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Overview

We are passionate & driven to deliver the desired effect, quality and intricate design to exceed the expectations of our clients’. Many trade experts are required to meet those expectations, but few have all the expertise required in all professions in-house. Through investment and by employing the right personnel in our Rudwall system, we do.

About

We manufacture and assemble all elements of our vanity, urinal and cubicle Rudwall modules off-site at our factory in Flitwick, Bedfordshire. This is managed by our long standing and trusted workforce.

The advantages of off-site manufacture are as follows:

  • Shorter Installation Times: Providing the main contractor and developer with faster core completion, reducing risk, increasing return on investment with potential for early rental or sales income for client, all of which result in lower holdings cost.
  • Predictable Build Times: With more controlled project programming, you know what is going to happen and when.
  • Better Build Quality: Working in a clean and dry manufacturing environment is far more conducive to the production of a quality product than on a traditional building site. This in turn leads to fewer defects, less disputes and ultimately a happier client.
  • Health & Safety: There are more on-site construction injuries and fatalities in comparison to off-site manufactured products. This is clearly a reflection of a safer single level working environment.
  • See the Finished Product: Prototype washrooms can be produced and signed off by contractor and client. Quality and finish of product is agreed at this stage, avoiding defects and disputes at completion of project.
  • Centralised Control: Purchasing for the main contractor is simplified with one contractor. Buying a number of trades and materials from one source reduces procurement resource time and effort resulting in cost savings.
  • Less Demand on Resources: A reduction of on-site labour requirements in a time of skilled labour shortages enables subcontractors to utilise their workforce more efficiently in open spaces, rather than congested spaces. 80% of mechanical works and 25% of electrical works carried out off site. Handover defects are minimised, with client approvals signed at the factory and prior to handover. Material and labour movements in hoists are minimised. On-site welfare facilities are minimised.
  • Less Construction Disruption: Work on-site is safer, quieter and cleaner. Potentially up to 60% fewer vehicle journeys to site, which assists with less disruption around the sensitive worksite.
  • Environment Friendly: Factory manufacture is inherently less wasteful than traditional forms of construction and thus more sustainable, specifically; fewer deliveries to site, meaning less noise, dust and disruption. Lower waste to landfill reducing on-site waste removal and disposal costs. Factory waste material is typically less than 1.5% compared with 7% + on a traditional construction site and recycling of waste is more reliably controlled in a factory environment than it is on-site. Factory operatives are up to 250% more efficient than the same activity carried out on-site. Recent life-cycle analysis has demonstrated that off-site construction methods reduce the overall impact on the environment by at least 40%.

The following list of projects have benefited from a highly successful RUDWALL installation:

  • 20 Fenchurch Street (Walkie Talkie) – partial form
  • The Leadenhall Building (The Cheesegrater) – fully developed
  • 5 Broadgate
  • Bloomberg’s headquarters
  • 52 Lime Street (Scalpel)
  • Rathbone Square

Design – the key to success:

Design is the key to all projects, ensuring that we provide all parties with a fully coordinated, coherent and detailed design which is facilitated by Building Information Modelling (BIM) .

Quality

We monitor both ‘factory’ and ‘on-site’ production to ISO9001:2008 quality management standards.

Rudwall is specifically monitored for both the prefabrication and on-site phases as follows:

  • Off-site prefabrication inspection and test plan
  • Hold points for each installation operation; EOS, panels, glass, sanitaryware, M & E
  • Signed off by operative and supervisor/QA manager
  • Mechanical elements tested, witnessed and signed off
  • Pipework marked prior to cutting to ensure accurate realignment and connection
  • Electrical elements dead tested
  • QA documentation accompanies Rudwall to site
  • On-site Installation Inspection and Test Plan
  • Elements inspected at delivery point
  • Preceding trades own QA check, client verified, handovers
  • Installation checklists for each element: photos/client sign off
  • M & E reconnected and tested back to supplies/stacks
  • Void closure management
  • Coordination/attendance for overall building testing and commissioning
  • Handover of completed, snag free WC

Client Testimonials

Oct 2017 – Testimonial from Michael R. Bloomberg.

” As we approach the final stages of construction, i want to personally thank you for your hard work on the new Bloomberg European headquarters.

Building the facility in the heart of the City of London, while preserving the ancient artifacts uncovered during excavation, has been a monumental task requiring an extraordinary level of coordination. Your outstanding efforts made it possible, and i am grateful for everything you did to bring this complex project to life.

Please extend my appreciation to each person on your team who worked at the building site. I hope that, in the years to come, they will be proud to tell friends and family that they helped to create a new London icon representing the workplace of the future. 

Many thanks again for contributing your time and talent to this endeavor.”

Michael R. Bloomberg

 

Bloomberg Place,

“Ruddy won our Trade Contractor Excellence Award for their high standard of work at Regent’s Place & The Leadenhall Building. Ruddy took over the washroom fit-out at 10 Brock Street, Regent’s Place partway through construction, delivering within the original programme dates and costs, and to the required quality. Laing O’Rourke also sub-contracted them for the main reception and washroom fit-out at The Leadenhall Building, and they are now partway through delivery of the washroom fit-out at 5 Broadgate: a great partner!”

British Land, The Leadenhall Building

“Much of BL’s development success over the years has been founded on the support and endeavours of the organisations that work with us. It sounds trite but without firms like yours we would not have been able to create buildings like Leadenhall, Clarges or 5 Broadgate.”

Richard Elliot, British Land - Leadenhall / Broadgate

“At The Leadenhall Building, Ruddy’s Rudwall system has proved to be a very versatile, high quality product. Their design and management team allowed us to exploit the potential for factory-grade workmanship and fast assembly to suit the demands of such a fast-paced and large scale project: and the fact that the installation was completed with minimal snagging assisted greatly at the handover stage.”

Andy Young, Architect, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

BESPOKE JOINERY & FIT-OUT PROJECTS 

DESIGN – MANUFACTURE – INSTALL

Ruddy is a world-class joinery and interior fit-out contractor with facilities for prefabricating washroom modules, bespoke joinery, fire rated doorsets and screens.

Ruddy strives to be the best which is evident within our approach to a number of areas (safety, sustainability, environmental, occupational health, quality and financial etc.) together with our experience and capabilities accrued over the last four decades.

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