Caunton were pleased to supply the structural steelwork for retail giant ASDA when the company extended the size their store in Llandudno by over 50%. It is part of this delightful seaside resort's Victoria Shopping Centre. The old store is now to be closed as the new store opened early in 2005. It has as a result become one of ASDA's largest stores in North Wales, second in size only to their Deesside megastore.

Caunton are no strangers to working in North Wales, having only recently supplied the steelwork for the University of Bangor's state-of-the-art research facility Cast Technium in nearby Gwynedd.

The ASDA project itself was managed by major contractor RG Group as a design-and-build contract. This was unusual for ASDA, but it did as a result encourage the introduction of several innovations associated with D&B. For example, Caunton designed and erected the 445 tonne, 72 metre wide propped mansard frames, in only seven weeks and in a specific sequence, which enabled the main contractor to start following trades as early as possible. This was to achieve a very tight programme indeed. The consulting engineer for the overall project was the GD Partnership and the architect the Mason Richards Partnership.