
BEST PRACTICE REPRESENTATIVE 2019
THE PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW
Highlighting best practice
50 | SA BUILDERS AND CONTRACTORS LTD
the industry as a result. With more
than 15 employees and a considerably
high number of subcontractors, our
company offers a high-quality finish on
site at a competitive price.
It wasn’t easy in the beginning and like
any other new construction company,
I struggled to find professionals and
to build trust with customers. I faced
some very challenging years when the
country went through the recession,
yet we managed the situation very
well at the time by making the right
decisions. Today our company is well
structured and organised. It functions
like a single human body, with the
company director as the head, the
office and management team as the
brain and the operation team as the
hands. We all work as a team in order
to achieve all our aims and objectives.
We have set ourselves a course of
steady and controlled evolution,
starting new relationships with our
clients and extending existing ones.
In March 2015, I created NEST
Contractors Ltd, which also operates in
the construction industry. The business
has seen substantial growth since its
inception and is expected to achieve
better results in upcoming years. NEST
Contractors Ltd is currently working
very closely with Student Cribs, who
are a leading student accommodation
provider. They offer comfortable,
well-equipped houses in the best
locations in university cities and towns
throughout the UK. In London, we
have successfully completed more than
eight of their projects in the last three
years. We have gained a reputation for
the quality of the work our operatives
undertake and the professional
attitude of our office.
Both of our companies have donated
to several community projects for
many years now. We have also made
donations to special needs schools and
hospitals inside and outside of the UK.
We offer a high-quality
finish on site at a
competitive price
We all work as a team
to achieve our aims and
objectives
Building the
future,
restoring the
past
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CONSTRUCTION & ENGINEERING
We have always maintained a strong
commitment to health and safety
for the protection of all individuals
affected during our work. We have
our own health and safety policy, and
this is always explained in detail to
our members of staff and clients. Prior
to the start of the project, we always
prepare a construction phase plan
consisting of a method statement,
risk assessment and a Control of
Substances Hazardous to Health
assessment. On top of this, rules for
health and safety are ubiquitous on
site and in theoffice.
Investing in tomorrow’s
workforce
We pride ourselves on continuing to
train young people who have started
as labourers and have developed to
become skilled workers.As a business,
we need to continue to invest and
improve in order to attract people
from all walks of life. This includes
both office and site staff, from labour
to management, ensuring we make
the construction industry attractive to
everyone. This training has meant we
have developed an excellent reputation
for customer care and after-sales work.
Our members of staff are specially
trained to work in people’s homes
by using protective sheeting and
specialisttools.
Brexit poses entirely new challenges
for us as a business. Our workforce is
mainly British, but we do have a small
number of overseas operatives on our
sites who are very good at what they
do. It is too early to analyse how our
current workforce will be affected. The
bigger concern arises from potential
material cost increases, due partly to
manufacturing cost rises but, more
importantly, to higher import costs.
Last year, all our suppliers increased
their material prices twice and are
expected to increase prices again this
year. Another factor is the weather,
and during the heavy snow earlier this
year, when diggers and cranes were
forced to fall idle across the country,
most of our supplies were delayed for
weeks. We hope that winter this year
will find the UK government more
prepared so business can run smoothly.
The past few years have been the most
successful yet and we hope this can
continue. With the stable growth we
have seen and the proven efficiency of
our working manner, we are confident
that we will be able to achieve this.
We pride
ourselves on
continuing to
train young
people
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Our members of staff
are specially trained to
work in people’s homes