With regional offices throughout the UK; the company also operates regional offices in London, Bristol, Sheffield, Manchester and Jersey; CRL is now able to provide a localised professional and comprehensive service for the inspection, repair and strengthening of reinforced concrete buildings and structures.

Innovation has been the cornerstone of CRL’s business success. Unusually for a contractor, it invests in its own research and development programmes. Its in-house survey department, which is able to undertake detailed concrete condition surveys using the latest modelling techniques, is also able to provide long-term durability predictions and fully costed repair recommendations.

Managed by Chartered Engineers, with work undertaken by its own directly employed tradesmen, CRL’s comprehensive services include concrete repairs, protective coatings, composite strengthening, car park deck waterproofing, external wall insulation and guniting. The company manages multi-disciplined projects that include general civils and building refurbishment work.

CRL is also a major player in the field of corrosion control, designed to eradicate deterioration of steelwork, or steel reinforcement. The company has developed a variety of techniques incorporating cathodic protection systems using impressed current or sacrificial anodes, corrosion inhibitors, realkalisation and chloride extraction. Its independent advice on all these systems is based on many years’ experience.