B&K Structures is installing large glulam beams on site to form the park’s Subtropical Swimming Paradise, while Clifford Jones Timber has delivered more than 600 bespoke laminated timber lampposts to help provide lighting across the 375-acre site.
The 46 glulam beams being supplied by B&K were manufactured in Austria and transported via Immingham docks. The assembly process will take 12 weeks.
Parent company Bowmer & Kirkland was appointed by Center Parcs to construct the leisure buildings and facilities at Woburn Forest.
Clifford Jones’s laminated lamp-post contract, worth £250,000, involved manufacturing hollow lamp-posts from Welsh larch in its new £1.2m lamination plant in Ruthin.
The 3.5m-long posts are specially cut on a router to accommodate electric cables and lamps. They will light the seven miles of roadway around the park.
Clifford Jones is also supplying hundreds of smaller laminated timber bollards, each with a light and the name of each holiday home.
Nigel Bacon, Clifford Jones sales director, said the contract was an endorsement of the company’s £1.2m lamination plant investment.
He predicted the lighting columns would still be doing their job in 30 years’ time, while their sustainable nature fitted with the ethos of Center Parcs.
"It has been a very successful contract, so much so that we will be doing more work for Center Parcs and their landscaping contractors."
