£30m worth of contracts in three months for engineers
ENGINEERING firm Spencer Group has secured £33m worth of work in the last three months, topped off by a multi-million contract for the London Underground
The Hull based firm has secured jobs at the King George Dock in Hull on behalf of ABP, upgrading First Great Western’s train depot in Reading, a £1.9m refurbishment for Babcock Rail and a multi-storey car park at Rochester Station.
The biggest was a £20m job to make access easier at Finsbury Park Underground Station in London.
Gary Thornton, managing director at Spencer, said: “We have had a strong start to the year. Having delivered our first works on behalf of London Underground over the Christmas period, we are delighted to have been awarded the contract to deliver the second phase of a package of improvements at Finsbury Park Underground Station.
“Our performance across the first six months of 2015 has also been boosted by a number of other notable contract wins as well as our ongoing successful delivery across all of our jobs on the ground at Hackney, Wemyss Bay and Apperley Bridge to name a few.
“Spencer has undergone a comprehensive reorganisation of its senior management team in the same period in order to continue to deliver exceptional results across all of its projects.”
Spencer, a 26 year-old firm, has also picked up a string of industry awards in recent months, including the Smeaton Award for projects worth between £500,000 and £5m at the Institution of Civil Engineers’ annual Yorkshire and Humber Awards for its works at the Humber Bridge in Hull.
Though much of Spencer’s work is in the transport industry, they have also had a hand in developing renewable energy, such as the advanced gasification plant Energy Works, developed in partnership with M+W Group. The project has been awarded a Contract with a Difference to support it through to 2033.
