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Stone wall contracts for Darlington firm

A STONE restoration company based in Darlington has opened a new office in London to cope with £60,000 worth of new contracts.

Stone Technical Services has announced plans to work in partnership Sykes and Son, London’s oldest independent building contractors as it looks to capitalise on a series of lucrative contracts.

Sykes and Son has recently celebrated its 250th anniversary and has selected Stone as their partner to work on all high-level repair, restoration and renovation projects on both historic and modern buildings in and around London.

Speaking about the expansion in London, managing director, Dave Stone said: “In the last year our portfolio in London has increased dramatically thanks to our work on very high profile buildings. We have worked extensively with Sykes and Son and are delighted to now be working with them as official partners on many restoration projects all over the city.

“This is a very exciting time for Stone as our talented team really is making its mark in London, working on national treasures such as theatres and cathedrals which is a huge privilege. All of this is fuelling our growth in the North East where we are constantly expanding our team of skilled specialists.”

Having already completed various projects at the Royal Courts of Justice, Stone’s restoration experts have been engaged to carry out further work including gantry painting and remedial testing of systems, proof loading and examination of the substructure and reports to provide maintenance programs.

At St Paul’s Cathedral, where Stone is the appointed contractor responsible for all structural and high level maintenance repairs and lightning conductor installation, the team will be working on another project to inspect the cathedral’s dome and upper-most gold cross as well as repairing lightning conductors and safety fall-arrest systems.

In the heart of London’s ‘Theatreland’, Stone has secured a contract to upgrade the lightning protection on Shaftesbury Theatre, which dates back to 1911, while in Knightsbridge Stone’s high level maintenance experts have been employed to carry out investigation works on Beaufort House, home to exclusive apartments which are about to undergo a £3 million upgrade.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .