Annandale's Shopping Success

Annandale Design, one of Scotland's leading manufacturers and installers of architectural metalwork, has recently completed the first part of Phase 2 of a contract worth over £200,000 with one of the UK's leading department stores.

The Kilmarnock-based firm has designed, manufactured and installed the structural glazed balustrading around the escalator voids of the Edinburgh branch of John Lewis. The balustrading comprises 19mm thick clear, toughened and heat soaked glass panels. A bespoke profiled cladding, designed by Annandale and manufactured from a stainless steel sheet with a satin polished finish, conceals the balustrading support structure.

Annandale has also designed, manufactured and installed structural steelwork in the proposed new food court of the store, demonstrating the company's flexibility with steelwork. The work includes a new suspended floor slab to fill existing floor voids, structural steel to support the escalators and a new plant deck.

Allan Frew, Managing Director of Annandale, said: "This has been quite a challenging project to work on as you would expect from one of the leading UK retailers that pride themselves on quality and customer service. Obviously John Lewis cannot close completely while we do the work, so we worked in an isolated area during the day and we installed the steelwork on a fast track programme of five nights."

The finishing touch to the project was the maple handrail which was fitted and the bespoke profile cladding to the base of the structural glazed balustrading.

Allan explained: "Our experience and expertise in architectural metalwork and glazed balustrading is unrivalled in the market, however many projects today incorporate timber handrails which we can offer through our preferred partners, which are carefully selected to ensure that our quality and service levels are maintained at all times."

Allan finished: "I'm delighted that we have successfully completed this project for John Lewis. The department store is unarguably one of the best in the UK, so it follows that only the best companies will be chosen to work for it."

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