The Commercial sector offers an exceptionally diverse market and business opportunity. The combined competency of our people and supply chain fully support and underpin individual project needs. Understanding and supporting our Clients, both Pre and Post Contract Award, allows ourselves to actively engage with the project delivery teams.

Commercial Portfolio

"We expect all of our projects to be commercially viable and to represent value to all our stakeholders: the challenge is to embrace the potential and to reap the reward in the provision of outstanding projects. Read have consistently added significant value to our schemes through their competence, which runs throughout the organisation, and their excellent collaborative approach. The outcome of every project is assured with Read as part of our team: we recommend them wholeheartedly".

David Hunter, Lovelock Mitchell Architects

West Coast Energy, Circa £1.75M

The commission to develop this new BREEAM building has fully demonstrated our ability to deliver excellent projects. With clear Client expectations of excellence in all aspects of the project, the effectiveness of the final delivery was of critical importance to all stakeholders.

Collaboration and Value Management within the project delivery teams underpinned this project. With pride, this significant development was presented to a delighted Client.

BREEAM excellent project.
Delighted client.
Excellent quality.
Collaborative team work.

Lea Hall Farm, Circa £640,000

Yet another successfully completed conversion project for the Grosvenor Estate at Aldford, Chester. The latest conversion contract at Lea Hall Farm was recently completed on time, within budget and to the highest standards as required by both the client and user alike.

The works involved the full re-roofing of existing barns and the introduction of timber floors supported on a steel frame structure erected within the existing walls. Thanks to sensitive internal design and the use of highly skilled operatives, the completed office accommodation successfully blends traditional and modern finishes to provide a working environment that is comfortable, functional and aesthetically pleasing. All this in addition to ensuring that the Victorian buildings are preserved for the benefit of future generations.

In addition Ground Source heat pumps have been employed to enhance the green credentials of the building.

•    Contractor designed elements
•    Rainwater harvesting is a feature of the rain water disposal system
•    Repeat client

Woodhouse Farm, Circa £220,000

What a privilege to deliver a project with many rewarding challenges and significant personal pleasure. Our Site Manager, Mike Gannon retired at the end of this project and commented “What a privilege to end my working life with Read on such a project, pure delight.”

Sympathetically restores, significant works, but hardly visible.
Bring life to redundant buildings.
Sustainability at its best.
Our skills delivering significant value

Smithy Farm, Circa £580,000

The conversion of this redundant farm for Grosvenor Estates in Cheshire presented a unique opportunity to combine both Read’s traditional skill set and innovation. Traditional skills underpinned the visual structure, all supported by hidden innovation and technology, in this sympathetically renovated project.

Traditional tradesman’s skills deliver excellence.
A delighted Client.
Immediate letting of quality accommodation.
Technology supporting efficiency.

The Enterprise Centre Brymbo, Circa £200k

The design and build requirements of this internal fit out project, afforded the opportunity to fully assess the business needs of Read, and through the engagement of all staff the office relation and official opening was a total success. Performance measure was used to measure staff satisfaction, Read's Directors thoughts proved correct; this was indeed an exceptionally well received project. (In this case albeit for an internal client, and all the better to obtain excellent end user feedback.) We are indeed very proud of the resources, functionality and comfort of our Head Office.