News Archive

Friday, 30th October 2009
Group Make Top 50 in Good Employer Guide 2009
This year?s list of the construction industry?s 50 best employers was published with this week?s issue of Building. The Gelder Group were one of 50 companies featured in the Good Employer Guide 2009. They were amongst the top five in the profession section under ?contractors? in the category section in the ?Inspiration? and ?leadership? sections and also by size in the ?large firms? section...
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Friday, 30th October 2009
Major Contracts Welcomes New Additions to Division
With a forward order book now of ?19m the Major Contracts Department have recruited the following new staff:- Matt Hodgkins ? Contracts Manager Matt has 13 years of contracts management experience with the Rand Group and Taylor Woodrow and will be a valuable addition to our contract department. John Lynes ? Quantity Surveyor John joins the Major Contracts Division from Simons Construction where he...
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Friday, 23rd October 2009
Centre of Renewable Energy Open Day
On 17th September the Centre of Renewable Energy (CORE) at East Drayton was officially opened by Patrick Mercer OBE MP. The Gelder Group completed the 32 weeks, ?850,000.00 Design & Build project in April 2009. ?CORE? is a Centre of Renewable Energy Technologies with the latest Green Innovation. Guests were invited to a tour of the innovative new building and the opportunity to listen ...
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Friday, 23rd October 2009
New Works at Cambridge Court Grimsby
Work started in May on a ?1.8 million Design and Build housing project in Grimsby. The project consists of 18 new flats for H & L Homes (Havelock & Longhurst Group) Works will take 40 weeks to complete and comprise of timber frame with brick, cedar boarding and Trespa boarding externals. The site is in close proximity to an existing 25 bed residential accommodation building and therefore...
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Friday, 23rd October 2009
New Works at Lincoln Hospital
Works have started on a new 56 bed modular building at Lincoln County Hospital. The New Additional Acute In-Patient Accommodation will take 20 weeks and comprises of pile foundations, reinforced ground beams, steel supported structure. Internal alterations include specialist service modifications, such as medical gases, nurses call, power lighting and domestic water services. Pictured: 3D repres...
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Friday, 16th October 2009
Major Contracts Division Introduces Business Improvement Team
As part of the restructuring of the Major Contracts Division a Business Improvement Team has now been established with the aim of sustaining business through retention of clients and developing new strategies with regards to design and build contracts and frameworks. The team member?s skills along with the company?s aims have always been in existence within the Gelder Group; however everyone was ...
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Tuesday, 13th October 2009
First External Gelder Group Training Academy Training Day
On Wednesday 7 October 2009, the Gelder Training Academy opened its doors to the public for the first time as a fully operational Training Centre.The first course to be delivered was a PASMA scaffolding course and was fully subscribed by a number of local companies including AS Vent, Lincolnshire Architectural Glazing, James Purle Joinery and Elkington Carlton. The course proved to be a very...
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Tuesday, 13th October 2009
Gelder New Homes Secures Top Prize at Award Ceremony
Gelder Group?s New Homes division has scooped West Lindsey District Council's Local Authority Building Control Award for the ?Best Individual Dwelling? at the authorities ?Building Excellence Awards 2009?. The group was also highly commended in the ?Best Community Project? category for its work on Acacia Hall, Friesthorpe. Gelder Group?s New Homes Sales Manager, Barbara Heaton commented that...
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Monday, 5th October 2009
BDMA Awards First Training Centre Licence
The BDMA has awarded the first licence to deliver official BDMA training to the Gelder Training Academy, part of the Gelder Group, in Lincoln. This fulfills a commitment by the BDMA to provide access to officially sanctioned damage management training, in response to ongoing demand for pre-examination courses. For many years the BDMA stood back from providing training, focusing on establishing its...
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