• What is Pressure Treated Timber? A Guide to it's Features & Uses

    What is Pressure Treated Timber? A Guide to it's Features & Uses2025-01-15

    Pressure treated timber involves preservatives being forced into timber. Our treated timber is put into our own onsite high-pressure treatment tank to ensure that our tanalised timber is prepared to fight infestation, rot and the elements. T...

  • I Beam Joists: A Guide to Projects & Our Services

    I Beam Joists: A Guide to Projects & Our Services2025-01-15

    I-Beam joists, also known as I-joists or engineered timber joists, are structural components designed to provide strength and stability in flooring and roofing systems. They are crafted from high-grade timber, typically oriented strand board...

  • Training Events For I-Joist Floor Installation

    Training Events For I-Joist Floor Installation2025-01-15

    Backed by a dedicated team of specialist design engineers, Steico design software packages and fabricating teams, Unique’s supply I joist floor and roof packages & floor cassettes to many national, regional and local house builders such as...

  • What Are I-Joists?

    What Are I-Joists?2025-01-15

    I-joists have become a construction industry standard largely because they offer reliable strength, consistency, and engineered performance that can provide a better value than dimension lumber. But that’s just the start of their benefits....

  • What is Formwork or Formworking?

    What is Formwork or Formworking?2024-12-05

    Formwork structures should retain shape, remain braced and watertight, and be appropriately sized according to the scope of construction. It is vital that formwork can support the weight of wet concrete without strain....

  • Difference Between Shuttering and Formwork

    Difference Between Shuttering and Formwork2024-12-05

    Formwork describes the overall process of moulding concrete into a shape using a variety of materials whereas shuttering is where workers use plywood or similar materials to mould the concrete until it has cured....