October-November 2011 South West Building & Construction 31 WELDING Fabrication


RM Services provides fabrication and mobile welding services from its workshops or on-site as required. The business offers expertise


in MIG, TIG and arc welding as well as in drilling, rolling and punching of most materials to customers’ requirements. RM Services has a good reputation and has built excellent working relationships in many sectors including rail, civil and structural engineering, and waste management.


The majority of its business is conducted in the South West, however, the firm is able to offer its services throughout the UK. It is an established policy of RM Services to strive to provide customers with the service quality that they require. The business has a flexible approach which can be adapted to suit most situations. It has been involved in many types of work and has developed a broad client base with emphasis on quality, reliability, good customer relations and a competitive


pricing structure. RM Services is based at Rattery in South Devon, only 200 yards from the A38 Devon Expressway - making the business easy to find for customers and suppliers. For more information, tel 01364 72119 or mobile 07860 431008. Website: www.welder.uk.com.


■ LUFFMAN Engineering Ltd, based in Devon, offers a profiling and fabrication service.


Whether you need just a simple profile or a complete helical staircase installed, the company’s goal is to provide you with a friendly and professional service.


The multi-service engineering


company has been supplying a wide range of industries since 1991. It specialises in CNC profile cutting, using the latest waterjet and laser technology. For more information, please email luffman@eclipse.co.uk or call 01884 821076. Visit the website at www.luffman.co.uk.


CIC SOUTH WEST


Focus on design quality


IT would be a fair question for the industry at large to ask: what is the Construction Industry Council? To say ‘very little’


could be an LTD


WATERJET, LASER, OXY-FUEL, AND PLASMA PROFILE CUTTING


understatement, but here we have a true ‘forum for construction-related bodies’. Architecture, engineering, surveying, urban design, landscape architecture, planning - just the tip of the iceberg when we talk about construction. The CIC headquarters and representation is primarily in London but with various regional connections. The South West is one of the recent regions making a contribution and representing our specific and unique outlook that befits our geographical location.


It is vitally important that the Waterjet Samples of Alloy & Steel


Stainless steel railings for major supermarket


Railings for local school Waterjet, Brass gears


Luffman Engineering Ltd., Ayshford Works, Westleigh, Tiverton, Devon EX16 7HL


Email luffman@eclipse.co.uk www.luffman.co.uk


Tel: 01884 821076 Fax 01884 821536


extremities of the country are allowed a voice that transcends the singular approaches of purely architecture, or one or other of our professional bodies, or businesses. The normal battle lines of institute versus institute or business versus business create, in many cases, an unnecessary barrier to allow the sector to flower and project a truly positive and forward thinking approach. We need an active clear-thinking industry which endows such a mark on the landscape, enhancing the local flavour and feel. If we focus on our own beautiful corner of the UK we have reasons to be grateful to our industry. Locally, a key topic of debate for Cornish RIBA architects is design quality and the value that clients, the wider industry and the general public have placed upon design quality. Many RIBA members feel design quality has been shunned. Price is often everything but can you not have both? Many Cornish


RIBA architects think you can. The perception is that the construction industry and the general public seem to have accepted the view that you cannot. Is this correct? For example, not wishing to single out a sector, a common debate starter is ‘Why does an affordable home have to look like one?’ To this end the RIBA Cornwall chair is working in partnership with Cornwall Council to organise a Design Quality in the Built Environment conference for March 2012. It is hoped that the debate on design quality in Cornwall’s built environment can finally be started. Let’s hope as the industry climbs off its knees that all participants in projects large and small can embrace a collaborative and progressive approach to deliver quality construction.


Article by Vance Babbage,


Chair, Construction Industry Council (South West) Contact: www.cic.org.uk and 0844 800 2767 (RIBA South West, secretariat)


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