A Tyneside brickwork firm has built up contracts worth more than £10m in the last six weeks as work within the housing sector ramps up across the North East.
South Shields-based Brickwork Direct Ltd specialises in housing and commercial brickwork and counts housebuilders in the private and social housing sectors as clients, including Gentoo, Keepmoat, Esh, Story Homes, Avant Homes and Partner Construction. The firm supplies bricklayers mostly to the residential development sector with a team of almost 200 tradesmen on its books, and managing director Ken Collins says the firm is currently dealing with contracts over the last six weeks with a labour value of more than £10m.
The company was established in 2003 and employs 25 staff at its headquarters in South Shields. Recent wins mean it is forecasting turnover of over £10m this financial year, up £2.5m over last year. The firm, which operates solely in the North East region from Alnwick to Teesside, has picked up five sites for Miller Homes with a labour value of over £4.2m, four sites for Story Homes at Dunston, Alnwick, Darlington and Stockton and with others in the pipeline for Gentoo in Whitburn and Sunderland.
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Craft beer company BrewDog sealed a deal to open a bar at a riverside location in Durham.
The Scottish brewery and bar operator has confirmed it has reached agreement with the owners of the Milburngate development to open a venue. The bar will take a prime position at the Durham leisure, housing and business scheme overlooking the River Wear. The 3,736 sq ft BrewDog site will create a raft of new jobs when it opens, with seating inside as well as outside, with views of Durham Cathedral and Castle.
BrewDog currently has 67 sites across the 海角视频, as well as bars in more than 20 countries including the US, Spain, Germany, Italy, Australia and Sweden, and the Milburngate opening forms part of its expansion plans. Further details of the bar, which will serve BrewDog’s range of craft beers and food, will be announced in the coming months ahead of an opening date to be announced soon.
A retail parade owned by the Duke of Northumberland has been sold to a private investor in a deal worth £1.5m.
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The five units at North Tyneside Quorum Park – rented to Greggs, Bento Box, Marabino Ciro Ltd, Eat @ Quorum Ltd and Shelborne Quorum Ltd – have been sold by Northumberland Estates Ltd, the business interests of the Duke, in a deal secured by Avison Young.
The fully let retail parade extends to almost 10,000 sq ft at Dukes Walk, Quorum Business Park, Newcastle from Northumberland Estates Ltd. The retail investment property was built in 2011 and is held on a long leasehold basis for a term of 125 years from 2004.
Cable manufacturer JDR landed a contract to supply an offshore wind farm in Germany which is one of Europe's largest energy transition projects.
The North East firm, which operates a Hartlepool base and is building a £130m factory in Northumberland, has been chosen by Norwegian developer Seaward 7 ASA to supply 100km of 66kV subsea array cables for the development. They will connect 64 wind turbines that will make up the 900MW EnBW He Dreiht farm.
JDR will manufacture the cables at its Hartlepool base before shipping them for installation in 2025. The EnBW He Dreiht project is located in the German Exclusive Economic Zone of the North Sea - 85km north of the Borkum Island and 95km west of the Helgoland Island.
John Price, sales director at JDR, said: "Germany is an important location for us, and we continue to see great potential here as the offshore market grows from strength to strength. We’re proud to be part of a project that is pushing the boundaries of offshore wind by increasing megawatt capacity.
"This very much aligns with our values as a company because we are always looking at ways to innovate our solutions to future-proof the industry. We’re also delighted to continue to build on our long-standing relationship with Seaway 7 by providing technical expertise and subsea solutions to support in the success of He Dreiht."
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