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Electrical Services
News Release from: Inviron
Edited by the Buildingtalk Editorial
Team on 29 April 2004
£14m+ Of New Orders Secured by
Inviron
Following on from the successful management buy-out of ABB Building Systems by Inviron, its Building Systems arm has won key new contracts throughout the country.
With headquarters in Birmingham, Inviron has four strategically located Building Systems offices in the UK: London Docklands, Manchester, Ipswich and Washington, and each has gained sizable new contracts since the MBO was completed Repeat work from preferred partners and other satisfied clients account for a large proportion of business, and Inviron's Docklands Office recently accepted a ?500k M and E contract from existing client Geoffrey Osborne Ltd of Chichester, for work on a waste management centre at Barking, East London
This article was originally published on Buildingtalk on 17 Jan 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Similarly, the unrivalled reputation of Inviron's Manchester office also won the company repeat business, as well as other contracts, from main contractor John Turner and Sons for mechanical and electrical services for the new Police IT Centre at Clayton Brook, Openshaw, Manchester - part of Greater Manchester Police Authority (GMPA).
The £0.5m contract is the 'icing on the cake' for Inviron, coming on the back of a long-term £13.5m contract for the GMPA with Laing O'Rourke Ltd, which required the provision of mechanical, electrical and public health services for 16 new police stations.
Since divestment, Inviron's Ipswich office has witnessed a rapidly filling order book from clients new and old with several projects in progress, some about to start, and others to be rolled out through the spring and summer.
Two current projects are repeat business from Barnes Construction Ltd, for end client Ipswich NHS Trust.
The first is for a 34-bed independent care unit at Ravenswood and the second for work on an MRI scanner project for Ipswich Hospital.
The Ravenswood project was won on a two stage tender approach with Inviron being able to give cost certainty for the services element at early stage due to the completion of a similar type project in 2003.
Other projects currently in progress, again primarily repeat business and worth over £3m in total include work on a new production facility and steam generation plant for end client Tulip Foods in Kings Lynn; M and E installations at Marsh Warehouses, Norwich; M and E work at PKF Accounts new offices in Ipswich; M and E enabling work on the Marks and Spencer retail outlet at the Chapelfields shopping centre, Norwich, and an M and E installation for new student accommodation and administration area at Selwyn College, Cambridge.
No let-up either for Inviron's North-East depot at Washington, which is working on the rollout of refurbished Job Centre premises for end client the Department of Works and Pensions (DWP).
The project, which has already been running for 18 months and includes 600 offices nationally, involves the closure of the old style benefit offices and introduction of new 'Job Centre Plus' premises and 'Branding' throughout the Country.
Further projects for the DWP are also underway with a £40m project for additional new office space on the Longbenton site, Newcastle.
Inviron's John Ryan O'Brien, Director, Building Systems comments: 'Many of our new contracts are repeat business and demonstrate the total faith our business partners have in our expertise, and in our abilities to deliver on time and to budget.
Although we have the new 'Inviron' name and logo, we are the same professional and highly skilled team that we always were, and it is very much 'business-as-usual' for all our operations.'.
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