Contractor secures three Midlands contracts worth £6.5m
Novus Property Solutions, a Stoke-on-Trent contractor specialising in interiors, maintenance, and decarbonisation, has recently secured three contracts across the Midlands, totalling up to £6.5m.
The largest of these contracts involves an expansion of Novus’ partnership with The Guinness Partnership, where Novus will carry out house retrofit works on 50 properties in Crewe throughout 2024 and 2025 as part of the Social Housing Decarbonisation Fund (SHDF) Wave 2.1 scheme.
The retrofit works will provide a decarbonisation solution to local authorities and social housing landlords.
Additionally, Novus has secured two further contracts with Solihull Community Housing.
The first contract is the Improvement works programme for envelopes and spans three years, with an optional extension of three years.
It involves upgrading internal and external communal areas of low-rise buildings. The works include renewing communal entrance doors and windows, installing a video door entry access control system, replacing floor coverings in communal areas, upgrading lighting, replacing roof coverings, refurbishing external sheds, decorating internal communal areas, and relaying or replacing communal paving.
Cyclical improvement works programme is the second contract, which also spans three years, with an optional extension of two years.
It includes maintenance upgrades to houses, bungalows, maisonettes, and low-rise flats in the north and south of the Solihull borough.
The programme covers fence repairs or new fencing, replacement of gates, replacement of front door canopies, rear outhouse lean-to works, PVCu overcladding, new fascias and privacy screens for porches, replacement of outhouse shed doors and timber/metal windows, felt roofs to sheds/stores/porch pods and bays, and cleaning of gutters and window frames in properties and communal areas.
Novus’ head of operations, Gary Clay, said: “We’re delighted to have been awarded three contracts in the Midlands with clients we have existing and historic partnerships with. Our successful bids for these contracts is evidence of our reputation not only in the region but across the housing sector for a variety of works, and demonstrates our ability in delivering the fundamentals and building confidence.”
