News Archive

Thursday, 16th December 2010
Gelder Training successfully complete German Apprenticeship Exchange
Working in conjunction with Lincoln College, the Gelder Group was able to offer an exciting opportunity to Dirk Rowekamp a Joinery Apprentice from Munster in Germany. Dirk worked alongside Lewis Deaton, Shaun Cass and Roy Haywood at Cherry Willingham School developing his joinery skills. The exchange enabled Dirk to gain an insight into apprenticeships in the UK and for him to compare vo...
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Thursday, 11th November 2010
Kettering Office Happy to Help Out with Schools Initiative
Gelder Group at Kettering recently participated in a school initiative, aimed at two schools that teach children with special educational needs. Wrenn Spinney School held a ‘Have a Go’ day, to provide pupils with the opportunity to learn a particular trade. Charlie Jones - a decorator based at the Kettering office went along to assist the children; he set up a wall to ...
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Thursday, 11th November 2010
Gelder, Merlin & Legal and General Work Together on New Waste Strategy
Legal and General Insurance, Merlin Contractor Management and Gelder Group have agreed to work closely together to provide data on waste created on building insurance claims for Legal and General. Initially, Gelder Group will provide Merlin / L&G with data on waste created on all its 2010 insurance building claims handled by the Group, these figures will then be extrapolated to give a nat...
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Thursday, 4th November 2010
Work starts on New Wedding Reception Facility at Doddington Hall
A sod cutting ceremony has taken place to signal the commencement of our works to provide a Wedding Reception facility and multi functional hall with associated services and resurfacing of the existing car park at Doddington Hall. A Grade one listed building constructed in 1595 by Architect Robert Smythson and located 5 miles west of Lincoln. The 20 week £450,000 contract is a cha...
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Monday, 1st November 2010
Group Make Top 50 in Building Good Employer Guide 2010 for the second year
This year’s list of the construction industry’s 50 best employers was published by Building Magazine on Friday 22nd October. The Gelder Group for the second year running are one of 50 companies featured in the Good Employer Guide 2010. Selection for the Guide is based on a confidential staff survey and shines light on the very best employers in the construction sector. The re...
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Thursday, 28th October 2010
Shire Pile System of Foundation Stabilisation and Structural Masonry Repair training day proves very popular
A third shire pile and helical masonry reinforcement training day is to be held at Gelder Groups Training Academy in November, the date to be announced shortly. Initially one day had been planned during September but was so oversubscribed a second was held on 5th October. The day, which includes three separate sessions for installers engineers and surveyors teaches the science behind the syste...
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Thursday, 28th October 2010
Gelder Group secure four year "Blue Skies Consortium" place
The Gelder Group has been successful in securing its place on the midlands “Blue Skies Consortium” meaning that we can bid for the delivery of schemes tendered by the east midlands housing associations that make up the consortium. Gelder Groups Housing Manager Robert Porter (pictured) commented that “despite the reduced funding to housing associations generally they still rem...
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Wednesday, 27th October 2010
Greentech Rebrands Logo and Launches New Website
A division of the Gelder Group, Greentech was originally set up to service the waste management requirements of the Group’s construction activities in 2006. Since then Greentech has expanded its customer base to include, amongst others, the Lincolnshire Showground and Jackson’s Building Centres’ Lincoln HQ. Due to this expansion of the business, it was decided to rebrand Gree...
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Monday, 25th October 2010
James Hill engages delegates with ethical building speech at British Research Establishment, Watford
Gelder Group Environmental Officer, James Hill, gave an outstanding speech from stage at the British Research Establishment, Watford, after being requested to speak at a National Subsidence Forum event on the merits of sustainable construction. Gelder Group are members of the National Subsidence Forum, a group made up mainly of insurers and companies specialising in subsidence related prope...
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Friday, 22nd October 2010
BBC Look North interviews Gelder Group MD on Government spending review
Gelder Group MD Steve Gelder recently appeared on BBC Look North to discuss the governments October spending review and its effect on the construction industry with an expected 100,000 job losses across the industry. During the interview Steve was pushed to discuss the effect on Gelder Group and possible job losses at the company but refused to be drawn on the subject, concentrating instead on the...
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Thursday, 21st October 2010
Leif Davy brings home sustainable contract four weeks ahead of schedule
Site manager Leif Davy has completed a £1.9m Design & Build contract that has delivered seventeen properties on Bottesford Road, Ashby to Longhurst & Havelock Homes four weeks ahead of schedule. The scheme, a combination of homes & bungalows constructed to level three of the code for sustainable homes wasn’t due to be handed over until November 2010 but completion was r...
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Friday, 8th October 2010
Speed Drying is a Hit with the NHS....................
When you arrive for work to find that your office has suffered a burst pipe over the weekend and it’s flooded to 2 inches deep, you know you are in for a difficult week. This is exactly the scenario that greeted 45 NHS Trust staff at their Sleaford offices recently and which gave Gelder Group company Home & Dry the opportunity for it to show off its new trailer mounted speed drying kit. ...
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Wednesday, 6th October 2010
North Midlands Office welcomes its first female apprentice
Area Manager Mick Millership is delighted to take on the very first female apprentice at our Barlborough branch. Emily Murdoch had to fight off tough competition from over 40 applicants who applied for an apprenticeship at Barlborough. 17 year old Emily from Rainworth near Mansfield after leaving school attended the West Notts Construction College where she acquired the talent to become a ...
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Friday, 1st October 2010
A day in the life of a Gelder Group Employee
‘’Over the past four days, we have been whirled round the Gelder group business. From reception work, to surveying; web design, to stores; we have experienced a wide variety of Gelder group jobs, in a short period of time. We never knew that the company had so many sections, which makes it a thriving business. On the first day of work experience within Gelder group, I was ...
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Wednesday, 22nd September 2010
Elvis Makes Gelder Group Golf Day Extra Special
Gelder Group’s third annual Golf Day again enjoyed sunny weather despite forecasts of rain. 75 players competed for individual and team prizes at Lincoln’s Torksey Golf Club with an evening meal and presentation afterwards. In an unusual twist to the day, an Elvis Tribute was booked to coincide with the 25th Anniversary of his death and the Group named the day as being &lsquo...
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Thursday, 26th August 2010
Work Completed on Owl Tower
The latest addition to the Group’s 13 acre Environmental Project has recently been completed. Built by two of our apprentices from materials reclaimed from our recycling centre (Greentech Management Services) this three metre tall structure will hopefully make an excellent home for barn owls and other birds of prey. The project began when the Environmental Project was highly commended at...
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Wednesday, 25th August 2010
Ex Simons COO Roger Hall, Joins Gelder Group
Gelder Group are pleased to announce the appointment of ex Simons Construction Chief Operations Officer Roger Hall in a part time role as Business Development Manager. Roger enjoyed a successful career at Simons where he worked for over 40 years prior to his retirement, building up a building maintenance division from nothing to £50m annual sales whilst also overseeing the delivery of ov...
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Wednesday, 25th August 2010
Gelder Group Open New Office in Kings Lynn
For sometime, the Gelder Group have been operating in the Norfolk area and have now opened a base in Kings Lynn – the Group’s third regional depot. On the Kings Lynn operation, East Midlands Insurance Repair and Renovation Regional Manager Paul Massam commented “initially a presence was required in the Norfolk area by some of our existing insurance clients following the demis...
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Tuesday, 24th August 2010
Planning Permission Received for 12,500 sq ft Extension to Greentech
Gelder Group’s waste management company, Greentech, has received planning permission to extend its recycling facilities at its Dunholme base by some 12,500 square feet. Greentech has received national recognition for its construction waste recycling rate of 94% compared to the industry average of 72%, but its current facilities are limiting the company’s effectiveness as its ...
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Friday, 20th August 2010
Gelder Group...........still the only Builder to achieve IIP Gold and Champion Status
One year on from being awarded Investors in People (IIP) Gold and then Champion status, Gelder Group remain the only building company to achieve this standard – “not the best advert for our industry” comments Managing Director Steve Gelder. After having been only the 5thcompany ever to achieve Gold and then Champion IIP status, there have been another 80 UK companies th...
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Friday, 20th August 2010
Group Company Home and Dry in Talks with Big Brother
Gelder Group company Home and Dry which operates the country’s largest fleet of trailer mounted speed drying equipment has been in talks with Big Brother’s production company, Endemol, regarding the recent flood to the famous house. The flood was caused by exceptional weather conditions that caused water to start pouring in to the house in what was described as a freak incident.&nb...
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Monday, 2nd August 2010
Â£1m Contract for St Barnabas Hospice Secured
Gelder Group have been awarded a £1m, 32 week contract to part refurbish and upgrade St Barnabas’s Hospice located on Barrowby Road, Grantham. Works to the Franklin Ellis Architects designed structure will commence in August 2010 and be managed by Gavin Parker (Contracts Manager) and Alan Smith (Site Manager). Major Contracts Director, Kevin Manterfield (pictured) commented that ...
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Monday, 5th July 2010
Toys for the Noise
Following the completion of the two new wards at Lincoln County Hospital, Gelder Group has donated gifts to the nearby Children’s Ward to apologise for any disruption. Gelder Group were instrumental in creating the two 28-bed wards which opened in May 2010. The company also created a new playroom for Ruston Ward. Play Leader in the Ruston Children’s Ward, Donna Wilkinson ...
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Monday, 21st June 2010
Gelder Group Donates Paint and Brushes to Worthy Cause
Divisional Manager of Halifax General Insurance, now part of the Lloyds Banking Group, Martin Bellamy and his team have decided to “adopt a charity” and give up some of their time to a worthy cause. The chosen charity is “The Sick Children’s Trust” a most noteworthy organisation which is not state funded and relies totally on donations. On the 7th and 8th July...
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Thursday, 17th June 2010
HRH The Duke of Gloucester KG, GCVO Launches new Gelder Group website
On Thursday 17 June 2010, His Royal Highness, The Duke of Gloucester kindly launched the Gelder Group’s new website whilst visiting the companies Head Office to mark the opening of its new 15 acre Ecological Project. The Duke took time out to press a specially prepared button that launched the site and held conversation with both the Group’s IT Manager, Richard Stringer and Web Des...
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Tuesday, 8th June 2010
Celebrity Status for Gelder Group Managing Director
Group Managing Director, Steve Gelder, recently became a minor celebrity when he was BBC Radio Lincolnshire’s breakfast show guest. Steve was invited to join the team on the popular show, hosted by William Wright, following a radio interview he had recently given about the work the Group’s Training Academy is doing with some youths from the Gainsborough area. William posed...
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Tuesday, 8th June 2010
The Kettering Girls 'Race Ahead for Charity'
The Admin team at the Kettering Office raised nearly £400 between the 4 of them, at the Kettering Race for Life, Burghley House on Sunday 26th May 2010. ...
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Monday, 24th May 2010
Here comes the Girl - Dulux Apprentice of the Year 2010
Rebecca Pearson will be taking on the boys in the final of Dulux Decorator Centre’s Apprentice of the Year competition, after being named the highest scoring runner up in the nationwide heats. Rebecca, aged 20 and from Saxilby in Lincoln, is the only female through to the final of the competition and will be up against eight other finalists, all hoping to be named Dulux Decorator Cent...
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Tuesday, 11th May 2010
Gelder Groups 2009 Champion Team Enjoy a Day Out at the Races
Throughout 2009 Gelder Group departments competed for the title of “Champion Team” under the banner of “we’re not a team of champions, we are a champion team” at PGL’s Grantham Team Building facility. All teams completed various challenges set around team work, planning, organisation, taking ownership and communication. Additional points were also...
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Monday, 10th May 2010
Fire leads to busy weekend for East Midlands Regional Manager
A trip to school to pick up his lad led to a busy weekend for Regional Manager Paul Massam as the School was on fire and the fire brigade were on site. 45 minutes after arriving at Cherry Willingham School to collect his son, Paul found himself in the thick of things, placing emergency orders for materials and plant to cordon off and make the area safe. More Gelder Group staff arrive...
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Thursday, 29th April 2010
Century Re-Branding Complete
The rebranding of Gelder Group's Plumbing, Heating, Mechanical and Electrical Division is now complete with the arrival of 10 new livered vehicles. Born out of the Group's in-house Plumbing and Heating Division, Century has been operating from its new Aisthorpe base since January 2009 as a standalone legal entity. The new identity and separation of Century has enabled it to market ...
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Monday, 26th April 2010
Acute Dependency Wards - Lincoln Hospital
The new additional acute inpatient accommodation was successfully completed on 31st March 2010, comprising of piled foundations, heavily reinforced ground beams and steel supporting structure to provide foundations for the new 56 bedroomed bay wards. The works commenced on 28th September 2009, with the substructure and demolition of existing 4 bedroomed ward and play room. The s...
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Monday, 26th April 2010
Â£6m Project Remains on Schedule
Despite January’s sub-zero temperatures, Gelder Group’s largest ever project, the 2 year, £6m refurbishment and remodelling of the Lincoln Co-op’s Birchwood Shopping Centre remains on target for a 2010 completion. Phase 1 was completed to programme which allowed the phase 2 demolition of existing retail units to take place and allowing the foundations to the new ret...
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Wednesday, 21st April 2010
Group Prepare for Royal Visit
Five years after HRH Duke of Gloucester’s 2005 visit to Gelder Groups offices to open the then new office wing, stores and car park, he’s returning on Thursday 17th June 2010 to carry out similar duties, opening the Group’s 15 acre environmental project and further wing of offices. For security reasons, the visit couldn’t be announced to staff or the general public ...
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Wednesday, 21st April 2010
Gelder Group Re-Establish Links with Multi Assistance
A Multi Assistance buyout and restructure of their management team has led to Gelder Group re-establishing links with the once Spanish owned insurance service provider. Senior Representatives, Jorge Gonzalo and Tony Derbyshire met with Gelder Group’s Managing Director, Steve Gelder (pictured below) and outlined terms which will see Gelder Group involved in a number of Multi Assistant...
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Wednesday, 21st April 2010
Inspirational Gelder Apprentices
The Gelder Group is very proud of their apprentices with the inspired way in which they approach their work. This has been shown in the renovation of River Cottage where they have proved to be forward thinking and motivational for both themselves and for their peers. Under some supervision the work is progressing as planned and is due to be completed for the Royal Visit by HRH. Th...
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Thursday, 15th April 2010
Education Business Partnership Award
The Gelder Group have been awarded the Investors in Education award from the Education Business Partnership (EBP) for their work with local schools and colleges. The EBP held its annual awards evening to acknowledge inspirational work experience placement providers. The award was for outstanding efforts to make their work placements a worthwhile and inspirational experience for student...
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Tuesday, 13th April 2010
New NHS Framework Secured
Gelder Group’s Small Works and Maintenance Division have been successful in securing a 3 year framework agreement with Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and Lincolnshire Teaching Primary Care Trust. The works are being managed by Contracts Manager, Pat Richmond (pictured) and involve planned and proactive building maintenance repairs, along with a 24/7 call out service fo...
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Tuesday, 13th April 2010
TVâ€™s Top Gearâ€™s Original Stig Presents Gelder Group with Award
For the second year running, Gelder Group have been awarded the Lincolnshire and Rutland “Large Employer of the Year” title for its commitment to apprenticeships. The Awards Ceremony was hosted by Lincs FM presenter, John Marshall, with presentations being made by Henry Inman, Employer Services Director of the National Apprenticeship Service, East Midlands and Perry McCarthy, T...
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Thursday, 1st April 2010
Zenith Enterprise Systems
A demonstration of Zenith Enterprise Systems technology for use by builders operating in the repair and renovation industry and Beech Builders M Files system storage and retrieving of data at Gelder Group’s training academy proved popular with attendees travelling from either end of the country to take part in the day. Mick Millership, Gelder Groups North Midlands Area Manager organi...
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Thursday, 1st April 2010
NVQ Training in the Lincoln Insurance Repair and Renovation Department
The Lincoln Head Office Insurance Repair and Renovation Department have now successfully completed NVQ training to over 70% of the department, the latest to complete their NVQ is Pat Richmond. The remainder of staff are well on their way to completing their NVQ’s this year. Divisional Manager, Paul Massam commented “this is part of the ongoing investment in the Lincoln In...
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Wednesday, 31st March 2010
Official Opening of Welbourn Village Hall
On Friday 12th March 2010 the extended and refurbished Welbourn Village Hall was handed over to the delight of the Village Hall Committee. The project included extensions to the existing main hall to give an additional function area, an extension and refurbishment to the kitchen, upgrading to the existing toilets and changing area and forming a new car parking area. Both Alan S...
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Thursday, 25th March 2010
Work Progressing Well at Friskney All Saints Primary School
Despite the freezing weather conditions this year, work is progressing well at Friskney School. Foundations have now been completed and the ground floor has been installed. The timber frame is being installed and scheduled for completion on 22nd March 2010. Contracts Manager, Matt Hodgkins, stated he was pleased with the progress to date, despite having difficult ground conditions and the i...
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Monday, 8th March 2010
Ex Gelder Group Employee Playing Vital Role in Afghanistan
Ex Gelder Group Employee, Joe Ashbolt, has been deployed on a 9 month Tour of Duty in Afghanistan. Joe who worked for Gelder Group's Small Works and Maintenance Division for 18 months left to join the parachute regiment in January 2007, but remains good friends with many of the Division's personnel. After completing the infamous 'P' company week in November 2007, Joe 'pa...
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Thursday, 25th February 2010
Optimax National Network Manager Spends Day Training with North Midlands Team
On Tuesday 23rd February 2010, Optimax Property Services National Network Manager, Alan Friend, joined Gelder Group's North Midlands Regional Manager, Mick Millership and his team training on schedule updates with additional focus on customer care. Alan, pictured right, who is well known in the insurance building repair industry commented, 'it was a great day, I love getting out and...
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Thursday, 18th February 2010
Friskney All Saints C of E (Aided) Primary School, New Sports Hall - Extension and Alterations
Works have started on 38 week contract, over 2 phases, at the Friskney All Saints Primary School. The contract comprises of the construction of a new timber framed sports hall and a traditional extension to provide new storage areas, male and female toilets, library, servery and a new boiler room. There will also be modifications to the existing building to form an entrance and corridor into th...
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Tuesday, 16th February 2010
Birchwood Shopping Centre Re-development Progressing Well
The Lincolnshire Co-operative redevelopment of the Birchwood Shopping Centre is progressing well as we are now entering the beginning of the 2nd year of this project. Phase 2 commenced in September 2009 with the disconnection and diversions of existing utilities and the demolition of the existing single story retail units. The erection of the steel frame adjacent to Martin McColl&...
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