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.
01PROJECT / 01March 14, 2025
Great Shelford Care Home
Donaldson Timber Engineering (DTE) 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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02PROJECT / 02October 07, 2022
Millfield Green Retirement Village
Millfield Green is a senior living village comprising the main Village Centre, a Maintenance Centre, an Energy Centre and an ALU (Assisted Living Unit) block.
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03PROJECT / 03January 13, 2021
Mallaig Leisure Centre
DMD Construction Ltd, a Fort William based building contractor, worked 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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04PROJECT / 04February 17, 2020
Mill Green Outlet Village
Mill Green Outlet Village is a 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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05PROJECT / 05November 07, 2019
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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06PROJECT / 06July 10, 2019
Chigwell Care Home
DTE 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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07PROJECT / 07December 01, 2018
Merry Hill Shopping Centre
Merry Hill is a large shopping centre located in Brierley Hill, Dudley. Donaldson Timber Engineering (DTE) supplied I-joists for a shop re-fit project inside the centre.
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08PROJECT / 08January 31, 2018
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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09PROJECT / 09November 23, 2017
Chris Brown Joinery
We worked with Chris Brown Joinery and our sister company, MGM Timber, to supply trusses and open web joists for a private housing development in Charlestown, Fife.
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10PROJECT / 10November 09, 2016
Milford Hospital
DTE worked 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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11PROJECT / 11May 03, 2016
Kingussie Courthouse
DTE 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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12PROJECT / 12February 04, 2016
Barn Hall Lodge
Donaldson Timber Engineering worked with Metro Central Interiors Ltd on the Barn Hall Lodge project in Kingswood, Kent.
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13PROJECT / 13September 04, 2015
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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14PROJECT / 14August 31, 2015
Bellway Homes
DTE 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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15PROJECT / 15February 20, 2015
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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16PROJECT / 16April 04, 2014
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 an earlier project, 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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17PROJECT / 17February 20, 2014
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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18PROJECT / 18February 01, 2014
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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