Tuesday 21st April 2009

REIDsteel wins Queens Award for Excellence in Export 2009

For the fourth time John Reid & Sons Ltd have won a Queen’s Award for their export performance. REIDsteel design and make a wide variety of steel structures: wide span aircraft hangars and their electro-mechanical doors, grandstands, industrial buildings, warehouses, multi-storey buildings for hotels, offices and multi-storey car parks, road bridges, sports halls, defensive ‘force protection’ buildings and many other steel structures.  REIDsteel offer a complete erection or erection supervisory service world-wide.

REIDsteel get involved in the details: as well as doing the structural design and making the steelwork, REIDsteel provide the cladding and insulation, also the doors, whether they be ordinary rolling type, lifting, roller shutter, aircraft hangar, manual or electro-mechanical. They also make all the aluminium windows needed in all their structures and are able to provide curtain walling and fire doors, insulation and ventilation, all from in-house.

Cranes, when required, are designed into the structures, provided and installed.

For grandstands REIDsteel design and make cantilever structures or king truss canopies, terraces, seating, vomitories, tunnels, gangways, concourses and stairs.

For mezzanines and multi-storey structures for commercial buildings, offices, apartments and hotels, REIDsteel include galvanised steel in-situ shuttering or provide for pre-cast concrete flooring. In process plant buildings galvanised steel floors, anti-skid or grillage, are available. REIDsteel also manufacture the stairs.

In multi-storey car parks, REIDsteel can design for all situations and vehicle types and sizes and make special layouts, split levels, with or without return ramps, or external ramps. They can provide for pre-cast concrete decking or steel shuttering (which does not need propping) for in-situ concrete pouring. They can make anti-skid steel floors which are permanent and/or demountable. Parking barriers are supplied and provision can be made for automatic systems.

REIDsteel do all the structural design to BS5950 and other British Standards (which are the finest in the world) within their price. In overseas markets, local standards can be used if required. The drawing office ensures the accurate detailing of the components of the steel structure as well as the cladding and accessories. The client avoids those expensive design fees which often make the structure more expensive than necessary; and as REIDsteel have designed virtually every type of steel framed building, in-house and cost-effectively, the Client benefits directly from their wide experience.

Very importantly, REIDsteel does the complete erection, cladding and fitting of the accessories, taking care to comply with Health and Safety and CDM Regulations, thus relieving the client of many major worries.

REIDsteel Directors and engineers visit their overseas markets frequently and specialise in understanding, first hand, the special needs of every customer in almost every country worldwide.

These are some of the reasons why REIDsteel are always busy and their engineers called upon daily to solve problems in far away places, (if necessary flying out at a moment’s notice). Clients visit Reid’s Offices and Works nearly as often to explain their needs and obtain instant solutions to their requirements, using Reid’s in-house computer programmes and 89 years of concentrated experience. Because of the trust which has built up between Reidsteel and their customers, an impressive 80% of the value of REIDsteel’s trade comes from existing customers.