A huge thank you and appreciation to everyone in supporting the business and our clients, through these challenging times and although the current position remains unclear; after Boris Johnson’s announcement on Monday, business is far from usual, but we are being asked to remain working on our sites.
We are obviously watching and waiting for any change made in policy by Government that may result in what we can and cannot do towards trading normally.
We are maintaining our services to the sites where possible, subject to constant health and safety checks to ensure all Government recommended safety measures are possible and supply chain materials being available.
Here at J&B Hopkins we recognise how important it is to grow and develop our rising stars.
To provide an additional level of development to our apprentices and trainees we have just launched our new mentoring scheme. The scheme provides a formal platform whereby a mentor and mentee can create a confidential mentoring partnership aimed to assist the mentee to achieve personal and professional growth.
The scheme’s objectives are:
We are sure the experience will teach both the mentor and mentee new perspectives as well as many other skills for the future.
After another challenging year in the industry Hopkins have strived to improve the systems, management and implications of our Health and Safety System to ensure that all of our staff, site operatives and sub-contractors work safe, stay safe and return home safe after every working day.
We are pleased to be recognised for our efforts and be awarded ‘Health and Safety Excellence’ from HCS Safety for an overall 100% score for the year (albeit a little delayed due to the pandemic!) and we wish to open our thanks to all of our staff and supply chain.
We are proud to announce that we are continuing with our commitment around the wellbeing of our staff and this month we have had a number of our site staff trained as Mental Health Champions. Fully supported by our Mental Health First Aiders, our Champions have the knowledge to advocate for mental health and the ability to recognise if someone may need support with their mental health.
Together we continue to build a mentally healthy workplace, ending stigma and discrimination around mental health in the workplace.
J&B Hopkins were delighted to be awarded the prestigious Kier Southern ‘Subcontractor of the Year’ award for 2015. The award was given to our Chairman Paul Hopkins during the Kier Southern Charity Supply Chain Conference and Awards event at The Lingfield Park Country Club in Surrey.
The recognition was especially pleasing as it was contested by all trades on the Kier supply chain throughout the Southern region and not just our piers in the services industry. The recognition of our staffs’ continued level of commitment, which is offered as standard to all of our customers, is a welcome accolade.
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.
