We had the pleasure of participating in the recent Marks and Spencer Charity Football Tournament hosted at Powerleague in Leeds. This event brought together organisations within M&S’s construction and fit-out contractor supply chain to raise donations and support for Youngminds.

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The event has raised £6,500 so far, a fantastic achievement for everyone involved and our thanks to Marc Simpson for organising! Our team also had a positive outcome, coming away with a trophy on the day!

Works at the cathedral are progressing well with the start of the reinstallation of the conserved stained glass by Barley studio to the East chancel.

The decorative scheme has started to the Chancel ceiling with Bernard Watson undertaking this element.

Steel supports have been craned into position to carry the ornate 500kg light fittings over the font and blessed sacrament chapel.

The scaffolding to the main tower is ready to start stripping now that the high-level conservation works are complete.

We have started to replaster the walls with traditional lime plaster to the East of the cathedral.

Simpson successfully completed our 8^th LFC project for Sainsbury’s at Hillthorn Park, Washington, Sunderland and with another 2 LFC projects starting in the coming months it highlights our standing as the preferred choice contractor for this work stream with Sainsbury’s.

The “LFC’s” are Local Fulfilment Centres for Sainsburys, Argos operations. As many will know, Argos stores have predominantly now moved into Sainsburys supermarkets. As a result of this, the stock holding availability of these stores is reduced and a greater reliance on nearby distribution networks are needed.

We install vehicle to ground dock lifts for HGV unloading into the LFC, the stock is then located on the warehouse racking before being picked and distributed via the fleet of Argos vans. Each LFC is designed to hold in excess of 100,000 lines of various products from electronics to toys and garden to home wares.

Security is a client focus area and as part of the works, we create a secure yard with new automated vehicle gates and ANPR systems. Access control is installed along with CCTV and alarms systems and monitoring station with metal detector shrouds.

Offices, meeting rooms and staff facilities are created and follow a standard fit out solution that is the same on most LFC projects. The Simpson joiners shop provided the unitary which was installed by Simpson joiners and available (in between jobs) site managers with joinery skills.

As part of Sainsburys push to be more carbon efficient the engineering model utilises new Air Source heat pumps which we supply and install on concrete plinths as well as the required below ground drainage for the defrost cycle.

A new addition to the Washington LFC design was the inclusion of a full vehicle washdown station, which houses all the facilities you would need to clean and maintain the standard fleet of vans. Including new drainage, concrete plinth for the equipment along with ductwork for services to the location in the yard.

Our site managers Gary Fagan and Steve Barwick turned out a well finished project and the client team at Sainsburys Argos have been very happy and offered excellent feedback to our team.

A great night was had last night at the RICS Yorkshire & Humberside Awards, especially when Ledston Hall was awarded the ‘Heritage Project’ award. Here's looking to the national awards on the 4th October.

Works have now been completed on the new referral centre for LVS in Hammersmith, and is now open ready to provide the highest standard of care to all pets. 

Conversion of a former training centre and office premises into the new referral centre took approx. 52 week period to complete and consisted of:

• Demolition and strip-out works
• Enabling and roof plant deck works
• Installation of the new vet hospital and offices, including: drainage, M&E, specialist works associated with MRI, x-ray and CT, full hygiene specification fit out with feature reception desks manufactured by our joinery workshop. 

The new referral centre now offers, Advanced Diagnostics suites, including high-field MRI and CT, for precise diagnoses, extensive surgical and recovery facilities, consultation and in patient care.

Located in Tanzania, East Africa, 19,341 feet hight, Mount Kilimanjaro is not only Africa's tallest peak, but the tallest free-standing mountain in the world. Kilimanjaro is also one of the ‘seven summits’.  

Approximately 30,000 people climb Kilimanjaro every year however, reportedly and mostly due to altitude sickness 50% of all climbers fail. 

This wasn't the case for our James Allerton and Sam Simpkin who in the early hours of yesterday morning (Monday 10th June 2024) reached the summit in just 5days. 

This is such a great achievement and send the boys the biggest of congratulations in completing such in impressive feat.