Building services contractor opens its latest regional office

The Castle Building Services Organisation is expanding its operations by opening an office in Leeds increasing its number of regional offices to five.

The building services contractor said its growth results from a busy 18 months which has seen it secure £70m worth of contract wins. The firm’s turnover is now approaching £45m.

And the company said its decision to establish a permanent base in Leeds has led to the creation of a further three new jobs and will also open up opportunities for site operatives.

The latest recruits to join Regional Director Stephen Gittens and Project Managers Mick Harris and Wasim Zeineddine are Project Engineers Jonathan Wadsworth and Andy Haney alongside Flora Burridge, who has taken up the role of Project Team Assistant.

To cater for the growth in demand, Castle has signed a lease on new city centre offices near Wellington Place.

Working with key partners with which it has forged strong working relationships, in the past year Castle has won contracts ranging from £2m to £14m with an average contract value of £5.3m in the higher education, commercial property and hotel and leisure sectors, as well as residential accommodation.

Gittens said: “We have had a busy time of late concentrating our efforts on winning work and setting up our new offices in direct response to continued demand from existing clients that we consider to be our key partners, as well as new clients looking to work with us.

“Our model has allowed us to scale up operations, while ensuring there is spare capacity to respond to an increase in the flow of work.

“This is a very exciting time for everyone at Castle as we approach the £45m turnover mark and continue to build trusted local supply chain partners and create employment opportunities at all levels within the company including trainee roles.

“We see Yorkshire as very much as a growth region and I look forward to building lasting relationships with clients in this area too.”