Writing for UK Construction Media last week, our Director Ben Harwood explores Brexit resilience in the Midlands;
“Naismiths’ Midlands team has never been busier, and in the 12 months to the end of Q3, we received 25% more new instructions than we did in the previous year…”
The Office for National Statistics data for construction performance at the end of 2019 is out and shows promising growth.
You can read our Building Consultancy Director, Gareth Belsham, in Building Magazine this week talking about his analysis;
“The return of clarity, if not yet unbridled confidence, is prompting many developers who spent 2019 sitting on their hands to pull the trigger in 2020.”…
Read Naismiths’ Director of Project Monitoring, Marcus Higgins, in PBC Today writing his full-length article on how development lending evolves for 2020.
“A decade ago shock waves in the global financial system tipped the UK, and much of the world, into recession.”
“Here in Britain, the pain of what was soon dubbed the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was eased by a new, agile breed of financial institutions – the challenger banks…”
Featured this week in the Financial Timers, Naismiths also gave input to articles for Construction News and Mortgage Introducer.
Giving his thoughts to these publications on the latest Construction market output figures, our Building Consultancy Director, Gareth Belsham, has a mixed analysis of the sector scene.
“The pain is easing, but this is all relative. Investor demand is brittle, new orders continue to decline at an alarming rate and many builders don’t have a sufficient pipeline of work to replace completed projects…”
Discussing 3rd quarter construction data output in City.A.M this week, Naismiths’ Director Gareth Belsham welcomes the recent ‘higher than expected’ figures.
“Construction has emerged as the economy’s ‘come back kid’. After months of flat or falling output, the sector came out swinging in the third quarter.”
“Activity is growing strongly, and the growth is refreshingly broad-based – with new infrastructure, commercial and residential building all up.”…
Read the insights from our National Director of Building Consultancy, Gareth Belsham, in Construction News today, reacting to the latest construction sector output figures and making his Brexit predictions.
“A Brexit deal – any Brexit deal – could uncork months of repressed demand and send output racing back up to more normal levels”…
As of October 2019, Naismiths has streamlined its service offering and rebalanced its leadership as part of its strategic growth plan. Having achieved annual revenue growth of 26% in the past year alone, and expanding our team of chartered surveyors by 37%, we are now consolidating our offering into three distinct service lines, with each team boasting specialist expertise and clear leadership;
• Building Consultancy: Directed by Gareth Belsham
• Project Monitoring: Directed by Marcus Higgins
• Asset Recovery: Directed by Ben Harwood
The new leadership structure coincides with the departure of former Managing Director, Blane Perrotton, who has been an important part of the success of Naismiths over the last 5 years and now moves on to pursue personal projects.
“This is an exciting growth period for Naismiths across the business, in both revenue and capability terms.
In order to build on our current momentum, we’ve simplified and consolidated both our offering and our business structure. With three clearly defined service lines, this model will improve our agility and enable us to take in our stride whatever Brexit has in store.
We take this opportunity to thank Blane Perrotton and wish him well in new ventures.”
– Gareth Belsham, National Director Building Consultancy
Naismiths are delighted to have been recognised for the great work we do and to have been shortlisted for the annual ‘Building Awards 2019 – Consultant of the Year’!
Good luck to all of the other nominees.
Fingers crossed…
Responding to ‘decade low’ construction figures from the IHS Markit Purchasing Managers’ Index, Naismiths’ Director Gareth Belsham spoke to CITYA.M. on what the drop in new order means for the sector.
“Whether the Brexit endgame brings an election, a ‘no-deal’ or both remains largely moot. For now all the construction industry can do is to batten down the hatches, complete existing projects and retain its capability in the hope that the final months of the year see an unblocking of three years of deferred investment.”…
With a looming Brexit threatening the numbers of skilled workers entering the UK, Blane Perrotton of Naismiths writes for ‘UK Construction’ on why the existing skills shortage in the UK construction sector is set to worsen…
“The skills crisis predates Brexit, and its roots lie in a worryingly entrenched demographic shift: the number of young people coming into the industry has steadily failed to keep pace with the number of old hands retiring or leaving it.
Construction has been allowed to develop a real image problem. A generation of British teenagers raised on – and aspiring to – Love Island has come to see construction work as dirty, dangerous and poorly paid.”…