2024 in Review

As the year draws to a close, we’ve had a look back at our 2024 highlights.

In January 34 of us spent a weekend in Copenhagen getting to know each other outside the office. Our team are our greatest asset and we work hard to train and retain the best in the business. Keith Marsden, one of our site supervisors celebrated 40 years with us, we introduced paid employee volunteering and other benefits and trained more qualified Mental Health & Suicide First Aiders, bringing the total to 17.

Our apprenticeship programme continues to thrive thanks to our relationships with local vocational colleges. We welcomed 7 new apprentices including Caitlin, our first female engineer on the tools and Joel, the LCRs first Building Services T Level graduate, bringing our team of apprentices to 16. Our total number of employees grew to over 100 for the first time.

We supported dozens of careers events including our client Warrington & Vale Royal College at their ‘Girls in Construction Summit 2024’. We’ve become a Cornerstone Employer for the Liverpool City Region Careers Hub because no one is getting to Net Zero without engineers.

We’ve continued to support and donate to local charities and community schemes. 18 team members completed a 60 mile ride around the Wirral to celebrate our 60th year and raise money for The OddBalls Foundation and we sponsored Future Yard CIC’s annual celebration of emerging music, FUTURE NOW. We also helped ACC Liverpool welcome 140,000 bees to a newly built wildflower garden at M&S Bank Arena Liverpool.

We’re loving sponsoring Higher Bebington Under 12 Girls who tough it out in a boys league. They’ve played in National Tournaments and recently narrowly lost to Manchester City Football Club U12 Girls at their training ground.

We proudly sponsored the Entertainment Venue of the Year category at the Liverpool City Region Tourism Awards and celebrated seeing ACC Liverpool win the prize.

We had a cracking awards season – finalists in the Insider Media Property Awards for sustainability, finalists in 5 categories at the Liverpool Chamber Innovation Awards and a fantastic win at the Merseyside Independent Business Awards for Best Trade or Manufacturing Business.

We’ve had some great project wins. We started on site on BTR schemes in Cardiff, Bath and Manchester. We helped deliver the Labour Party Conference and Liverpool Hope University renewed our Maintenance Contract, extending our relationship to over 15 years. We proudly completed the Town Deal funded refurbishment of Make CIC Hamilton – as Future Yard say, The Future is Birkenhead.

We successfully completed an MBO several years in the making and will now be led by a team of directors as we continue to grow.

We want to thank all of you for your support, business and friendship over 2024. We wish you all health and happiness and look forward to an even more exciting 2025!