Recently Won Contracts Manchester

The Manchester office is currently on site at Carr Green Primary School and is just about to commence works at Prestwich Hospital refurbishing the Rivington Ward.

Recently Won Contracts York

The York office is currently on site constructing an extension to an existing leisure facility, Splash, consisting of a single storey double height sports hall, changing rooms, a two storey fitness suite and a single storey extension to the entrance and cafe.

The York region contracts nearing completion include; a new £4.5 million build at Roseworth Primary School and £1.3 million build at Abbey Hill, both due for completion in the coming weeks for Stockton-on-Tees Council.

St Stephens C of E Primary School

We have recently secured the contract to build a new multi-million pound two storey primary school in Blackburn.

The new St Stephens C of E school will include a state of the art amphitheatre and many sustainable intiatives.

The project is to co-locate Key Stages 1 and Key Stages 2 for the existing St Stephens Infants and Junior schools, to accomodate 490 mainstream children on the existing junior site playing fields.

Lytham PCT

We are currently on site in Lytham St Annes constructing a new Primary Care Centre. The new build, due to open in the summer of 2009, will house; two new GP practices, a dental surgery, pharmacy and health visitor facilities. The new centre will be a boost for the local area as it replaces run down factory buildings.

St Johns C of E Primary School, Blackpool

We are pleased to have successfully secured the contract for the new build of St Johns CE Primary School.  A £3.7 million contract with the Blackburn Diocese to build the new Town Centre three-storey Primary School is now taking place on Church Street in Blackpool.

Even in its early stages the project has recieved a lot of media attention and has recently been rated as the ‘best unbuilt community building’ at the Manchester Society Design Awards.

During site inspections earlier this year it was also found that the original school buildings still existed.  The earliest buildings on site date from 1817, making them possibly the oldest extant buildings in Blackpool Town Centre.

The new Primary School will have the capacity to teach over 200 pupils and is due to be open in June 2009.

Charity Events

Our staff have been very busy these past few months helping raising money for charity.  One weekend at the beginning of September saw a number of staff take part in two seperate events for charity.  Ladies from our Blackpool office took part in the Illumathon on Blackpool’s famous promenade to help raise money for Trinity Palliative Care Services and other employees took part in the Translake Challenge for the British Heart Foundation, both events helped raise over £2000 for charity.

The Blackpool Illumathon is a half marathon walk through Blackpool’s World Famous Illuminations and back.  The Translake Challenge is a 37 mile journey through the heart of the Lake District and ‘Team Parkinson’ won the race with an impressive finishing time of 4 hours and 10 minutes a whopping 18 minutes ahead of second place.  This event alone helped raise over £1600 for the British Heart Foundation thanks to the sponsorship of the 17 companies involved.

Parkinson’s have also took part in many other events raising money; the Moonlight Walk for St Catherine’s Hospice, our Construction Director Andy Smith took part in a 5km run around Preston Docks and Accounts Assistant Emma Brown took part in the Race for Life for Cancer Research UK.

F Parkinson wins top safety award

We are pleased to announce that the Byers Green project has been awarded the esteemed International Safety Award by the British Council for no reportable incidents throughout its construction period.

In achieving this award we had to have good proven safety policies, plans and commitment to health and safety at the highest level and also endeavour to improve the safety culture throughout the company. We detailed our Health and Safety Manager’s qualifications,
Dave Shaw who is employed full time in his role, and provide information about significant advances that we had made over the preceding 12 months.

This is the 2^nd time the company has won this award.

The award will be presented to the company at the award banquet to be held at the Grosvenor House,

on 16th May 2008.