MDA HOLDINGS LTD
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ANNUAL REPORT 2016
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Our Birmingham office was appointed to act on a new Head
Quarters Building for Breedon Aggregates near Derby and in
Leicester we commenced work on the New Walk scheme, Welford
Place a mixed use commercial, retail and residential project.
Work on the major contract at the Dyson HQ in Malmesbury
completed during the year although our Bristol office continue to
work there on a number of smaller schemes.
Work continued in Prague on the Borislavka mixed use scheme in
the city for KKCG Real Estate and we were appointed during the
year on a new Head Quarters building for Blum Company. This is
due for completion in 2017.
Utilities, Transport and Communication
We secured further work for BT in the UK during the reporting
period, data centre schemes in the Midlands and South of England.
Our infrastructure contract with Barratt to facilitate the
construction of 2,450 new homes in Buckinghamshire was
completed during the period with potential for further work on
other schemes in the future.
Our Bristol office secured three major projects for Bath and North
East Somerset Council during the year, a public realm scheme in
Central Bath, an infrastructure project at Bath Quays North and
the Bath Quays Waterside flood prevention and decontamination
scheme.
Heritage and Conservation
We continued to work as an advisor to the Heritage Lottery Fund on
a large number of commissions including Alexandra Palace, Bristol
Old Vic, Tate St Ives, Plymouth History Centre, National Museum of
Wales, RHS Wisley Gardens, and Colston Hall, Bristol. The latter two
being new projects secured in the reporting period.
The establishment of our office in Manchester in January 2016
increased our overall exposure in the ecclesiastical sector and we
worked on a number of church repair and conservation schemes
in the North West of England during the year. We also acted on the
Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery and Lancaster Town Hall.
Education
Our Leicester office continues to be very busy in the further
education sector with ten live schemes in the Midlands at three
different universities. In London we secured a further commission
from Middlesex University which will commence early in 2017.
Our IPI pilot project on the Advance 2 Centre for Advanced
Construction Technologies at Dudley College is due to complete
Summer 2017. We are acting as Alliance Manager via our
Birmingham Office. We are continuing to work on a number of
primary school projects throughout the UK.
Recruitment and Succession Planning
As I reported last year one of our key objectives is to develop our
people and implement a long term succession plan.
As part of this we have made a number of new appointments and
anticipate that there will be others during the next twelve months. The
aim is to have a plan in place for each office, business unit and team
within the firm including the support functions.
In conjunction with our auditors, Bessler Hendrie, we are looking at
our shareholders agreement and how we can incentivise senior staff
at Director and Associate Director level to acquire shares within the
business. This process is ongoing.
Business Development and Marketing
During the year we restructured our business development and
marketing team in the UK. We now have a full time business
development executive based in London and a marketing support
executive based in Birmingham. We are currently recruiting another
business development executive to be based in Manchester to
service the Midlands and North. We have targeted filling the role by
the end of March 2017.
Our website, intranet and marketing material will also be updated
during the first half of 2017.
