In Comm training and business service awards

Matt Green and Myles Durward from Joseph Ash nominated for In-Comm Training and Business Services Awards

On 7 June 2019 the annual In-Comm Training and Business Services Awards were held at the ICC in Birmingham. The Awards celebrate and reward young apprentices and adult learners across the West Midlands, and this year team members from Joseph Ash Chesterfield were there to celebrate their training achievements.

Matt Green and Myles Durward have both been completing JAC Level 2 of In-Comm’s BIT training. As part of this course they are learning new skills to take back to Joseph Ash Chesterfield. Skills include looking at ways to be more efficient (and remove wastage) in the following plant processes: Overproduction, Transportation, Waiting, Inventory, Defects, Motion and Process.

Myles and Matt were both nominated for the ‘Learner of the Year: Continuous Improvement’ award, and on the night, Matt walked away with a ‘Highly Commended’ accolade.

Six other team members from Joseph Ash Galvanizing have also completed their Level 2 training, and alongside Matt and Myles, will be moving onto Level 3. A new team from Joseph Ash will also start Level 2. (Back row left to right: James Crookes, Matthew Phillips, Dean Holland, Matt Green. Front row left to right: Mark Payne, Myles Durward, Dave Foster (In-comm trainer), Wayne Smith)

Congratulations to all our team members endeavouring to learn new skills, improve our plants and further their careers. The commitment to learning is great! A special congratulations to Matt and Myles too.

Thanks for such a great event In-Comm!

Last Friday we attended the annual Galvanizers Association Awards – more affectionately known as The GAGAs. It was a great event, held at the Royal Aeronautical Association HQ in London.

The GAGAs are a chance for fabricators, constructors, engineers, architects and artists to showcase a project they have worked on in involving galvanizing. They do this by submitting an entry into one of the following categories:

Galvanizing in Architecture
Galvanizing in Engineering
Galvanizing in Detail
Sustainability Award
Duplex Awards.

The Galvanizing Association received many amazing entries and it was great to attend the awards and see the details of each shortlisted project.

It was also a special year for the Galvanizers Association as they celebrated their 25th year of hosting the awards.

The winners of the 2019 awards are as follows:

The Rising Path in Cambridge by the chadwick dryer clarke studio who won the Galvanizing in Architecture Award
Conservation of Catrine Weir by Addison Conservation + Design who won the Galvanizing in Engineering Award
Palas Cinema in Galway, by dePaor who won the Galvanizing in Detail Award
Hauxley Wildlife Discovery Centre by Brightblue Studio who won the Sustainability Award
Nine Elms Thames Path Pavilion by Studio Weave who won the Duplex Award.

A few extra awards/commendations were also given out:

Jailmake received a Special Mention for their RHS Rootbench which featured at the 2017 Chelsea Flower Show
Stephen Taylor Architects were Highly Commended for the Cadix Housing project in Antwerp
The Eden Project by Grimshaw Architects also won the highly prestigious ’25 Years Winners’ Winner Award’.

Further information about each of the winners plus the projects is available here.

If you are interested in entering the 2020 GAGAs, click here.

Thank you to the Galvanizers Association for another wonderful event!

‘BE, Well’ at Clerkenwell Design Week

We recently spent four days at Clerkenwell Design Week, showcasing the aesthetic beauty and sustainable benefits of galvanized steel, with the ‘BE, Well’ installation in St. John’s Square. The 9 x 3 x 4m pavilion shaped structure was built as part of a collaborative project between partners Haines Watts (who sponsored the project), WR-AP Architecture, John Cullen Lighting, Lionweld Kennedy, Berry Systems, and Joseph Ash Galvanizing. The event was a great success, with many people stopping by to interact with the installation and leave their ‘thought of the day’ in the well. In a week forecast for rain, we were also amazingly lucky with the weather. The sun shone all week, the steel glistened, and visitors to the event were able to enjoy all the Clerkenwell designs, inside and out, at their very best.

As we’ve now come to the close of such an amazing project, we thought we’d share some of the thoughts behind the installation from Sean Weston and Max Rengifo at WRAP Architecture, the architects leading the project.

Why were you attracted to the project?

As an emerging architecture practice, we were excited to participate in Clerkenwell Design Week – such a renowned international design festival – and be given free reign on the design content by our sponsoring partners Haines Watts. Also, many of the installations at Clerkenwell Design Week in previous years had focused on the craftsmanship synonymous with the area. With our design we felt it was an interesting opportunity to focus on a more finite aspect of design and to work with one specific material – galvanised steel – to showcase its potential to the design world and to allow an alternative type of craftsmanship to be featured.

Can you describe the installation and its defining features?

The ‘BE, Well’ pavilion is an investigation into the design potential of galvanised steel. In an age where sustainability is on the agenda of all design disciplines ‘BE, Well’ showcased the whole life longevity and potential beauty embodied in the galvanising process. The pavilion took visitors on a journey from utilitarian building products through to bespoke architectural elements, all showcasing the detailed beauty of galvanising.

As Clerkenwell Design Week was celebrating its 10^th anniversary, the pavilion featured a galvanised steel well as its centerpiece. We felt this was important as it would remind visitors that Clerkenwell originally had a well (hence the name!). The well within our installation acted as a place where visitors were asked to comment on the design industry, or simply leave their ‘thought for the day’.

What were your biggest challenges during the project?

The biggest challenge we wanted to overcome was to ensure that a material – galvanised steel – that is usually used in either a utilitarian or industrial manner could be showcased with finesse and elegant detailing to promote its innate aesthetic properties. We believe we achieved this with the ‘BE, Well’ installation.

What is the meaning behind the pavilion’s name ‘BE, Well’?

The ‘BE, Well’ name represented all the good things that the pavilion characterised: the protection and long-life expectancy that galvanising provides to steel; and a new physical well for Clerkenwell to attract positive thoughts about the design industry, Clerkenwell Design Week, or simply good ‘thoughts for the day’.

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Partnership roles

Haines Watts London, a top UK accounting firm, is sponsored the project. With decades long experience of working with some of the UK’s most prestigious architecture firms, they wanted to share their support for the architecture industry by sponsoring an up-and-coming young architecture practice to design the installation.

They chose WR-AP Architecture as the designers, a young London-based practice set up by Sean Weston and Max Rengifo in 2018, which specialises in creating beautiful buildings with delightful, memorable and enjoyable experiences for their clients and the environment.

As the installation was made from steel, Joseph Ash Galvanizing protected the metal using a batch hot dip galvanizing process from one of our plants.

Joseph Ash Galvanizing is part of Hill & Smith Holdings PLC. Two other companies within the Hill & Smith group – Berry Systems and Lionweld Kennedy – also made up the partnership. Berry Systems fabricated the steel, and Lionweld Kennedy fabricated the mesh grating.

The final company in the collaboration was John Cullen Lighting, the award-winning lighting specialist, who enhanced the installation with a variety of stunning lighting techniques.

On Friday 26 April, The Lily-Mae Foundation hosted their annual Golf Day, to raise funds to support families affected by stillbirth or neonatal death. Joseph Ash Galvanizing and Premier Galvanizing hosted guests at the event.

Thank you to the companies who joined us on the golf course:

A great day was had by all, and collectively we helped the charity to raise over £25,000. Wow!

Joseph Ash Galvanizing and Premier Galvanizing: Supporting the Lily Mae Foundation at their annual charity event

On Friday 26 April 2019 Joseph Ash Galvanizing will host up to 62 people (including 50 clients) at a charity golf day at The Belfry set up by the Lily Mae F oundati on – an organisation created to support parents and families affected by stillbirth or neonatal death.

Joseph Ash Galvanizing has purchased tickets for rounds of golf, seats at the evening dinner, and is sponsoring a hole at the event.

We have been supporting the event for the last ten years and in total – alongside our clients – we’ve helped to raise over £120,000 for the charity. (Which makes us proud!)

Funds are raised through ticket sales, sponsorships and generous donations from attendees.

We’re very much looking forward to the 2019 event!

To see photos of previous events visit the Joseph Ash Galvanizing Flickr profile.

To find out more about the work of the Lily Mae Foundation, click here.

Joseph Ash Galvanizing to take part in Clerkenwell Design Week

Clerkenwell is an area of London famed for its high concentration of design houses, architecture practices and creative businesses, making it one of the most important design hubs in the world. It’s also an area framed by a thirst for history from family research enthusiasts and sociologists, and visitors to ancient buildings and architecture such as St. John’s Gate, dating back to 1504. To celebrate this rich and diverse community, Clerkenwell Design Week was created to showcase leading UK and international brands and companies in a series of showroom events, exhibitions and special indoor and outdoor installations that take place across the area. The event runs every year in May, and this year, Joseph Ash Galvanizing is proud and excited to be taking part.

Alongside partners Haines Watts, WR-AP Architecture, John Cullen Lighting, Lionweld Kennedy and Berry Systems, Joseph Ash Galvanizing is involved in a project to construct a stunning pavilion shaped installation in the middle of St. John’s Square that visitors to Clerkenwell Design Week can see, touch, walk through and interact with.

The 9 x 3 x 4m installation made from galvanised steel is called ‘BE, Well’ and is described by WR-AP Architecture as follows:

“BE, Well will take you on an evocative journey where you will experience how architecture, light and materials have an effect on the human mind. Envisaged as a platform to showcase the inherent performance and aesthetic qualities of galvanised steel via an experimental composition of utilitarian building products and curated architecture, you will firstly interact with a fine filigree of elements that will shine and refract with the everchanging sunlight. You will progress to a more enclosed construction where you will be able to connect and touch the materials as you move through the installation. The pavilion concludes with a more formal portico inspired by the adjacent St. Johns Gate housing a new Clerkenwell ‘Well’, where we invite you to galvanise and share your thoughts about the show, issues in the design and architectural sector and leave these in our wishing well for the future.”

The partnership

Haines Watts London, a top UK accounting firm, is sponsoring the project. With decades long experience of working with some of the UK’s most prestigious architecture firms, they wanted to share their support for the architecture industry by sponsoring an up-and-coming young architecture practice to design the installation.

As the installation will be made from steel, Joseph Ash Galvanizing will be protecting the steel using a batch hot dip galvanizing process from one of our plants.

Joseph Ash Galvanizing is part of Hill & Smith Holdings PLC. Two other companies within the Hill & Smith group – Berry Systems and Lionweld Kennedy – also make up the partnership. Berry Systems will be fabricating the steel, and Lionweld Kennedy will be fabricating the mesh grating, which is part of WR-AP’s stunning design.

The final company in the collaboration is John Cullen Lighting, the award-winning lighting specialist, who will be enhancing the installation with a variety of lighting techniques.

Alex Shall from Haines Watts said: “We’re extremely excited to be part of Clerkenwell Design Week as we like to share our support for the architectural sector. We have been supporting architecture practices with their accounting, both big and small for decades and are known as industry specialists. Our core proposition is to work with individuals who are running practices and help them understand the commercial aspects of doing so. The commerciality of running an architectural practice is key to its success and the ‘Be Well’ installation is going to illustrate this.”

Mick Jackson, IT and Marketing Manager at Joseph Ash Galvanizing said: “Clerkenwell Design Week is a hugely creative and forward-looking event and we’re delighted that the aesthetic beauty and sustainable benefits of galvanised steel will be showcased in such an important way within a prominent place in Clerkenwell. We’re also pleased to be working with Haines Watts, WR-AP Architecture and John Cullen Lighting, as well as two of our sister companies Berry Systems and Lionweld Kennedy.”

Date and location

Clerkenwell Design Week (currently in its 10^th year) will run from 21-23 May 2019 throughout the wider Clerkenwell area. It will stretch from Farringdon to Barbican, taking in streets such as Clerkenwell Close, St. John’s Square, Northampton Road and Charterhouse Street (to name a few).

Entry to the various exhibitions and installations is free to the public.

In 2018 the event attracted over 34,000 visitors and 300 exhibiting brands.

(Image provided by WR-AP Architecture.)

Another October, another London Build Show completed!

Last week we exhibited at the London Build Show in Olympia. Thousands of delegates passed through the doors, and a fair share stopped by our stand.

We were pleased to share advice, guidance and knowledge about metal finishing treatments, from shot blasting, to hot dip galvanizing to powder coating.

We were also pleased to meet many of the attendees, as well as fellow exhibitors.

If you attended, we hope you had a successful visit and managed to gather lots of useful information.

We hope to see you again at the London Build Show 2019, which will be held at Olympia from 27-28 November!

On Friday 8 June the Galvanizing Association hosted their annual Galvanizers Association Galvanizing Awards at the prestigious Royal Aeronautical Society in London. We attended the event and we were delighted to meet many of the entrants and winners, as well as colleagues and contacts from the galvanizing industry.

It was a great afternoon and we’d like to say congratulations to all the winners!

The winners are as follows:

Highly Commended Architecture Award: won by 6a Architects for the Blue Mountain School
Galvanizing in Architecture Award: won by Tonkin Liu for Old Shed New House
Construction Industry Choice Award: Pezo von Ellrichshausen for Hull Pavilion
Galvanizing in Engineering Award: won by Shand Building Design Ltd for Middleton of Rora
Detail Award: won by Michael Trentham Architects for The New Portland Arms
Sustainability Award: won by Millar + Howard Workshop for Dursley Treehouse
Duplex Award: won by Newground Architects for Rehearsal Rooms
Special mention for Emma Stothard Sculpture for Boiled Lobster
Special mention for Studio Andrew Todd for Hardelot Theatre

Well done everyone!

2017 Galvanizers Association Galvanizing Awards – who won the coveted galvanizing cans?

The Galvanizers Association Galvanizing Awards (more affectionately known as the GAGAs) took place yesterday in London at the Royal Aeronautical Society. Members of the Joseph Ash Galvanizing team were there to celebrate with the shortlisted entrants and the winners. It was a great day and lots of amazing galvanizing and architectural projects were celebrated.

Here is the list of the final winners:

The Detail Award went to Snug Architects for the Milford-on-Sea Beach Huts
The Sustainability Award went to Global Rail Construction for Crossrail West Gantries, London Global Rail
The Duplex Award went to Ian Ritchie Architects, for the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre
The Galvanizing in Engineering Award went to Hastings Pier Charity for Hastings Pier
The Galvanizing in Architecture Award went to C.F. Møller Architects for the Greenwich Low Carbon Energy Centre

Congratulations to everyone who took part!

The winners of the coveted RIDBA Building Awards have been announced.

On Friday 17 March, the RIDBA Building Awards 2017 took place at the Radisson Blu hotel in Cardiff. As sponsors, Joseph Ash Galvanizing attended the awards to congratulate the winners. TV presenter Kate Humble was also there to pass out the awards.

RIDBA is the Rural and Industrial Design and Building Association – the recognised trade association for the modern agriculture and industrial buildings industry representing contractors, fabricators, designers, surveyors, planners, manufacturers and colleges.

The RIDBA Building Awards celebrate the best in rural and industrial buildings delivered by members over the past two years.

The Awards night was the culmination of a three-month-long process whereby esteemed industry professionals – Martin Heywood, Andrew Brown, David Collier, Niresh Somlie and Sarah Garry – judged a record number of entries from building schemes across the UK, all competing to win an award.

RIDBA divided the entries across seven categories: Cattle, Commercial, Education and Research, Equestrian, Production and Process, Recreation and Leisure, and Storage.

The winners of the awards were:

Category	Building	Winner
Cattle	Middleton of Rora, Aberdeenshire	Shand Building Design
Education and Research	Cubric Building, Cardiff	Shufflebottom Ltd
Recreation and Leisure	Pensthorpe Play Barn, Norfolk	A.C. Bacon Engineering
Commercial	Wales Air Ambulance, Carmathenshire	Shufflebottom Ltd
Storage	Stancil Farm, Doncaster	Timmins Engineering & Construction
Production and Process	Ancre Hill Winery, Monmouth	A.J. Lowther & Son
Equestrian	Rathmoy Stables, Newmarket	M.D. Anthony
Training		A.C. Bacon Engineering

The Education and Research category, presented by Joseph Ash Galvanizing, also recognised the Isle of Ely Primary School submitted by A.C. Bacon Engineering as Highly Commended.

The Houghall College Equestrian Centre in Durham, by S & A Fabrications, was also highly commended in the Equestrian category.

The overall winner for the evening was – Cubric Building, Cardiff, by Shufflebottom Limited.

Congratulations to all the winners and shortlisted entrants!