Manchester Airport Terminal 3

Manchester Airport is the UK’s third largest airport and currently handles 20 million passengers a year, offering direct flights to over 180 destinations worldwide by over 90 airlines.

Elliott Thomas was awarded a construction/fit-out contract for the refurbishment and fit-out of the BMI check in desks at Terminal 3. The company installed additional check-in desks and reconfigured the departure area and lounges. This included installing new partitions, desks, ceilings, floors and walling.

In addition, Elliott Thomas also carried out the removal of asbestos and the subsequent refurbishment of the Tower Block level 7 which involved installing new ceilings, walls, floors, new column cladding and application of bomb film to all windows.

Arndale Shopping Centre

When Wilson James were awarded the contract to provide logistical support on the northern redevelopment of Manchester
Arndale in September 2004, it and Bovis Lend Lease (Prudential’s main contractor on the project) decided to recruit the required workforce from the local area. We also opted to create the NVQ qualification to ensure that logistics was a recognised trade on the site.

Wilson James managed all aspects of site logistics on the Manchester Arndale redevelopment, from moving materials and removing waste to co-ordinating site deliveries and ensuring plant and machinery is at the right place on the site at the right time. On a daily basis it had to contend with co-ordinating almost 400 vehicles and the movement of around 57 tonnes of blocks a day; the equivalent of 275 Arndale Towers stacked on top of each other.