Joinery firm heads towards record year of business
A SPECIALIST joinery firm is heading towards a record year of business after securing contracts in excess of £2m on projects across the country.
East Yorkshire-based Kingston Joinery, established by managing director Craig O’Leary in 2007, is on course to turnover more than £3.7m this year, and already has potential orders of a further £1.5m lined up for 2015.
The company, which employs 40 joiners, managerial and technical staff has recently completed a new circular wooden structure at York Racecourse, boasting prime views across the finishing line.
Working for York-based contractors Lindum Group, the ground floor of the new ‘Winning Connections’ building will be used to entertain horse owners and jockeys, and to hold presentations for winners.
Having secured further work at the course to complete a new roof, internal fit-out and all windows and external cladding on the adjacent weigh-in building, the contract has eventually been worth more than £500,000 to the Melton-based firm, with all works expected to be completed by the end of August.
Kingston is also working on the £12.5m University of East Anglia’s (UEA) Enterprise Centre, which is set to become the UK’s largest sustainable commercial building. Due to start work on site in September, Kingston has been awarded the contract to provide the full glazing package on the 4,600 metre-square timber frame building.
Kingston will then head north in December when work starts on a £600,000 glazing contract to transform the former La Sagesse convent in Jesmond, near Newcastle.
The business is also supplying all windows, doors and curtain walling, and alongside another contract to complete all joinery work on 48 new homes in Bridlington, developed by Hull firm Hobson & Porter under the East Riding Council’s affordable homes scheme.
O’Leary said: “We are going from strength to strength at present, and the great thing is we are winning work from many different sources.”
Kingston Joinery works for some of UK’s biggest contractors, including Willmott Dixon, Interserve, Kier, Mansell and Sir Robert McAlpine.
