Novus Property Solutions has continued its longstanding relationship with The Riverside Group with a high-volume framework contract for works across England, at an estimated value of over £970,000. The two-year planned multi-void replacement works will see Novus carry out a variety of refurbishment works across a significant number of properties
Leading national contractor, Novus Property Solutions, has promoted long-serving former senior operations manager Ray Fielder to Head of Operations for its Southern region – making him responsible for the company’s largest geographic area, stretching from Cornwall to Norfolk. Ray Fielder embodies Novus’ ethos of recognising and rewarding talented people at
The dynamic maintenance, refurbishment and new build contractor, Novus Property Solutions has been helping to connect two parts of a site at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. The work included repairs to the elevated walkway. The repair project was over a busy road on the site and is important to
Novus Property solutions has announced that they will be undertaking a new project that will see the creation of a new apprentice training centre at The JCB Academy, located in Staffordshire. The national property maintenance, refurbishment and new build contractor has embarked on the development of this bran-new facility which
Novus Property Solutions, the national maintenance new build and refurbishment contractor has revealed their development of a block of departments located in Liverpool’s Albert Dock. The redevelopment consists of 200 apartments that will look out at the Albert Dock area. The existing building that has been transformed was finished in
A fantastic new deal has been struck between maintenance provider Novus Property Solutions and The Guinness Partnership in order to help the company to improve the condition of some land development area located in Stockport. The Guinness Partnership is a very well-respected housing firm that will need to use the
The recent Novus Property Solutions ceremony that has taken place is an event dedicated towards recognizing the ongoing efforts and achievements of the company over the course of the year. With the York office department being blessed with receiving the new Health and Safety award, it is evident from this
In an age where employee satisfaction rates are not exactly the most encouraging figures on display at the moment, it is good to see that Novus Property Solutions at least are able to recognize the ongoing hard work of their staff and are committed to seeing that they get their
BDC 319 : Aug 2024
Novus Property Solutions has continued its longstanding relationship with The Riverside Group with a high-volume framework contract for works across England, at an estimated value of over £970,000. The two-year planned multi-void replacement works will see Novus carry out a variety of refurbishment works across a significant number of properties up and down the country with the aim of getting families into homes, reducing existing voids and mitigating any rental losses. Novus and The Riverside Group have a pre-existing relationship with the leading maintenance and compliance contractor previously completing a variety of works for the housing association including fitting brand new kitchens, windows, doors and bathrooms on existing properties stretching across England. The Riverside Group is one of the leading registered providers of social housing within the UK, offering affordable housing as well as support to all of its residents regardless of their situation. It aims to transform lives through affordable home ownership and great value rent whilst adding to the local community’s wellbeing – closely linking with Novus’ own people-centric ethos which includes giving back to the communities in which it works. The Stoke-headquartered contractor will be supporting and working alongside the Direct Labour organisation to bring its expert solutions to allow more families to get into the homes they deserve at a much quicker rate. Commenting on the new framework win, Sam Frame, Head of Operations at Novus said: “We’re proud to have secured another multi-void framework contract with The Riverside Group and we’re looking forward to continuing to build on our existing relationship with The Riverside Group that allows us to work as one. “This contract comes as Novus continues to build on the success of our five-year growth strategy, which includes nurturing our relationship with our valued existing clients, as well as securing new high value, long term contracts.”
Leading national contractor, Novus Property Solutions, has promoted long-serving former senior operations manager Ray Fielder to Head of Operations for its Southern region – making him responsible for the company’s largest geographic area, stretching from Cornwall to Norfolk. Ray Fielder embodies Novus’ ethos of recognising and rewarding talented people at every level: he began working with Novus as a joiner 16 years ago, and having excelled at a number of site and contract roles, he progressed through the ranks to join the company’s senior team. Most recently, he achieved great success when managing Novus’ Southampton operation, priming him for this latest step up. Speaking of Ray’s promotion, Executive Director Lee Hartley said “We have always had a strong ‘grow our own talent’ ethos at Novus, and seeing Ray progress through the company is absolute proof of this. From the moment our colleagues join us, we continually strive to develop and maximise their personal and professional potential to allow them to progress. One of our key values as a business is to nurture, and this applies to both our people and our relationships with clients and suppliers. Year after year, Ray has excelled in each of his roles and it gives me incredible satisfaction to see him reach this highpoint in his career. I have every confidence that Ray will continue to excel and drive our growth throughout the region.” In line with the wider business, Ray’s immediate focus is on rolling out the company’s recently-launched Sustain service to new and existing clients from across the south of England, as well as expanding the reach of the Assure service in recognition of the need for improved passive fire protection across public sector buildings and housing associations. Ray will also oversee the full roll-out of Novus’ innovative Oneserve system, a cloud-based application which offers Novus’ clients and their residents or customers full transparency on any given project, providing real-time updates and acting as an information hub for both contractor and client. Commenting on his appointment and ambition for the region, Ray said: “This is an exciting time for Novus, with new services and technological leaps forward, and I’m proud to be stepping up to a more senior role in this crucial period. Having worked with Novus on both site and office-based positions for 16 years, I feel I know the company very well and it is impressive to see the business taking such ambitious strides whilst managing to retain its family feel – that’s what makes Novus special. I’m looking forward to supporting the new services as they take root in the Southern region and building valuable partnerships with our new and existing customers.” The Southern region will also continue to support Novus’ social value initiatives, which have so far included a mobile foodbank created in partnership with Guinness Homes and designed to serve hard-to-reach rural communities in the South West, which was spearheaded by senior operations manager Mark Noad with Ray’s full support. Ray has also encouraged customer liaison officers (CLOs) across the region to come up with creative ways to keep in touch with residents and build good relations – such as a recent Easter egg donation which saw six CLOs drop off chocolate eggs for local charities.
The dynamic maintenance, refurbishment and new build contractor, Novus Property Solutions has been helping to connect two parts of a site at the Royal Stoke University Hospital. The work included repairs to the elevated walkway. The repair project was over a busy road on the site and is important to connect the Clinical Education Centre and the Lyme Building. The area of the University Hospitals of North Midlands hospital was busy and well used but rusting and in need of repair. Novus started work on the project to repair the bridge in October 2016. Because of its location, the bridge needed a fully encapsulated scaffold unit that offered a safe plane for the Novus team to work as well as protecting the general public while the work was being carried out. The team also had to take in to consideration the busy road and impact on the traffic while the work to repair the bridge was ongoing. A comprehensive road and traffic plan had to be implemented on the site with a pedestrian diversion throughout the project. The three months of work started with the removal of the lighting on the bridge. The light fittings were sent away in order to be refurbished and installed with new LED lighting. The structure was not originally built to be painted, but since the rust was so extensive it was decided that the structure was to be repainted in order to protect it and prevent any further decay. This repainting happened after the repair works were carried out and a high performance anti-corrosion paint was selected with a blue satin finish. The paint came from RUST-OLEUM and is designed to offer long-lasting protection against C4 classed corrosion. The walkway surface also needed some repairing and it was blasted to clean it before it was treated with a highly durable anti-slip product to finish. The work to the bridge was finished in January 2017 and will allow staff and visitors to keep using the bridge for a long time.
Novus Property solutions has announced that they will be undertaking a new project that will see the creation of a new apprentice training centre at The JCB Academy, located in Staffordshire. The national property maintenance, refurbishment and new build contractor has embarked on the development of this bran-new facility which will offer space for a school for those students that have an interest in both engineering and business. The JCB Academy intends to develop future engineers and business leaders by teaching the students to apply their learning to practical solutions. There has been an investment of £1.2 million that will go towards the new Apprentice Training Centre which will sit on the site of the old Dove First School, which is in Rochester. This work will be significant for the continued expansion of the company’s apprenticeship programme. The project is forecast to last 15 weeks which means that it is expected to be completed in late May 2017. Novus Property Solutions will be involved through the construction of the new 687 sq. m. facility that will be used to train apprentices in a variety of different disciplines when the project is completed. The team on site will work to completely refurbish the single storey school building that is already standing and will remodel it in order to create a new internal layout. The work will also be in line with the requirements of a modern learning environment. As well as this interior refurbishment, Novus will be working to build a new section that will be added to the front elevation. This extension will increase the footprint of the building and also provide a space that will be used as a new entranceway as well as being able to provide the Academy’s students with a social space to relax it. The new training centre will add to the other great facilities that The JCB Academy has as well as allowing the space for the latest equipment and technology. These new facilities will provide the capabilities to educate students in the area of metrology, systems and mechatronics in a higher level of detail.
Novus Property Solutions, the national maintenance new build and refurbishment contractor has revealed their development of a block of departments located in Liverpool’s Albert Dock. The redevelopment consists of 200 apartments that will look out at the Albert Dock area. The existing building that has been transformed was finished in 2003. However, it was in a poor condition due to its exposed location. It required a great deal of work to restore the building to the desired standard. The projects were managed by Premier Estates, who has been involved in the development for the past two years. Premier undertook the challenging tender process. Novus were tasked to bring the Dock area building back to its best. Preparations for the project started in July 2016. The team working on the building were adhering to the strict Swedish Standards that will help with protecting the steelwork on the building from the weather and water. The Novus team working on the building from the Liverpool office started to prepare all of the surfaces of the building which included jet washing the exterior of the building as well as preparing all the steelwork using needle guns, hand grinders and rotary wire brushes. The operatives at Novus Property Solutions had to uplift and relay a waterproof membrane on the penthouse balcony flooring as well as sealing the external windows. This waterproofing was undertaken because of the issues that were found with water ingress in some of the apartments. The work on the exterior was completed in December 2016, and now fits in with its surroundings on the Liverpool waterfront. The project took five months and included a great deal of coordination with the client as well as the buildings residents. There were also challenges faced to bring equipment in, the building is designed to sit on stilts and have space for a car park underneath. Therefore, the residents had to move their cars during the works to avoid damage by the work.
A fantastic new deal has been struck between maintenance provider Novus Property Solutions and The Guinness Partnership in order to help the company to improve the condition of some land development area located in Stockport. The Guinness Partnership is a very well-respected housing firm that will need to use the services provided by Novus in order to enable it to refurbish and improve the conditions of the outside of a number of its residential apartments in the area of Stockport. In providing fantastic social housing all across the United Kingdom, The Guinness Partnership are very pleased that they are able to provide their services towards building more social properties for the less well off of this society that are being hit the hardest by the government’s cutting of council funds and investments all over the various areas of the country. Of course, this is not the only time that The Guinness Partnership has had to deal with Novus Property Solutions, and the two business bodies have collaborated in the past to wonderful effect, demonstrating the bonds between businesses that can make life for investors and owners much easier than when they are constantly competing with each other. As Gary Taylor of The Guinness Partnership who will be surveying the Stockport project explains, it is evident that the two companies have a long-standing amicable relationship. Indeed, The Guinness Partnership were impressed by Novus’ work ethic when it successfully completed a refurbishment job on the former’s Manchester base back in January 2015. Through the successful and subsequent completion of this job, they were very pleased to declare that they were once again committing themselves to using the services of Novus to ensure that the redevelopment of their Stockport social housing assets would go as smoothly and as productively as the last project had done. It is clear that the friendly relations between the two companies put them in a good collaborative relationship that will last for a long time to come.
The recent Novus Property Solutions ceremony that has taken place is an event dedicated towards recognizing the ongoing efforts and achievements of the company over the course of the year. With the York office department being blessed with receiving the new Health and Safety award, it is evident from this that Novus wants to emphasize a trajectory in its ethos that provides the safety, comfort and wellbeing of the company’s dedicated team of staff members, who were the reason for the awards ceremony in the first place anyway. Indeed, the chairman of the company Stuart Seddon expressed his pleasure that the awards ceremony went so swimmingly: the Employee Excellence Awards are indeed a fantastic way of bringing people from all over the company together in order to celebrate the wonderful achievements that the company has made over the years. Through the implementation of a various new number of initiatives and contractual agreements the company has increasingly proven itself to be one of the most hardworking and developing enterprises in the property and development trade. All in all, the decision to go ahead with the Employee Excellence Awards are a sobering reminder that no company or business could actually operate without the dedication and daily efforts of a good staff base, and something like the Novus Property Solutions awards are a good way of reminding individuals that without them, the company would simply not be where it is today. Stuart Seddon was adamant that the continued efforts and diligence of the dedicated workforce are the reason for these celebratory occasions to take place and that all who attended, whether they won a particular award or not, ought to give themselves a large pat on the back anyway for their hard work over the years. Indeed, with the implementation of new award categories such as safety this year, it is clear that Novus are hoping to credit more and more employees for the hard work and sense of wellbeing that they create every working day of every year.
In an age where employee satisfaction rates are not exactly the most encouraging figures on display at the moment, it is good to see that Novus Property Solutions at least are able to recognize the ongoing hard work of their staff and are committed to seeing that they get their due rewards for the hard work that they commit to doing in order to ensure the pride and ongoing prosperity of Novus. In an event that celebrates the achievements of the various departments of the company, these awards have been taking place for the past three years and the staff turnout of more than 175 was very impressive and made for an unforgettable evening at the St George’s Park located in the area of Staffordshire. After a sterling speech from Fran Miller of Team Sky, the awards ceremony was kicked off in style with teams and individuals voting for the people that they felt had really stood out during the year. The awards themselves are a good way of seeing how old and new members to the company are recognized for their services and ongoing contributions to the advancement of Novus Property Solutions, with members ranging from Desmond Blackburn (who has been there for 40 years at the company as an interior decorator) to James Riley (who was awarded the Apprentice of the Year prize for his good all-round work at Novus). A whole range of other awards were handed out to various clients and associates , whilst there was even more recognition for the York office base of the company, which was the first department of the company to be coveted with the Safety Excellence prize category which had previously not been something that Novus felt merited the attention of being awarded. It is clear now however that having implemented this new category, Novus are determined to encourage their departments around the company to commit themselves more readily to implementing health and safety measures in the workplace.
