WORKFORCE

Barbour Structures employ a range of people with a diverse skill base and encompassing many trades and specialities.

With constant upgrading of skills and the utilisation of new and innovative methodology within their working environment, Barbour Structures are perfectly placed to be at the forefront of any civil engineering project, the length and breadth of the country.

Possession of that core base of skills within the regular workforce allows Barbour Structures to be both pro-active and reactive in the approach to new contracts and is finely placed within a highly competitive workplace to move very quickly should the need occur.

STEEL STRUCTURES

Barbour Structures and their workforce have been involved in the preparation for and construction of many major contracts, ranging from school, office buildings and hospitals through to major banking and tunnelling work, such as London Underground and the Blackwall Tunnel.

More recent contracts include part of a major defence construction to build tidal-free moorings for the fleet of British submarines, which allows the dock to rise and fall with the tethered craft as the tide ebbs and flows.

CONCRETE POURING

Barbour Structures have successfully fulfilled many of the largest contracts in the country including the Loch Katrine project.

Concrete is a construction material comprising of cement and other cementitious materials such as fly-ash and slag cement, aggregate plus sand, water and chemical admixtures.

Concrete literally means hardened or hard and is formed as part of the hydration process, bonding water, cement and the other components, eventually creating a stone-like material.

CONCRETE REINFORCING

The reinforcement of concrete methodology is in a state of constant change, embracing new materials and improved ways of working with them. Barbour Structures are constantly upgrading their own skills and experience to reflect these changes.

Materials such as steel mesh, wire and bars are used to strengthen and bolster the concrete to hold the mightiest structures and some of the country's finest buildings are indebted to the technology that has evolved.

Use of the new methods of strengthening and reinforcing concrete, produces buildings and edifices which are durable, strong, low maintenance and good for the environment.

Many are built to satisfy long-term use whilst remaining as aesthetically pleasing through many decades as when they were first built.

Barbour Structures have managed to comfortably embrace these new techniques into their working practices.