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As specialist M&E Contractors, Kimpton don’t often get asked to provide gardening services but, as part of a reconfiguration of the Capital Building’s atrium restaurant, our client MAPP asked us to remove some ornamental lime trees that had out-grown the space.

Our Mechanical Supervisor Stephen Loughran has already worked with Natasha Baker at The Capital Building to find good more >

The Kimpton team have been busy again, working with the Estates Department at Liverpool Hope University.

Seeing the plight of the people of Ukraine, the Hope Estates team asked a number of suppliers to help with their own efforts. At Kimpton, we have managed the PPM for the HVAC systems across the University since 2009 and were keen to…

Mental health in the workplace is a big issue. However much we are changing the makeup of our team, we have a majority male workforce and suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45 – Construction industry statistics being three times the national average with one a day in the UK in this industry.

For this reason, we engaged…

In our role as Enterprise Advisers for Liverpool City Region Grace Roberts and Matt Breakwell have been working with Prenton High School for Girls to dispel some of the myths about working in construction, and in Grace’s case, talk candidly about her life in engineering, as a young female apprentice.

In our company CSR strategy, launched in…

The whole Kimpton team contributed food and toiletries to donate to the Charles Thompson Mission. We wrote about them previously here, but their aim is to help men and women who are homeless, poor and needy, out of poverty. They provide hot food, clothing, toiletries, other basic essentials, along with love, care and compassion. Perhaps most importantly, they…

The team working on the £5m refurbishment of the Capital Building, recently went over and above to find community schemes and charities that could make use of the carpet tiles that we’ve been reclaiming as part of the project. It’s the largest office space in Liverpool and due to reconfiguring the floor plates of the offices, they could not…

Scott Bennett and Steve Loughran of Kimpton have been busy again, collecting Christmas trees for Nightingale House Hospice.

This year, they collected approximately 75 trees across Buckley, Ewloe, Hawarden, with additional collections in the Garden City area. They also completed four trips to the recycling centre to drop off the trees, before heading out again for more.

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We all know someone affected by cancer. We’ve probably all lost someone to the many variants of the hideous disease. According to figures from Cancer Research UK, 1 in 2 of us will get cancer in our lifetimes. Thankfully, due to the incredible work of the UK based charity, the number of people who survive it,…

There’s a full day at work and then there’s Keith Marsden’s day at work. Today he’s been working with our good friends at Incredible Edible to extend the irrigation system we installed previously. It wasn’t just a case of multi-tasking, but rather completely changing role, four times during the day.

It started when Keith was innocently drilling…

In this post last year, we shared our Environmental report for the previous 12 months, for the waste we generated at our Bromborough Head office. You can read that here. In 2019, we produced 6.29 tonnes of mixed waste. Of this, 1.88 tonnes was immediately recycled and 4.41 tonnes converted to RDF.

As you’d expect, the last 12 months…

On what has to be one of the coldest days in recent years, Steve Loughran, Kimpton Site Supervisor, volunteered to deliver food parcels for the Shaftesbury Youth Club – Known as Shaftes to locals.

Shaftes have handed out over 1,000 food hampers in the last five days including 17 schools around the Wirral area who nominate families…

Another week, another award for the Kimpton team. This one is the Social Value Award. It’s awarded to businesses in the North West who go over and above to deliver social value in the areas they live and work. As you can imagine, this is another that is close to our hearts. It’s an official recognition of the work…

As part of Industry Week, organised by Wirral Met College and in conjunction with Morgan Sindall Construction, this week we delivered two sessions with current students, talking about life and progress within the Building Services industry.

Greg Percival, Kimpton Electrical Contracts Supervisor, talked about his career path. Working through an apprenticeship to explaining…

Scott Bennett and Steve Loughran of the Kimpton Contracts team again gave up their weekend to help with the Nightingale House Christmas Tree Collection. It’s an initiative started by the Wrexham based hospice to remove old Christmas trees and save people that painful, pine needle ridden trip to the recycling centre, that we all know and dislike so…

The Kimpton team have been generous with their time and donations in the run-up to Christmas, with a number of initiatives to have some fun and help those less fortunate than ourselves. In what has to be the strangest year of most of our lives, 2020 has seen all sorts of activities.

The Great Kimpton Bake Off

This year saw the…

Not to be put off by a lockdown, the Kimpton team pulled together like never before to help those who needed it most when the UK and the NHS in particular, was under serious pressure. Here are just a few of the initiatives the team took to help those who needed it most.

1. Visors for the NHS

Our own Managing…

The Incredible Edible movement started back in 2008 with the aim of creating kinder, more confident, more connected communities, all united around the power of growing food together. There are now over 100 members within the network in the UK and over 1,000 worldwide. It has made such an impact, that one of the two…

What happens to your office waste when it leaves the office is not something many people would worry too much about, but for us, it’s part of our social responsibility to ensure we minimise our environmental impact.

Working with our waste partners B&M, we ensure that NONE of our office waste goes into landfill. This is a big step…

Christmas is over, the decorations are down and we’re all back to work with a bump. But for two of the Kimpton team, just taking their tree to the tip wasn’t enough. They joined a team, made up of 15 other businesses, to collect those used and unwanted Christmas trees, to raise money for the wonderful more >