New FDS website – Incoming…
This month we have completed the design and content for our new website, due to launch in mid-April. We concluded with a full-day video shoot with Property Media. Sites were looking resplendent as always, showcasing FDS’ wide-ranging capabilities across various sectors and project motivations. Less complimentary words could be said of our Senior Management team for their camera skills. Not sure if any of us have futures in broadcasting. We are extremely excited for the website launch.
It truly captures where we have gotten to as a business over the last few years, and will aptly represent our brand image for years to come. Special thanks go to Kelsi, our in house creative, and Nick from Pelekan Design for their efforts in bringing the vision to life.
Project Alert
Crouch End
Toward the end of March we were awarded the strip out and asbestos removal contract at a North London mixed use scheme.
Working with repeat client Quantem Consulting, FDS will take the original bank and office spaces back to shell, conduct an environmental clean, remove 3no heavy duty safes, lift up a raised mezzanine deck as well as other residual enabling works. This project is due to be completed by mid-May.
Governance re-structure
Ahead of schedule
This March marked the five-year anniversary of FDS’ current executive undertaking an MBO from the business’ founders. It also marked the achievement of a key hurdle in its relationship with its private equity partners.
A year ahead of schedule, the partners were returned a multiple of their original investment which triggered the return of majority ownership to MD Will Sarhangian.
On the achievement, Will stated, “it feels great to have returned the faith placed in us at a testing time by our investors. I look forward to the relationship continuing to bear fruit for all of us in the future. Onto phase two.”
Process In Focus
Lift and relay
On our hotel project at Park International, the MC discovered the floor levels were uneven. As such, widespread replacement, levelling and joist strapping had to take place. They requested that FDS work hand-in-hand with their structural carpenters to lift, plane, and ultimately relay the floors across the entire site.
The works themselves create incidental hazards that need mitigation. Fall from height, falling debris, slips trips and falls, and structural collapse are all significant risks that must be considered and avoided. Control measures have included: exclusion zones, tethering, use of mansafe systems, sealed crash decks, barriers, and permit systems.
Works are progressing well with two of the six floors completed. It is rare for FDS to remain involved past the initial enabling works, but it’s great to be in among the other trades progressing the project forwards.
“Not just demolition… building stuff too.”
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