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but I think Century can take some credit for it. Thanks to our foresight we predicted this, and we welcome the opportunity to demonstrate our team’ s competence.”

In fact, such is Century’ s dedication that 80 per cent of its entire team has a degree or master’ s in an engineering related subject, and around 90 per cent of the company has achieved cladding training online level one from the CWCT.“ This is a statistically brilliant position to be in,” states Graham,“ especially when you consider that some of those people are in administration, accounts or finance. It demonstrates that we’ re so committed to the technical side, pretty much every staff member is expected to understand the complexities of the product we’ re selling.”

Any core ethos of excellence and innovation must include sustainability and once again,

Graham notes that this is an area where the industry has seen a massive cultural shift. He

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“ Quality assurance now starts with material origin,” adds Tim.“ You end up with embodied carbon figures and the full life expectancy of the building, and how it can be recycled at the end of its life. You consider weather cycles, wind loads, the serviceability of products and so on – when that building is handed over to the end user, we have an entire bible of its DNA, from start to finish and beyond. We’ re able to tell our clients quite honestly about the environmental and sustainable credentials of a proposed project.”

This process works well with modern methods of construction( MMC), where Century is a pioneer.“ We have partnered with the UK’ s leading volumetric manufacturer and successfully completed the full facade package on the world’ s tallest modular building in London featuring 49 floors of apartments,” says Tim.“ Examples of our projects include Enclave, College Rd and George Street in Croydon, and they are iconic, signature buildings that set us apart from our competitors. Our general portfolio is between £ 5 million and £ 25 million, and predominantly, our core focus has been on the high-rise building market, above 18 metres.”

Embracing the modular manufacturing approach, Century is focusing on increasing its own in-house manufacturing capacity and has invested in new factory facilities.“ Accord Engineering Ltd is a wholly owned subsidiary of Century that has been successfully trading for 50 years,” explains Tim.“ Investment at Accord has seen a step change into automation, and this increase in capacity supports Century as a Tier 1 envelope contractor, as well as other third-party clients. We find that maintaining an integral supply chain that can seamlessly

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