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With a healthy order book for the year ahead, Cantillon is looking forward to continuing its success as one of the UK’s leading demolition contractors.

As tenders rise and rates improve, the company is reaching projected targets of both turnover and jobs. Among the projects it’s undertaking this year is the Demolition Phase of the ‘Transforming Tate Modern’ scheme – an iconic extension to the original Tate Modern London’s world famous gallery of international modern art. The win follows Cantillon’s work on site with the enabling and temporary works package.

Designed by architects Herzog De Meuron, the extension project will create an 11 storey structure resembling an eroded ‘ziggurat’ (a rectangular stepped tower in ancient Mesopotamia). Built to the rear of the existing gallery, it will provide over 23,000 square metres of mixed-use space.

Demolition at the Tate Modern is set to start early this year, with construction currently planned to be completed in 2013.

With a reputation for delivering and exceeding client expectations, Cantillon, also looks forward to working with repeat clients again in the next twelve months, with a number of enquiries coming in.

Having worked hard to develop a number of innovative best practice initiatives, Cantillon will continue to build on its training in 2010. The company aims to further improve the general wellbeing of the entire work force by commencing a wellbeing occupational health scheme for all site operatives, and adding dust to its unique advanced noise and vibration monitoring system, previously not seen in the industry. Other aims for 2010 involve trying to get another Rospa Gold Award and working hard to gain more successful award nominations.

The end of the works on the Stonebridge Estate Regeneration is also in sight and should be completed around the middle of this year. Worth over £12,600,000, the contract has involved working closely with the Stonebridge Housing Action Trust and Hillside Housing in their regeneration of the Stonebridge Estate North West London. This has been a huge programme of phased demolition of the entire estate. All phases have involved the removal, soft strip and careful dismantling of high and low rise buildings, the largest being a twenty-two storey residential tower block ‘Haskell House’.