Work on steel frame for amenity building starts next week
Steelwork contractor William Hare has won a deal to carry out work at an amentiy building being put up at Sizewell C.
At peak, the scheme to build the new nuclear power station in Suffolk will be estimated to have 10,000 people on it and Hare has been asked to fabricate 500 tonnes of steel for the building that will be used by workers from outside the area.
Fabrication work for the two-storey steel frame will start next week and will be made at Hare’s Scarbough factory. The frame is due to go up on site by the end of the year.
Sizewell C has pledged to had out 70% of its £2.5bn construction value – the equivalent £1.75bn – to UK firms.
Earlier this year, Building revealed that the country’s second biggest steelwork contractor had been sold to a Manchester-based entrepreneur who is the older brother of former Take That singer Jason Orange.
Simon Orange has bought a majority stake in family-owned William Hare, set up in Bolton in 1888 by its eponymous founder, for an undisclosed sum.
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