News from East Fife Joinery

EFJ proud to have been involved in award winning projects across Tayside and Fife

18th October 2016 By Angela Dunsire

Kingsbarns Distillery and Visitor Centre – which EFJ carried all the joiner work for – won the best Rehab/Rejuvenation Award at the Dundee Institute of Architects annual awards, held at the Invercarse Hotel. Colorado Construction acted as Main Contractors and Simpson & Brown oversaw the transformation of the old farm buildings into a distillery, visitor centre and cafe.

Kelty-Community-Centre Kelty Community Centre won the Ambassador Award. EFJ worked with Hybrid Build Solutions to erect the largest CLT project in Scotland to-date with 6000m2 of panels comprising CLT panels from Austria and VUT panels manufactured in Scotland, before then working with Fife Council to complete all the joiner work on the project. Kelty Community Centre was designed by Fife Council property Services..

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EFJ is pleased to be an accredited contractor for CHAS, the Contractors Health & Safety Assessment Scheme

31st July 2016 By EFJ Admin

We were delighted to hear this week that our recent assessment to renew our CHAS status (Contractors Health & Safety Assessment Scheme) was successful and we continue to be accredited. EFJ had to pass a stringent health and safety assessment process to gain the CHAS accreditation.

The CHAS health and safety assessment scheme is a pre-approval scheme to allow contractors to show potential clients that they meet the required health and safety standards. It is the largest and also the fastest growing health and safety assessment scheme in the UK.

CHAS is a health and safety accreditation scheme for the construction industry, and often acts as a type of pre-qualification during the tender process. It is a national database of contractors who have been through a health and safety assessment, and have demonstrated compliance and management standards.

The purpose of CHAS is to help both buyers and suppliers in the assessment of health and safety competence. Helping buyers by reducing the lengthy process of assessing contractors health and safety standards individually. Helping suppliers (contractors) by reducing the time consuming process on completing and submitting full details of health and safety processes on each project they compete for.

Murray Dunsire, Managing Director of EFJ, said: “The CHAS accreditation shows our ongoing commitment to continual improvement and will be a powerful tool when competing for new business.”

EFJ first achieved CHAS accreditation in 2015.

More details can be found at www.chas.co.uk.

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A new community centre – created specifically for the people of Kelty

28th February 2016 By Angela Dunsire

Kelty Community Centre — Picture taken from Premier Construction Magazine

East Fife Joinery carried out all the joinerwork on the project – which was implemented by Fife Council – and which has seen the erection of a brand new community centre, which boasts a range of services all designed to bring the community together in one location.

Prior to working with Fife Council on the project EFJ originally worked with Hybrid Build Solutions to erect the largest CLT project in Scotland to-date with 6000m2 of panels comprising CLT panels from Austria and VUT panels manufactured in Scotland.

East Fife Joinery are an established contractor on Fife Council Building Services supply team and work closely with all staff to ensure that all projects are delivered to the client’s needs.

Regarding the construction of the new community centre – Murray Dunsire, Managing Director at East Fife Joinery, told Premier Construction –

It was a great project – it was important to us as it was local and we are local based contractor. We have a close working relationship with our council which we have developed over a number of years with several different projects.

The Kelty Community Centre project took shape on Main Street, as an extension of the existing Kelty Primary School development. An ‘unfit-for-purpose’ church and community centre – which were previously located on the site – were demolished at the beginning of the project, in order to make room for the new facility.

As well as the creation of a new building, the project included the creation of a dedicated parking area, as well as some external landscaping works.

Speaking to Premier Construction, Gavin Turner, Chartered Architect for Fife Council, said:

“As the existing centre was not entirely fit for purpose the new community centre makes a significant improvement to the community and education facilities in Kelty.”

The Kelty Community Centre project was approved by councillors at the Cowdenbeath Area Committee on 1st May 2013.

Extracts taken from Premier Construction article February 2016

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