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Following the recent nominations for the second quarterly prize winner for the award, Midas group Chief Executive Alan Hope announced the winners of the Murdo Mace Award for Industry Leading Customer Service with this quarter's prize goes to the Midas Construction, Devon & Cornwall team working on the Treliske Hospital project. Alan Hope said: "This...... read more
( Last Updated: 03-02-2012 )
Midas begins work on £900,000 Community Sports CentreMidas Construction has begun work on an ambitious new community sports centre in the heart of Barnstaple, North DevonThe first turf was cut on January 9th 2011 on the Falcons Community Sports Centre, a purpose built indoor community sports facility and part of a phased development linking the new building to the existing Tarka Tennis Centre. The site is...... read more
( Last Updated: 09-01-2012 )
Former Marine eager to build a new careerBy Gordon Richardson, Business Editor, Express & EchoFINDING a new career after leaving the Armed Forces can be a challenge - even more so for those who have suffered serious injury.Lance-corporal Andrew McNeil lost the vision in his right eye after being caught in a rocket propelled grenade attack while serving in Afghanistan with the Royal Marines in 2007.After...... read more
( Last Updated: 05-01-2012 )
New £13m asset management contract for Mi–spaceMi-space, the affordable housing business of the Midas Group, has been awarded a £13m contract by NPT Homes for a programme of kitchen and bathroom replacement to include all electrical, plumbing, decoration and refurbishment works.The six year framework involves up to 3500 properties with a target of completing 15 kitchens and 15 bathrooms each week.AJ...... read more
( Last Updated: 04-01-2012 )
Midas Construction has been awarded an £8 million contract to build student accommodation on behalf of University College Falmouth (UCF) and the University of Exeter (UoE) at Glasney Student Village at the Tremough Campus, Penryn.The contract involves the construction of five additional blocks of accommodation comprising 224 rooms in total. Enabling...... read more
( Last Updated: 23-12-2011 )
Midas launch customers service awardMidas Group has launched a new quarterly internal award recognizing outstanding levels of customer service.Named in memory of the late Midas Construction Executive Director for Devon & Cornwall, the inaugural Murdo Mace Award for Outstanding Customer Service has been won by the Midas Retail team that has recently completed the £8 million Waitrose scheme...... read more
( Last Updated: 22-11-2011 )
Winner of The Midas Award 2011 announcedTranslating film to canvasAlastair Barford has been announced as the winner of The Midas Award 2011, an art exhibition currently on show at the Millennium gallery in St Ives. Now in its sixth year, The Midas Award is an initiative between Midas Construction, Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange in Penzance, Millennium gallery and University College...... read more
( Last Updated: 18-11-2011 )
Childrens Hospice gets the keys to the doorMidas Construction and architects David Wilson Partnership have now handed over ‘Little Harbour', Children's Hospice South West's third and final children's hospice in the South West region, located in St Austell, Cornwall. This is the third hospice which has been created and will serve children and families located within Cornwall and Plymouth...... read more
( Last Updated: 09-11-2011 )
Midas Group wins significant awardsMidas Group businesses have been highly successful in winning a clutch of prestigious awards in recent months including Lend Lease Defence Supply Chain Partner of the Year 2011, the BCI- Best Conservation Project for Midas Interiors' work on the Theatre Royal Bath and several LABC Building Excellence Awards for Mi-space, the Group's affordable housing...... read more
( Last Updated: 19-10-2011 )
Table Tennis champion Carl secures clothing sponsorshipCornwall Under 12 table tennis champion, Carl Baldry, is celebrating new clothing sponsorship from Midas Construction.12 year-old Carl, a pupil at Bodmin College and a member of Blisland Table Tennis Club, is due to compete in the English Cadet and Junior National Championships in Hatfield next month where the talented youngster will be in competition with players...... read more
( Last Updated: 18-10-2011 )
Waitrose opens in ExeterMidas Developments has delivered an £8 million Waitrose store in Exeter ahead of time with the new unit on Heavitree Road opening on October 6th 2011.The steel framed 23,000 sq ft store is one of Waitrose's largest retail units and has 227 car parking spaces. The construction phase was carried out by Midas Retail and was preceded by a 10 week...... read more
( Last Updated: 12-10-2011 )
Midas supports Gordon’s Mobility Scooter Marathon for Air AmbulanceMidas Construction has sponsored retired farmer Gordon Mortimer's 15 mile marathon on his mobility scooter raising funds for the BBC Radio Devon Air Ambulance Appeal.The 15 mile route took Gordon from Exmouth to the Turf Locks via Lympstone, Exton, Darts Farm, Countess Wear and the Swing Bridge in Exeter requiring three batteries to make the 5-6 hour trip. ...... read more
( Last Updated: 16-09-2011 )
Steve Hindley appointed as Chairman of CBI Construction CommitteeChairman of Midas Group, Steve Hindley CBE DL, has been appointed Chairman of the CBI Construction Council, the first time a leader of a regional/mid market size business has held the post. Here he makes the case for construction as a driver of the local and national economy.My new role is a significant one because the council represents the entire industry...... read more
( Last Updated: 16-09-2011 )
Midas Touch for Older PeopleThe ongoing extension to Morrison's in Weymouth has provided opportunities to benefit local older people. Altogether Care, a Dorset based care provider, was delighted when Midas Retail, the construction company responsible for the extension at Morrison's, offered to provide building alterations for a number of their clients.Practical items such...... read more
( Last Updated: 13-09-2011 )
Midas Construction confident despite slow growth for construction sectorDespite recent reports of slowing growth in the construction industry*, regional contractors Midas Construction have announced new contracts worth £20 million consolidating its position of market leader in Devon & Cornwall.Executive Director Mike O'Neill said: "As a mid-market business, we are highly competitive against our nationally...... read more
( Last Updated: 07-09-2011 )
Midas Group has made a number of senior appointments strengthening its senior management team in the South & South West of England and Wales.Steve Russell has joined the Group as Sustainability Director. He is responsible for managing and improving current business systems and overseeing regulatory compliance. .He will also be seeking new ways...... read more
( Last Updated: 05-09-2011 )
Tree planting marks commencement of toy distribution centreA tree planting ceremony arranged by Midas Construction has marked the commencement of the first building on the 20 acre Hill Barton Business Park Extension on the A3052 Sidmouth Road near Exeter.The £4.5 million, 60,000 sq ft distribution, warehouse and office facility is being built on behalf of Kandy Toys, importers of toys, pools, beach goods and gifts...... read more
( Last Updated: 24-08-2011 )
New environmentally positive building for Plymouth manufacturerOne of the largest arrays of rooftop photovoltaic tiles in the region has been installed on a Plymouth commercial property due for completion in August.694 PV panels of 1.31 sq m each have been installed on the environmentally positive new building for Pennycross based HellermannTyton by contractors Midas Construction.The PV array will be capable of generating...... read more
( Last Updated: 29-07-2011 )
Work experience helps Matt choose a careerTruro student Matt Murphy is closer to choosing a career path after spending a week's work experience with contractors, Midas Construction.The 15 year-old Year 10 student at the Richard Lander School in Truro spent a week with Midas where he was introduced to management and learned how the business works at the company's Indian Queens offices before undertaking...... read more
( Last Updated: 18-07-2011 )
Turf Cut on new Exmouth Residential Care HomeThe official turf cutting ceremony at Exmouth's latest residential care home took place last week when proprietors, John and Wendy Marsh visited the site on Douglas Avenue.Sheridan House is a £1.5 million design and build project undertaken by Midas Construction and comprises three upper stories with generous en-suite accommodation for 24 residents...... read more
( Last Updated: 01-07-2011 )
Penwith College Officially OpensPhase II of the £29 million redevelopment of Penwith College in Penzance has been officially opened by Lady Mary Holborow DCVO, the Lord Lieutenant of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.Superbly located, the College is part of the Combined Universities in Cornwall Partnership and provides a huge boost for education in West Cornwall.The contract was carried...... read more
( Last Updated: 22-06-2011 )
Going to the Extreme for Children’s HospiceTwo Midas teams literally went the extra mile when they entered the Children's Hospice South West Dartmoor Corporate Challenge ay Okehampton Training Camp on Saturday 18th July. Midas Construction is currently finishing the contract to build Little Harbour, the new Children's Hospice at St Austell, Cornwall.Midas entered two teams in the event which pitches...... read more
( Last Updated: 22-06-2011 )
Wimborne Hospital theatre opensA new two storey operating theatre redevelopment at Wimborne Hospital has now opened.The £2.1 million contract was undertaken by Midas Construction's Southern Division on behalf of Dorset NHS Primary Healthcare Trust.Midas Divisional Director, Paul Strachan, said: "The work comprised the construction of the two storey operating theatre alongside...... read more
( Last Updated: 08-06-2011 )
Midas begins on sustainable apartment schemeMidas Construction has started Phase One of a 64 one and two bedroom apartment scheme near Fistral Beach, on Newquay's Pentire headland, on behalf of Gwithian Developments Limited.Located on the site of the former Tregarn Hotel, and flanked on the west by the beautiful Gannel estuary and Europe's premier surfing venue to the east, the project is designed...... read more
( Last Updated: 06-06-2011 )
Midas wins major commercial property awardA Midas built rehabilitation centre has struck gold by winning the prestigious Michelmores/Western Morning News Commercial Property Awards in the category of Project of the Year under £3 million.The Boswyns Drug Detox Centre near Hayle is a 15 bed residential detoxification facility which provides residential drug users with medial, nursing, social...... read more
( Last Updated: 25-05-2011 )
Second Bournemouth Contract for MidasHaving completed the new £2.3 million centralised Mortuary facility located at East Cemetery, Bournemouth in December 2010, the Romsey office of award-winning contractor, Midas Construction has now been awarded a further contract by Bournemouth Borough Council to upgrade their existing Crematorium facilityThe £1 million design and build project involves...... read more
( Last Updated: 25-05-2011 )
Wokingham Borough Council has appointed Midas Construction to manage the pre-construction activities and to build the new extensions to primary schools at Coombes School in Arborfield and St Nicholas School in Hurst.These two important projects follow on from the contractors work at Hillside Primary School in Lower Early, Reading.Midas Construction's...... read more
( Last Updated: 03-05-2011 )
Justin’s Everest trek gets Midas to the topEverest expedition raises £5,000 for British Heart Foundation After suffering a heart attack last year, an award-winning Midas Construction project manager has made the long trek to Everest Base Camp raising money for the British Heart Foundation. 39 year-old Falmouth resident Justin Penhallurick was one of only six trekkers from 17 who started...... read more
( Last Updated: 27-04-2011 )
Top work lands new Truro contract for MidasWork underway on new bed and kitchen outlets Having successfully converted the former MFI Building at Truro's Newquay Road Retail Park to accommodate a Dunelm Mill store on behalf of Aviva Investments, Midas Construction has been awarded a similar contract to convert the building next door.The new £700,000 contract involves converting the...... read more
( Last Updated: 18-04-2011 )
Midas Construction completes three Cornwall contractsThree very different Cornwall projects undertaken by Midas Construction have been completed within a few weeks of each other.An £830,000 new tearoom and shop for the Duchy of Cornwall Nurseries near Lostwithiel, a £500,000 refurbishment of a church hall for Newquay Christian Centre and the construction of a £400,000 pre-school building at Treleigh...... read more
( Last Updated: 18-04-2011 )
Midas Construction appoints new director for Devon and CornwallMidas Group has appointed a new Divisional Director for Midas Construction Ltd. in Devon and Cornwall.Mike O'Neill joins Midas from Cowlin Construction where he held the role of Regional Managing Director for Devon and Cornwall for the last seven years.Midas Chief Executive Alan Hope said: "Mike enjoys a high profile in the peninsula. I am confident...... read more
( Last Updated: 06-04-2011 )
Midas complete £29 million Penwith College ContractThe second phase of the £29 million redevelopment of Penwith College in Penzance has been completed and handed over by contractors Midas Construction.Only external works remain after the completion of the £10 million Phase II which has included three new buildings named after some cherished Cornwall locations - Sennen, Gwenvor and Lamorna.Penwith...... read more
( Last Updated: 01-04-2011 )
Time capsule for Shaldon Primary SchoolChildren at Shaldon Primary School near Teignmouth will be assisting Midas Construction when the contractor buries a time capsule on the site of the school's new buildings.There are only eight weeks to go before the new set of school buildings are handed over including a school hall, administrative offices and two classrooms.Steve Pollard, Midas Senior Site...... read more
( Last Updated: 28-03-2011 )
Mi-space, the affordable housing company of the Midas Group, has been awarded a contract to build 25 affordable homes on a council-owned site at Marazion near Penzance, Cornwall.The £2.7 million contract has been awarded by the Guinness Trust and involves the design and build of nine three-bedroom and 16 two-bedroom homes on land north of Trevenner Lane,...... read more
( Last Updated: 09-03-2011 )
Construction Students get the Midas TouchConstruction HR expert helps improve student ‘employability'As part of an industry wide construction sector initiative, an HR expert from the Midas Group has led a seminar at the University of the West of England (UWE) aimed at maximising students' employment opportunities. Bristol based Emma Doherty, HR Manager at Midas Group, met with 20 Year...... read more
( Last Updated: 08-02-2011 )
Children’s colourful artwork brightens up Little Harbour hoardingsSix budding artists from Cornwall are showcasing their work in a very different location.The children are the winners of Midas Construction’s art competition to brighten up the hoardings of the new children’s hospice, Little Harbour in Porthpean, and that is where their pictures are now exhibited.Keira Nicholas aged two from Liskeard, Joeley Burton...... read more
( Last Updated: 19-11-2010 )
Now at fever pitch and with the build up to the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor, Midas recently hosted an event at the 2010 Club House to give local people and businesses an insight into what to expect both during and after the event in terms of economic stimulation. Approximately 80 people came along to the event and listened to speeches and presentations by the three...... read more
( Last Updated: 30-09-2010 )
Midas Team takes part in the Michelmores Charity RunMidas Group in Devon took part in the Michelmores 5k run, held on the 8th June 2010 in Exeter. The new run course started on the Quay at Exeter and finished at the Double Locks public house further down the canal.A team of 14 people ran for Midas in a field of 1200 runners. The team included Nick Rance, Glen...... read more
( Last Updated: 24-07-2010 )