New Welsh Office Opens

With a lot of our current Contracts and future works now in Wales we have now opened up our new Welsh Office to give us a more suitable location in the area, see below for details:

Optimum Drywall Systems Ltd

Regus House

Malthouse Avenue

Cardiff Gate Business Park

Cardiff

CF23 8RU

Tel: 02920 263 648

Fax: 02920 263 348

Optimum Win Two Major Projects

It was announced just before we finished for Christmas that we have won two significant Contracts which are scheduled to start early in 2012.

Bronglais Hospital for Laing O’Rourke in Aberystwyth, Wales which is a large Hospital Project, consisting of some refurbishment works and also new build works.

Student Accomadation Project for Cowlins in Exeter, Devon. This is a new build project consisting of a number of new accomadation buildings for the University of Exeter.

More details to follow shortly.

Vinci Construction – Cynon Valley Hospital, Mountain Ash

Work has now been all but completed at Mountain Ash Hospital for Main Contractor Vinci. Alterations have been carried out to the Dentistry Area and we are now just making good any additional works and installing ceiling tiles behind the commissioning works to the Dentistry area. Work is scheduled to be 100% complete by the middle of January 2012.

Optimum – New Ventutre proud To hand over its First Major Project

Optimum Contracts South West successfully complete  Care home

Optimum have recently completed its 1st project under our new Contracts Division banner. Optimum Contracts South Ltd was set up towards the end of 2010 to target small to medium size projects and is being headed up by a completely new team.

Sean Nash has bought an experienced fit out team along with many years experience working on projects anywhere from £10k to £250k. Optimum Contracts South Ltd are already on target of £1 million turnover in the first year and have a healthy order book going into 2012.

Englishcoombe House has recently been handed over to our client, Care Construction South West . This was a £240k part new and part refurbished care home consisting of 40 purpose built self contained bedrooms, Lounges , shared dining room, kitchen and meeting rooms.

Amongst other special features of this once local public house  our client requested an Orangery in the original courtyard & this is now a beautiful feature & a place for the residents & staff alike to enjoy.

Optimum Contracts South Ltd were instrumental in designing the ceilings and bulkheads in The Orangery, all the externals were applied in Webber scraped render. The project was completed within programme durations and our client’s budget.

Please see attached pictures

Carillion Construction – South Bristol Hospital Final Stages

Our work is now in the Final Stages at the new South Bristol Hospital For Carillion. We are now installing the last remaining ceiling tiles following the completion of overhead Commissioning Works. The Client and Carillion are both very pleased with the standard of our workmanship and the main feautre Atrium has recieved much praise using Acoustic Panelling to create an echo free environment.

Optimum Working Towards ISO 14001

As a considerate contractor we are continually looking to improve our standards within the Construction Industry and are currently working towards gaining ISO14001 certification, which is the International Standard for the Environmental Management. We have just passed the 1st stage audit, which entails an external auditor from BM Trada spending a day at ourBristol office to review our Policy and Environmental Management System.

The next stage will take place in February 2012, where the auditor will spend 2 days on site, looking at what our operatives are doing in relation to our EMS.

Laing O’ Rourke – Halfway Through The Atrium Works At Nantgarw

Work in the main Atrium at Nantgarw for Main Contractor Laing O’Rourke has reached the critical halfway point. Skimming and final finishing works have been completed in the Atrium. This will now allow Laing O’Rourke to proceed with the completion of the first half of the Atrium leaving us to complete the following 50% in the next two weeks.

Vinci – Circle Reading

We have just completed our 16th week on site and the contract is going well. 2nd fix has been completed on the Ground Floor with Tapers lined up for next week. 1st fix has been completed on both the 1st & 2nd Floors and we have started 1st fix on the 3rd floor. The plant room has been completed to enable M&E to complete their works and the atrium area has been boarded.
We are in the process of installing the lead lined board to the x ray rooms and in discussions with Vinci on the SAS ceiling systems which are to be installed.
Please see our progress photos below;

Laing O’Rourke – BRI CSP Centre, Bristol

Work has just commenced on a  new state of the art facility for the Centralistation of Specialist Pediatrics in Bristol City Centre for Laing O’Rourke. Over the next four years a large section of the BRI will be refurbished and a new section constructed. Our current scope of works includes constructing the External Metsec Envelope on the new facility and we are in the running to recieve the Internal Drylining Package in the very near future.

Midas Construction – Swansea Residential Flats Partitions Underway

Work has recently been awarded to Optimum for the internal works package on 72 New Apartment Blocks for Midas Construction in Swansea, South Wales. Currently we are also working on the External Metsec Package and with the Internals now underway we are anticipated to be be on site until around Spring 2012.