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Fordingbridge plc
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Fordingbridge is able to provide a complete design and build service for a range of curved roof buildings including awnings, covered walkways, canopies, insulated buildings, porches, entrance canopies, bus shelters and mass transit shelters of all sizes.

Background:

Fordingbridge has been supplying and installing curved roof buildings for around 40 years to garden centres, DIY stores, schools, colleges and the leisure industry. They have an excellent reputation for delivering good service and elegant design solutions. From cost-conscious off-the-peg canopies or awnings for your own team to construct, right through to a bespoke 5000 metre² insulated building with barrel-vaulted roof using a combination of glazing and curtain walling and a composite roof.

From Design to Completion:

Fordingbridge look after your project from the initial design stage, through their in-house factory construction, to working with your contractors on-site or engaging their own installers to make sure the on-site construction phase goes quickly and smoothly. They will provide a seamless journey from initial design discussions to the hand over of a finished, fully constructed building. Full building regulations calculations and CDM package are available with all structures.

Application Shapes:

Outdoor canopies, metal awnings and covered walkways can be built in a variety of shapes to suit the site including horseshoes, staggered (to cope with a sloping site), and long, flowing spans alongside or between buildings. Including cantilevered, hypar, umbrella and double conic. The application’s possibilities are always being explored.

Tensile Fabric Structures:
Fordingbridge offers a tensile fabric design and construction service, providing a range of elegant design solutions offering robust, permanent structures with a lightweight appearance and minimal structural support.

Curved Roof Structures:
Their curved roof structures include metal awnings, outdoor canopies and covered pedestrian walkways as well as bespoke fully enclosed insulated buildings.

Covered Walkways:
Covered walkway uses include: Linking of two buildings providing weather protection, cover for queuing areas.

Outdoor Canopies and Awnings:
Their outdoor canopies, awnings and covered walkways are offered with laminated timber frames or steel frames, with the latter in hot dip galvanised finish as standard with RAL/BS paint finish also available.

Fabric Roof Covering:
Fabric roof screens – guaranteed for five years - allow 60% light transmission whilst giving 95% UV protection. The triple wall polycarbonate is guaranteed for ten years. Both coverings are fire retardant. Their insulated buildings are fully L2 Building Regulations compliant, with glazed walling options and curved roofs with the option of composite roofs with or without fixed or opening rooflight sections, alternatively roofs can be part or fully glazed.

Outdoor Canopies, Covered Walkways and Play Areas for Colleges and Schools:
Fordingbridge structures are ideal for a range of uses in education establishments, including primary school play areas, secondary schools and further education colleges and university covered walkways and outdoor canopies. They have worked with a number of education establishments across the UK and offer a full bespoke service as well as a range of budget-conscious off-the-peg solutions for school buildings. Outdoor canopies can be used for: outdoor play areas for infants & toddlers, covered outdoor space for leisure or learning, sports facilities, outdoor waiting facilities, entrance, porches and entrance canopies, outdoor eating areas. Insulated school buildings have many uses including: lecture theatres, sports halls and dining halls/cafeterias.

Insulated Steel or Timber Framed Buildings for Garden Centres and other retail use:
Fordingbridge has a long and successful relationship with members of the garden centre business community, where it is established as a provider of bespoke insulated steel buildings as well as a range of attractive bespoke canopies, awnings and walkways. Fordingbridge is estimated to have supplied structures to more than a quarter of all the garden centres in the UK and reckons to work with pretty well all the big names in the industry including: Blooms, Squires, Wyevale, Dobbies, Sanders GardenWorld, Garden & Leisure, Klondyke, Strikes, Notcutts, Van Hage, Haskins and many more.

In addition, Fordingbridge canopies, awnings and covered walkways are a cost-effective useful addition to any Fordingbridge retail building where a porch, entrance canopy, waiting area, or trolley park is required. Fordingbridge walkways are popular as a way to lead customers on the optimum route through a retail area.

The business is based on a single site near Arundel in West Sussex where they carry out all our design and manufacturing in house. Clients are more than welcome to visit them by appointment and see their operation for themselves.

Outdoor Canopies, Covered Walkways and Play Areas for Colleges and Schools:
Fordingbridge structures are ideal for a range of uses in education establishments, including primary school play areas, secondary schools and further education colleges and university covered walkways and outdoor canopies. We have worked with a number of education establishments across the UK and offer a full bespoke service as well as a range of budget-conscious off-the-peg solutions for school buildings.