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Birmingham Post
Business
Andrew Arthur

Construction firm Beard completes £24.8m care home projects

Construction firm Beard has completed two care homes projects worth a combined £24.8m. The Swindon-headquartered business has built the facilities in Caversham, Berkshire, and Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, for private healthcare firm Signature.

The Farnham Common building has now been opened and includes 74 studio-style apartments with private wet rooms, alongside facilities such as a café, restaurant, cinema, lounge areas, activity room, a pub, spa bathrooms, hair salon and therapy room.

The four-floor care home in Caversham will officially open in February and provide 86 apartments.

Beard, which has been trading for 130 years, said both projects remained operational during the second wave of the Covid pandemic, with enhanced health and safety procedures.

Director Mike Hedges said: “The care sector is important to us, and our expertise means we can help clients to meet the increasing demand for the very best in assisted living spaces. Signature’s attention to detail in these homes and the high level of fit and finish is testament to the quality of living and care demanded by modern-day residents. Beard’s core aim is to build with ambition and this project more than lives up to that ethos.”

Alex Alexandru, general manager at Signature at Farnham Common, said: “We are delighted to have worked with Beard to demonstrate what is possible in care home design. As a community within a community, Signature at Farnham Common offers excellent residential, nursing, dementia, and respite care in luxury surroundings.

"Our care home has been designed to be a hub of activity, with a host of communal spaces and social activities for residents, supported by highly trained team members committed to delivering true peace of mind to residents, relatives and their loved ones.”

Last year Beard completed work on a £2.4m medical surgery in its home town. The family-run company also has offices in Guildford, Oxford and Bristol, where it completed a £4.5m renovation of the city’s oldest art gallery, the Royal West of England Academy (RWA) in Clifton, last summer.

Last year Beard reported a pre-tax profit of £4.2m and turnover of £144m after it completed around 60 projects in 2021.

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