Recycled steel helps company with green credentials

Apr 16 2008 by Peter McCusker, The Journal

A MANUFACTURER of modular buildings says it is helping construction companies build on their green credentials as it reaches a completion milestone.

EOS designs and manufactures light-gauge steel-framing systems for the European construction industry and its areas of expertise include social and private housing, commercial buildings, student accommodation, schools and healthcare schemes.

The company has now completed its 300th project on sites all over the UK.

About 80% of the steel used by the company, which employs 32 at Heightington Lane, Aycliffe Industrial Park, Newton Aycliffe, comes from a recycled source. Michael O’Connell, EOS Ltd director, said: “Companies’ green credentials are high on the agendas of many organisations and leading decision-makers these days.

“Our modular steel frames are more environmentally friendly than traditional construction methods as well as providing better-quality control and helping speed up the building process.

“We design, engineer and manufacture lightweight steel frames, which, combined with our highly- insulated roofing and wall panels, create properties which exceed Building Regulation requirements in all aspects of thermal requirements and build quality.” Leading projects which EOS Ltd is currently involved with include Middlesbrough College at the town’s Middlehaven; an extension to Hexham Hospital, Northumberland; eco-housing at Portpatrick, Scotland; and luxury apartments at Copenhagen Place, Bow, London.