Spencer Group secures £30m worth of projects in three months

Hull-based Spencer Group has acquired more than £30m of work in the last three months, which culminated with securing a multi-million pound package of works for London Underground.

Overall, the engineering company has been awarded several major contracts across the UK, totalling around £33m.

Among these include the installation of 12,000m2 of paving at King George Dock in Hull on behalf of ABP, the extension and upgrade of First Great Western’s flagship train care depot in Reading, the construction of a multi-storey car park at Rochester Station for Medway Council and the second phase of works to achieve step-free-access at Finsbury Park Underground Station - which is worth £20m alone.

The company is also currently working with Babcock Rail to produce a £1.9m refurbishment of Eastleigh Depot, which includes creating new foundations to allow for the relocation of a weighbridge.

Gary Thornton, managing director at Spencer, said: “We have had a strong start to the year. Having delivered our first works on behalf of London Underground over the Christmas period, we are delighted to have been awarded the contract to deliver the second phase of a package of improvements at Finsbury Park Underground Station.

“Our performance across the first six months of 2015 has also been boosted by a number of other notable contract wins as well as our ongoing successful delivery across all of our jobs on the ground at Hackney, Wemyss Bay and Apperley Bridge to name a few.

“Spencer has undergone a comprehensive reorganisation of its senior management team in the same period in order to continue to deliver exceptional results across all of its projects.”

As well as winning new contracts, Spencer is also on the verge of completing several ongoing projects.

The company is set to complete works to improve access to both Hackney stations in June. Following the installation of the new walkway, lift and stairs, the team will then complete the external works, landscaping, tenancy reinstatements, car parking and drainage by mid-July.

The project, which is being delivered on behalf of London Overground, will provide a passenger walkway between two adjoining lines serving Platform 2 at Hackney Central Overground station and Platform 1 at Hackney Downs rail station. The 200m walkway will enable rail users to access both stations without leaving either station.

Furthermore, Spencer is expected to finishing major refurbishments works at Wemyss Bay Station in Scotland in early 2016, while also carrying out suspended span gantry improvements to the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland.

Mr Thornton said the company’s ability to undertake a vast scope of projects with various requirements is helping Spencer establish itself as a leading engineering firm.

He said: “Our performance across all of our projects on the ground has been very strong and, while we are delighted to have won some fantastic contracts recently, we are acutely aware of the need to handover existing schemes of work that are of the highest standard. And we will do that.

“Our expertise in a variety of fields allows us to tender for a range of different works. As the latest contract wins show, we are fully equipped to take on projects across various sectors. We are equally as comfortable delivering single discipline projects as we are completing complex multidiscipline packages of works.

“We have a growing presence in emerging markets, including renewables and waterways, and we are looking to build on that as well as strengthen our position in our more traditional sectors over the next six months.

“The future is very bright for our multi-disciplinary business and, having invested in the right people with the right experience and expertise, we are in a fantastic position to continue our recent performance.”