Multi-million pound contracts secured by joinery business

Contracts worth more than £6m have ensured a busy end to the first half of 2019 for East Yorkshire-based Kingston Joinery.

Established in 2007 by Hull joiner Craig O’Leary, the business is now working on between 20 to 25 large contracts at any one time, using as many as 150 joiners to complete projects across the UK.

Turnover exceeded a record of £8m at the end of 2018, and the firm said it was on course to top its target of a £10m turnover by the end of this calendar year.

Among its most recent work has been the completion of a £1.8m project with Interserve Construction at the £200m Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre, a national facility near Loughborough.

The centre provides rehabilitation care for servicemen and women injured during strenuous training or in conflict. A team from Kingston Joinery completed a full joinery installation including roofing, doors and all fixtures and fittings across the entire site.

Other recent significant work has included a £313,000 contract to supply and install timber windows on a housing development for Barnfield Construction in Backbarrow, Cumbria.

Teams have also fitted kitchens, doors and ironmongery as part of a redevelopment of Wetherby Young Offenders Institute in a contract with Galliford Try, while lead lined doors were installed at St Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, working for Lendlease.

Ongoing schemes include a contract worth nearly £1m with The Flanagan Group, to provide a full joinery package on a National Education and Conference Centre in Birmingham for Unite the Union.

A team from the Yorkshire firm started on site in May. It will see them carry out the complete internal joinery fit-out on a site which will see a 170-bed hotel, conference facilities and office headquarters provided for the union.

Elsewhere, teams are completing the final stages of the biggest single contract in the company’s 12-year history. This is with Interserve, is worth more than £2.5m, and involves a multi-million pound residential development in Leeds.

Kingston Joinery workers are also employed at two projects for Torsion Group, which comprise major new accommodation developments in Sheffield and Birmingham in deals worth a combined £1.3m.

O’Leary, the firm’s Managing Director, said more large scale projects are on the horizon.

He added: “It has been another excellent six months for the business and such has been our growth we have recently added two new site managers, a new contracts manager and another business development manager to the team to ensure we maintain our momentum and customer service levels.

“We’re extremely proud of the types of contracts we are winning. They are prestigious multi-million pound developments across the country with leading developers.

“The key for us has been investing in the continued development of our senior team to ensure we have the right expertise tendering and pricing for work through to the design, supply, management and installation of joinery services on all sizes of developments, meeting specifications and budgets.

“Certainly we are currently in the mix on tenders for some very large contracts that we would not have got near to winning a couple of years ago, such is their size, so it is very rewarding to see how our reputation has grown and the progress we have clearly made.”

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