Redundancies have been made at a civil engineering contractor after it collapsed into administration.<\/p>\n
Middleton-based Bemus Construction Services worked with housebuilders and had been badly hit by the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n
In late February, director Sean Walsh described the new housebuilding market as “very healthy” and highlighted Bemus’s “strong forward order book, with some contracts ongoing into 2021\/22”.<\/p>\n
The company’s most recent accounts, for the year to March 2019, showed revenues had increased 11% to \u00a338.6m.<\/p>\n
However pre-tax profits were down 27% to \u00a3424,000, and were a long way below the \u00a31.28m generated in 2016.<\/p>\n
The company was created in 2011 by Sean Walsh,\u00a0a former director at Jon Ennis Construction.<\/p>\n
It provided civil engineering and groundworks packages and had developed a utilities division which designed and installed infrastructure on new build sites.<\/p>\n
The general scope of its service included earthworks, remediation, demolition, foundations, reinforced concrete, highways, drainage, hard landscape works and multi-utility installations, such as design & install utility infrastructure on new build sites, both domestic and commercial.<\/p>\n
It had employed around 100 people, but employees had confirmed redundancies have been made at the business.<\/p>\n
It is understood the firm was badly impacted by the coronavirus-related construction shutdown.<\/p>\n
Bemus has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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