Alloa-based Marshall Construction has secured a contract to build its fourth Home Bargains store, and its managing director said the company is looking to the future with renewed confidence.
The £1.7 million 22,600ft2 project in Fraserburgh follows contracts for Home Bargain stores in Larkhall for £1.8m and Falkirk at £1.4m under construction.
Marshall’s recently completed a £1m Home Bargains store in Kilsyth.
All four contracts were awarded in quick succession by Liverpool-based TJ Morris, the company behind the chain, in competitive tendering.
The Fraserburgh store contributes to more than £26m worth of contract work currently undertaken by the Alloa builder.
Graham McRoberts, Marshall’s senior estimator, said: “We are delighted to be strengthening our growing relationship with TJ Morris Ltd and to be playing such a fundamental part in their plans to grow to 700 stores across the UK in the next five years.
“They are a consistently top-rated retailer, and a business with which we are very proud to be associated.
“Four in a row is a fantastic result for us, and further proof that we have the correct blend of experience across the group to deliver this type of work as well as initially price out each contract at a rate which is clearly ‘bang on the money’ for clients with a time-sensitive expansion plan,” he added.
The Home Bargains contracts consist of removing existing ground to make way for each new substructure, a slab-and-steel frame, together with steel cladding and roofing.
External works at each site include a new car park and associated landscaping, fencing and provision of necessary services.
The retail sector is one of several in which Marshall Construction is active.
In the public sector Marshall Construction has a £1.4m contract with Cullross/Hillcrest Housing Association in Edinburgh, an £8m contract starting next year for Perth and Kinross Council (Hub) for Alyth Primary School, a £1.3m contract for Forth Housing Association in Stirling, and a £1.4m contract to start next year on 19 units at Fairfield, Sauchie for Clackmannanshire Council (Hub).
Two other projects for Clackmannanshire Council at the Speirs Centre, Alloa, and 26 units at Hallpark in Alloa were recently concluded.
In the industrial sector Marshall Construction recently completed a £2.2m bonded warehouse for Chivas Brothers at Willowyards in Beith, and work will soon start on a £5.8m contract for two further phases of warehouses.
Marshall Construction has completed eight other warehouses in Beith with a contract value in excess of £10m in the last six years.
Managing director and founder Robert Marshall said: “With our 30th anniversary behind us, we are looking to the future with renewed confidence.
“We have been buoyed by recent research stating that Scotland has accounted for nearly a quarter of the total value of new construction contracts awarded in September, particularly in the healthcare sector, in which we work, and in infrastructure,” Mr Marshall added.
“Economic conditions have improved enormously and, whilst we are still operating in a challenging and very competitive sector, we know we have an extremely solid client list and the best people with us.”