A Tyneside brickwork firm has built up contracts worth more than £10m in the last six weeks as work within the housing sector ramps up across the North East.
South Shields-based Brickwork Direct Ltd specialises in housing and commercial brickwork and counts housebuilders in the private and social housing sectors as clients, including Gentoo, Keepmoat, Esh, Story Homes, Avant Homes and Partner Construction. The firm supplies bricklayers mostly to the residential development sector with a team of almost 200 tradesmen on its books, and managing director Ken Collins says the firm is currently dealing with contracts over the last six weeks with a labour value of more than £10m.
The company was established in 2003 and employs 25 staff at its headquarters in South Shields. Recent wins mean it is forecasting turnover of over £10m this financial year, up £2.5m over last year. The firm, which operates solely in the North East region from Alnwick to Teesside, has picked up five sites for Miller Homes with a labour value of over £4.2m, four sites for Story Homes at Dunston, Alnwick, Darlington and Stockton and with others in the pipeline for Gentoo in Whitburn and Sunderland.
