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We are pleased to announce that, following a short absence, two new prestigious high end residential projects have been secured within the last two months on the beautiful island of Guernsey.
The projects have both been awarded by one of the Islands top developers and will once again give Hopkins the opportunity to showcase and establish itself as the Islands top services contractor on large high quality contracts.
Our design team have already visited the first development and the project is now in the pre-construction phase with a start on site date of mid July 2016.
To raise funds for ‘The British Heart Foundation’ our Managing Director, Phil Lambden, embarked on the ‘My Marathon’ challenge to run 26.2 miles in May 2016 to help fund life saving heart research.
Phil managed to raise an amazing £2300 and came third in the country for fund raising, out of nearly 21840 people running the event.
Phil would like to thank all who have supported the charity, The British Heart Foundation, and for the support and encouragement to achieve his goal.
A top Hampshire contractor has just been awarded their largest contract to date in Chichester, West Sussex, and Hopkins were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to review the scheme in the early stages of the tender process. By engaging the vast experiences of our design and engineering departments we were able to make the necessary recommendations to allow the scheme to become attractive to the Client and their strict budgetary constraints and secure the project.
It is a new build fast track project with further opportunities on the same site being afforded in the future.
Hopkins have been awarded a further 5 hotel projects during May from a leading hotel and leisure company. That brings the total in this financial year to 19. These projects include new build, extensions and refurbishments. We have been working with the same Client now for over thirty years offering premier quality, commitment and service to these projects which are spread nationally.
All of the projects are designed in-house by Hopkins specialist design team who work closely with the client and leading manufacturer’s who are challenged to bring bespoke plant and materials to the marketplace in readiness for these demanding and ever changing developments.
Hopkins are pleased to have been appointed by Kier Southern to carry out M&E design and installation for the new King Richard Secondary School, Portsmouth.
The new facility will comprise of a 3 storey split level building, to accommodate 1000 pupils with sports hall, canteen and offices.
The new build school will be fully operational for the September ‘17 Academic Year with phase 2 following directly on, consisting of demolition of the old school, playing fields and external lighting to car park, with a projected completion of March ‘18.
Hopkins annual Golf Day took place at Meon Valley Marriott Hotel & Country Club’s 18 hole championship course on 30th June 2016.
With support from Clients, Suppliers and Staff entering our Charity Competitions, £440 was raised in aid of Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity.
Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity supports families who have a child with a life threatening or terminal illness. For these families, life is unthinkably tough. Their lives are shattered into a million pieces as they struggle to cope with the possibility that their child might die.
Rainbow Trust has nine teams of Family Support Workers across England who support the whole family, at home, in hospital and in the community. Family Support Workers go wherever they are needed, helping in any way they can, to make life just a little bit easier. They support the whole family including parents, carers, the unwell child, brothers, sisters and grandparents. Because of their support, families are better able to cope and can face the future, whatever it may hold.
Rainbow Trust relies heavily on voluntary donations and through the generosity of supporters they currently help around 2,000 families a year. Rainbow Trust’s vision is that one day all terminally ill children will have access to a Rainbow Trust Family Support Worker.
The recent Hopkins Golf Day was held at Meon Valley Marriott Hotel & Country Club on Thursday 30th June 2016 and despite a spell of bad weather the course was in excellent condition and it stayed warm and dry with shorts the order of the day!
Meon Valley Golf Club features an 18 hole championship course which is situated among an ancient Southampton oak forest, and offers tree-lined fairways, large bunkers and natural water hazards. The course has well designed character holes, exceptional “ironed” greens with food and hospitality to match. 48 players consisting of Clients, Suppliers and Hopkins staff thoroughly enjoyed the day.
Congratulations go to all the winners of the various competitions on the day and particularly the winning team who scored 85 points and comprised (L to R); Jon Wilson (Highwood Group), Jason Parker (Hopkins), Alex Hodge (Freedom Air) and Gareth Grover (Hopkins).
We thank everyone for attending and the feedback has been really positive, we look forward to next years event.
Hopkins proudly sponsored 2 of our staff, Nick Jones and Mick Quinlan, in their quest to conquer the 2016 La Marmotte cycling race in the French Alps which took place the last weekend of June.
With the help of our supply chain and subcontractors, money was raised in support of treatment for a local little girl, Gracie. For further details and support please visit Groovy Gracie.
La Marmotte features three HC climbs over its 174km route and has a total of 5,180 metres of climbing, making it one of the toughest courses of any sportive in the world.
La Marmotte starts with a climbs of the Col du Glandon, which weighs in at 27.5km with an average gradient of 4.5% to a height of 1924 metres. From there you drop down (on a route so steep that it is not included in your overall time to try and stop riders from dangerously speeding) to the start of the Col du Telegraph.
That leads to the Col du Galibier, one of the most famous climbs in worldwide cycling. The Telegraph/Galibier combination is 35km of almost continuous climbing at an average gradient of 5.48% to a height of 2642 metres. Towards the top of the Galibier the gradient gets up to 15% and on a windy or cold day it is brutal.
There then follows a rapid 47km descent to Bourg d’Oisans and the start of a final ascent of the 21 hairpin bends of Alpe d’Huez. For all but the elite riders this is usually a major struggle as the sun is usually baking in the early afternoon.
The guys did amazing to complete the race, with Nick finishing in 8hrs 27mins (Gold Time 8hrs 24mins….!) and Mick for completing the race for the 6th year in a row, in 10hrs 04mins. They would like to thank everyone that helped encourage and support them through their journey.
Following an especially busy spring and summer period spent completing student accommodation projects in and around central Southampton, students from all corners of the world are now settling into their new student homes in readiness for the new academic year.
Hopkins played a significant role in the smooth transition from building site to prestigious new accommodation on three separate projects. Each design & build project was built by different developers, all of which had their own bespoke requirements which had to be factored in to the completion programme’s. The projects, Chamberlain Halls, Crescent Place and Bernard Street had a total of 930 rooms.
We are pleased to announce that all three projects handed over on time and within budget, having our own directly employed design, site management and installation teams was a significant factor in this achievement.
We hope to be involved in the next batch of projects for the next two years intake of students.
We at Hopkins are proud of our design department and its ever growing high reputation within the Construction Industry. We always strive to offer practical cost effective design solutions and our day to day experiences gained as a leading M&E contractor ensures continuous feedback from the construction side of the business. Our aim is to be at the ‘cutting edge’ of the services sector with a knowledgeable and innovative design team.
With this in mind our design manager’s roll out a programme of CPD seminars throughout the year, inviting all interested personnel within the company together with any clients who find the subjects relevant to their areas of operation.
October saw the recommencement of the CPD programme following the summer recess. Mitsubishi Electric were the ‘guest’ presenters carrying out two sessions. The first being a general introduction and overview of equipment and applications for all our new trainees and graduates. The final session was aimed at our more senior staff including designers, estimators and project staff and included industry and product updates with an emphasis on energy conservation.
We look forward to many more CPD presentations over the coming months involving many areas of Technical Product Manufacturers and Supply Chain.