The Guardtech Group’s large-scale cleanroom construction business, Cleanroom Solutions, are facilitators of greatness. It is a badge of honour for the Group’s heritage turnkey cleanroom construction company to have a long association with some of the brightest minds in Life Sciences, High-Tech Engineering, and groundbreaking Research & Development programmes across the United Kingdom.
The Guardtech Group recently launched a new campaign celebrating the amazing work their clients do from the various platforms provided by Guardtech – whether it be larger cleanroom facilities, smaller modular solutions, or Cleancube shipping container cleanrooms.
Cleanroom Solutions, founded by Jan Pyrgies in 2000, was acquired by Guardtech Cleanrooms in 2021. This acquisition led to the formation of the Guardtech Group as the umbrella company under which Cleanroom Solutions (large-scale turnkey facilities) and Guardtech Cleanrooms (modular cleanrooms) now operate.
Pyrgies, now a non-executive Director at Guardtech, has helped provide world-class facilities for several elite higher education institutions. These include the University of Cambridge’s Graphene Centre, the University of Glasgow’s James Watt Nanofabrication Centre, the University of Exeter’s School of Physics, and the University of Nottingham’s School of Physics & Astronomy. Recent Guardtech Group projects have also included work for Royal Holloway and the University of Plymouth.
All of these institutions utilise Cleanroom Solutions facilities to conduct groundbreaking R&D work, from microwave semiconductor device fabrication and graphene-based research to other innovative electronics explorations. This idea of facilitating greatness – providing a platform for brilliant minds to improve the world – is a core value the Guardtech Group is keen to continue promoting.
“We have the most exceptional clients,” says Guardtech Group Commercial Director, Mark Wheeler. “The new campaign is our way of celebrating this with the wider world.”
The ‘banner term’ for the Cleanroom Solutions leg of the campaign is HOPE – which stands for Helping Our Partners Excel. “This is what we believe our controlled environments do,” Wheeler continues. “We provide cleanroom solutions for the UK’s brightest minds, so they can excel at what they do and, ultimately, bring new ideas, innovations, and hope to people all over the world.”
Cleanroom Solutions are currently undertaking several major projects, both domestically and internationally. In addition to putting the finishing touches on a 1,650sqm ISO8 Aerospace project, they are developing a 775sqm Grade C & D facility for the manufacture of sterile and non-sterile biocides in the North East. Other projects include a 450sqm ISO7 Aerospace cleanroom in Gloucester and a 240sqm ISO7 build for diffusion-bonded heat exchanger processing.
Cleanroom Solutions offer a wide range of services, with attention to detail and complexity at the heart of every turnkey project. The design process features in-depth consultation from day one, with dynamic collaboration between the client and experienced Guardtech Group cleanroom construction specialists critical to every successful project.
From 2D & 3D modelling and computational flow dynamics (CFD) to facility Lidar Scanning, Cleanroom Solutions adopt industry-leading practices and utilise state-of-the-art technology to develop facilities tailored to their clients' needs.
Cleanroom Solutions always aim to act as principal contractors wherever possible, taking responsibility for implementing rigorous Construction Design & Management Regulations (CDM). The Guardtech Group’s turnkey specialists utilise Building Information Modelling (BIM) and a meticulously tailored RIBA Framework to ensure that each stage gate of a project is watertight and that every aspect of the design seamlessly integrates with the cleanroom installation.
“A Cleanroom Solutions project is all about complexity and consultation,” adds Wheeler. “We don’t want to insist on what our clients must have – we want to build a partnership with them. We’re here to advise and offer counsel, and we want our clients to feel confident they can lean on a team with vast experience and knowhow. But part of our role as facilitators of greatness is being able to listen – because no one knows what makes your business great better than you.”
For more information on the services Cleanroom Solutions can offer, call 0330 113 0303, email sales@guardtech.com, or visit www.cleanroom-solutions.co.uk.
