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The latest news from Morgan Sindall Construction in the Eastern Counties
The latest news from Eastern Counties.
News from Eastern Counties
Whilst it's important to create inspiring places for people to live, learn, work, play, care and create, it's also vital that we make sure we remain a safe and stable business for our customers, consultants and supply chain to work with.
In February, Morgan Sindall Group announced a record set of end of year results with Group Revenue just over £5bn, Operating Profit of £225.7m and average daily net cash of £367.6m. This helps us plan for the long term and take the right decisions for our people, and our partners and our planet as well.
Over the last year we've continued to host regular workshops with our supply chain and continue to strengthen relationships to ensure we have safe and secure access to the right materials and companies to deliver your projects.
My full team's contact details are at the end of the newsletter, so please do get in touch if you have any questions.
Area Director, Eastern Counties
Results video here
On year on from officially opening ‘The Place’, we returned to see how the buildings - and more importantly the people in it - are getting on.
The former Palmers department store was completely reimaged into a civic and education centre at the heart of the town.
Library usage is up three-fold, education courses are packed and there have been weddings galore!
Have a watch of the films opposite to see the impact it has made or click on the button below to learn more.
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The new Community Diagnostic Centre at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital secured overall Project of the Year at the recent Constructing Excellence Awards.
The £25 million scheme which has brought state-of-the-art medical facilities to the people of Norfolk and Waveney, provides them with faster access to X-Ray, MRI, Ultrasound and CT diagnostic services.
I would like to thank everyone who has played a role in delivering this facility successfully. It is a programme we are particularly proud of bringing together innovative design, workforce and operational standardisation – all with patients and staff at the centre.
Having delivered seven community diagnostic centres in the last two years alone, which include everything from large scale new build to shopping centre fit-outs, we wanted to see if there were common learnings to take forward.
So we gathered our teams together in a series of workshops to see if there were any trends - and consolidated the learnings into ten key learnings.
Our aim is to share the information in the hope that it will help ensure continued improvement in the delivery of these much needed centres.
Each of the seven workshops interrogated design, logistics, programme, specialist kit, acute care factors and much more to help inform a blueprint.
It's our hope these learnings can be used to give projects a flying start when beginning a new diagnostic centre:
Click to watch the 10 learnings
A snapshot of live and secured projects in Eastern Counties
James Paget Hospital
The team continue with works include RAAC replacement and department refurbs across the live hospital campus.
Newmarket Hospital
In addition to delivering the brand new endoscopy suite, the team will also be undertaking various hospital refurbishments.
Battery Green, Lowestoft
A multi-million-pund development in the centre of Lowestoft to create a new cultural and community hub.
Defence Base Works
Our teams are working across a number of defence sites including RAF Lakenheath and RAF Mildenhall on a variety of projects.
Haverhill Primary School
Construction of a new build 1FE primary and early years and community hub under the Suffolk County Council framework.
O&M Building
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Since October 2021, we have regularly set our project teams the challenge to use Intelligent Solutions that reduce carbon from the buildings we deliver by a minimum of 10 tonnes.
This happens three times in a calendar year and focuses our project teams for a month to collaborate with consultants and supply chain to identify where these savings can be made, but more importantly then implement them and share the results.
By using our externally verified, intelligent carbon calculator tool CarboniCa, we're able to model and extract the savings each initiative will make.
In 2025, the teams across Eastern Counties saved a whopping 2,098.5tCO2e in the year, which is equivalent to 777 homes heated in one year.
At James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, the team saved 66.1tCO2e by implementing a timber solution for the RAAC panel reinforcement, over the traditionally used steel reinforcement.
Working across the defence sector locally, teams have managed to save over 500tCO2e by redesigning floor plans, reduction material usgae, changing temporary works and implementing new sustainable designs.
Led by Ben Virdee, project manager for Morgan Sindall Construction, the team at James Paget Hospital embarked upon a community project to revitalise the garden at the Sandra Chapman Centre.
The Sandra Chapman centre is a fantastic facility within the hospital where cancer treatment is carried out, but its garden, where patients can turn to relax, had become a little unloved.
So the team set about installing new paving, pergolas and planters as well as revitalising the memorial benches, fences and brickwork planters, so that patients would have a lovely place to retreat to during the summer months.
Click above to watch Ben's interview
We love the new look garden, which has ensured that memorials to patients have been preserved while giving the area a bright new look. We know patients and relatives using the Centre will appreciate the garden as a quiet space to spend time in. We’d like to thank Ben and the whole team involved in the project for their hard work.”
As part of this years National Apprenticeship Week, Alister Broadberry was joined by current Apprentices Far and Sam to not only discuss the benefits of their roles, but also delve into Alister's career that began 30 years ago as an apprentice.
That's how busy the Norfolk Skills Festival was this year, and our team were on hand in partnership with Lovell, to give the young people of the county an insight into careers in the industry.
As well as trialling some new resources for GoConstruct, lots of our current apprentices were on hand to host the games that get students thinking about how what they love, translates to a meaningful career in construction.
Know a young person who might be interested? If so, send them here:
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Each year our business nominates a charity to which all fundraising proceeds are donated to, and this years vote went to the East Anglian Air Ambulance - our second year in partnership with the charity.
Last year, our teams in Eastern Counties raised over £10,000 for EAAAT through so many things including Only The Brave, Sky Dives and the huge annual charity quiz; Eggheads. This year, we targeting to the same challenges and many more!
Click here to donate via Just Giving
Give us a shout by clicking on the buttons below - either on email or through LinkedIn…
Alister Broadberry
Area Director
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Warren Salmons
Snr. Business Development Mgr
Mario Rackham
Operations Director
Patrick Colby
Preconstruction Lead
Michael Seabrook
Senior Commercial Manager
Steve Holt
Matt Bidewell
Senior Contracts Manager
Jamie Young
Head of Design Management
