Business Weekly - Cambridge, UK

The Milton Keynes office of the Lancashire firm, which is owned by Balfour Beatty, won 16 contracts worth a total £850,000 between September and November in 2007, compared to £500,000 for the same period in 2006, breaking all records for Pennine since the Milton Keynes base was set up in 1999.

 The Milton Keynes office of the Lancashire firm, which is owned by Balfour Beatty, won 16 contracts worth a total £850,000 between September and November in 2007, compared to £500,000 for the same period in 2006, breaking all records for Pennine since the Milton Keynes base was set up in 1999.

The team of two estimators, a contracts engineer and a receptionist was strengthened in October with the appointment of a third estimator. But the spiralling workload and bumper forward order book means the company is now also recruiting for a business development engineer and an area manager for the regional office.

Geotechnical engineer, David Roy said: “It’s been a very busy and profitable quarter in which the Milton Keynes team has inserted over 35,000 linear metres of stone and concrete columns using our specialist plant – much of which we design and adapted to meet the needs of specific projects.

“The team is to be congratulated on its excellent performance, which continues to underline our ability to make cost and efficiency savings for clients through the use of bespoke solutions.”

Recent contract wins through the Milton Keynes office include: £180,000 contract to insert 6,000 top feed vibro stone columns for Marbank Construction at the site of a proposed distribution unit in Harlow; a £82,000 contract to insert vibro stone columns at the Broughton Gate housing development in Milton Keynes, for contractor M. V. Kelly and main developer Carla Homes; a £32,000 contract in Enfield, working alongside sister company Stent. Pennine inserted 660 vibro stone columns in a two-week project to prepare the ground for the construction of new warehouse units on the banks of the river Lea.

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