partnering & diversification

Whilst traditionally known as a specialist steel fabricator, some years ago S H Structures identified the need for a more open and flexible approach to contracting. To this end, the company has developed close working relationships with a number of other specialist companies who provide items such as tensile fabric, ETFE foil, structural glazing, GRP and timber to provide Clients with an established team of suppliers who have an understanding of each other’s specialist discipline. This combined knowledge of how the various elements interface gives a level of comfort to our clients that a more disparate group of individual sub-contractors would not necessarily be able to provide.

This rational holistic approach has proved very attractive to our clients and has been instrumental in our securing a number of high-profile contracts. One such project is the Alnwick Gardens Pavilion in Northumberland. The scheme, by Hopkins Architects, has a complex steel and timber grid shell roof. S H Structures was able to provide the client with a ‘one-stop-shop’ for both the steel and timber. S H Structures were rewarded with a commendation in the 2006 Wood Awards and a Special Award for a steel and timber composite structure in the 2007 Steel Design Awards.