Next Wednesday is handover day for blocks 1 and 2 at our Hadleigh site for Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils. The redevelopment of the former Babergh Council offices includes refurbishment of five listed buildings, demolition of a former industrial building and parts of a 1970’s office complex. Listed buildings include a brick fronted, timber […]
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Blocks one and two at our Hadleigh site ready for handover
We are very proud of our Heritage and Conservation portfolio which includes some of Suffolk’s finest buildings, as well as many further afield. Being awarded the National Federation of Builders Heritage Approved Contractor Mark again for 2025 is something we are equally proud of. Find out more about our Heritage and Conservation work here.
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NFB Heritage Mark awarded again for 2025
Our staff had a mammoth task judging the many entries into an art competition organised in collaboration with Ipswich Museum. As part of our hashtag#mammothmakeover and to brighten up the hoardings outside, entries into an art competition on the theme of Will.i.am the Woolly Mammoth and Rosie the Rhino, were invited from age groups ranging […]
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A Mammoth art competition!
We’ve been capturing progress images at Ipswich Museum this week which really show how the future exhibition spaces will flow. With floors changing levels, accessible ramps going in and openings being created, the building’s lofty ceilings and stunning feature windows allow the natural light to flood in. A temporary roof has allowed us to work […]
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Progress update at Ipswich Museum
We are so delighted that our former project, Teachers Close, Needham Market, is a finalist in The #RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence national winners’ ceremony to be held will be held in London on 26th November. After winning the regional award for best project, the scheme is one of four finalists in the Excellence in Planning […]
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Teacher’s Close is a finalist!
Not only was it the big reveal of our 8m x 6m banner featuring Woolly the Mammoth – the star exhibit at the Museum – which is gracing the town-facing side of the building, but we also welcomed journalist, Debby Tubby from BBC Look East, and her film crew, who interviewed our Contracts Manager, Steve […]
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It’s been a mammoth day at Ipswich Museum!
We are delighted to be handing over Blocks Five and Six of our redevelopment of former Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils offices in Hadleigh. Constructed in the 1980’s, Block Five has been converted to provide ten one, two and three bedroom luxury apartments which benefit from extensive glazing to provide very light and spacious […]
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It’s Handover Day at Babergh!
Here’s an interesting fact to finish the week… If all the tubes used in the external and internal scaffolding at our Ipswich Museum site were placed end-to-end, they would cover a distance of over 50,000 feet! That is just short of ten miles….or Ipswich to Felixstowe as the crow flies!
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A scaffolding fact……
We love to finish the week on a high note so what better way than to share some images capturing progress at our site at the former Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils offices in Hadleigh? The sun was beating down and the skies were a brilliant blue for our visit to the site which […]
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Babergh pre-handover update!
Our Site Manager, Nick Maslin, and Creative Media and Marketing Manager Leanda Hoyland-Linch, hosted a visit from a lovely group of visitors to Ipswich Museum this morning to show progress on the site. Now all the precious artefacts and displays are dismantled and carefully wrapped, stored or cladded, the scale of some of the magnificent […]
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A visit to Ipswich Museum