Farm buildings for Aberystwyth:
Shufflebottom has supplied four steel-framed farm buildings for
the main contractor, Afan Construction, at the Institute
of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS),
Aberystwyth, Wales:
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72m x 14.2m x 6m high, with a portal frame
side extension, 54m x 11.8m x 6m high, joined perpendicular, with
hip and valley connection.
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Silage clamp 36m x 12m x 6.7m high, with an
addition 36m long x 1.5m wide under an overhang to one side.
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Silage clamp 24m x 21.69m x 8m high.
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Triple span livestock building 36m x 2 29m x
5.3m high, with a side extension 36m x 13.55m x 5.3m high.
The buildings form a modern complex for sheep and cattle
farming. Construction of the buildings and the yards between them
required 2,000 cubic metres of concrete, said project manager
Dafydd Davies. The silage building has six pits for separating and
testing different sets of silage. There is a feed mixing shed, a
lorry bay, chemicals store, workshop, barn, seed drying shed, and
accommodation for cattle and sheep. The complex is arranged
around an old stone building that IBERS wanted to keep.