From a company formed 60 years ago as an electrical contracting business serving the commercial sector to one providing a full building service with a turnover of £50 million and employing 350 local people has been an exciting and rewarding journey.
Today, the company has been organised into two sections – Project Operations and Maintenance Operations. Managing Director Pat Cassidy explains, “Project Operations includes our M&E Projects, Construction Partnering and Construction Projects divisions. Our Construction Projects department caters for a diverse range of contracts, including new build and refurbishment. We have the resources to deliver schemes up to £15 million within the education, healthcare, residential, leisure, commercial, industrial and high security sectors. Our teams provide added value such as BREEAM and sustainability advice, whole life costing and value engineering exercises, customer liaison teams and planned and reactive maintenance for many of our satisfied customers. Our Construction Partnering division undertakes long term partnerships for clients as diverse as Sanctuary Housing and William Hill including specialist retail fit-out works and Planned domestic renewal and Decent Homes contracts.”
J Tomlinson have recently completed a project at Lincoln University where the company built a £1.8 million extension to an existing Human Performance Centre for research into sport and athletics. This achieved a BREEAM ‘Very Good’ rating through such technologies as a heat pump with a heat recovery system. At Bilborough in Nottingham, J Tomlinson won a design and build contract worth £1.5 million for a new medical centre for MedicX, which featured a heat exchanger on the ventilation system.
Another recent project is the scheme undertaken for YMCA in Leicester worth £2.4 million. This was a complex project right in the centre of the city with a listed building, which remained in use while the existing accommodation was converted from the traditional style into individual self contained flats. A BREEAM ‘Very Good’ rating was achieved by incorporating a Combined Heating & Power (CHP) unit. The scheme has also received a score of 36 out of 40 under the Considerate Constructor’s Scheme and has been put forward for a regional award.
An important aspect for J Tomlinson’s work is sustainability. One of the best examples of how the company is expanding in this field can be seen at Lowestoft, where J Tomlinson have just completed a 1.5MW, 7500 panel PV installation, working alongside Spanish company Grupotec Technologia Solar. The scheme was completed within a period of only seven weeks as the installation has to be commissioned and accepted by the DNO before the Government’s planned reduction in the Feed-in Tariff for large PV installations before 1st August 2011.
Pat Cassidy concludes, “We take sustainability very seriously. We are experienced in air-source and ground-source heat pumps as well as biomass boilers. We also manage our sites to Industry Best Practice standards. For example we have an online system in partnership with our Waste Recycling Partner where we can monitor the amount of waste produced and recycled in real time. The latest statistics show that we are now recycling and/or reusing over 95% of our waste, meaning that less than 5% goes to landfill.”
For further information please telephone 0115 957 4300 or visit www.jtomlinson.co.uk
