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Thomas Armstrong (Construction) Ltd, part of The Thomas Armstrong Group, is a successful, award winning company which has grown and developed into a major contractor for the construction of building and civil engineering projects throughout Cumbria, Lancashire, North of England and Southern Scotland.

The Langdale Hotel & Brimstone Spa

Barrow Police Station, Barrow-in-Furness

Buzz Station, Whitehaven

With construction projects ranging from £100,000 to £25 million+, our extensive portfolio of successfully completed projects spans across a broad range of sectors and clients, demonstrating our wealth of expertise, knowledge, and experience within the industry.

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Our building projects have included both traditional and modern methods of construction over a range of expertise and requirements, including delivering projects and schemes that meet BREEAM standards.

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Based at Thomas Armstrong Group’s Head Office in Flimby, Thomas Armstrong (Construction) Ltd’s success is due to their high levels of attention to detail, excellent workmanship and a dedicated, customer focused service. The company is divided into several divisions to ensure we have highly skilled people within specific areas of expertise to meet all our clients and customers bespoke requirements.

Sectors

Commercial and Industrial
Civil Engineering
Education
Healthcare
Leisure, Hotels and Retail
Private Housing Developments
Public Buildings and Works
Social Housing
Nuclear

Clients

Small, individual organisations
Large multi-national companies
Local authorities
Housing Associations

Key Projects

Buzz Station, Whitehaven
Pirelli Factory, Carlisle
Lodore Falls Hotel & Spa, Keswick
Barrow Police Station
Windermere Jetty, Museum of Boats, Steam and Stories, Windermere

Construction

Thomas Armstrong (Construction) Ltd is a successful, award winning company which has grown into a major contractor for the construction of building and civil engineering projects throughout Cumbria, Lancashire, North of England and Southern Scotland.

Building

With a highly regarded reputation in the design and build of £100,000 to £25 million+ construction projects, our extensive portfolio includes award winning projects such as public buildings, education, healthcare, leisure, retail and housing developments, housing associations and contracts within the nuclear industry. As standard, we also offer a friendly and reliable customer focused aftercare support after completion.

Windermere Jetty: Museum of Boats, Steam & Stories

Lidi and WCF - Cockermouth

Advanced Manufacturing Technology Centre, Furness College

Civil Engineering and Highways

We provide construction of built environment and infrastructure works for both private and public clients predominately across the North of England. Our diverse project portfolio ranging from £100,000 to £4 million+ features roadworks schemes, structural work such as:

Car parks
Multi storey car parks
Cycleways
Highway improvements
Public Realm
Demolition

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New bridges
Bridge repairs
Slope stabilisation
Drainage and attenuation
Road surfacing

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Kendal County Hall Car Park

Middleton Hall Bridge

Dalton Lane Road Lifting

Mechanical Engineering Services

Supporting not just our own construction sites, we provide vital engineering support to commercial and industrial clients throughout each stage of the build process – design and installation. Our extensive experience and excellent workmanship enable us to deliver a range of plumbing maintenance, heating, ventilation and air conditioning installations to long-term service and maintenance agreements.

Other Services

We also offer the following services which completed our portfolio of Construction Services. All services provide vital support, tools and craftsmanship in the successful completion of our projects.

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Our Projects

Every year Thomas Armstrong (Construction) Ltd successfully complete numerous projects across various sectors. Below highlights a selection of these projects by key sectors, each project has a downloadable pdf containing more information such as our achievements and the challenges we faced.
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Buzz Station, Whitehaven

The project comprised the complete refurbishment/re-build of the existing Bus Station and associated adjacent office building into a new Innovation Warehouse for BEC. The space has been transformed to provide modern, flexible office space with a café-bar on the ground floor.
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Client: BEC
Value: £4.3m
Completion: March 2021
Duration: 92 weeks
Contract: JCT Design & Build

Buzz Station, Whitehaven

Pirelli Factory Extension, Carlisle

The project involved the design, supply and completion of two extensions of 7076m2 & 3496m2 to the existing Pirelli tyre factory in Carlisle.
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Extension of Banbury Mixer Room – 3 Storey 28m high steel framed building including independent mezzanine structure, Kingspan cladding to walls and roof, installation of internal crane, goods lift, ventilation, welfare/office/WC facilities.

Quantiplex 14 Bay Extension - Single storey steel framed structure with Kingspan cladding, fire zone between existing factory and new area.

External service yard, maintenance access road and associated drainage.
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Client: Pirelli UK Tyres Ltd
Value: £7.8m
Completion: January 2021
Duration: 84 weeks
Contract: JCT Design & Build

Pirelli Factory Extension, Carlisle Project

Plot 1 Barrow Island

The construction of a new two storey office building. The built structure needed to provide ‘top-end’ office accommodation facility for multi-use varying businesses and their occupants.

The construction consisted of piled foundations, steel frame, precast block & beam ground floor, in-situ concrete first floor with external wall made up of metal stud inner leaf, masonry / render outer leaf together with aluminium windows and curtain walling and standing seam metal cladding on the roof. Internally metal stud partitions, doors, suspended ceilings complete with M&E services including a lift. External works including roads, foot paths and landscaped areas.
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Client: Barrow Borough Council
Value: £3.5m
Completion: March 2020
Duration: 55 weeks
Contract: JCT Standard

Plot 1 Barrow Island Project

Factory Extension, Carlisle

The project involved the construction of high bay testing facility with joiner’s shop attached to the existing factory, including a 21m high section of building to facilitate testing of large bespoke doors. Also, a new modular office extension and new surfacing to external areas.
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Client: Clark Door Ltd
Value: £1.3m
Completion: January 2020
Duration: 28 weeks
Contract: JCT Design & Build

Factory Extension, Carlisle Project

Windermere Jetty:
Museum of Boats, Steam & Stories

The scheme involved the construction of a new boat museum on the eastern shore of Lake Windermere in the Lake District National Park with associated facilities. The new buildings will provide a main exhibition space, a conservation workshop and gallery, a shop, café, educational learning space and administration space for staff. A wet dock allows a display of boats on the water within the museum.
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Client: Lakeland Arts
Value: £11.7m
Completion: March 2019
Duration: 175 weeks
Contract: JCT Standard Building Contract with Contractor’s Design

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Windermere Jetty Museum Project

Rosehill Industrial Estate, Carlisle
Proposed Car Park Re-development

This contract consisted of 2 phases, phase 1 being the extensive land remediation works followed by the construction of 11 No. light industrial workshops with 35 car parking spaces and associated external works & drainage, along with a public car park for 295 spaces and also the construction of a large attenuation pond for surface water.

Phase 2 was the completion of the shell construction of a Pioneer Food Hall including coffee shop along with a 46-space car park.
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Client: H & H Group Plc (Carlisle)
Value: £4.9m
Start: May 2017
Completion: Phase 1 August 2018 and Phase 2 February 2019
Duration: 91 weeks
Contract: JCT Standard Form of Contract 2011 Edition

Rosehill Industrial Estate, Carlisle Project

Sunbeams Music Centre, Penrith

This high profile project comprises the construction of a 550m2 new build music centre for the Sunbeams Music Trust on a green field site. The development is in a unique and sensitive setting with open farmland and vista to the Lakeland fells. The sustainable design is sympathetic to the setting.
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Client: Annie Mawson’s Sunbeams Music Trust
Value: £1.6m
Completion: Sept 2016
Duration: 59 weeks
Contract: JCT Intermediate Building Contract

Sunbeams Music Centre, Penrith Project

Other Commercial and Industrial Projects

Eden Deployment Centre Penrith

New Police Station, Barrow-in-Furness

PUBLIC REALM

Bransty Row Highway Improvements

Public realm upgrades to the main arterial route into Whitehaven incorporating a multitude of junction realignments and new traffic signals.
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Client: Cumbria County Council
Value: £1.89m
Completion: February 2021
Duration: 69 weeks
Contract: NEC 3 Option A with partial contractor’s design

Bransty Row Public Ream Highways Improvements

CAR PARKS

HIP Car Park, Barrow-in-Furness

Creation of a one story car park to create 840 car parking spaces. The site was surrounded by highway on 3 sides within the town centre conservation area. Section 278 agreements for the junction realignments were required.
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Client: BAE Systems Marine
Value: £3.96m
Completion: November 2020
Duration: 35 weeks
Contract: NEC 3 Option A Design and Build

HIP Car Park, Barrow-in-Furness

CAR PARKS

West Cumbria House Car Park

Construction of new additional car parking for existing office building.
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Client: Cumbria County Council
Value: £420,000
Completion: August 2020
Duration: 10 weeks
Contract: NEC 3 Option A

West Cumbria House Car Park

ROADS AND SLOPES

East Slopes and Carriageways

The works involved repairs to roads and slopes following Storm Desmond in 2015. Works were undertaken on 6no separate sites from Patterdale near Ullswater to Warcop, off the A66, in the far east of the county.

Thomas Armstrong had to develop some initial designs that were put together by CCC, to full design and build status. The two main packages were the stabilisation of a slope at Grisedale Lane near Patterdale using rock armour to prevent future erosion by the river and secure the integrity of the road above. In the same area, at Hartsop, we undertook concrete underpinning to a stone wall within a river that had been undermined and washed out during the flooding, to prevent future wall and road collapse.

Other works included road and drainage improvement works at Mungrisedale, Warcop and Bampton to Burnbanks. The reprofiling of a riverbank at Warcop that had collapsed, including the installation of rock rolls and willow planting to stabilise the new slope.
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Client: Cumbria County Council
Value: £730,000
Completion: September 2019
Duration: 52 weeks
Contract: NEC 3 Option C

East Slopes and Carriageways Project

BRIDGES

Middleton Hall Bridge - Stage 2

The replacement of an existing bridge that was severely damaged in the Storm Desmond Floods of 2015.

This bridge carries the A683 road within the Yorkshire Dales National Park and is heavily used by locals, tourists and cyclists alike.
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Client: Cumbria County Council
Value: £629,000
Completion: August 2019
Duration: 8 weeks
Contract: NEC 3 Option A

Middleton Hall Bridge - Stage 2 Project

BRIDGES

Castleway Crossing, Carlisle

The replacement of an existing bridge that was severely damaged in the Storm Desmond Floods of 2015.

This bridge carries the A683 road within the Yorkshire Dales National Park and is heavily used by locals, tourists and cyclists alike.
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Client: Cumbria County Council
Value: £290,000
Completion: September 2017
Duration: 20 weeks
Contract: NEC 3 Option B

Castleway Crossing Carlisle Project

CYCLEWAYS

Viking Way, Gosforth to Seascale

3km cycleway between Gosforth and Seascale in West Cumbria. This scheme was on an extremely busy access road into / out of the Sellafield Nuclear Complex.
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Deliveries were timed to avoid peak traffic at shift changes. Temporary traffic signals were used to control traffic and provide a safe working area. Landowners were kept informed throughout to enable farm tasks to continue throughout the contract period.
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Project: Viking Way, Gosforth to Seascale
Client: Cumbria County Council
Value: £500,000
Completion: July 2017
Duration: 18 Weeks
Contract: NEC 3

Viking Way, Gosforth to Seascale Project

Other Civil Engineering Projects

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Thursby Primary School, Carlisle

The project comprised:
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New build construction of a classroom & withdrawal room
Internal alterations for new offices, library and withdrawal room
Internal doors, windows, plasterwork, decoration & floor finishes
Associated external works.

Client: Cumbria County Council
Value: £410,000
Completion: October 2019
Duration: 22 weeks
Contract: NEC3

Thursby Primary School Carlisle Project

New Classroom Block, Keswick School

The scheme involved the creation of a new classroom block within an existing car park/playground area within the school to form a new language block consisting of the following:
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Six new classrooms
Staff office & WC
Comms cupboard
Accessible WC
Shared Male/Female WC
Cleaners Store
Plant room
Main access and fire escape stairs

Client: Keswick School
Value: £902,000
Completion: November 2018
Duration: 32 weeks
Contract: JCT Intermediate

New Classroom Block Keswick School Project

Houghton Primary School, Carlisle

The scheme involved the extension to existing Primary School to provide 2No classrooms and 3No withdrawal rooms together with forming a new Catering kitchen, extending the Hall and remodelling class bases and toilet areas throughout. Works included:
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Timber frame extension
Concrete floor slab
Internal doors, windows, plasterwork, decoration & floor finishes
Installation of new kitchen equipment
Full over-roofing of the school and formation of an external glazed canopy area
M&E installation
Additional play surfacing
Drainage alterations

Project: Houghton Primary School
Client: Cumbria County Council
Value: £1.2m
Completion: November 2017
Duration: 43 weeks
Contract: NEC3

Houghton Primary School Project

Gen2 Head Office - Lillyhall, Workington

This prestigious project involved the comprehensive refurbishment of a fabrics factory to provide a new specialist training centre and office accommodation. The building officially opened in September 2017 and now provides a variety of vocational engineering related subjects to students and commercial clients. Works included:
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Re-roofing and cladding with feature front façade
Forming new modern classroom accommodation internally using high performance partitions
Forming office accommodation to the front of the building using blockwork
Renovation of the workshop floor involving the application of a new epoxy finish
New electrical installation including a comprehensive IT installation throughout the building with A/C to major offices and a proportion of the classrooms

Client: Gen2
Value: £2.9m
Duration: 38 weeks
Completion: May 2017
Contract: JCT Design & Build

Gen2 Head Office Workington Project

Advanced Manufacturing Technology Centre (AMTC), Furness College

The scheme involved the construction of a new advanced manufacturing and technology centre within the existing Furness College campus. Works included:
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Earthworks & Drainage
Structural Steelwork
Roof & Wall Cladding
Glazed curtain walling
Precast Concrete Staircase
Concrete Floors & Floor Screeding
Moveable Partitions
Suspended Ceilings
Internal Glazed Screens
Lift Installation
M&E Works
Personnel Doors & Sectional Overhead Door
Block Paving
Fencing & Signage

Client: Furness College
Value: £2.6m
Completion: July 2016
Duration: 48 weeks
Contract: JCT Design & Build 2011

AMTC Furness College Project

Other Education Projects

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The Coniston Inn, Coniston
(Formerly The Waterhead Hotel)

The project comprised the design and construction of refurbishment works and the provision of an extension to the existing Waterhead Hotel in Coniston.

The work included the conversion of the existing 24-bed premises and provision of a new 23-bed extension to create a 47-bed facility with kitchen redevelopment, car park and associated external works. All works are designed to achieve the design criteria, SBEM calculations etc. to provide proof of compliance for the public circulation and ancillary non-residential areas
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Client: The Inn Collection Group
Value: £3m
Completion: July 2020
Duration: 72 weeks
Contract: JCT Design & Build

The Coniston Inn, Coniston Project

New Lidl & WCF Stores, Cockermouth

The project involved the construction of a new WCF Pet & Equestrian store to replace the existing store, still trading on-site, then demolishing the existing store including remediation works and removal of any asbestos materials, this would then allow the new Lidl store to be constructed. The construction of both stores included:
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Steel framed buildings with traditional strip/pad foundations
Insitu concrete floors
Elevations were a combination of cladding, timber boarding, stone and render
Aluminium windows and doors
Curtain walling
Phased installation of two King Post retaining walls 120m in length and average 3.50m high
Associated external works, car parking & drainage
Architectural railings, planting & landscaping

Client: Lidl UK GmbH
Value: £3.8m
Completion: August 2019
Duration: 90 weeks
Contract: Lidl Framework Agreement

Lidi and WCF Stores Project

Costa Drive Thru, Carlisle

The project involved the construction of a new Costa Drive Thru within the existing car park in London Road Retail Park, Carlisle.

Works included breaking out, new foundations, mains drainage connection to existing, new steel frame, new roof cladding & flashing, blockwork, new windows & doors, external render, new incoming services, external lighting, hard & soft landscaping, surfacing and four electric car charging points.
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Client: BNP Paribas Depositary Services Ltd.
Value: £516,000
Completion: June 2019
Duration: 19 weeks
Contract: JCT Design & Build

Costa Drive Thru, Carlisle Project

Center Parcs, Penrith

This project involved the construction of 34No. new timber frame lodges, consisting of 14No. two-bed executive lodges, 7No. three-bed executive lodges, 12No. three-bed executive lodges offering a hot tub experience and 1No. six-bed single storey lodge.

Also included was the demolition of the existing arrivals lodge to make way for 120 additional parking spaces, adjacent the existing main car park and a new 10 bay arrivals lodge building which is to be erected as part of the scheme located to the north east of the main car park.
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Client: Center Parcs
Value: £7m
Completion: April 2019
Duration: 60 weeks
Contract: JCT Intermediate

Center Parcs Penrith Project

Lodore Falls Hotel, Borrowdale

This prestigious scheme was completed in phases. Phase 1 being the demolition and groundworks. Phase 2a comprised the new function room and break-out area. Phase 2b created the new brasserie with suites above and Phase 2c involved the new build spa with suites above.
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Client: Lake District Hotels Ltd.
Value: £8m
Completion: October 2018
Duration: 63 weeks
Contract: JCT Standard Building Contract

Lodore Falls Hotel, Borrowdale Project Download

Other Lesiure, Hotels and Retail Projects

Fell Foot Water Sports Centre, Newby Bridge

80 Dwellings at The Meadows, High Harrington

The project involved the construction of 80 new high-quality family homes for private sale. The development consists of a mix of two to five bedrooms, two and three storey layouts and semi-detached and detached houses and bungalows.

Externally works consisted of estate roads, infrastructure and each home was constructed with a block pavioured driveway, turfed garden and planted features.
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Client: Washington Homes Ltd
Value: £11.3m
Completion: September 2019
Duration: 190 weeks
Contract: JCT

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The Meadows, High Harrington Project

22 Dwellings at Butterfields, Brigham

The project involved the construction of 22 new high-quality family homes for private sale. The development consists of a mix of two to five bedrooms, two and three storey layouts and semi-detached and detached houses and bungalows.

Externally works consisted of estate roads, infrastructure and each home was constructed with a block pavioured driveway, turfed garden and planted features.
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Client: Washington Homes Ltd
Value: £3.5m
Completion: July 2019
Duration: 128 weeks
Contract: JCT
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www.washingtonhomes.co.uk

Butterfields, Brigham Project

Leeming Farm, Watermillock

The scheme comprised of the renovation of an existing farmhouse and construction of a new extension with link corridor with associated external works. Works included:
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Piling works to existing farmhouse
Completion renovation of existing farmhouse
Remove part of existing roof and construct new roof to increase head height
Construct new bespoke Green Oak timber frame extension
Link corridor to connect existing farmhouse
Concrete retaining walls & floor slab
External works including reduced level excavation, services installation and landscaping works to level ground to new profile

Value: £1.5m
Completion: October 2017
Duration: 61 weeks
Contract: JCT Intermediate Building Contract

Leeming Farm, Watermillock Project

85 Dwellings at Woodville Park, Cockermouth

The scheme involved the construction of 85 new dwellings for speculative sale to a high specification & quality, with numerous house designs and types of traditional build. Works included:
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Extensive site remediation
Ground lime stabilisation
Traditional brick/block construction
High standard of internal finishes
Paving and landscaping
Roads and footpaths
Services and drainage

Client: Washington Homes Ltd
Value: £19.2m
Completion: May 2016
Duration: 182 weeks
Contract: JCT Design & Build 2011

Woodville Park, Cockermouth Project

Other Private Housing Projects

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7 Dwellings at Vine Terrace, Penrith

The project involved the construction of 7 new homes on a brownfield site in the centre of Penrith. The development consists of 4 No. 2-bedroom houses and 3 No. 1-bedroom flats with communal areas. The project was built on piled foundations, blockwork cavity wall, rendered with slate roof. The flats have concrete floors and staircase and the houses have timber floors and timber staircase. Timber trussed roof to all properties.
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Client: Eden Housing Association
Value: £977,000
Completion: June 2020
Duration: 59 weeks
Contract: JCT Design & Build

Vine Terrace, Penrith Project

7 Dwellings at Spring Close, Threlkeld

The project involved the construction of 7 new two storey affordable rented homes on a greenfield site. The development, in the Lake District National Park at the foot of Blencathra, consists of 2 No. 3-bedroom houses, 4 No. 2-bedroom houses and 1 No. 1-bedroom house.

The houses are traditional masonry blockwork with rendered elevations, slate roof with mock dormers and mock chimneys and feature stone porches to the front elevation. Externally each house has a garden to the rear and parking to the front, there is also some open space around the properties which has been grass seeded, giving the properties a spacious rural aspect.
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Client: Eden Housing Association
Value: £965k
Completion: February 2019
Duration: 46 weeks
Contract: JCT Intermediate

Spring Close, Threlkeld Project

St. Andrew’s Close, Coniston

The project comprised of the part demolition and conversion of the former Youth Centre into four houses and the construction of six new houses within the grounds. Works included:
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Part demolition of existing youth centre
Solar PV panels set into the slating on the roof
M&E Works
Installation of services
Landscaping and drainage
Residents car parking
Liaison with the community and other stakeholders about the project and to alleviate any concerns.

Client: Eden Housing Association
Value: £1.1m
Completion: March 2018
Duration: 61 weeks
Contract: JCT Intermediate

St. Andrew’s Close, Coniston Project

Edge of Care Accommodation, Carlisle

The scheme involved the creation of a new single-storey traditional building L shaped building to create residential accommodation for young people on the ‘edge of care’. Works included:
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Demolition of existing two-storey building and removal of surrounding landscaping
Demolition of existing boundary walls
Creation of entrance, offices, family studio, dining area, lounge, games room, kitchen, laundry, pace suite and stores.
M&E Works
Installation of services
Plant room installation
New brick boundary wall and fencing
Landscaping and drainage
Car parking

Client: Cumbria County Council
Value: £940,000
Completion: February 2018
Duration: 36 weeks
Contract: NEC3

Edge of Care Accommodation Project

Other Social Housing Projects

Albion Mills Lancaster

Brampton Extra Care

Why Choose Thomas Armstrong?

Established in 1830s, The Thomas Armstrong Group has a long standing and well-known reputation within the construction industry for their high-quality building products and construction services. Thomas Armstrong (Construction) Ltd remains one of the core companies within the Group from the early days to the present day.

With this extensive knowledge and expertise, Thomas Armstrong (Construction) Ltd continues to take pride in the high quality and workmanship of every project and is recognised in the Awards we have won for our project work. We also ensure that we are committed to high levels of customer service and satisfaction to all our clients and customers, making the building process an efficient, effective and enjoyable experience.

Thomas Armstrong (Construction) Ltd is an ISO 9001:2015 Quality Assurance and an ISO 14001:2015 Environmental accredited company, providing assurance to our clients and customers.

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As a company, we continue to invest in our people, the latest construction processes and machinery to remain competitive and to ensure we keep in line with the technological advances within the construction industry.

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Award Recognitions