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Thank you to everyone who visited our plants as part of Intergalva 2015.

Intergalva 2015 finished last week. It was such a great event. Congratulations to the Galvanizers Association and the European General Galvanizers Association for organising and hosting it.

We would also like to say a big thank you to everyone who visited our plants as part of the conference. We had over 180 delegates tour the grounds and operations of the Joseph Ash Galvanizing Bilston, Chesterfield, Telford and Walsall plants. If you attended, we hope you enjoyed it!

Here are some photos of guests touring our facilities. If you would like to see more, please visit our Facebook or Flickr pages.

Attending Intergalva 2015? Make sure you book a plant visit at one of the Joseph Ash Galvanizing plants.

Intergalva 2015 is just around the corner – only two weeks away. Have you registered your attendance yet?

The event will be held at the ACC Liverpool from 7 – 12 June and is the ‘must-attend’ event for the galvanizing industry.

Organised by the European General Galvanisers Association and hosted by the Galvanizers Association, the event will cover commercial, technical and environmental topics for the hot dip galvanizing industry.

If you are a galvanizer, a corrosion specialist, a user of galvanized products, or a supplier to the worldwide galvanizing industry, then this is the event for you.

Read more about the event here.

Plant visits

If you do plan to attend Intergalva, be sure to book some plant visits as part of the event. The full programme of visits can be seen here.

Joseph Ash Galvanizing will be opening the doors on 11 and 12 June at the Bilston, Chesterfield, Telford and Walsall plants. We have over 100 people registered already and we’re looking forward to showing them our operations and facilities.

RIDBA FAB Awards winners 2015 announced!

The RIDBA FAB Awards presentation dinner took place last night in York at the Royal York Hotel. It was a great night and we were proud to sponsor the event.

The winners of the Awards were announced and we are pleased to list them here:

First Place overall

Hirwaun Fire Station (Shufflebottom Limited)

Second Place overall

Labman Automation (Yorkshire Steel Buildings)

Third Place overall

CJH Farming (A C Bacon)

The building types winners were as follows:

Building type: Diversification. A refurbished 17th Century barn for CJH Farming. (A C Bacon)
Building type: Farm Buildings over 250 m^2.Bristol University – a new dairy complex for Bristol University’s School of Clinical Veterinary Science.(Roger Stewart Associates)
Building type: Non-Agricultural Farm Building. A new office/training/technology centre at Throws Farm. (A C Bacon)
Building type: Light Industrial Building. Hirwaun Fire Station – a new fire station for Andrew Scott Ltd at Hirwaun. (Shufflebottom Limited)
Building type: Unusual Building. A new play barn at Pink Pig Farm. (Shufflebottom Limited)

The category winners were as follows:

Category: Aesthetics. A new building for Labman Automation. (Yorkshire Steel Buildings)
Category: Functionality. Hirwaun Fire Station. (Shufflebottom Limited)
Category: Sustainability. A new sales/service building for The Double Day Group. (A C Bacon)

The following buildings were also commended:

A new multi-purpose livestock building (stabling, hay storage and beef cattle) for the Suffolk Hay Company (A C Bacon)
A new clubhouse for Lampeter Rugby Club (Shufflebottom Limited)
A new livestock/office building for Hampton Hewitt at Markethill sales yard (Lappin Engineering)
A new curved-roof barn at Marlbrook Farm (Robinsons Structures)

Congratulations to all the shortlisted entries and the winners, especially Shufflebottom Ltd for Hirwaun Fire Station.

Joseph Ash Galvanizing is pleased to announce that RIDBA has revealed its shortlist of finalists for the 2015 RIDBA FAB Awards.

RIDBA (the Rural and Industrial Design and Building Association) is hosting its second FAB awards on Friday 24 April and it looks set to be a great evening, especially for the representatives of the shortlisted buildings that have made it to the finals list.

In a press release published by RIDBA, the shortlisted buildings are as follows:

A new clubhouse for Lampeter Rugby Club in Ceredigion, by Shufflebottom
A refurbished 17^th Century barn for CJH Farming at Boyton Hall, Boyton Cross, near Chelmsford, Essex, by AC Bacon Engineering
A new office/training/technology centre for Agrii at Throws Farm, Stebbing, Essex, by AC Bacon Engineering
A new play barn at Pink Pig Farm, Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, by Shufflebottom
A new livestock/office building for Hampton Hewitt at Markethill sales yard, Markethill, Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, by Lappin Engineering
A new multi-purpose livestock building (stabling, hay storage and beef cattle) for the Suffolk Hay Company at Manor Farm, Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, by AC Bacon Engineering
A new dairy complex for Bristol University’s School of Clinical Veterinary Science at Wyndhurst Farm, Langford, Somerset, by Roger Stewart Associates
A new fire station for Andrew Scott Ltd at Horwaun, Rhondda Cynon Taff, by Shufflebottom
A new sales/service building for The Doubleday Group at Swineshead, Lincolnshire, by AC Bacon Engineering
A new building for Labman Automation at Seamer Hill, Seamer, North Yorkshire, by Yorkshire Steel Buildings
A new curved-roof barn at Marlbrook Farm, Newnham Bridge, Worcestershire, by Robinson Structures.

A total of 11 buildings are now in the running for 12 awards, as well as a first, second and third overall winner.

The awards will be made at a gala dinner which will be held at the Royal York Hotel in York. TV’s Countryfile presenter, Tom Heap, will present the awards, Suzannah Nichol MBE, Chief Executive of the NSCC (National Specialist Contractors Council) will also be in attendance.

If you have made it to the shortlist, congratulations! As one of the sponsors of the event, Joseph Ash is looking forward to seeing you there.

For more information about the FAB Awards, click here.

The entry deadline for the RIDBA FAB Awards has closed and some very exciting entries have been received.

With Spring just around the corner it will soon be time for the RIDBA FAB Awards.

The FAB Awards ceremony is run by the Rural and Industrial Design and Building Association to recognise excellence in farming and agricultural buildings.

Following the success of the first event in 2013, new categories were added in order to attract some exciting new entries.

The categories added to the award scheme include diversification to reflect the diverse range of uses that buildings in the countryside are now put to, working farm buildings above and below 250m2, small industrial buildings, equestrian and unusual buildings. These are in addition to an overall first, second and third prize.

Entries for this year’s event include a new, green-roofed fire station in Hirwaun in the Rhondda Valley; the conversion of a 17th Century barn into offices at Boyton Hall near Chelmsford, Essex; a play barn at Pink Pig Farm in Cunthorpe, Lincolnshire; a new clubhouse for Lampeter Rugby Club in Ceredigion; new buildings at Oswestry livestock auction in Shropshire; a technology centre at Throws Farm in Stebbing, Essex; and an agricultural sales and servicing showroom in Swineshead, Lincolnshire.

Entries in all categories are judged on three criteria, with 30% of the marks being allocated for functionality/fit for purpose, 50% for aesthetics/design, and 20% for sustainability.

The FAB Awards aim to recognise and reward RIDBA corporate members, typically a contractor or fabricator of steel or timber framed buildings, and their clients, who have taken the time and effort to ensure their new buildings are sympathetic to and even complement the local landscape, while ensuring they are fit for purpose and have been designed with sustainability in mind.

Winners of the 2015 awards will be announced at a gala presentation dinner attended by Countryfile presenter Tom Heap at the Royal York Hotel in York on Friday 24th April.

The awards are sponsored by a host of organisations, including Joseph Ash Galvanizing.

Intergalva 2015 – the ‘must-attend’ event for the galvanizing industry. Will you be attending?

In June 2015, Liverpool will play host to Intergalva – the ‘must-attend’ event for galvanizers, corrosion specialists, users of galvanized products, and suppliers to the worldwide galvanizing industry.

The conference is organised by the European General Galvanizers Association (EGGA) and hosted by the Galvanizers Association, and will cover technical, commercial and environmental topics for the hot dip galvanizing industry.

As well as a three-day conference programme, conference attendees will also be able to attend the trade exhibition, visits to galvanizing plants in the UK and an exciting social programme.

The event will be held from 7 – 12 June 2015.

Representatives from Joseph Ash Galvanizing will be at the event. We will also be hosting some visits to our plants as part of the conference programme.

You can read more about the event here.

You can also register your place here.

Have you entered the RIDBA FAB Awards yet? There’s still time.

RIDBA is the Rural and Industrial Design & Building Association. Last year the Association held its first Farming and Agricultural Buildings (FAB) Awards ceremony to recognise excellence in farm buildings and reward the contractors and clients who take the time and effort to ensure new buildings are sympathetic to the local landscape, are functional and designed with sustainability in mind. The Awards were such a great success in 2013 that they have been launched again this year.

To enter you need to submit your application by 31 December 2014. The award winners will be announced at the next Awards Ceremony, which will take place in York on Friday 24 April 2015.

For more information about the RIDBA Awards, click here.

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