A Durham manufacturer has secured a major capital city contract as more developers embrace its products.
Apex Core designs, develops and manufactures prefabricated utility cupboards – hubs which can house heating, ventilation, electrical, communication and metering services – and it has delivered more than 6,400 units to sites since its launch. The firm was created three years ago when Apex Wiring Solutions owners Dave and Mike Lewis invested over £500,000 to create the UK’s largest utility cupboard manufacturing facility at the firm’s HQ in Durham City.
Now the firm has delivered 75 units for R8 King’s Cross, a regeneration project in the heart of London which has offices and homes in two, 13-storey blocks that are linked by a two-storey podium with a landscaped roof garden. The company said that more construction companies are now embracing the benefits that modular units, constructed off-site and delivered ready to install, offer. Apex Core sales director Paul Hopps said: “Modular solutions offer so much to an industry still catching up after the impact of the pandemic.
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“They’re faster to install, promote distanced working, arrive ready to simply “plug in” and offer the simplicity most tradesmen crave. R8 Kings Cross is an exciting project, but it’s happening in a very busy, very congested part of one of the busiest and most congested cities in the world. Apex Core arrives on site with minimal packaging, ready to fit and, as such, causes very little on-site disruption.
“Apex rolled the dice when investing in the Core business in 2020, as the country found itself in the teeth of a pandemic, but we recognised there was an appetite for products that helped evolve the construction industry and it is certainly doing that. Two years ago, we had a team in single figures working in a corner of our factory – it now fill over a third of our 60,000sqft plant in Durham, employing over 50 people.”
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