Keltbray launches new Technical Services capability to drive the safe reuse of existing buildings and infrastructure

12 September 2023 – Esher, UK: Keltbray, the UK’s leading construction engineering and infrastructure services business today announces the launch of a new service offering in response to the growing need to deliver a more sustainable circular economy-led approach to the safe re-use or extension of life of buildings and infrastructure.

Newly-established Wentworth House Technical Services (WHTS) team, will provide testing and analysis of the integrity of materials in existing steel and concrete structures, overcoming the challenges faced by developers and constructors when presented with incomplete and imperfect structural data to facilitate re-use, caused by modification and information loss over a building’s history.

The comprehensive technical offering includes a complementary range of services to enable structural re-use of a huge range of building types across built environment and infrastructure sectors. Technical services cover:

• Surveys and investigations
• Materials sampling and structural testing
• Design support for these activities
• Monitoring of structures
• Structural strengthening and protection (Extension to service life)

The new division will sit within our existing Wentworth House Partnership specialist business to offer these services as a valuable part of a wider range of engineering design activities. The dedicated team of technical professionals has the ability to produce bespoke solutions to complex problems and solve the specific engineering challenges that have prevented the widespread uptake of building and infrastructure remodelling in the past.

Commenting on the launch, Tim Lohmann, Keltbray’s Director of Strategic Engineering, said: “Our recent experience has revealed a fundamental shift in clients’ treatment of building assets at the traditional ‘end of life’ phase, with an increasing swing towards re-modelling and re-purposing of existing structures, away from the old de-facto model of ‘demolish and rebuild’.

“WHTS represents a step-change in our technical capabilities, enabling our clients to extend the life or re-use of existing buildings and structures, which would otherwise be destined for demolition. These specialist services provide an integrated offering that can deliver an incremental development as the investigations and design develop, an integrated end-to-end transformation, and bespoke technical solutions to structural crisis situations.”

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