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Grade II Listed The Lab Building to be Saved by Swansea Council and John Weavers Contractors
We are delighted to be working with Swansea Council on the renovation of the Laboratory Building in the Hafod. Read more here from Swansea Council’s PR: A team from Landore-based John Weaver Contractors has now moved on-site at the Lower Swansea Valley’s Hafod-Morfa Copperworks grade two listed Laboratory Building. The company secured the contract to
Read MoreApprentice Winners at Weavers with Swansea Bay Construction Support Group
We are delighted and proud for our two apprentice winners at the Swansea Bay Construction Support Group Awards. Dwayne Vickers, our carpenter, won Best Trade Apprentice and Daniel Davies, our Quantity Surveyor, won an award for Best Technical Apprentice. Dwayne had a further award for Best Overall Trade Apprentice. Read the full story here: https://sbcsg.co.uk/our-apprentice-awards-2024-a-night-to-remember/
Read MoreSuccess at the Constructing Excellence Awards for the Hafod Copperworks
The Hafod Morfa Copperworks project won in the Regeneration and Retrofit category at the Constructing Excellence Awards held at the Celtic Manor on Friday 14th June. Backed by Heritage Lottery Funding and a sustainability initiative between Swansea Council and Swansea University, the development of a new distillery, barrel store and visitor centre for Penderyn Whisky
Read MoreHafod Copperworks wins RICS Heritage Award
The Hafod Copperworks Regeneration project for Swansea Council and Penderyn Distillery has won the RICS Heritage Award 2024. The team including Swansea Council, Penderyn, Hydrock, GWP Architects, TC Consult and Mann Williams were delighted to accept the award and this project has now been entered into the national RICS Awards event being held in October
Read MoreHay Castle Restoration awarded RSAW Building of the Year!
The overall winner of the 2024 Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW) Building of the Year award has been revealed as Hay Castle, a medieval fortification and 17th century mansion house in the town of Hay-on-Wye. The winning restoration project involved complex work by MICA Architects, and John Weaver Contractors to rescue and conserve the critically
Read MoreMAJOR BOOST TO RESEARCH IN BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES AND GEOGRAPHY WITH £1.2 MILLION LABORATORY REFURBISHMENT
A £1.2 million refurbishment of laboratories at Swansea University, just completed, will give a giant boost to research in biosciences and geography. Research that will benefit covers areas from biodiversity to the resilience of ecosystems, and from climate patterns of the past to the study of microbes that can break down plastics. The refurbished laboratories
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