Tim Burrell

Tim is Carpenter Oak & Woodland’s managing director. Tim has extensive experience of managing companies of all sizes, in many business sectors, including construction and building. Tim’s no-nonsense hands-on approach, coupled with his outstanding management experience and commercial acumen, make him the ideal complement to the craft-based skills of the rest of the team.

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By Tim Burrell

I’m pleased to say that we have taken on an additional facility close to our Hall Farm yard at Chippenham. ‘Westinghouse’, as it’s now known provides a 15,000 square feet covered facility which we will be using for our highly finished and larger engineered projects where the ability for 4 forklifts carrying 10m beams to waltz around each other will increase our capacity enormously.

I was on site yesterday, and it was a real delight to see the synchronised operation of 10 planers preparing rafters for a current project – although I know that highly skilled craftsmen don’t quite share this passion!

Critically for us, although this facility was desperately needed for the extra space, what it does allow us to do is to divide our highly crafted and labour intensive projects from those requiring efficiency and that extra cost advantage that every QS is looking for.

 Recession, what recession?!