FINAL STRUCTURAL BEAM SIGNED BY ROLLS-ROYCE DIRECTORS AS LANDMARK £300 MILLION EXTENSION REACHES KEY MILESTONE

• Ceremony echoes Sir Henry Royce’s custom of personally signing
  off new designs
• Closing metal beam of 40,000m² extension signed by Rolls-Royce Board
  of Administrators
• Marks fast progress – simply 4 months after the CEO signed the
  first structural column
• Landmark extension is the most important single funding within the Residence of
  Rolls-Royce because it opened in 2003

“Simply 4 months in the past, I signalled the beginning of above-ground
building on our £300 million extension mission by signing the
first metal column to be put in. My fellow Board Administrators and I
have now signed the final beam to be lifted into place, finishing
the interior framework of our new primary constructing. The mission is
operating at nice tempo, with the exterior structural work resulting from be
completed within the autumn. This fast progress displays the extension’s
elementary significance to our enterprise, offering the extra
house and upgraded gear we have to proceed increasing our
Bespoke and Coachbuild operations, in keeping with world consumer demand.”


Chris Brownridge, Chief Govt, Rolls-Royce Motor Vehicles

Rolls-Royce has marked a serious milestone in
the event of its new extension on the Residence of Rolls-Royce,
Goodwood. In a proper ceremony, members of the corporate’s Board of
Administrators signed the ultimate metal beam to be put in within the
constructing’s inner construction, earlier than it was lifted into place on the
construction’s highest level.

The signing ceremony comes simply 4 months after Chief
Govt, Chris Brownridge, signed the primary of 437 metal columns,
every standing as much as 13 metres excessive, marking the start of the
constructing’s construction. The brand new 40,000m² constructing will assist the
marque’s increasing Bespoke and Coachbuild capabilities and home a brand new
Exterior Floor Centre.

With the complete metal framework now in place, consideration now turns
to the subsequent part of the mission, which incorporates cladding the
construction and integrating it with the prevailing facility by way of a 30
metre, 20-tonne metal bridge, delivered and put in as a single
meeting earlier this yr.

The ceremonial signing evokes an earlier Rolls-Royce custom,
during which supervisors would preliminary accomplished physique panels or mechanical
parts with a chinagraph pencil earlier than passing them to the subsequent
stage in meeting. This apply itself echoed Sir Henry Royce’s personal
insistence on personally inspecting and approving each new element
– usually requiring near-daily, 400-mile spherical journeys between the
firm’s unique manufacturing unit in Derby and Sir Henry’s residence, ‘Elmstead’,
in West Wittering. Only a few miles from the marque’s present-day residence
at Goodwood, Elmstead served as each a retreat and a workspace for
Royce, who would take a look at, refine and log out designs there – a legacy
that continues on the exact same Sussex roads nonetheless used at the moment by the
marque’s take a look at and growth staff.

Costing over £300 million, the landmark new extension represents
the most important single funding within the Residence of Rolls-Royce Motor Vehicles
because it launched in 2003. As soon as accomplished, it’ll additional strengthen
the corporate’s financial contribution to the UK, which
at the moment exceeds £500 million yearly.