AV Dawson Ltd is a long-established business based in Teesside offering a multimodal distribution logistics service encompassing rail, road and sea. The buildings stand at a colossal height of 48m and are the tallest on the Teesport skyline. With over 75 years of experience in the freight transport market, they have always had a keen eye on fuel costs, but having a significant warehousing and property portfolio, increasing energy charges were becoming a major cost to the business and they decided to regain some control of their electricity bills by installing solar PV.

This scheme had challenges, not least because the roof was at a height of almost 50m, but because fabrication was ongoing in the space below. We worked alongside the client’s sheeting contractor to ensure a safe and efficient installation sharing access, cranes and fall prevention systems. We installed a 240kW solar PV system over 3 roofs, which will generate approximately 192,000kWh whilst reducing carbon output by 48 tonnes per annum.