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Our work spans a wide range of sectors delivering homes, schools, healthcare facilities and defence accommodation, all manufactured in our Dorset factory and installed by our own expert teams.

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Rollalong is a major supplier of compliant buildings to the Ministry of Defence in the UK. For more than 30 years we have provided high-quality buildings for use by MoD personnel and their families; our building systems are adaptable to the diverse and often challenging needs of the MoD.

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We are specialists when it comes to modular classrooms and school buildings for the Education sector, and our team can design and build to your specific requirements or for the hire or purchase of temporary modular classrooms.

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If you need a fast, efficient and risk-free turnkey modular homes build solution for your next housing or apartment project, then talk to our experts.

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Our modular housing solution designed to be deployed, occupied, relocated and reused. Rather than treating housing as a fixed asset, our system enables homes to move with changing demand, giving local authorities, housing associations and developers the flexibility to maximise land opportunities.

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Book marks completion of Army Basing Programme

20th April 2021

We’re honoured and delighted in equal measure to be featured in this new commemorative book which has been published by Aspire Defence Capital Works.

The book is a permanent record of the work carried out under the 2016-2020 Army Basing Programme across the Salisbury Plain Training Area and Aldershot, and we’re pleased to be featured as one of ADCW’s key partners.

We’ve worked with Aspire Defence on the ABP project since 2016, during which time we’ve manufactured and installed 1,599 modules, comprising 52 individual Single Living Accommodation buildings. These now provide over 2,400 en suite single rooms for soldiers based at Tidworth, Larkhill, Perham Down, Bulford and Aldershot.

We’re extremely proud of the quality of work we’ve achieved in a relatively short time frame.

Well done to everyone in the team who’s been involved and thanks to all at Aspire Defence!

26th January 2021

We’ve used the latest offsite techniques to provide a new café for students and staff at the Royal School of Artillery in Larkhill Garrison on Salisbury Plain.

The café is the latest building we’ve delivered at Larkhill Garrison on behalf of Aspire Defence Services.

Located in the centre of the Royal School of Artillery, the café will deliver a much-needed additional learning space while providing an opportunity for students and permanent staff to engage with their personal development in a relaxed and unique atmosphere.

“We were approached by Aspire Defence Services Ltd to assist them with the design and build of a new café which had to be linked to an existing building and used as an interactive learning hub,” said Wayne Cheshire, Contract Manager for Special Works.

“This has been a challenging venture but thanks to everyone’s hard work and commitment a high-quality project has been successfully delivered that the client will be proud to use.”

Our MD Steve Chivers added: “We have a close and very positive working relationship with Aspire Defence and we’re proud of all the buildings we have delivered for the Army across Salisbury Plain and Aldershot as part of the recent Army Basing Programme (ABP) and the original Project Allenby Connaught PFI contract with the MoD.

“We undertake a lot of work for the armed forces because our modular single living accommodation (SLA) buildings are constructed to exacting standards that satisfy the Army and the Defence Infrastructure Organisation’s (DIO’s) requirements.”

In 2018 we won the Best Offsite Project of the Year award at the Constructing Excellence South West Built Environment Awards for the modular single living accommodation we built for British Army personnel at Larkhill under the Army Basing Programme.

Pictured above are our Site Manager Philip Morris (left) outside the Larkhill café with Wayne Cheshire, Contract Manager at Rollalong.

10th June 2020 We’re pleased to say that we’re starting to re-open our construction sites as the coronavirus lockdown eases. We’ve re-opened our site at Sugden Way in Barking, East London where we’re working with regeneration company BeFirst to deliver affordable housing for the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. We’ve recommenced groundworks for a café for Aspire Defence Ltd at MOD Larkhill on Salisbury Plain and we’re back on site in Bridport where we’re completing an office complex for Dorset County Council’s highways department. We’re also starting a number of new construction projects across the south of England. “Like many construction companies we closed all our sites when the national lockdown was first announced in March,” said Managing Director Steve Chivers. “In line with Government guidelines we are now re-opening these sites and getting back to work while always prioritising the health and safety of our staff, suppliers, contractors and local residents.” We’ve produced our own COVID-19 Site Operating Procedures to sit alongside and enhance the guidance issued by the Construction Leadership Council and the Government. The procedures set out Rollalong’s approach to safely operating construction sites to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and include measures such as:
  • providing hand sanitising stations around site
  • providing COVID-19 induction training to all personnel
  • displaying signs on hand hygiene and social distancing
  • reducing seating in offices and canteens to maintain social distancing
  • enhanced cleaning regimes for commonly touched surfaces
  • meetings to be held outside where possible
  • staggered breaks to reduce the number of people using the canteen
  • one-way system for pedestrians to prevent people crossing
In addition to re-opening three sites, we’re also starting work on a number of new projects, including: a new special educational needs (SEN) facility for Dorset County Council at St Mary’s School in Puddletown; a teaching classroom facility for the MOD at Worthy Down; new facilities for St Peter’s School in Old Windsor for Wokingham Borough Council; and various education projects for Hampshire County Council. “It’s very good news, and while we’re taking a safety first approach it’s great to be back on site and turning these projects into reality,” added Steve. “In the current crisis the advantages of modular offsite construction become really clear. Much of the work is done in our factory in Dorset, which minimises the number of trades we need on site. That reduces the number of deliveries and journeys as well as the number of workers actually needed on site. “So it’s beneficial both in minimising the spread of the virus and in reducing our carbon footprint.” Pictured below: an example of the COVID-19 precautionary measures we’ve introduced at MOD Larkhill.