{"id":14498,"date":"2005-04-01T12:06:16","date_gmt":"2005-04-01T12:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/?p=14498"},"modified":"2012-12-21T12:07:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T12:07:41","slug":"tight-planning-provides-key-to-stroud-centre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/tight-planning-provides-key-to-stroud-centre\/","title":{"rendered":"Tight planning provides key to Stroud Centre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Merrywalks-OK.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14500\" title=\"Merrywalks-OK\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Merrywalks-OK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Merrywalks-OK.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Merrywalks-OK-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just in time delivery was a crucial factor in the erection of steelwork for a retail development in Stroud.<\/p>\n<p>Conder Structures had a tough 12-week deadline to erect 800 tonnes of steel on a tight site for the \u00a38.7M Merrywalks Centre. The centre will provide 10,000m\u00b2\u00a0of retail and leisure facilities near the Gloucestershire town\u2019s historic commercial centre.<\/p>\n<p>Conder Managing Director Gordon Ridley said: \u201cWe\u2019ve done a number of town centre jobs and one of the difficulties is that it\u2019s always a confined site. You can\u2019t deliver the steelwork and leave it till it\u2019s needed. It required careful planning with delivery to site on a just in time basis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ridley says that the ability to handle complex logistics \u201cis a skill you have to develop\u201d. He added: \u201cNot only did we have to fit in with Costain, the main contractor but right down the supply chain our suppliers had to work on the same basis. It was vital to the success of the project.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time delivery was a crucial factor in the erection of steelwork for a retail development in Stroud. Conder Structures had a tough 12-week deadline to erect 800 tonnes of steel on a tight site for the \u00a38.7M Merrywalks Centre. The centre will provide 10,000m\u00b2\u00a0of retail and leisure facilities near the Gloucestershire town\u2019s historic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14500,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[947,184,1867],"class_list":["post-14498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-conder-structures","tag-leisure","tag-stroud"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Merrywalks-OK.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3WsLP-3LQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14502,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14498\/revisions\/14502"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsteelconstruction.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}