An imaginative new visitor centre in Scotland has recently received expertise from M.R. Site Services in the welding of its highly creative aluminium roof.

Located at Arbroath Harbour, the new multi-purpose visitor centre owned by Angus Council sits on the footprint of an old boatyard next to the lifeboat station.

The architect for the scheme has created a maritime ambience with the building by introducing sharp angles in the roofline reflecting the sails of the old herring fishing boats.

The roof of the visitor centre is clad with 16 sections of KeyBEMO aluminium roofing profile and M.R. Site Services’ Scotland division was brought in to aluminium site weld no less than 650 linear metres of roofing joints.

The new building has a very complex roof as Ritchie Walker, contracts manager for Glenrothes and Glasgow based roofing contractors Procladd (Scotland) Ltd explains, “The versatile KeyBEMO standing seam roof material was a very good choice for this multi-pitched roof, the pitches we were working with here were on 35° and 45° roof slopes.  With the roof working at all sorts of different angles, M.R. Site Services provided its normal high standard of workmanship with excellent detailing.“ He continued, “We enjoy a very close working relationship with M.R. Site Services who are very competent and very helpful and almost all our site work is now done by them.”