A “can do” attitude from design engineers at shipping container specialist S Jones Containers proved the winning formula when they were asked to come up with a design for a workshop and test facility for Groundforce Shorco.
Groundforce Shorco – one of the UK’s leading construction industry supplier of trenching and shoring equipment systems – needed a mobile and robust solution to act as a workshop and test facility for its heavy construction hydraulic parts.
Major projects commercial manager James Burchell said: “The container modifications we required were quite bespoke and unusual. From our first discussion I sensed that S Jones had a ‘can do’ attitude and following subsequent meetings we were able to achieve exactly what we were looking for, with the only modifications actually being improvements suggested by S Jones’ technical team to our original concept.”
As well as partitioned work areas to allow testing in section and repairs and service in the other, a particular feature of this project was the incorporation of an overhead running beam to allow a hoist to operate throughout the full length of the container.
S Jones Containers is one of the UK’s leading specialists in sale, hire and conversion of shipping containers. Bespoke conversions are carried out by the company’s team of specialist design engineers to transform containers into highly sophisticated containerised solutions for equipment and processes worldwide – for test facilities, power generation, solar farm electrical enclosures, restaurant complexes, water pumps, fire suppression, housing, and a host of other applications.
