Engineered for the challenge.
Built on experience.
Thurston is the engineering-led partner with the expertise and experience to solve your most complex workspace and specialist environment challenges. Across Portable Spaces, Permanent Buildings and Engineered Solutions, we combine design, engineering and manufacturing expertise with proven UK-wide delivery to turn your requirements into practical, buildable solutions that perform in the real world.
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Solutions
Permanent, portable and engineered solutions
Whether you need a highly specialist engineered solution, a permanent building or flexible space delivered at pace, our two UK manufacturing facilities bring together engineering, design and manufacturing expertise across three complementary areas of expertise.
Engineered Solutions
Bespoke buildings, structures and containerised spaces engineered around complex requirements, specialist equipment, protection, and technically demanding environments. Where standard approaches arent enough, we develop practical, manufacturable solutions around the challenges you face.
Permanent Buildings
Purpose-designed modular buildings manufactured in controlled conditions and delivered efficiently to site. From education and healthcare to infrastructure and commercial environments, we create permanent spaces around your operational requirements, programme and estate.
Portable Spaces
Relocatable site offices, welfare facilities, canteens, changing and drying rooms, and storage designed to support utility teams during construction, maintenance and upgrade programmes. Layouts and installation arrangements are planned around the needs of your workforce, available space and site access.
Engineered Solutions
Bespoke buildings, structures and containerised spaces engineered around complex requirements, specialist equipment, protection, and technically demanding environments. Where standard approaches arent enough, we develop practical, manufacturable solutions around the challenges you face.
Permanent Buildings
Purpose-designed modular buildings manufactured in controlled conditions and delivered efficiently to site. From education and healthcare to infrastructure and commercial environments, we create permanent spaces around your operational requirements, programme and estate.
Portable Spaces
Relocatable site offices, welfare facilities, canteens, changing and drying rooms, and storage designed to support utility teams during construction, maintenance and upgrade programmes. Layouts and installation arrangements are planned around the needs of your workforce, available space and site access.
The sectors we work in
Whatever sector you work in, our experience spans industries where buildings need to perform.
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Why Thurston?
The right solution starts with understanding the challenge. We combine engineering expertise, practical experience and manufacturing capability to turn complex requirements into solutions that can be designed, built and delivered with confidence.
Engineering-led problem solving
We engage early to understand the requirements behind your project, working with you to turn concepts, specifications and constraints into practical, manufacturable solutions. Our experienced technical teams bring engineering insight from initial design through to testing and delivery.
Experience you can rely on
Established in 1970, we bring more than five decades of practical experience across everyday, complex and highly regulated environments. Our experienced technical and manufacturing teams understand the realities of delivering buildings and engineered spaces in demanding conditions.
Delivery that works
Our in-house design and manufacturing capabilities bring key stages of the process together, providing greater oversight from design and manufacture through to programme and delivery. With two manufacturing facilities in the UK, a continuing commitment to investment in specialist capabilities and experienced teams across the business, we are equipped to manage the practical demands of complex projects.
Projects
See our expertise in action
Explore how Thurston combines engineering expertise, practical experience and proven delivery to solve real-world customer challenges.
Quality, Safety & Assurance
Our independently assessed management systems and recognised industry standards provide customers with confidence in the quality, safety, environmental responsibility and control behind how we manufacture and deliver.
News & Insights
The latest thinking, project updates and engineering expertise from across Thurston
Thurston Group Invests Millions in Dedicated Engineered Solutions Manufacturing Facility
November 2, 2026
Thurston Group, the Yorkshire engineering-led manufacturing partner, is making a multi-million-pound investment in its Ottringham manufacturing facility in East Yorkshire to create a dedicated base for its Engineered Solutions offer. The facility will be a home for the complex, regulated and technically demanding structures its customers rely on in some of the most challenging operating […]
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The Teams Behind Thurston: Talent, Learning & Development
September 1, 2026
As part of our Teams Behind Thurston series, we’re introducing the new Talent, Learning & Development team, a function established to help strengthen skills, support career development and build leadership capability across the business. The team has been created to provide a more joined-up approach to learning, onboarding, apprenticeships, leadership development and progression, helping ensure […]
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Thurston Group begins new partnership with BAM Site Solutions
August 7, 2026
Thurston Group is proud to begin a new partnership with BAM Site Solutions following a competitive accommodation tender process. Being selected represents an important milestone for Thurston and a strong endorsement of the experience, capability and service our team brings to its customer relationships. The new partnership will see Thurston support BAM Site Solutions with […]
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Whether you’re exploring options for permanent or semi-permanent, our team is ready to help solve your challenge.
