Caunton Engineering have supplied the framing steelwork to main contractor Clegg Construction for what has been described in the press as a facility of the future. The Sherbourne Resource Centre in Coventry is a state of the art materials recycling facility (MRF) and said to be the first to use Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Housing the facility’s all-important equipment, as well as the areas for receiving and sorting materials, are three large steel portal-framed structures. Together they form an L-shape to suit the site and create a facility where the materials processing is laid out in a linear configuration. Each of the three portal frames is structurally-independent and at the two points were buildings meet, there is a dividing row of double columns, that accommodate doorways and openings for equipment such as conveyor belts.