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North East firm wins Tower Bridge contract

A young construction and industrial services company has secured more than £22 million worth of new business since the start of the year. The major wins for Gateshead-based The Pyeroy Group are refurbishment work on London’s Tower Bridge and its near neighbour Southwark Bridge, worth a combined £7 million.

The four-year long work will see Pyeroy repainting the two bridges for the City of London Corporation as part of its plans to refurbish landmark structures and key gateways to the City.

The Pyeroy Group, which was formed in 2007, currently employs 900 people and operates a network of regional offices in the UK and Ireland from its Gateshead head office.

The firm’s major contracts over the past year included repainting the High Level Bridge in Newcastle, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland and several Royal Navy warships.

Hugh Pelham, managing director at Pyeroy, said: “We have had a great start to 2008 and are well placed to see strong growth continue for the rest of this year and into next. “Our strategy of focusing on specialist construction services and providing added value refurbishment solutions is clearly succeeding and paying dividends.

“The Tower and Southwark Bridge contracts are very prestigious and place us in a great position to tender for other London landmark refurbishment contacts that are likely to come along in the countdown to the start of the Olympics and beyond.”

The specialist refurbishment programme for Tower Bridge will see a team of Pyeroy contractors scaffold, grit blast and fully re-paint the 244 metre long structure, which was originally built in 1894. Further upstream, work is already underway by Pyeroy on the refurbishment programme for Southwark Bridge, which features five steel arches supported by turreted piers.

For more information, visit www.pyeroy.co.uk.

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