police Station, Cardiff
Kier Western: De Vere Hotel & Leisure Complex, Swansea // Sports Village, Merthyr
BAM: Marks & Spencer, Cardiff
Norwest Holst: Cabot Circus, Bristol
Bovis Lend Lease: St David's 2, Cardiff
Cowlin: Extra Care Home, Cwmbran
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