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    Brogan expands in Midlands: integrated access and hoist strategy for project teams

    April 8, 2026|

    Reviewed by Tom Sullivan

    Brogan expands in Midlands: integrated access and hoist strategy for project teams

    First reported on The Construction Index

    30 Second Briefing

    Brogan Group is expanding its scaffolding operations across the Midlands and North of England, appointing industry specialist Jon Cooke to lead growth in combined access solutions for regional projects. The move follows investment in powered access, particularly construction hoists, and builds on the October 2025 acquisition of Sunbelt’s hoist division. A Wigan depot will act as a central hub for large-scale scaffolding, powered access, common tower, Atlas loading gantry and crane deck projects, consolidating temporary works logistics for major sites.

    Technical Brief

    • Common tower systems offered, enabling centralised hoist cores and reduced façade scaffold loading on tall structures.
    • Atlas loading gantries and crane decks provide dedicated temporary materials handling platforms at slab edges and cores.
    • Powered access fleet expansion in the Midlands/North supports higher-rise, high-cycle programmes needing rapid vertical movement.
    • Combined access solutions allow integration of scaffold, hoists, towers and crane decks under a single temporary works provider.

    Our Take

    Brogan Group’s move into Sunbelt’s hoist division in the North of England dovetails with its global sales alliance with Alimak Group, signalling a strategy to pair proprietary access systems (CAS Common Tower, Atlas Gantries) with a larger owned-and-operated hoist fleet in the UK regions.

    Within our infrastructure coverage, Brogan Group appears more frequently in high-rise and complex access packages than most regional plant hirers, so a Wigan-based depot presence likely positions it to capture tower and hoist work on taller schemes in the Midlands and North that previously defaulted to national hire chains such as Sunbelt Rentals UK.

    For contractors in the Midlands and North of England, the transfer of a specialist hoist division from a broad-based hirer like Sunbelt to a dedicated access provider suggests more tailored engineering support on vertical logistics, but also potential for tighter integration of hoists with common tower and gantry solutions on constrained urban sites.

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    Prepared by collating external sources, AI-assisted tools, and Geomechanics.io’s proprietary mining database, then reviewed for technical accuracy & edited by our geotechnical team.

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