Birse already secures bulk of 2003 work


Birse Construction's average contract size has jumped by 30% to 40% as a result of winning "a lot of package work" and being offered two-stage bid opportunities on schemes worth over £20m.

Rob Adams, managing director of Birse Construction, said this week: "Taking more enquiries means that our estimating department is very busy." The two regions performing particularly strongly are the South East and the Midlands.

Birse's financial year ends on 30 April and Adams reported that 75% of next year's workload has already been secured in the South East thanks to awards from the London Development Agency and the Highways Agency, together with two jobs for private developers.

"We are also finding that the Midlands is very buoyant," Adams added. "We work out of a base in Birmingham, operating between Kings Lynn in the east and over to the Gloucestershire border in the west. Already 70% of our target workload has been secured for next year."


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