🔧 CCS completes safety-led garage equipment installation for Derby City Council

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CCS’ garage equipment installation team has recently handed over this completed commercial vehicle servicing workshop for Derby City Council, supporting the local authority’s vehicle maintenance operations.

🔧 CCS completes safety-led garage equipment installation for Derby City Council’s local authority vehicle maintenance workshop

Derby City Council delivers essential local authority services to the city’s 267,000-strong population, ranging from social work, housing and schools to environmental, planning, waste management, leisure and transport.Like other national local authorities, caring for this historic East Midlands city necessitates the operation, servicing and maintenance of a varied vehicle fleet capable of handling the versatile work of a City Council, while ensuring engineers and technicians can work comfortably and safely.

Garage equipment installation for Derby City Council’s local authority vehicle workshop

Derby City Council appointed CCS Garage Equipment to undertake a vehicle maintenance workshop relocation to new-build facilities, encompassing both the relocation and reinstallation of existing commercial vehicle workshop equipment and the supply and installation of new kit.This investment by the City Council in its new, larger vehicle servicing and maintenance workshop consolidates operations, creating capacity for future growth in the vehicle fleet, offering more versatile facilities to accommodate the varied vehicles operated by the local authority, and a more comfortable working space for technicians and mechanics.

CCS’ garage equipment relocation for Derby City Council’s new local authority vehicle workshop included:

x2 fixed, 2-post vehicle lifts for smaller vans and local authority vehicles
x2 fixed, 4-post heavy-duty vehicle lifts for larger trucks and vehicles
Air compressor
Fresh & waste oil tanks

CCS’ garage equipment installation team also installed new commercial vehicle workshop equipment including:

Bespoke-fabricated steel vehicle inspection, servicing and maintenance pit
Headlamp tester
Inspection pit safety barriers
New air ring and air reels for an efficient, accessible compressed air system throughout the workshop
LEV fume extraction system

📸 Completion of our garage equipment installation for Derby City Council

vehicle maintenance workshop derby city council

Air compressor, relocated from the local authority’s previous vehicle maintenance workshop and installed in the new facilities by CCS Garage Equipment.

Prefabricated steel inspection pit for the safe servicing of Derby City Council’s local authority vehicle fleet, ranging from RCVs to vans and trucks, street cleaners and more. Galvanised, anti-slip steel steps, handrail and safety markings protect the client’s team during workshop operations.

vehicle inspection pits are equipped with pit jacks for complete vehicle servicing

An essential part of our garage equipment installation for this local authority client, vehicle inspection pits are equipped with pit jacks for complete vehicle servicing capabilities, together with integrated LED lighting for clear, unobstructed working by the client’s workshop team.

CCS Garage Equipment incorporated inspection pit safety barriers around the vehicle working area, helping the client to remain compliant with health and safety regulations and protecting team members as they move around the workshop.

The vehicle inspection pit working area, equipped with safety barriers, roller shutter doors, commercial roller brake tester and a market-leading vehicle servicing and inspection pit, specified by CCS Garage Equipment and manufactured in the UK.

View from the pit! Working in an inspection pit allows excellent access to the vehicle when completing a huge range of tasks, while other team members can simultaneously work above the vehicle to complete jobs more efficiently.

New lubrication systems and hose reels by Samoa installed by CCS Garage Equipment, together with relocated fresh and waste oil tanks professionally moved from the local authority’s decommissioned workshop and reinstalled at the new facility.

New vehicle servicing inspection pit in situ, alongside the client’s existing fixed 2-post lift which was removed and reinstalled by CCS Garage Equipment as part of our garage equipment installation for Derby City Council, and serviced by a new LEV fume extraction system throughout.

A new air ring and air reels complete the infrastructure in the client’s new local authority vehicle servicing and maintenance workshop, delivering compressed air through durable reels on demand.

Derby City Council’s new local authority workshop is a spacious facility equipped with the technologies and infrastructure the client needs for efficient, safe and compliant vehicle servicing, maintenance and testing of its varied vehicle fleet, whilst allowing good capacity for future fleet expansion.

Prefabricated steel inspection pits for safe commercial vehicle servicing

Specified by CCS and prefabricated in the UK by our leading manufacturer supplier, steel inspection pits are a safe, long-lasting and versatile piece of workshop equipment which is an essential in busy commercial vehicle workshops.An excellent alternative to vehicle lifts, inspection pits are installed at an early stage of a garage equipment installation project, offering efficient vehicle maintenance, good access to the vehicle and no height restrictions for buildings of lower heights.

Why choose a steel inspection pit for your commercial vehicle workshop?

Bespoke-fabricated to suit your vehicle fleet
Galvanised steel steps, handrails and pits to keep your inspection area in safe working order
Low running costs once installed
Efficient vehicle servicing for commercial vehicle workshops with lower ceiling heights
Technicians can work both above and underneath the vehicle simultaneously

Fully-managed local authority workshop installation by CCS Garage Equipment for Derby Council

As always with our professional projects, CCS’ garage equipment installation at this local authority workshop started with specialist advice and consultancy to devise a workshop installation specification and schedule that met the client’s brief, timescales and budget.Working alongside the client’s operational team, together with its builders and other contractors, CCS then moved on site once construction of the building was complete to deliver both the garage equipment relocation and the equipment installation aspects of the project. Existing equipment was safely decommissioned, removed, reinstalled and tested to ensure it continued to operate to its fullest in the new workshop, while new equipment was installed and fully-tested prior to commission.Our garage equipment installation team completes local authority workshop installations for clients throughout the UK and Ireland, benefiting from exceptional knowledge and professional experience in commercial vehicle workshop equipment and installation. This garage equipment installation was managed throughout by our dedicated project manager, and full team training was delivered to the client’s team prior to handover to ensure the local authority will get the most out of its investment.

Garage equipment installation for local authorities in the UK by CCS Garage Equipment

With over 30 years’ experience in the delivery of complex garage equipment installations for local authorities in the UK, CCS’ garage equipment installation projects for local councils nationwide include:

Blackpool Council
Uttlesford District Council
Poole Council
Swansea Council
Via East Midlands, serving Nottinghamshire County Council

From consultancy and garage equipment design for expansive, brand new local authority workshops, to equipment decommission, relocation, installation, maintenance, servicing and repair of smaller, busy workshops up and down the country which are essential to the efficient running of local authorities and council services throughout the UK and Ireland.Fully-bespoke workshops and specialist garage equipment services by CCS Garage Equipment care for local authority fleet vehicles and your workshop personnel, keeping vehicles on the road and services running whilst protecting your people with safe, easy-to-use equipment that performs year after year.