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Recclesia Awarded Flagship Manchester Contract

Posted by Jamie Moore on 2nd August 2011.

Recclesia has been awarded the contract to carry out specialist conservation work to four hundred stained and leaded glass windows as part of the £90M Manchester Town Hall Extension and Central Library Transformation Project in partnership with Laing O’Rourke and Manchester City Council. The removal work started at the end of July, with completion scheduled for June 2012. All of the windows are to be removed for highly sensitive studio conservation work and the company has pledged to provide apprenticeship training as part of the contract in line with the regeneration, employment and skills objectives of Manchester City Council. Recclesia has drawn up the UK’s first approved apprenticeship framework in leaded glass repair with support from Constructionskills and is preparing to recruit for the position.

Recclesia MD Jamie Moore was very enthusiastic about the project and the apprenticeship training, saying “we are extremely pleased to be carrying out this specialist work to one of Manchester’s most outstanding historic buildings. The opportunities for long-term training in our industry are few and far between and must be grasped with both hands. We hope that our pledge to provide placements and our work in drawing up the specialist heritage training framework demonstrates our ongoing commitment to sustaining traditional skills in the UK.”

Recclesia has recently expanded its workshops and studio space in Chester and is currently preparing to seek several new recruits both for the Manchester project and for a number of other specialist historic building conservation projects due to start in the latter half of 2011.

Recclesia Stained Glass repairs, conserves and creates stained glass, leaded lights and art glass. The principal element of our work is ecclesiastical conservation and repair, but we also undertake domestic and commercial projects, from repairs to traditional architectural features, to the design and creation of contemporary art-glass installations using more modern processes. We work nationwide.

Recclesia also design, make and install a range of protective guards and restore metalwork such as metal casements and window hoppers. We also restore and produce cast lead fanlights.

To find out more about Recclesia stained glass click here

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