The contracts will see Lovell complete the remaining two years of the housing association’s four-year improvement scheme to bring its homes up to the Welsh Housing Quality Standard.
The Lovell team will begin work in April 2013 on £6m-worth of refurbishment work to 73 prefabricated reinforced concrete Airey houses for CCG. This will involve building external walls and carrying out structural repairs and reroofing; installing new kitchens and bathrooms, windows, doors and central heating and decoration and external works.
Lovell will also start work in May 2013 on £11m of improvements to just over 1,400 homes including kitchen and bathroom replacements, electrical upgrading, plumbing and heating improvements and floor and wall tiling.
Work being delivered through the new contracts is set to be completed in October 2014. Lovell said that it would safeguard the jobs of more than 60 local people currently working on the programme and enable Lovell and its subcontractor to continue to provide apprenticeship and trainee opportunities to 25 local people.
Lovell has been working with CCG since April 2011, delivering the first two years of the modernisation programme. So far, the company has carried out £18.5m of work, including internal refurbishments, loft insulation works, external refurbishment and the installation of new heating systems.
CCG director of assets and investment Mick Butler said: “We are pleased to be moving to the next phase of the improvement programme with Lovell. This is a huge investment in our properties and one which will bring them up to WHQS standard, ensuring our tenants’ homes are of a high standard. But, as well as improving homes, contributing to the economy of Gwynedd is very important to us, so it’s good to see Lovell employing local craftsmen and providing opportunities for apprentices and trainees from the area.”
Lovell regional director Nigel Yates added: “As well as creating warmer, more modern homes for tenants, CCG’s large-scale improvement programme has given the local community an economic boost through the new jobs and training opportunities it has created.”
The Lovell and CCG team is pictured below.
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