Case studies

Projects we've engineered

From care homes and hospitals to leisure centres and housing schemes — see how our trusses, joists and panels perform on real sites.

Donaldson Timber Engineering branded packs of Posi-Joists ready for delivery
Large timber A-frame roof trusses being lifted upright in the DTE factory01

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Great Shelford Care Home

Donaldson Timber Engineering (DTE) recently completed a large-scale project with Carter Lauren Construction on the development of a new care home in Great Shelford, Cambridge.

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Millfield Green Retirement Village

Millfield Green is a senior living village comprising of the main Village Centre, a Maintenance Centre, an Energy Centre and an ALU (Assisted Living Unit) block.

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Mallaig Leisure Centre

DMD Construction Ltd, a Fort William based building contractor has been working on a new extension for Mallaig pool and leisure centre in the Scottish Highlands. The extension was built to create a café space within the leisure centre. Seven Glulam frames were supplied to the project by our Buckhaven site.

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Mill Green Outlet Village

Mill Green Outlet Village is a brand-new McArthur Glen Designer Outlet based in Cannock, Staffordshire. The project consisted of eight large blocks covering an area of approx. 27,000m2, with all blocks constructed from steel portal frames split over multiple levels.

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Scripture Union Camping Pod

Scripture Union (SU) Scotland is a Christian charity that works in partnership with local churches and young people around Scotland to help them to explore the bible. The charity offers a wide range of residential breaks for children and required camping pods to be built. Donaldson Timber Engineering (DTE) designed and supplied 11no. barrel style trusses at 600mm centres for a camping pod at Lendrick Muir, SU’s site near Crook of Devon.

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Chigwell Care Home

DTE recently designed and supplied the roof system for a project at a 72-bed care home development for Oakland Primecare Ltd in Chigwell, Essex.

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Merry Hill Shopping Centre

Merry Hill is a large shopping centre located in Brierley Hill, Dudley. Donaldson Timber Engineering (DTE) recently supplied I-joists for a shop re-fit project inside the centre.

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Ramside Estate

Ramside Estate is an exclusive development of six luxurious houses in the North East of England. For this project, T. Fleming Homes Ltd specified attic trusses using Posi-Joist bottom chords, which was a first for DTE.

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Chris Brown Joinery

We recently worked with Chris Brown Joinery and our sister company, MGM Timber, to supply trusses and open web joists for a private housing development in Charlottetown, Fife.

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DTE operative smiling while nailing a timber component10

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Milford Hospital

DTE is working with Barratt Homes on a large housing development in Surrey, providing a specialised full roof package for a block of flats and 110 houses.

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DTE operative running timber through a hydraulic press11

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Kingussie Courthouse

DTE recently designed and supplied the roof system for the renovation project at Kingussie Courthouse. The roof system was comprised of standard roof trusses, glulaminated roof frames and columns.

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Barn Hall Lodge

Donaldson Timber Engineering recently worked with Metro Central Interiors Ltd on the Barn Hall Lodge project in Kingswood, Kent.

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Center Parcs

Center Parcs Woburn Forest is a £250 million development and one of the largest leisure projects in the UK.

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DTE joiner setting out a timber component in the workshop14

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Bellway Homes

DTE recently worked on the large-scale Hero project with Bellway Homes, a new development consisting of studio, 1, 2 and 3-bedroom high-specification apartments in Wimbledon, West London.

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CCG OSM

Between September 2014 and February 2015, DTE Buckhaven worked with CCG OSM on a social housing project, supplying I-Joists for 423 floor cassettes for six blocks of flats and five blocks of terraced houses.

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Toryglen Nursing Home

The Toryglen Nursing Home development is a part of Glasgow City Council’s multi-million pound programme to build five new care homes and four day centres in the city. Following a successful partnership on a similar project last year, DTE was brought in by contractor City Building LLP to supply attic trusses and Finnjoist floor cassettes for the 120-room, eight-wing site.

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McCarthy And Stone

Between December 2013 and February 2014, DTE Ilkeston worked with McCarthy & Stone on a huge project supplying the full roof package for a block of 63 retirement apartments in Southport, Merseyside.

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MCI Developments Ltd

This bespoke affordable housing development comprised four 3-bedroom homes and nine 2-bedroom homes for Plus Dane Housing Association in the picturesque village of Christleton near Chester.

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