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Workforce Doubles in 18 Months as Part of Record Year for Ecogee

North West property specialists Ecogee have reported a record year for staff growth, doubling its team from 28 to 61 in the last 18 months alone.

Despite the pandemic and the restrictions it brought to the construction industry, the Liverpool based firm, which has its head office in Fazakerley, has continued to invest into its workforce spanning all departments to meet growing business demand.

Ecogee is continuing to employ people across all areas of the business including a number of trainees in roles such as quantity surveying. Managing Director Brendan Helm, originally from Bootle, is passionate about providing jobs for the local community with 100% of Ecogee’s current permanent staff based in Merseyside.

Managing Director at Ecogee Brendan Helm said: “Ecogee celebrates its 10th business anniversary next year and we have ambitious expectations and targets for company expansion in line with that. I established Ecogee back in 2012 and now we have a growing client list that includes the likes of Prima Housing, Crossfield Construction, Scottish Power and One Vision Housing to name a few. Year on year our volume of work is increasing and so we need to continue to invest in skilled, professional and dedicated individuals to take the company forward.

“We specialise in a number of areas namely social housing, external wall work such as brick slips and rendering, new build construction and ECO grants and so we require a workforce with a broad skillset to work on-site and in our office location too. We’ve been able to recruit across a number of roles in the last year and we’ve seen the biggest increase in staffing in that time than we have since the firm’s inception. We’re now working across the UK and in addition to our contracted staff, we also utilise a further 50 sub-contracted individuals to support our growing workload.”

In the last 12 months, Ecogee has been involved in a number of projects based across the Merseyside region including outer wall work on residential apartment blocks Baltic View in Liverpool City Centre and Oxford House in Bootle. The team is also working on new build projects in locations such as Kirkby and Ormskirk.

Business Development Director at Ecogee Denis Hennigan added: “We have another busy 12 months ahead as we start to countdown to our 10-year milestone. As a testament to our recent achievements, as a business we have doubled our turnover in the last 12 months to £10million, making 2020/2021 a record year for us in more ways than one.

“We have no plans to slow down and we have some exciting projects lined up along with some current work that will complete later this year. We’ll continue to invest into our team to enable us to provide the best possible service that we can for our clients and look forward to seeing how we can develop even more going forward.”

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