Tolent celebrates £3m contract awards

BUILDING contractor Tolent Construction has secured three new contracts worth more than £3m.

The firm's Leeds office was awarded a 1.2m contract for a roof extension by Harrison Developments' at its headquarters at The Chocolate Works, the former Terry's factory in York, which has been converted into offices, designed by CSP Architects.

The company has also secured a 1.5m contract for preparatory works on behalf of Taylor Wimpey for residential development on the site of the Hallmark Cards factory in Bingley.

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The third contract is to construct a 650,000 chemical and biological sciences laboratory facility serving Huddersfield University's new Innovative Physical Organic Solutions (IPOS) research group.

In addition to winning the contracts, Tolent also completed its ISO 9001 quality management qualification and the OHSAS 18001, which recognises occupational health and safety management systems.

Operations director Doug Shield said: "Tolent did not have the benefit of ISO 9001 when we secured our three latest contracts.

"We won them mainly through the consistency and reliability of our performance on related work. As an audited assurance of our systematic practices and management procedures, ISO 9001 qualification provides official recognition of Tolent's high standards and puts the company in a much stronger position in future tendering processes."

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Tolent operates in all market sectors, including industrial, residential, education, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, commercial, motor trade, leisure, civil engineering and waste. The company also has offices in Manchester, Gateshead, Teesside and London.

Tolent Construction, which is a subsidiary of Tolent, was formed in Tyneside in 1983, and carries out all types of building and civil engineering work in the public and private sector on a national basis.

The company operates in all market sectors including offices, industrial, residential, education, petrochemical, pharmaceutical, commercial, motor trade, leisure, civil engineering and waste.

Tolent's latest results show revenues in 2009 were down to 87m from 150m in 2008, with pre-tax profits falling back from 2.9m to 596,000.

The company has cut its workforce from 540 to 300 in the 18 months incurring almost 1m in redundancy costs during the process.

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